Poster for the Lovecraft Film Festival…

Bleeding Cool Magazine #2 (out now) has “Modernizing Lovecraft, an In-Depth Interview With Alan Moore, Part 2”, concluding the interview that began in the first issue (dated Oct, on the shelves mid Nov 2012). The two articles are not online, and Bleeding Cool doesn’t seem to offer mail-order print copies or digital CBR copies. It seems you have to pitch up at a friendly local comics retail shop and gingerly ease your way through the adolescent hordes, in the hope that a copy is still on the shelves. /Sigh/ Yup, looks like my nearest stockist is 50 miles away. To eBay, then…

The Portland Phoenix reviews the exhibition Lovecraft: A Darker Key (at Sanctuary, 31 Forest Ave, Portland, until 1st May 2013). Strange Maine also reviews the show and handily links to a Flickr set.

Above: by Carrie-Anne Vinette.

H.P. Lovecraft 72-hour Film Competition (PDF link) in Portland, May 2013.

Brilliant new DIY pulp cover maker, Pulp-o-Mizer…

$30 vinyl wall decals, to Lovecraftify your living space.

del Toro is to have another go at getting a major studio to put up the money for the filming of At the Mountains of Madness…

“I’m going to try it one more time. Once more into the dark abyss,” he laughed. “We’re gonna do a big presentation of the project again at the start of the year and see if any [studio’s] interested.” And yes, Tom Cruise is still game to be on board if they can find a home for it. “Yeah, Tom is still attached. I think it would be so fantastic to make it with him. He’s been such a great ally of the project.”

The Jersey Devil Press is doing a Lovecraft mash-ups issue…

“inspired by Gaiman stories like “A Study in Emerald” and “I Cthulhu” we’re looking for something special… a mash-up of one literary style or theme with ol’ Howard Phillips to create something new, ideally something dark and ferocious, very possibly with a healthy dose of humor. In short, write Lovecraft like Neil Gaiman!”

Deadline: 1st May 2013.