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Fungi grows…

07 Wednesday Dec 2011

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Innsmouth Free Press has the guidelines online for the anthology of short fiction titled Fungi…

“Fungi is an anthology of dark speculative fiction (horror, fantasy, science fiction, and any other variant, such as steampunk) focused solely on the fungal.”

Don’t forget that most of the fungi is down below ground, and what we see as toadstools and mushrooms are just the fruiting bodies. I also discuss bio-luminous slime molds at length in my long essay on the sources and wider historical contexts of Lovecraft’s “The Colour out of Space”, to be found in my Lovecraft in Historical Context: Further Essays and Notes (2011).


Above: Sea Anemone Stinkhorn (Aseroë Rubra), native Australian fungi.

Joanna Makes a Friend

07 Wednesday Dec 2011

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An interesting-sounding new short film from Jeremy Lutter and Ben Rollo, Joanna Makes a Friend…

“when Joanna, a lonely nine-year-old girl, is ostracized by the other kids at school due to her love of the macabre and a fascination with Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, she ends up making a robot friend out of spare VCR parts in her father’s garage.”

Funded by a $115,000 award from the Motion Picture Production Industry Association, and also IndieGoGo crowd-funding.

Cold Tonnage

22 Tuesday Nov 2011

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I’ve added a new bookseller to my ‘Lovecraft on the Web’ list. It’s Cold Tonnage, whose new list leads off with a new Tartarus Press limited-edition of Robert Aickman’s Dark Entries (originally 1964).

There’s also an article on Aickman titled “Some Notes on Aickman’s Plays” by Douglas A. Anderson, in the Tartarus Press journal Wormwood #17. Just published, #17 leads with “World Gone Wrong: H.P. Lovecraft’s mythology of loss (part one)” by Joel Lane.

Haunter of the Dark wins 2011 Machinima Expo

20 Sunday Nov 2011

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A Lovecraft machinima movie has won the Grand Prize in the 2011 Machinima Expo (machinima is amateur 3D animation storytelling, rendered in real-time with a videogame engine). Phil Browne’s adaptation of The Haunter of the Dark was made with the real-time animation software iClone. Here’s the film with the director’s commentary…

[vimeo 32303090]

And here’s the original…

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyqoNvcmEcM&w=640&h=360]