Key of Dreams reviewed, in “Fantastical 24-hour immersive experience like no other”…

Taking place in a beautiful 17th century manor house deep in the Welsh countryside […] Inspired by the works of weird fiction authors like H.P. Lovecraft and M.R. James, guests took on the role of Friends of The Miskatonic University, heading to the manor house to investigate the strange goings on. Arriving in time for lunch, my companion and I were greeted by a mysterious man dressed in Victorian clothing known simply as The Collector.

A long participant-review in The Express. A UK tabloid newspaper notorious for its over-claiming piffle ‘news’, but here quite reasonable.

The Ravenleigh Collection. An event… “created by fiendishly imaginative friends at the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society”. A unique Call of Cthulhu Lovecraft LARP, to be offered at Gen Con 2024. Booking now.

Also in events, dates for the Portland wing of the 29th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. 4th to 6th October 2024. Dates only, no tickets are yet on sale.

There are some rather pleasing new embroidered patches from the HPLHS, as a set of three patches, for £11.21 UK.

Large, at 2.5 to 3 inches across. With “iron-on backings” though light sewing is recommended. Should be ready to ship by 1st June 2024.

This coming weekend in the town of Alava (Araba-Alava Province), northern Spain, a Lovecraft Festival with various events taking place across the town. This is apparently their second such Lovecraft festival.

Theatre Review: Into The Dreamlands. A fine long review, and very encouraging to anyone thinking of visiting the London Lovecraft Festival in 2025.

And what appears to be a new Radio France podcast in French, on “The Mountains of Madness”, with heavyweight guests David Camus and Christophe Thill.

A glowing review from Noizze for the album The Scorching Gaze by Urzah. The new UK heavy metal band, who hail from the hipster city of Bristol, have apparently crafted an album in which…

The songs never give the listener a minute to rest, as they twist and turn through their ethereal cosmic shatterings, from crushingly heavy riffs, to heavenly angelic interludes, with lyrics that evoke the works of H.P. Lovecraft, gigantic in both scale and scope.

The YouTube headbanger sample track sounds great. If this is “sludge” metal (off-putting term), give me more of it. Just the thing for cruising around Providence in your Lovecraftmobile…

The album’s official release page is at APF Records and Bandcamp.

Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness movie, made at last… in Super Fan-O-Vision. 70 minutes of chuckles and cringes.

Regrettably there seems to be something wrong with the screen ratio on this YouTube upload, though. It’s slightly stretched upwards, at least for me. You may want to download it and then tinker with the ratio settings for playback in VLC Player.

New on Itch.io, The Temple by Esquadron, a $3 interactive fiction version of Lovecraft’s “The Temple”. Though unfortunately not in a more readable two-column layout that would match the widescreen pictures.

Note also the link to the “Making of…”.