BBC Radio 3’s Art and Ideas podcast has a short look at H.P. Lovecraft (25th Oct 2010). It’s the BBC, so their ridiculous “Brits-only” policy might kick in when you try to download the MP3 from outside the UK.

BBC Radio has done what appears to be its first substantial Lovecraft reading (with excellent new original music, and radio-report FX). Let’s hope they’re now inspired to do their first full-cast adaptation, since I’m pretty sure that the BBC has never undertaken one for Lovecraft.

The serialised reading is of At The Mountains of Madness. Currently available on the ridiculously time-limited and UK-only ‘Listen Again’ online service, or freely available in MP3 form from a torrent near you.

John Couthart’s comic book adaptation of The Call of Cthulhu (collected in The Starry Wisdom), reviewed at Robot 6, plus a short interview with Couthart.

A Village Voice review of a New York stage monologue…

“Why are we compelled to tell scary stories? And why do we love listening to them, nerves on edge, quivering with terrible anticipation? These questions are at the center of master storyteller Mike Daisey’s eerie new solo piece, Barring the Unforeseen. […] Starting with an anecdote about an illicit séance he and some friends staged in horror writer H.P. Lovecraft’s former Brooklyn apartment — where Lovecraft lost his mind for the second time…”

The “fiction magazines” links-list, over on the right-hand sidebar of this blog, has been updated with a clutch of new titles. Now more than 30 magazines listed.

Pictures of all the works in the new At the Mountains of Madness: a tribute to the writings of Lovecraft gallery show are now online.

Another of my fun Lovecraftian postcards, this time photo-montaged from Creative Commons elements by: Playingwithbrushes; Barnaby; MrsMinifig; Tambako the Jaguar; and geishaboy500.

“Samples from the Greenland Expedition, 1856”

A bit heavy on the sun-faded look, I think. There’s also a darker version…

Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book of unwritten story ideas, written up as about 25 new stories…

“I put together a pool of writers from across the country, ranging from playwrights to improv actors to magazine editors to internet comedy writers, and I gave them all the same simple proposal: I would use a random number generator to assign them one of the Lovecraft ideas. They would then write, with the only limitation being that they fulfil all aspects of the idea they were given.”

Lovecraft’s full original list is available here or as a PDF here. Just one example…

“Adventures of a disembodied spirit — thro’ dim, half-familiar cities and over strange moors — thro’ space and time — other planets and universes in the end.”

Fifth issue of Innsmouth Free Press is out now. The full PDF issue is here (1.8Mb), and has superb cover by M.S. Corley.

The latest phone charger accessory for the twitterati…