This coming weekend in the town of Alava (Araba-Alava Province), northern Spain, a Lovecraft Festival with various events taking place across the town. This is apparently their second such Lovecraft festival.

Theatre Review: Into The Dreamlands. A fine long review, and very encouraging to anyone thinking of visiting the London Lovecraft Festival in 2025.

And what appears to be a new Radio France podcast in French, on “The Mountains of Madness”, with heavyweight guests David Camus and Christophe Thill.

A glowing review from Noizze for the album The Scorching Gaze by Urzah. The new UK heavy metal band, who hail from the hipster city of Bristol, have apparently crafted an album in which…

The songs never give the listener a minute to rest, as they twist and turn through their ethereal cosmic shatterings, from crushingly heavy riffs, to heavenly angelic interludes, with lyrics that evoke the works of H.P. Lovecraft, gigantic in both scale and scope.

The YouTube headbanger sample track sounds great. If this is “sludge” metal (off-putting term), give me more of it. Just the thing for cruising around Providence in your Lovecraftmobile…

The album’s official release page is at APF Records and Bandcamp.

Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness movie, made at last… in Super Fan-O-Vision. 70 minutes of chuckles and cringes.

Regrettably there seems to be something wrong with the screen ratio on this YouTube upload, though. It’s slightly stretched upwards, at least for me. You may want to download it and then tinker with the ratio settings for playback in VLC Player.

New on Itch.io, The Temple by Esquadron, a $3 interactive fiction version of Lovecraft’s “The Temple”. Though unfortunately not in a more readable two-column layout that would match the widescreen pictures.

Note also the link to the “Making of…”.

You wouldn’t know it from the description, but Compound Fracture, a mod for the original DOOM II videogame is claimed to be…

my 10-map episode based on Nyarlathotep and Yog-Sothoth. The final boss is supposed to be Yog-Sothoth.

I learned this from finding a new forum thread, which jogged my memory about the game. Greatly enjoyed by me at the time, along with the fantasy variant Hexen. The forum thread also suggested the mod Rylayeh for DOOM II.

Via search, I found five more mods (aka wads) that are substantial and have good reviews…

Shrine 1.2 for DOOM II. A “Lovecraftian Total Conversion mod!”

Void for DOOM II. “Lovecraft meets Lewis Carroll”. Uses ZDoom.

Strange Aeons v5.7 for DOOM II. Huge Lovecraftian total conversion. Uses ZDoom.

Beyond Kadath for DOOM II. “A story-driven WAD roughly in the vein of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.”

Maskim Xul for DOOM II. “One of the winners of the 2018 Cacowards.”

The game itself can be had on CD via eBay for around £15. It’s obviously become collectable, despite the vast quantities it sold, and the days of getting a jewel-case for £1.99 inc. shipping seem over. More affordable is the download at GOG.com for £4 including “the enhanced re-release” of 2019. Then you download ZDoom / GZDoom and run it through that, giving the old game enhanced powers. You may also need a Flashlight++ mod.

The maker of the hit videogame Dredge is in the very early stages of a live-action movie adaptation. Basically Dredge is a Lovecraftian ‘small trawler’ fishing game, with its possible-movie officially described my the developers as… “a grounded atmospheric cosmic-horror blend of H.P. Lovecraft and Ernest Hemingway.” Sounds good. The Sonic the Hedgehog producer is apparently on board, so I guess there is actually a chance of co-funding for at least a modest indie movie. Casting suggestions for a fisherman pulled into the net of cosmic horror are now invited.

If you can’t wait for this dose of damp cosmic horror, this week the ‘Fairies of New England’ blog appears to have visited H.P. Lovecraft’s “Dark Swamp” and has pictures.

Abutova has a new “Colour Out of Space” digital paintings series.

Regrettably the link to the full series is on a platform called Behance, which appears to be for Adobe subscribers only.

Also, a multi-book Randolph Carter as a French-Belgian ‘BD’ graphic novel. Volume One is due 5th June 2024. Presumably in French in the first instance, and perhaps an adaptation rather than just the use of the name? The artist is Jovan Ukropina.