Four more scans of Derleth’s 1940s Arkham Sampler, added to Archive.org as public PDFs. These do not duplicate the existing scans.
More scans of the Arkham Sampler
22 Thursday Jul 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Scholarly works
Category Archives: Lovecraftian arts
Sick kitties
21 Wednesday Jul 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
“The Cats of Ulthar” has been adapted as an indie videogame, albeit with the game-mechanics offering what appears to be a horrible motion-sickness inducing camera. Not sure Ulthar has electric lighting either, but it looks like a good low-budget try at making the story into a game.
For a cent
20 Tuesday Jul 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A portrait of Lovecraft, published in issue 27 of the early videogame magazine ACE (December 1989) and new on Archive.org. A bit fuzzy, it has not been scanned well and it does not up-scale well. But it appears to be by “D.C. Designs”. Which makes it by Dave Carson of south London, in the UK, who apparently also sold limited edition prints and t-shirts of the design.
See also a NecronomiCon 2001 cover and some details on the British zine Dagon.
Possibly based on this photo…
Woodcuts of Newport
16 Friday Jul 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Picture postals
Early 1930s ‘sinister’ woodcuts of Newport, a favourite haunt of Lovecraft. They appear to have been produced for the Chamber of Commerce. Perhaps a fundraiser booklet, at a guess? A Halloween Ball?
Someone may wish to have the church steeple woodcut as a book cover (H.P. Lovecraft in Newport or suchlike). I’ve rectified and enlarged it.
Famous Monsters of Filmland
13 Tuesday Jul 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Archive.org now has what appears to be a complete run of the famous Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, including early issues and annuals. Though it looks like it’s now in need of a sorting-list, so it can be seen in order as #1 through #250 (2010).
New film: The Other Gods
09 Friday Jul 2021
Posted in Films & trailers, Lovecraftian arts
Lovecraft’s “The Other Gods” a fine stop-motion 2021 graduation project from Poland. Now complete and online, with English subtitles.
“The old game is over, and the cards are shuffled again…”
04 Sunday Jul 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A boxed collection of Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu products from the 1980s. All neatly bundled and presumably warehouse originals that have not been chewed on by ghouls. (Nope, they’re reprints apparently).
Official, and Kickstarting now.
New on DeviantArt
03 Saturday Jul 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
New on DeviantArt…
“The Color out of Space” by Smilodon99, in a rustic woodblock etching style.
“Shadow Over Innsmouth” inspired painting by Thomas-Elliott-Art.
The shady town by GBLXVIII, showing Innsmouth. Creative Commons.
Choose Cthulhu – The Shadow Over Innsmouth Map by Qpiii. A Choose-your-own-Adventure map.
Lovecraftian Species by VanDeWolf. Giving a pleasingly fluid and semi-plant feel.
Portrait of H.P. Lovecraft with a black cat by Ghostexist. Given the age of Lovecraft here it’s unlikely to be meant to depict the beloved cat ‘Trigger-ban’, which ran away and was lost when Lovecraft was just a lad. And which also had green eyes.
And The Shadow In Innsmouth by Nick-Perks. Being The Shadow pulp character. In Innsmouth.
Nightmares of Providence
23 Wednesday Jun 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A new 64 page comic, Nightmares of Providence #1. It appears to be a one-shot connected with a Kickstarter stretch-goal, part of a campaign for a deluxe collected edition of Alan Moore’s Providence comics. But Nightmares is by other artists/writers. Amazon UK knows nothing, but it should be shipping any day now… if the comics-trade catalogue Previews is to be believed.
Lovecraft in Die #17
16 Wednesday Jun 2021
Posted in Lovecraft as character, Lovecraftian arts
H.P. Lovecraft appears as the ‘big reveal’ at the end of the recently-released serial comic Die #16, and now makes a sustained as-character appearance in the current issue #17. Die is based on a popular RPG game, it seems.
In the comic he is deemed to have died in 1919, after blinding himself because of the horrors he was seeing and learning about. He is here the blind ‘Master of Dreams’ who serves as brief ‘realm-guide and info-dump’ for the super-hero-like RPG team. I say brief, but he appears for 14 pages, which all look superb and are kind of fun. Lovecraft is then rewarded by the team by being easily killed with a single head-bash, because he is “no longer needed” (no… I couldn’t figure that bit out, either…). His death (again) unleashes his hordes of nightmare creature-dreams on his dream-realm and thus on the team. Moral: ‘Don’t kill the Master, because it will unleash his horrors’, I guess.
But then the team just teleport away from the monsters (erm… Wellsian centipedes?) and the brained Lovecraft. Which was rather lame, I thought. Die has superb art and interesting fantasy-horror concepts going on, but possibly some too-easy get-outs. But perhaps that’s the way it is in the table-top RPG version of Die. Don’t like a NPC character? Just kill him off… In trouble? Just teleport away…
I guess now we wait for the trade-paperback for this Die story-arc to see how it all plays out and if it makes sense when read in full. The trade is due early November as Die, Volume 4: Bleed, with 168 pages.
New on DeviantArt
15 Tuesday Jun 2021
Posted in Kittee Tuesday, Lovecraftian arts
Another few picks from the new or recent Lovecraft art.
The Music of Erich Zann by Rabbitstein.
Howard Lovecraft-Process by Red-Rus. And the final finished version.
H.P. Lovecraft, Prophet of the Great Old Ones by Airen90. Adapted from one of the several ‘stage magician’ movies, I’m guessing.
Lovecraft by YlarchC. Imagining Cage playing Lovecraft himself, in a TV movie.
Cthulhu Rises by Silberius. (Lovecraft and Sonia in New York City, 1925 at the genesis of “Cthulhu”).
The Cats of Ulthar (BW) by UnworthyReturn.
Alhazred Encounter 10: The Temple of Ong by Tillinghast23. There’s a large series of these, depicting the many quests of Alhazred. Also a similar Fungi from Yuggoth set from a few years ago, and an Ashton Smith set.
Egypt 04 by Blik1976.
Abdul Alhazred by Mgenccinar.
Also noticed was Solomon Kane in the Ruins by ArtofReza.
New books: Kosmofobi & Kadath
13 Sunday Jun 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
You’re likely to need a tongue like an eel, to do justice to reading aloud Lovecraft’s poetry translated into Swedish. But it’s good to know such a book exists.
Kosmofobi : Dikter om varldar bortom was new from Aleph Bokforlag in 2020, with 176 pages and 10 illustrations…
The book collects all the author’s surviving horror and fantasy poems. These are published in the original side-by-side with Swedish interpretations in free verse. There is also an essay by the prominent Lovecraft expert Robert M. Price, written especially for this Swedish edition.
Also from the same publisher, Jens Heimdahl’s illustrated “Dream Quest”, Soekandet efter det droemda Kadath (2020, 2nd edition). According to the publisher…
Something of an art book, solidly illustrated by Jens Heimdahl, who also has a section on the author and analyzes the story.
They’ve saddled it with a cover with poor ‘shovelware’ typography, but here are some samples of the art…
