A new 90-second tour of the Folio Society’s “The Call of Cthulhu” (2017), in pleasing Ken Burns-ish steadycam-o-vision…
Call of the Folio Society
15 Wednesday May 2019
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Ulthar kittee
14 Tuesday May 2019
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Wendy’s awesome Ulthar kittee pictures, in 5k under Creative Commons Attribution. Credit Kaptiv8 / Wendy Sloboda of Canada. Just in case you were wanting an ‘Ulthar tales’ book cover, album cover, or similar. I’ve given one of them a quick fix and crop…
DIY: make a medieval manuscript
09 Thursday May 2019
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How to make a medieval manuscript. A new set of seven practical how-to videos from the British Library, showing how to use quills, oak-gall ink, paints, shiny embellishments and more.
“In hue as green as the lake and the mists that rise above it…”
08 Wednesday May 2019
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A delightfully greenish and Innsmouth-ian-looking map made in 1777, showing the topography and water-ways in the long bay leading up to Providence.
I’ve shrunk it to 6000 pixels, so you can see lots of detail at 100%, yet it’s only 4Mb and thus doesn’t take forever to download.
Monochrome Mapping Competition
07 Tuesday May 2019
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A “Monochrome Mapping Competition” is on now. Three entries, any medium. Deadline: 15th June 2019.
Seems to fit well with the old-school zine aesthetic, which is why I’m posting it here. I’m thinking something like… a big flowchart map of Lovecraft entities + geography, as if painstakingly typed into a waxed stencil sheet and hand-printed by Gestetner stencil duplicator across two sheets of A4.
The making of ‘Star-winds’
07 Tuesday May 2019
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The Lone Animator explains and illustrates his ‘making of’ the H. P. Lovecraft’s Star-Winds animation.
Event: Walking in Providence
28 Sunday Apr 2019
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Walking in Providence. Booking now. Free.
On 4th and 5th May 2019, staff and students at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University will lead an arduous, 2-day, 20-mile collaborative walk through all 25 of Providence’s neighborhoods, in which the “route” is mapped by strangers in the street.
How does it work? The walkers will meet once on 1st May, to pick the locations throughout the city that they would like to hit over the two days. On Saturday, 4th May, the group will set out and will ask passers-by for the best route to their location based on specific questions, like “What is the route that bypasses particular places that have meaning to you or your community?” or “What is the ugliest route we can take and why is it so ugly?” The walk will be shaped by people in the streets — some may even join in for part or all of the day. The route, generative questions and some information about each route-giver will be recorded, and a map will be produced at the end of the weekend.
New book: The H. P. Lovecraft Cat Book
28 Sunday Apr 2019
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The H. P. Lovecraft Cat Book now has a Necronomicon Press pre-order page, a cover and TOC, and a release-date of 20th May 2019 for the paper editions. The hardback first edition is limited to 100 copies.
“assembled by S. T. Joshi … lavishly illustrated by Jason C. Eckhardt” in pen and ink.
I’m assuming that “The Cats of New York”, listed in the TOC, might be something drawn from the letters? Or perhaps a scholarly essay from Joshi on the cat-encounters? We also get an “Extracts from Letters” section, although at present it’s unknown how completist this is.
Sale: Draw! / Write Now / Kirby Collector
27 Saturday Apr 2019
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TwoMorrows, an online store dedicated to comics history. They currently have a sale on for their Draw! magazine “the professional ‘how-to’ magazine on cartooning”, with most issues as low as $5 and some as low as $3.
Also Jack Kirby Collector and Write Now magazine, for writers of comics and similar.
Their sale runs through 1st May 2019.
The return of the fanzine
27 Saturday Apr 2019
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The Lovecraftian Rlyeh Reviews brings the happy news that…
“On the tail of Old School Renaissance [in tabletop RPG gaming] has come another movement — the rise of the fanzine.”
Fantasy Faction pins down what the phrase “Old School Renaissance” means in RPG-land, for clueless newbs like myself, in his review of the fab-sounding RPG The Midderlands.
Weird Tales, 1929 issues
24 Wednesday Apr 2019
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New on Archive.org…
* Weird Tales, January 1929. “The Silver Key” by H.P. Lovecraft, and “Skulls in the Stars” (Solomon Kane) by Robert. E. Howard.
* Weird Tales, November 1929. Lovecraft’s revision tale “The Curse of Yig”, with Zealia Brown Reed. Also “Skull-face” (part two) by Robert E. Howard.
“HPL ghostwrote “The Curse of Yig” (WT, November 1929) in 1928 from a plot synopsis and a questionnaire pertaining to the Oklahoma setting for the story” — Lovecraft Encyclopaedia.
“… it can hardly be doubted that the story as we have it is almost entirely the work of Lovecraft except for the bare nucleus of the plot.” — Joshi, I Am Providence.
“… if you want to see a new story which is practically mine, read “The Curse of Yig”” — letter from Lovecraft.
Omen Exitio
22 Monday Apr 2019
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Each month it seems a tidal-wave of ‘inspired by Lovecraft’ games surges past, heading on into oblivion. I don’t usually pay attention to them. But it seems worth noting the new Omen Exitio. It’s a ‘visual novel’ from Italy, and has high design-values and some minimal solo-play game elements…
“inspired by the [‘choose your own adventure’] gamebooks of the ’80s and ’90s”
The game elements are stats-gaining, not point-and-click puzzles, it seems.
Looks fun, though it needs Windows / Steam and is not for the Amazon Kindle.
Talking of the Kindle, the makers of the award-winning 80 Days are prepping their new game. It’s a science-fiction adventure in space, featuring lost races, linguistics and archaeology. Probably mid 2019. (Update: it’s out now, and is sadly not for the Kindle as their last game was).