Heh.
Save the endangered Tree Octopus!
05 Saturday Feb 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
Category Archives: Lovecraftian arts
Lovecraft on biography covers
04 Tuesday Jan 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Grim Reviews rounds up some of the Lovecraft biography book-covers, with a short essay.
Here are some addition covers not on the Grim Reviews page…
And although it’s not technically a biography, this cover from Panther Books (UK) in the 1970s is hard to beat…
Jim Kazanjian
28 Tuesday Dec 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
“Anomaly” (2008).
News from Toro’s Mountains
16 Thursday Dec 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
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
Posted in Historical context, Lovecraftian arts, Scholarly works
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
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Scholarly works
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.
Skull Comics
22 Monday Nov 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Skull Comics (1970-1972). Golden Age blog digs up Lovecraftian hippy horripiliousness, scans it…
Dark Fin gloves
16 Tuesday Nov 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Unnamable
Not yet been inducted into the society of the Deep Ones? Dark Fin gloves.
Exhibition, NY – Exploration of the Neo-Grotesque
09 Tuesday Nov 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Another Roadside Attraction: An Exploration of the Neo-Grotesque. An art exhibition, until 31st Dec 2010. New York, USA.
Lovecraft on BBC Radio 3
07 Sunday Nov 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
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 does the first Lovecraft adaptation
07 Sunday Nov 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
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 interviewed
04 Thursday Nov 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
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.
