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Heavy dark LORAs

27 Saturday Jan 2024

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More new free LORAs of possible interest, for use with your local AI image generation software (ComfyUI, InvokeAI, etc, running Stable Diffusion 1.5).

Death Metal artwork, in an album-cover style though one can remove the lettering (SD 1.5 doesn’t do readable lettering). Seems well-liked by those who’ve tried to work with it.

Possibly also useful for fantasy-horror needs, the new environment LORAs Fantasy Swamps (generic) and Ice Age (old and future Ice Ages, sci-fi ice worlds).

Perhaps interesting to combine in Lovecraft-y ways, the new silhouette-y Shadow Concept and the dusk-with-glows Shadow Concept.

And finally, a new Solomon Kane character LORA, based on stills from the movie.

King Kulled

02 Monday Oct 2023

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New this week, a look at “Stephen King on Robert E. Howard”. Not just REH. Back in the day, the article finds that…

King chose to manufacture a sensationalized version of events to present H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard as “mutilated personalities.

The end of the article also praises the new book of essays Beyond the Black Stranger and Others: New Essays on Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft (2023). These being essays by Charles Hoffman, which I linked here last week.

Audio recordings from PulpFest 2023

28 Thursday Sep 2023

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Streaming audio recordings from PulpFest 2023, now available. The list includes, among others…

* Sword and sorcery in “The Unique Magazine” [Weird Tales]

* Weird Tales on radio

* Those weird men’s adventure magazines

* Illustrating Conan for the commercial market

* Weird Editors

* Doc Savage and his offspring

No .MP3 downloads, but anyone handy with “Inspect element” and DIV-wrangling will find the link they want.

There are also dates for your 2024 diary. PulpFest 2024 will be in Pittsburgh, USA, from the 1st – 4th August 2024.

Lovecrafter 11 / 12 (2023)

05 Tuesday Sep 2023

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Details of what’s in the annual German-language double-issue magazine from the German Lovecraftians. Printing soon, and it should be available to buy shortly.

Lovecrafter 11: special issue on Lovecraft’s poetry.

* Following the recent German publication of the volume of poems Fungi by Yuggoth and other poems, an article “will present and discuss the translation and book in as much detail as possible”. [Sounds like a ‘making of’ article?]

* Form fanaticism and nostalgia in Lovecraft’s poems. [Probably about his passion for old metres, poetic forms and subject matter?]

* Lovecraft’s graphology. [His penmanship, or otherwise, and presumably also trying to divine personality from the handwriting?]

* ‘Mushroom Gardens in Bloom’ – a review of H.P. Lovecraft’s Fungi of Yuggoth and Other Poems (German edition).

Lovecrafter 12: special issue on Robert E. Howard.

Parallels between “Howard’s biography and the protagonists of his stories”.

A look at “the origins and relevance of the barbaric in more detail”.

An article which “roves through the sunken temple complexes and black stone structures that leave us so unsettled in the context of cosmic horror”.

“Digital Horror Upgrade 2.0”, in which Dennis Grob examines a number of obscure and often unknown videogame titles.

And various RPG gaming material.