12 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Spectrum Fantastic Art Live! is a U.S. weekend convention dedicated to artists of the fantastic. It’s in Kansas City in May 2012. The event is a venture of the editors of Spectrum magazine.
12 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The winning entries for the Call of Cthulhu: Wasted Land game review competition. The task was to write a review of the game in the style of Lovecraft…
I am not mad. That they found my wretched form in the darkest recess of the library long after closing, staring into a pane of blackened glass and maniacally gesturing at imaginary denizens within, proves only that the twisted minds at Red Wasp Design have succeeded in channelling the Great Old Ones, unleashing their eldritch horror into our unsuspecting homes. I imagine the jaundiced, hunched forms toiling at their arcane art, rictus grins broadening at the thought of the psychological terror they have realised in their “Wasted Land”, at the innocent minds corrupted by this absorbing, addictive “pastime”.
10 Saturday Mar 2012
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The great French comic book artist and writer Moebius has passed away.
10 Saturday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Two new 3D portraits of Lovecraft…
Adelben sculpted a face of H.P. Lovecraft in ZBrush and rendered it with 3DS Max…
Tom Kuebler’s “I am Providence”…
Are we getting to the point where a sumptuous coffee-table book could be produced, collecting all the portraits of Lovecraft?
10 Saturday Mar 2012
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Philip Horne in The Telegraph today muses on Edgar Allan Poe’s stranglehold on popular culture. I suspect we’ve passed the cultural tipping point, and are now heading for a similar long-term endurance for Lovecraft.
09 Friday Mar 2012
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Thinking of making a webcomic featuring Lovecraft the man? I found a toon Lovecraft, rigged with a skeleton, for use with the popular cartooning and animation software Anime Studio.
09 Friday Mar 2012
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L.A. Stage reports that Re-Animator: The Musical is alive – and re-animating!
“Based on the book by H.P. Lovecraft, adapted by Dennis Paoli, Stuart Gordon and William Norris, with music and lyrics by Mark Nutter, helmed by Gordon, the Ovation Award-winning rock tuner – also nominated for 4 LADCC Awards and 8 LA Weekly Awards – is moving to downtown LA’s Hayworth Theatre for a 10-week run, prior to its appearance at NYMF (New York Musical Theatre Festival) and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The original cast, including George Wendt, is intact – occasionally headless, but intact.”
08 Thursday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
Not sure where to start with Lovecraftian music? Need a sampler anthology? The new Soggy Bog Podcast, number 66, has done the heavy curation for you, and his “Tribute To The Great Old One, H.P. Lovecraft”, is now available for download…
“features a ritual of tracks, which as the title suggests, are influenced by H.P. Lovecraft from the likes of Nox Arcana, Aldebaran, Arkham Witch, Black Sabbath, Reverend Bizarre, Old One, Thee Lamp of Thoth, Electric Wizard, Moss, Saturnalia Temple, Tyranny and so much more, in fact the entire show lasts a whopping 3 hours!”
08 Thursday Mar 2012
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MP3s of Roddy McDowall Reads: the Horror Stories of H.P. Lovecraft at SFFAudio. Roddy was of course the superb main ape star (Caesar) of the original Planet of The Apes series of movies, now being so wonderfully re-booted [update: this applies to the first movie only]. His vinyl L.P. disc is long out-of-print, and is not listed on either Amazon USA or UK or avalable for sale anywhere I can find.
08 Thursday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
The Guardian, a large left/liberal newspaper in the UK, has a short blog post today on the cute Cthulhu trend.
07 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Scholarly works
Added to the Lovecraft on the Web directory: Cthulhu Libria, a regular and substantial German-language magazine on Lovecraft…
Latest issue, #42 (PDF link)
07 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Alexander Rosetti writes today…
“I’m currently writing a song cycle based on Lovecraft’s Fungi From Yuggoth, and a poem in this collection entitled Nyarlathotep (after the character) is what I’m working on setting to music right now. I plan on premiering this song by itself this semester and the full set next year for my senior composition recital”