A free seven page preview of IDW’s comic book adaptation of Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror”…

06 Tuesday Dec 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A free seven page preview of IDW’s comic book adaptation of Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror”…

05 Monday Dec 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Czech artist Petr Augustin is making a Web video series of H.P. Lovecraft’s story “The Rats In The Walls”. He’s using a combination of his hand-drawings, cut-outs, and simple motion-comics -like animation…

[vimeo 28142735]
02 Friday Dec 2011
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The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society is now taking pre-orders for the DVD version of their feature-length The Whisperer in Darkness movie.

30 Wednesday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
“Bow before your future robo-tentacle overlords…”

28 Monday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
As a devotee of the ice-cream parlour, Lovecraft might have appreciated these on a hot day in New York.
28 Monday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Interview with Ragnar Tornquist (Longest Journey, Dreamfall) on the forthcoming online game-world The Secret World…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC3_6LgW0yY&w=560&h=315&start=51]
The game goes live in April 2012. and there’s significant Lovecraftian content front-loaded in the storyline.
27 Sunday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Unnamable
Sad news — the sweet W.H. Pugmire is in hospital with a serious heart condition.
22 Tuesday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Scholarly works
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.
21 Monday Nov 2011
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A new point-and-click “hidden object” PC game, Mystery Stories: Mountains of Madness…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HUAfICN9lg&w=420&h=315]
20 Sunday Nov 2011
Posted in Films & trailers, Lovecraftian arts
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]
20 Sunday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
The director’s cut of the recent BBC adaptation of “The Shadow over Innsmouth” is out now, with an extra 30 minutes which were cut for the broadcast…
“This 2011 adaptation comprises 5 episodes, originally aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra […] an additional 30 mins of mystery-filled audio within these five episodes”
18 Friday Nov 2011
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