22 Thursday Jul 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The great bard of Northampton, England has the first part of a new Lovecraftian graphic novel out now, as a $1.99 preview sampler titled Neonomicon: The Hornbook
The horror in Neonomicon is unfortunately said to be of the “gore” variety, thus breaking with Lovecraft’s hints and elisions to graphically show intricate nastiness — perhaps Moore is aiming at something in Continue reading
22 Thursday Jul 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Durn it… it seems I wasn’t the first to have the idea of using re-combined old public domain stories as scaffolding for creating brand-new Lovecraftian stories. I’ve just read of the new Classics Mutilated series: “an all-new prose collection of genre mash-up stories […] allowing a variety of writers to mix fantasy and horror elements with classic tales and icons.” The cover illustrates a Lansdale story that’s Mark Twain meets the Uncle Remus stories, channelled via Lovecraft.
22 Thursday Jul 2010
Posted in Housekeeping, Lovecraftian arts
Just published: my book Tales of Lovecraftian Cats (2010). I experimentally used old and obscure public domain horror / fantasy stories as scaffolding to write new Lovecraftian stories. All the stories feature Lovecraft’s favorite animal — the cat.
In this experiment I take my cue from Lovecraft — who was 50 years ahead of the curve on transformative fan works and collaborative mythos-building — since he once wrote in a letter of 1933…
“Someone ought to go over the cheap magazines and pick out story-germs which have been ruined by popular treatment; then getting the authors’ permission and actually writing the stories.”
My book includes two new prequels to “The Horror at Red Hook”, and a new Randolph Carter story, as well as my translation and modern adaptation of the first English novel, Beware the Cat (1584). There’s a limited edition hardback (please contact me), and an affordable paperback edition available from the link above.
A free sample is here (PDF link). I’ve made sure to embed the fonts used, but you never can tell with Adobe — please comment if you don’t see an elegant layout. It probably means that the fonts didn’t embed properly.