4th Stockholm H.P. Lovecraft Festival, which has just been-and-gone, 2nd-5th October at the Stockholm Culture House in Sweden, northern Europe. Nice posters…

L.A. Weekly reviews the recent Hollywood stage “Cthulhu”, albeit from a ‘bemused journalist sent by her editor’ perspective. Rather more fannish are the reviews from L.A. Beat and Hollywood Gothique.

Lovecraft Legacies: Across the Vale of Years, a New England LARP (live-action roleplaying) from 10th-12th October 2014.

$20 prop making contest: HPL gets a suitable tombstone, for only $20 in materials. For fellow tombstone-chippers the maker kindly offers a materials list, instructions, and PDF plans.

Just opened at the British Museum, London, Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination, a general survey exhibition of the gothic across 250 years, drawing on the Museum’s holdings. Runs until 20th January 2015, and has an accompanying catalogue book.

Dusting the shoggoth, London’s V&A Museum…

3D Art Direct‘s new special H.P. Lovecraft issue for Halloween 2014. There’s a large Lovecraft 3D art gallery at the back of the magazine, curated by moi.

Cover picture by Greg P. Onychuk.

Ever wondered what Erich Zann’s music sounded like? Alexey Voytenko’s “The Music of Erich Zann” for violin solo (2009).

Picture: Anders Zorn, “Hins Anders” (1904).

Hot on the heels of the Lovecraft Film Festival, comes what is effectively a proto Lovecraft Theatre Festival. The 6th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Festival promises ten performances of various tales in the East Village, Manhattan, New York City.

Oct 2 – The shadow over Innsmouth / The moon pool
Oct 3 – The Dunwich horror / The statement of Randolph Carter
Oct 9 – The shadow over Innsmouth/ The beast in the cave
Oct 10 – From beyond / The call of cthulhu/ The beast in the cave
Oct 11 – The shadow over innsmouth / The moon pool
Oct 12 – The Dunwich horror/ Dagon

“Whispers in the Darkness” (2010) by Gato-Chico. Photoshop and stock. With some suitably refined typography and some cropping at the top and bottom, this would make someone a fine book cover.

Lovecraftian filmic weirdness over in California, 26th-28th September, with the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.