New on DeviantArt…

The Great Old One by icoppens of Belgium, in poster style.

Neo Cthulhu by DerMalerinGelb of Germany.

Yog-Sothoth by AstShera of Russia. In stipple, if you look at it in full-res.

Lovecraft’s laptop by SelineToolate of Russia.

The Dunwich Horror by Mediocre-Grimm of the USA.

Mythos by juniorWoodchuck of Switzerland. (Including hypothetical relic populations of reptilian animals that might inhabit the Nameless City).

Mi-Go, soldier caste by Reinhard-Gutzat of the USA. (Part of his “Bizarre Biology” currently on display at the Brooklyn Art Library).

Mountains of Madness storyboards from Paraberio in Spain. (Partly online, and also as a wordless story-sequenced ebook)

11th-31st August 2019 at the Providence Art Club, Rhode Island. Update: full list of exhibitor names for 2019.

Now on Spotify and 2019 CD, the excellent and major new orchestral work by Guillaume Connesson: “The Cities of Lovecraft”, aka “Les Cites de Lovecraft”, aka “Les Trois Cites de Lovecraft”.

Also being played on three nights live in Houston, USA, later this year with the Houston Symphony Orchestra…

A new stage adaptation of Lovecraft’s “The Hound”, in review. The very positive review has details of this successful adaptation’s changes and staging…

Bodine improves the story at its beginning and end, setting up the narrative’s frame with a phone call to Carter and adding a dramatic event to make the story’s inexplicable conclusion more plausible. When the hound finally does arrive, though he is not on stage, we see him, in Farnsworth’s terrified expression and in the hellish green light which emanates from a doorway.

On the island of Malta this summer, through to Christmas…

“The Other Side is divided into a number of sections reflecting some of the most captivating and long-standing themes of the collective imagination, such as ghosts and hauntings, vampires, witchcraft and magic, uncanny depictions of lunacy and erratic behaviour, but also utopian and, more often, dystopian visions of the future, the familiar otherness of extraterrestrial encounters, and imagined technologies of tomorrow. In re-launching the [revamped and extended] exhibition, the curators, in addition to the room entirely dedicated to H. P. Lovecraft’s legacy, devoted a new section to the seminal work of Edgar Allan Poe.”

Ghost Tree has just completed its four-issue run, and together these form a fine short graphic-novel of about 84 pages of story. With superb art by Simon Gane. Definitely worth your time, and also worth spending time slowly perusing rather than rushing through it. For those who have a nice 10″ HD Kindle, or a similar tablet that can do justice to digital comics, the four digital issues run to £8 in the UK or $10 in the USA.

Gane has scans of original inked pages on his website.

And a Cthulhu beer label he did recently for a British brewery…

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: Mad Science. Four sizzling mad-lab Lovecraft tales, presented in the full-cast old-time radio style. Pre-ordering now and due for release on 20th August 2019.

Excellent, I see there’s even more quality Lovecraft videogaming set to ooze up from the depths…

Gibbous is a Lovecraftian videogame done in a “traditional 2D animation style” and runs to some 60 hand-painted traditionally-animated scenes of the city of Darkham with 70 “fully voiced” characters. Including a talking kitteh who has been zapped by the Necronomicon. A tome which various cultists in Darkham would very much like to obtain.

The game looks great, and sounds like fun. It seems to be a sort of LucasArts Day of the Tentacle, as if art-directed by junior illustrators at Disney and written by Lovecraft operating in self-parody humour-mode.

Though it remains to be seen if it’s as laugh-out-loud funny as Tentacle, as smoothly animated as old-school Disney, and can avoid the sort of game-stopping head-banging puzzles that so often break story-flow in such games. But the game has been in development for many years, has produced a demo, and it looks like quality. It’s due on Steam for the PC on 7th August 2019, and may be one for Lovecraftians to play along with young relatives who enjoy the likes of Gravity Falls.

Release: 7th August 2019 on Steam.

Update: 16th August and it’s getting very good reviews all round. A classic?

The general approach and cat-character makes me think vaguely of a more glo-paint-coloured Inkscaped version of the Ghostworld title, a game that Microsoft had in development in circa 2013/14 but which they squished while it was still in development.

New recorder music pieces from South America, with inspirations found in Lovecraft stories.