12 Saturday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Miskatonic School for Girls raises $36k on Kickstarter.
Does any reader know how someone from the UK might get on Kickstarter? It seems to be the only site worth using for crowd-funding, but they’re apparently “USA only”.
12 Saturday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Alan Moore’s Neonomicon mini-series is collected as a graphic novel, and available for pre-order with a 25th Nov release date. The book also includes the earlier The Courtyard. Not sure if there are any nice extras like a text-fiction continuation of the story. It seems not. Personally, I found the art more memorable than the story…
10 Thursday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
New free audio reading of Lovecraft’s “The Moon-Bog” (1921). 22 minutes, 3,400 words.
Above: artwork by Stephen Fabian.
10 Thursday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Yet more H.P. Lovecraft theatricals. Dover Players in the USA get hip with the remix culture, and freely combine and remix “Cool Air”, “Dreams in the Witch House” and “The Rats in the Walls” to make a new Lovecraftian work for the stage…
“the play’s climax perfectly expresses the moral-emotional tone and thematic fixations of a Lovecraft story. The tone is dark, and the themes decidedly bleak. […] But the project is not mere sensationalism. Evangelista’s undertaking is the most ambitious community theater of recent memory, and his boldness pays off for both the Lovecraft devotee and open-minded and strong-stomached theatergoer.”
09 Wednesday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
H.P. Lovecraft’s poetry, set to music in folk, jazz, bluegrass and country styles on the new album Back to Lovecraft…
“Back to Lovecraft” is an album by four Corsican artists (Frederic “Tonton” Antonpietri, Paul Cesari, Armand Luciani, Marie Ange Tosi-Abbati) […] finalised in London at the Abbey Road Studios.
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07 Monday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Fresh from leaving Weird Tales, the former editors have just started an online publication Weird Fiction Review. They state that…
“This site exists in a symbiotic relationship with S.T. Joshi’s print journal The Weird Fiction Review but does not share staff.”
One of the articles that opens the new webzine is a short Exclusive Interview: Neil Gaiman on The Weird.
04 Friday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The H.P. Podcraft full-story readings were teetering on the verge of toppling and sinking below the black mire of iTunes bandwidth…
“from this point forward, our full story readings will no longer be appearing as Podcast episodes – they’ll only be available exclusively from the site, and will be disappearing from the iTunes feed in the future.”
But they’re been rescued by Michael Walker, and will still be available on the site. Nice one, Michael! Currently available full readings for download: “From Beyond”; The Picture in The House”; “The Haunter of the Dark”; “Cool Air”, and “The Cats of Ulthar”.
I don’t use iTunes, but I’m puzzled why bandwidth should be an issue there. Is it that… when bandwidth for free iTunes stuff exceeds a certain amount, Apple pulls the plug and makes you offer it for payment?
04 Friday Nov 2011
Posted in Historical context, Lovecraftian arts, REH
Genius British comics artist Hunt Emerson provides a lovely new portrait of Ernst Haeckel, Zoologist and Painter, on the Steampunk and Phenomena profile of Haeckel.
Haeckel’s full set of Kunstformen der Natur plates are available on Wikimedia. These are likely to have visually influenced Lovecraft and Giger, and Haeckel is cited as one of Lovecraft’s “chief philosophical influences” via Haeckel’s The Riddle of the Universe (1899). He was also an influence on R.E. Howard (circa 9th August 1932, Howard told Lovecraft that he… “used to be a violent admirer of Haekal”). There’s also a 60 minute documentary on Haeckel, Proteus (2004).
03 Thursday Nov 2011
Posted in Films & trailers, Lovecraftian arts
Wildside Cinema has a new review of Cthulhu (2007). I must say I’ve never heard of the movie, but it sounds like a very free adaptation of “The Shadow over Innsmouth”…
“That the movie is exquisitely photographed helps immensely, some of the camera angles and setups look like paintings in an art gallery.”
02 Wednesday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books, Scholarly works
Miskatonic Books announces pre-orders for S.T. Joshi’s Medusa’s Coil and Others. The Annotated Revisions and Collaborations of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol.2.. Superb cover artwork by Zach McCain.
150 print-run, collector’s hardback. Only eight copies left of the first volume, apparently.
02 Wednesday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Peanuts, the Lovecraft adaptations…
02 Wednesday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Whats On Stage reviews a recent British theatre adaptation of “The Call of Cthulhu”, presented at The Lowry in Salford, Manchester…
“with a few tweaks to the script Sabbaton could transform this from a slightly scary Jackanory to a truly terrifying experience”