Where The Deep Ones Are. Another fab cultural re-mix of lovely Lovecraftian hybridity. This one mashes Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are with Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”. Wired magazine has the full story.

19 Wednesday Oct 2011
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Where The Deep Ones Are. Another fab cultural re-mix of lovely Lovecraftian hybridity. This one mashes Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are with Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”. Wired magazine has the full story.

18 Tuesday Oct 2011
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Innsmouth Magazine #8 is now available, with a lovely cover and new Kindle version (USA & UK) and an ePub version on Smashwords.

17 Monday Oct 2011
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An interesting-sounding new comic, announced at the NYC ComicCon, called Fatale.

Fatale is Lovecraftian horror noir — or “noirror”. A reporter in 2012 stumbles on a secret that leads him down the darkest path imaginable… to a seductive woman who’s been on the run since 1935, a mobster who may be an immortal demon monster, and the stories of all the doomed men who’ve been caught in their decades-long struggle. Fatale blends noir and horror to tell a riveting epic unlike anything you’ve seen before.
It’s a massive 12-parter that’s set to ship its first issue in January 2012. Which presumably means it’ll inevitably mutate into a chunky graphic novel weighing in at around 280 pages.

17 Monday Oct 2011
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The Whisperer in Darkness movie premieres in White River Junction, Vermont at a special flood benefit screening, with a special talk about Lovecraft’s Vermont trip (the flooding there in the 1920s partly inspired the story) and a prop auction. The film’s makers have also donated three miniature sets to the White River Junction museum which is an interesting-sounding…
“eclectic display space for material culture and an experiment in a new taxonomy. Originally thought of as an “alternative” museum, the museum’s present form and activities resemble the 18th and 19th century “cabinet of curiosities” and point to an interest in the historic roots of museums and museology.”
17 Monday Oct 2011
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Phantasmagorium, a new horror fiction e-zine. Edited by Laird Barron. $4.99. No Kindle edition, but you can probably do a basic auto-convert of the ePub with the free Calibre software (my tutorial is here). A print-on-demand edition is said to be due soon.

15 Saturday Oct 2011
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Sun Break elegantly plucks some quivering gobbets of juicyness from the Lovecraft’s Visions event at the Seattle Art Museum.
15 Saturday Oct 2011
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The new issue of the Lovecraft e-zine is now available: table of contents | buy.
14 Friday Oct 2011
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Lovecraft’s story “The Rats in the Walls” as a theater performance, on 21st and 28th of October 2011, at Black Creek Pioneer Village, Ontario, Canada.
13 Thursday Oct 2011
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Another slithering Lovecraft mashup/remix thing lurks on the doorstep. Alice in Wonderland vs. Cthulhu. No, really. It’s a graphic novel that’s already been funded on Kickstarter…
“The graphic novel tells the familiar tale of Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland as if the story was written by cult horror writer H.P. Lovecraft (At the Mountains of Madness, Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror).”

13 Thursday Oct 2011
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The New Death and others by James Hutchings is a new Kindle book with 44 short stories and fragments, and a handful of new prose poems. Among these is a verse adaptation of Lovecraft’s “Under the Pyramids”. There are also verses and stories inspired by the works of Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard. I had a look at the first ten percent for free, which you can always get on a Kindle — and it must say it looks really very promising. Possibly from someone who seems to still be a young writer, judging from his blog? The first fragment, done in the Dunsany manner, was especially memorable. And I love how he describes cats in “How the Isle of Cats Got Its Name”…
“It is well known that cats have the ability to sense entrances to the infernal realms, and the desire to enter therein, in order that they may combat demons and devils. This explains why they spend so much time under houses, and why they often disappear, never to be seen again. At night they gather to share news of the things below.”
Some of the stories have been published online and are available at Daily Science Fiction and Fairy Tale magazine.

10 Monday Oct 2011
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Lovecraft done in the style of Dr. Seuss…

Unlike recent Tintin crossover art, the artist on these has also done the interior pages.
06 Thursday Oct 2011
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Imps in the machinery at the British Fantasy Awards, Best Novel winner returns her prize…