Lots of Necronomicon pages, by MrZarono.

From The Armchair Detective, May 1975, newly arrived on archive.org…

The Conjurers by Marilyn Harris. The evil is connected with ancient megalithic circles [near] a village called Dormeshaven, close to Avebury and Stonehenge in Wiltshire [southern England]. Miss Harris uses themes and incidents that smack very much of some of H.P. Lovecraft’s work [and] the tender stomached may find The Conjurers a bit much at times. [Sadly the Oklahoma-based American] Miss Harris has failed to catch the atmosphere of Britain as a Briton.

The 1974 Random House novel is now on Archive.org.

More free add-ons, for use with free desktop software such as InvokeAI and free Stable Diffusion 1.5 models.

Monster Diffusion – 1.0. Photoreal or semi-toon monsters, and it can also emulate tabletop ‘hand-made figure’ monsters.

Jack Kirby inked by Wally Wood. Apparently the creator of this LORA isn’t convinced its results will pass the ‘sniff text’ among the Golden Age collecting crowd, those who know their Wally Wood from their Bob Wood. But it looks fairly good to me.

LORAs for the styles of Jim Steranko (Nick Fury era), Jack Kirby (late 1960s Marvel), Steve Ditko (Doctor Strange era). All from the same maker, and I didn’t think much of them on testing. But perhaps I was testing them with the wrong Stable Diffusion model (XenoGasm).

Cityscape & character cumulonimbus cloud for creating one of those ‘Cthulhu walking as a cloud on the distant horizon’ pictures. Obviously you would use Photoshop to combine the cloudscape with a more suitable lower-half.

Two wranglers of the fiendish 3D software Blender require a visuals impresario…

We’re making a cRPG set in late-18th century Antarctica with heavy Lovecraftian elements [and] we’re looking for someone to help out in terms of aesthetics & visuals

Probably must be familiar with the look that’s possible in videogames with only a three-man team. No modding of a retail game is talked of, so I assume they’re building from scratch with the aid of the rich ecosystem of add-ons and Blender’s new off-the-shelf modules.

What my AI suggests…

Set for the Inferno metal festival in Norway, in March 2024, the live event “H.P. Doomcraft”. Being a…

collaboration between storyteller/visual artist Kim Diaz Holm and musician Costin Chioreanu, translating four works by the father of cosmic horror, into an unique and transcendental audio-visual experience. “Nyarlathotep”, “What the Moon Brings”, “Memory”, and “Ex-Oblivione” were all directly inspired by Lovecraft’s powerful dreams, and haunting narration and art combined with Chioreanu’s otherworldly music will bring it to nightmarish new life.

Looks like both men know Lovecraft well, and are experts at what they do. I’d hope for something on YouTube later in 2024. Though I guess the live event is the real experience, with the full speaker-stacks and a mass of nodding Nordic noggins. Booking now.

More looking through CivitAI, which is the main repository for free generative AI image models and plugins. There’s a lot there, and it can take a lot of digging to find stuff.

There’s some obvious Cthulhu / Giger / pulp etc stuff. But here are some other interesting non-obvious items, which seem to have Lovecraftian and RPG potential, and which you would never find via search.

These two might be combined in interesting ways… SAMO bones carving (intricate ivory carving) and Occult Geometry.

You would be able to use negative prompting to steer the Bone Carving away from an Anime / Chinese look, and more toward Giger / Lovecraft.

And for RPGs and illustrations involving museums, explorers etc…

KnollingCase (puts X inside an old fashioned specimen case for museums).

Antixdisplay (puts X inside a modern museum display case).

And for Victorian / Edwardian explorers, Muttonchops / Sideburns (Realistic) (for men) and DrawingSD1.5 (19th century pen and wash pictures) for the explorer’s old books of field-notes.

How far AI image generation has come, in just a year. What will another year bring?