Amazing news that a number of previously uncollected Lord Dunsany stories are turning up. They’d apparently been sitting unregarded in the yellowing pages of various old British newspapers.

Playing Lovecraftian videogames? Check your PC’s graphics-card… something might be leaking through the electro-aether… 🙂

Always wanted to try Lovecraft RPG gaming, but put off by the thought of travelling to get to a game with guys who actually take it seriously? Or were you scared by the prospect of having to sit between your mate’s beardy-weirdy cousins? A new service called Roll20 apparently allows you to play these games online via a… “Web-based online virtual tabletop for all roleplaying games”. The UK’s respected PC Gamer magazine gave it a positive five-page article, in the latest issue. It sounds rather interesting, and it seems the only drawback is that you don’t get to munch on free pizza paid for by your host’s mom.

I’ve never seen any evidence that Lovecraft saw or read this work, but the 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of their History and Developments might have tickled his imagination, if he had picked it up in the Providence library or encountered it later in the libraries of New York. It has two opening chapters on the Egyptian forms, and a closing one on mazes in literature. It’s available to read online…

H.P. Lovecraft’s Selected Letters I, II, III, IV, V, all first editions, plus an envelope with Lovecraft’s name and return address written on the back. A snip at £1606.35. Even the most judicious shopper would have to pay about £250 for a set of the later editions, these days, so I guess it’s the envelope that’s costing around £1,200.