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Marshmads

21 Saturday Sep 2013

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Amazingly, there are still Lovecraft monsters that haven’t been worked up into game monsters by the table-top gamers. I can add another one, from the previously unpublished Wilbraham letter (ms. to Lillian D. Clark, 1st July 1928) that I was able to access for my latest book of essays…

“…lean brown marsh-things (invisible to mortal eyes) who wave & brandish them [constellations of fire-flies] in the gloaming when the unseen nether world awakes.”

Interesting also, that here we may have the genesis of the invisible monster which he was to place centre-stage in “The Dunwich Horror”. He wrote the story immediately after the Wilbraham visit.

Biology and Evolution of the Old Ones

20 Friday Sep 2013

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Fred S. Lubnow has kindly placed online Part I of the talk, “Human Interpretations on the Biology and Evolution of the Old Ones”, that he gave at NecronomiCon 2013. Once all the parts are posted, then I’ll be adding this to the Open Lovecraft page.

Fred writes…

“The talk is on the biology and evolution of the Old Ones, and I have elaborated on it a bit. A number of people have asked for a copy of the talk, and I thought it would be best to put it onto the blog.”

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Lovecraft in L.A.

13 Friday Sep 2013

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As if Los Angeles isn’t nightmare enough — Lovecraft in Los Angeles…

The Visceral Company is proud to present the Los Angeles premiere of LOVECRAFT: NIGHTMARE SUITE, featuring six strange stories of monsters, mayhem, and cosmic horrors brought to life through a combination of storytelling, puppetry, and shadow play. All text is taken directly from short fiction, essays, and poetry written by the godfather of modern horror, H.P. Lovecraft. Conceived and directed by Dan Spurgeon (Visceral’s Artistic Director and 2013 LA Weekly Theater Award winner), LOVECRAFT: NIGHTMARE SUITE previously had a successful off-off-Broadway run in New York in 2003. At that time, it was among the first fully realized theatrical productions – if not the first – based directly on Lovecraft’s work and utilizing all elements of stagecraft. LOVECRAFT: NIGHTMARE SUITE features performances of six classic Lovecraft stories: · The Statement of Randolph Carter · The Cats of Ulthar · The Outsider · The Picture in the House · Cool Air · Nyarlathotep