“There were crudely painted panels he did not like…”

For those who enjoy weird poetry, the new Joshi-edited Spectral Realms No. 1 is shipping. 140 pages of such, with a handful of reprints and reviews.

“A veritable nightmare of feline yelling and clawing…”

22 Sunday Jun 2014

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Cathulhu: Velvet Paws on Cthulhu’s Trail… “is fully compatible with Call of Cthulhu sixth edition rules”.

It seems you role-play cats? Cats of Ulthar vs. Cthulhu, that I would pay to see… 🙂

“I found all of the openings sprung…”

20 Friday Jun 2014

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Tramolines, in caves, strung across ye bottomless pits of Llechwedd caverns in the mountains of central Wales (UK). So cool. Just pipe in the sounds of “monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time…” via some bouncy sonic shoggoths, projection-map monstrous faces on the rock outcrops, dim the lights a little, and you’re all set for some real-life whirling Lovecraftian madness 🙂

With this kind of tech and kit on offer, can a Kickstarter for some kind of Cthulhu’s Cosmitronic Circus be far away?

“There are cases enough here, Watson,”

19 Thursday Jun 2014

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Your Lovecraft-meets-Holmes pastiche idea gets the green light…

“Leslie S. Klinger has won his appeal against the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate, proving in the U.S. Court of Appeals that all [Holmes] material (including the characters of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson themselves) published prior to The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes [1927] is fair game for Sherlockians!”

The Monolith Monsters

15 Sunday Jun 2014

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Sunday afternoon classic sci-fi movie, The Monolith Monsters (1957), free on archive.org as it’s now public domain. Though the picture quality there is a little rough. You can find it elsewhere in higher quality, if you go looking.

Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community

Gawsh, dawrn it, that sounds very familiar! They even added a few touches from The Dunwich Horror. One wonders if August Derleth managed to wrangle a slice of royalties on this one?

…a brisk and efficient piece of entertainment, that has been put together with a degree of care which belies its modest budget.” (IMDB)

Dream-Quest videogame

14 Saturday Jun 2014

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What a wild videogame “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath” would make. The plot summary just says “game” all the way…

Dream three times.
Find and negotiate the seventy steps.
Get past the priests.
Get through the Enchanted Wood.
Encounter the Zoogs.
Travel to Ulthar
Talk to Atal
Travel to Dylath-Leen.
Negotiate the Black Galleys.
Battle the Moon Beasts
etc

So far as I can discover, there’s not even a table-top RPG text adventure for the story, or even an interactive fiction. Which is kind of amazing.