Category Archives: Lovecraftian arts

Major New Yorker del Toro article

11 Friday Feb 2011

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Substantial new New Yorker interview / profile article on Guillermo del Toro’s quest to film At The Mountains of Madness…

Incidentally, my 2010 book of essays on Lovecraft’s Mountains, Ice Cores, should be available on the Amazon Kindle Store within the next 48 hours. Hand-coded, four passes of fresh proofreading for this new edition, and with a linked table-of-contents…

News from Toro’s Mountains

16 Thursday Dec 2010

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The LA Times reports that del Toro is one step closer to a real green light for At The Mountains of Madness. He and Cameron (Avatar) have had a summit meeting with the suits at Universal, showing them concepts, monster models, and a revised script…

“He [Cameron] pointed out one thing that was big. I’ve been thinking about this for 35 years, and he pointed out something I’d never seen [in the script].”

Toro also said he was “rewriting and rewriting” and was considering “unexpected” casting choices if the big-name stars backed out or proved too expensive for the Universal suits. If the movie and its huge budget is green-lighted — presumably after Christmas, then Toro could start shooting as early as June 2011.


And a special tie-in graphic novel featuring Tintin! (Er, no… actually it’s a spoof by UK artist Murray Groat).

Weird Fiction Review #1

25 Thursday Nov 2010

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Weird Fiction Review. The first issue is out now…

“The Weird Fiction Review is an annual periodical devoted to the study of weird and supernatural fiction. It is edited by S.T. Joshi. This first issue contains fiction, poetry, and reviews from leading writers and promising newcomers. … Among the articles, there are discussions of a forgotten story by Victorian weird writer R. Murray Gilchrist; Poe’s “The Imp of the Perverse”; Algernon Blackwood’s novella “A Descent into Egypt”; Neil Gaiman’s treatment of the Beowulf story; a 16-page full-color gallery of art by David Ho; and much more.”

Technology and the Horrible

24 Wednesday Nov 2010

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In Media Res is seeking curators for its spring schedule. Among the ‘theme weeks’ for which they are currently seeking proposals for curators include:

Technology and the Horrible

Proposals need not be any longer than a sentence or two. For more information, as well as deadlines for each individual week, please go to: Current Calls.

Curated pieces include a 30-second to 3-minute clip, an image, or a slideshow accompanied by a 300 to 350 word response to/contextualization of the clip, image, or slideshow. In addition to curating your piece, you will be expected to engage with the other pieces presented that week as a means of fostering discussion and further fleshing out the individual topic in relation to the week’s theme.