The making of a stop-motion animation of “The Howler” by H.P. Lovecraft.

François Baranger’s Les Montagne Hallucinees, Tome 1 is now listed on Amazon, for an October 2019 release in French from the publisher Bragelonne. The artist is also showing previews at Facebook, which have English text — so I guess an English edition may also happen too…

The format for his At The Mountains of Madness appears to be the same as his 2017 Call of Cthulhu book. Not quite an artnovel — but 14″ tall and with abundant double-page spreads of superb visuals done in his sweeping cinematic style. I assume the approved Joshi texts or the equivalent French translations are being used.

The second and concluding volume of his Mountains is set to appear before Halloween 2020. The first is being delivered on time, so we can reasonably assume the second will be too.

From the latest Decibel magazine…

Legendary horror film composer Fabio Frizzi talks about helping to bring H.P. Lovecraft’s poetry to life on I Notturni Di Yuggoth.

Decibel also has an exclusive preview-track online. This new Cadabra album starts pre-orders today. Exclusively in heavy vinyl, with “a new liner essay by S. T. Joshi” plus sleeve art and fold-out poster insert.

For those without a vinyl record-player, note also the forthcoming Karamazid Art Portfolio from Cadabra Records. This is the art for the Cadabra albums to date, done as a set of sumptuous prints. 50 copies only, 14 still available as of today.

New to me, a fanzines catalogue ‘Cthulhu & Co.’, by Adam Joffrain. This French site appears to have scanned covers for all Lovecraft ‘zines and journals to about 2015, with most at size where you can see what’s going on. All neatly ordered by title and date, and easily navigated.

On Archive.org, a complete set of Spellbound, the 1976-1977 weekly comic for British girls who enjoyed supernatural stories. Mostly witches, ancient amulets, black cats, some time-travel. As was usual at that time, about five or six black and white strips in each issue, with about six pages each, some strips being episodic from week-to-week.

Lots of quite nice line-art and, on many strips, the art is in page-layouts that are quite dynamic (if often rather crowded). These days, the sort of crowded page seen below would be spread across three pages of a monthly American-style comic.

Even if you don’t care to read them, each page has panels that will potentially inspire an artist to think about their own framing, angles, expressions, and suchlike.

A Lovecraftian sculptor of the 1960s and early 1970s, the Frenchman Henri Etienne-Martin.

Etienne-Martin’s entry in Dictionary of Modern Sculpture, 1960. Note the outdoor “Homage to Lovecraft”, and he also seems to have made smaller variations of this stair/throne-like sculpture.

From a 1965 exhibition catalogue in French…

From recent auction sales of his work…

“Art et mythe – La cosmogonie d’Etienne-Martin, point de depart des “Mythologies individuelles”” (open access book chapter in French).