18 Thursday Sep 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Ah, ze French. “The Rats in The Walls” turned into, er… a “cannibal muppets” puppet comedy. Well, I guess they need something cheery to distract, while their socialist-run economy inevitably collapses…
17 Wednesday Sep 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Super cover illustration for a European edition of Lovecraft…
15 Monday Sep 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Dreams of Cthulhu, a H.P. Lovecraft Circus Spectacular, Seattle, USA…
“Shortly after a series of earthquakes, Ann Wilcox starts having unprecedented dreams of great Cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror. As the weeks continue, these dreams intensify causing her to wonder if these dreams are real or if she is going insane. With aerial, modern dance, and burlesque performances by Kelly Ward, Jennifer Lottes, Morgue Anne Morrighan, Anton Lukyanov, Carla Petrulli, and Warren Woo. Tickets only $10.”
September 17th at 9:00pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/1493031914269527/
September 19th at 7:30pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/1467226573558249
September 20th at 9:00pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/821277337917025
September 21st at 5:00pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/639084652866322
10 Wednesday Sep 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
“Preview performances are $10. Regular performances are $20; use the code ALHAZRED when you order online and get $5-off (not good for preview performances).”
09 Tuesday Sep 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, NecronomiCon 2015, New books
A forthcoming graphic novel of H.P. Lovecraft’s life, a project by Sam Gafford and Jason Eckhardt. 118 pages, and set for publication in time for NecronomiCon 2015 (August 2015).
02 Tuesday Sep 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Need to raise funds for NecronomiCon 2015? DIY Cthulhu Plush complete with free pattern and a photo tutorial.
31 Sunday Aug 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Scholarly works
“All About Alienation: Alan Moore On Lovecraft and Providence“, in The Quietus, the modern online equivalent of the 1980s NME…
As an extension of their recent interview, Nick Talbot speaks to Alan Moore about the language and philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft and his upcoming ten-part Cthulhu Mythos [comic-book] work Providence
Here’s Moore on Lovecraft scholarship. I think he has in mind the clear straightforward approach of Joshi…
Providence is […] set in 1919, or at least the first ten issues are, and I have researched the hell out of it. But one of the things I’ve realised, I’ve got about two shelves of just Lovecraft criticism — Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy; H.P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West — and it’s changed my opinion of literary criticism […] reading these pieces [of Lovecraftian scholarship] has completely changed my [inverted snobbery regarding establishment academic litcrit language]. Not about all of them, some of them are basically saying very little in as many words as possible, but that is not a fair characterisation of a lot of them.
31 Sunday Aug 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Echo Station muses on what he wants in a Cthulhu idol…
To sum up, my ideal Cthulhu idol would have the following characteristics:
* stylized
* looms outward, or otherwise aggressively posed
* big grabby unfinished-looking wings, possibly posed asymmetrically
* spider-like eyes, but probably not too regular in numbers or symmetry
* extremities not clearly arms or flippers or whatever, but some horrible combination, and skinny rather than [body-builder] buff
* inhuman (probably covered by all of the above)
* intelligent
* menacing
29 Friday Aug 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Visualise the 4th dimension, with this handy attic-sized LED-light hypercube, with programmed dimension-revealing patterns…
We shall see these things, and other things which no breathing creature has yet seen. We shall overleap time, space, and dimensions, and without bodily motion peer to the bottom of creation.” [said Tillinghast] … We entered the laboratory in the attic, and I observed that detestable electrical machine, glowing with a sickly, sinister violet luminosity.” (H.P. Lovecraft, “From Beyond”)
Definitely one for the Art Room at NecronomiCon 2015.
28 Thursday Aug 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, NecronomiCon 2015
Casey Love (Black Heart Models) will be bringing a “bust finishing class” to NecronomiCon 2015 in August 2015. Here’s one of his latest sculpts, “Tormented” (2014)…
Real modelling clay, apparently — not Zbrush + 3D printing.
27 Wednesday Aug 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: Imprisoned with the Pharaohs audio dramatisation CD, with…
a huge cast of professional actors, exciting sound effects and thrilling original music
Pre-ordering now, shipping early October.
25 Monday Aug 2014
Posted in Historical context, Lovecraftian arts
Picture: Entrances to the Boston subway line, Tremont and Boylston Streets, Boston (1915). Painting by Arthur C. Goodwin.
“Lynch & I were the last to go. His toothache excited my sympathy, but sympathy could not cure it. He left the [tram] car at the Boylston Street subway station, & thereafter I was alone.” — Lovecraft on attending the Hub Club Conference on 5th September 1920, Boston, at which he met Morton for the first time.
“Then we split up into narrow columns, each of which seemed drawn in a different direction. One disappeared in a narrow alley to the left, leaving only the echo of a shocking moan. Another filed down a weed-choked subway entrance, howling with a laughter that was mad.” — H.P. Lovecraft, “Nyarlathotep” (1920).
“God, how that man could paint! There was a study called ‘Subway Accident,’ in which a flock of the vile things were clambering up from some unknown catacomb through a crack in the floor of the Boston Street subway and attacking a crowd of people on the platform.” — H.P. Lovecraft, “Pickman’s Model” (1926).