Eurogamer magazine has a new interview with the maker of one of the best games of 2020, the acclaimed and strongly Lovecraftian Call of the Sea, “Lovecraft, new studios, and the legacy of Myst”…

“It was one of my favourite games of last year. And you’ve just been nominated for a BAFTA…” [British version of the Oscars, which includes games and TV]

There is of course a constant weekly tidal-wave of Lovecraftian games, comics, metal albums, table-top RPGs and suchlike, and Tentaclii can only briefly note the best here. Of which…

* The Sinking City (2019), the big Lovecraftian Innsmouth-alike videogame of 2019, is now said to be back on the retail shelves after a legal dispute.

* Gou Tanabe’s eagerly awaited manga graphic-novel of “The Dunwich Horror” is taking a break from serial publication in Japanese and will be back in July, which will likely put the English edition back by four months or so.

Beautiful new Moebius-like covers for the Fracoise Bon translations of Lovecraft, these being issued by the publisher Points. These seem to have been paperbacks re-issued with new covers in 2020-21. Try as I might I can’t get the illustrator’s name. [ Update: Borja Gonzalez ] The covers of the earlier mid 2010s edition were rather vague ‘tentacles in the background / big typography’ shovelware-looking stuff. But these are more like French BD comics.

New on the HPLHS store, a Call of Cthulhu Classic Gamer Prop Set. 94 quality role-playing props for Chaosium’s Lovecraftian games, and I guess they could also be adapted to other Lovecraft RPGs. Seems to be shipping now.

Meanwhile, over in Appalachia…

“Lovecraft in New York City”, my Photoshop-ing ‘after’ a great original late 1930s-40s picture made by Lee Sievan. We see the Kirk-area of Lower Manhattan, New York City. The Elevated railway is seen on the left.

Chaosium has a new video interview with Loic Muzy on “Illustrating Cthulhu”. Loic talks about… “his experiences illustrating Cthulhu Mythos creatures throughout his career”. He’s also at ArtStation.

Write Act Repertory of New York, NY are currently accepting submissions from playwrights for their forthcoming Short Play Festivals planned for 2022:

1) “Friend or Poe” (they seem to be interested in Edgar Allan Poe as both man and writer).

2) “World of Lovecraft” (they seem to be interested in the man more than the monsters, and the afterlife re: Lovecraft having “perhaps the craziest literary afterlife this country has ever seen”).

Deadlines: 30th April 2022.

Europe’s CineEuropa magazine has a short review in English of the new film Kinorama – Beyond the Walls of the Real (2021), by acclaimed Portuguese director Edgar Pera (Jackass 3D).

The new film tries…

to connect human primal fears, Lovecraftian monstrosities and modern 3D-movie technology [via a] 62-minute ride into visual obscurity and the depths of philosophy

prose by H.P. Lovecraft [is] performed in a gravelly growl by Keith Esher Davies, as well as statements by interviewees [including] literature critic S.T. Joshi

Apparently at one point a real motorbike literally floats from the screen into the audience…

The astonished spectators will get the chance to interact with a motorcyclist descending into the movie theatre, freed from the two-dimensional limitations of the screen. With Lovecraft, one is never quite sure what the cosmic limits of his gaze are. 3D, too, has only just scratched the surface of what is possible.

Sounds good. Kind of ‘Derek Jarman meets Terence McKenna’, by the sound of it. One wonders what Pera might do with AI visuals in future.

Less alluring and also from that part of the world, Jaume Balaguero’s movie Venus (2022) is set for Amazon Prime and Sony as a forthcoming TV movie. Advanced publicity positions it as as a “loosely” based and very “bloody” version of Lovecraft’s “The Dreams in the Witch House”, transferred to and cheaply filmed in the modern “dirty” slums of Madrid.