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Category Archives: Lovecraftian arts

Cthulhu: the Musical!

28 Sunday May 2023

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I’m always partial to a bit of good song-and-dance musical theatre, and so was pleased to hear of a new musical version of Lovecraft’s story “The Call of Cthulhu”. Albeit done with puppets, in a Muppets style. Sounds fun, and it runs for two hours under the title of Cthulhu: the Musical! (R-rated). You can catch it touring America with the ‘Puppeteers for Fears’ troupe, a puppeteer troupe based out of Oregon, USA. They’re now a month away from setting out on a 2023 post-lockdown summer tour, with a banner tour headline of “Back from the Dead”. Also on the road with them will be a full rock band, multimedia projectionists and (one hopes) some cute 1970s-style groupies.

Booking now.

In Cat Swamp: Lovecraft’s Herbarium

26 Friday May 2023

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Readers will recall the young Lovecraft roaming in Cat Swamp, Providence. It was also a richly wild and raggedy hunting-ground for botanists, at around the same time (c. 1900), and thus the plants of the swamp were both drawn/painted and preserved as botanical pressings. Brown University now shows many of these in their online Herbarium catalogue.

So, something a little different for this Friday’s ‘Picture Postals from Lovecraft’.

Using some of the Brown (literally brown) scans of the botanical plant-books as sources, and sprinkling a little magic AI pixie-dust over them brings them back to horrible Lovecraftian life…

Berkeley Square

25 Thursday May 2023

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A new upload of Lovecraft’s fave movie, Berkeley Square (1933) and it looks like slightly better quality (less over-sharpened) than the version uploaded last October. These are the only two versions on Archive.org.

Neither is the 2011 restored 35mm print, though, by the look of it. So far as I can see that version still languishes in the archives, and hasn’t had a DVD release.

Festival Nocambulante Lovecrafiano

24 Wednesday May 2023

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A Lovecraft film festival in Mexico. The ‘Festival Nocambulante Lovecrafiano’ is a camping overnighter on 17th June 2023, in the Xochimilco Ecological Park (about 15 miles from Mexico City). 20 movies will be shown. It looks a little like the Dark Swamp in places, so hopefully the organisers have booked a big solar-powered midge-zapper. Or perhaps big outdoor cinema screens come with such things built-in, these days.

The Lurker on the Cover

24 Wednesday May 2023

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A nice scan of a supposed “H.P. Lovecraft” novel, newly popped up on honest Abe’s sales site. The cover demonstrates that, even as late as 1993-95, the average person could pick up a Derleth paperback at a news-stand book-spinner rack… and think it was by Lovecraft. In fact, just over 1,000 words by Lovecraft, with the rest of the novel by Derleth.

The British publisher Panther was rather more honest in 1973-75, admitting up-front on the cover that it was likely to be a Derleth stitch-a-thon.

Interestingly, for a book that supposedly shifted some 100,000+ copies in all, an Amazon UK search suggests it’s now thoroughly out-of-print and has no audiobook. Are the currently owners of Derleth’s estate missing a trick there?

Lovecraft exhibition in Germany

23 Tuesday May 2023

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Opened 6th May 2023, and perhaps still on, an exhibition of Lovecraftian crafts and illustrations by Claudia Sedler at a gallery near Dusseldorf in Germany. Address: Atelier Andersartig, Alexander-Coppel-Strabe 40, 42651 Solingen.

The haunted typewriter, the haunted paintbrush…

21 Sunday May 2023

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A possible merry task, for a dull Sunday…

A new competition offers $300 for the best sci-fi prompt. The aim is to craft a prompt for an AI-writer that will produce a ‘mind-blowingly readable’ first chapter of a science-fiction novel, such that the story makes seasoned readers want more. Deadline: 31st December 2023.

I assume the organisers are willing to also accept donations to improve the prize-pot or provide second-place prizes or training workshops for entrants.

Also, the fledgling AI Art Weekly newsletter has a Lovecraft challenge. Unfortunately entries can only be submitted on Twitter, which counts me out. But some may be interested, not least by the $50 prize.

Possibly a candidate for the free Dream by Wombo AI’s new “Horror” style module…

… or you could just choose the cute kitties.

Lovecraft: Unknown Kadath – the trade paperback

16 Tuesday May 2023

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The release of the collected trade paperback for the Lovecraft: Unknown Kadath graphic novel has been put back to 12th July 2023, at least according to Amazon UK. It was supposed to be due out in this week. The eight comic-book series is however complete, and Amazon has them all as a download set. Albeit at £7 more than you’d pay for the collected trade paperback, and without its extras.

The artwork is your usual ‘dynamic comic-book’ sort (think ‘Neal Adams inked by Gene Colan’), but I see that at one point the art drops into a nice homage to Winsor McCay and the surreal Little Nemo — whose run finished the year before Lovecraft wrote Kadath…

HPL in Brooklyn with kitties

16 Tuesday May 2023

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“HPL in Brooklyn with kitties”. Another Playground.ai experiment, after Photoshop fixing. Playground.ai seems to know more about what Lovecraft looked like, now.

Dark Adventure: The Shunned House

10 Wednesday May 2023

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New at the HPLHS, the next Dark Adventure full-cast recording. It’s Lovecraft’s “The Shunned House”, and is set to ship and download on 21st June 2023. Temporary cover artwork at present, so here’s my quick Dream by Wombo AI-generated image of the Providence house in its earlier days…

FHTAGN in English

06 Saturday May 2023

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The German Lovecraftians report, of their open-source ‘original Lovecraft’ FHTAGN role-playing game, that…

Dean Engelhardt […] has now translated the FHTAGN game world into English, made his own minor adjustments and published it as The Open Cthulhu Mythos SRD (System Reference Document) (2023).

This is now a pay-what-you-want Open Game License book on the DriveThruRPG store.

There is however still scope for a book designer / illustrator to swoop in and help out…

This PDF contains the text of a full set of game statistics describing the creatures, rituals, and artefacts from Lovecraft’s original Cthulhu Mythos. In OGL terms it is a “System Reference Document” (or SRD). [It is not yet] presented in a fully illustrated and typeset form as you would expect from a core RPG rulebook.

Which means…

[It is not an] all-in-one Cthulhu Mythos RPG corebook (which traditionally cover both rules and “world” in the one volume)

As it stand it may thus interest purist Mythos writers as well as gamers, being only about Lovecraft’s creations and with only a core of RPG mechanics currently added.

“… the flickering of the monstrous lights”

04 Thursday May 2023

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Entry dates and full rules for the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, now available.

No “romantic comedies”, I see. They’re banned. Aww. Lovecraft wrote at least one of those (“Sweet Ermengarde”). But it seems the gore-loving masses must be forever deprived of a hilarious makeover for his “Ermengarde”. Imagine a tentacle-filled moustache-twirling Perils of Pauline silent-movie -style big-screen romp.

Anyway, the deadlines are now available:

August 2023 (Providence): 30th May 2023.

October 2023 (Portland): 1st August 2023.

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