09 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Thinking of making a webcomic featuring Lovecraft the man? I found a toon Lovecraft, rigged with a skeleton, for use with the popular cartooning and animation software Anime Studio.
09 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
I found an essay on “Debunking the Lovecraftian Occult” by Thomas Jude Barclay Morrison.
Above: Do not worship the Cthulhu bubbles. Photomontage by David Chance Fragale.
09 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Lynnette Jemneck has delivered her thesis on Decoding language in Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. And we may get to read it, too, eventually…
“The Lovecraft Annual wants to potentially publish a 10,00 word extract of the thesis”
09 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
L.A. Stage reports that Re-Animator: The Musical is alive – and re-animating!
“Based on the book by H.P. Lovecraft, adapted by Dennis Paoli, Stuart Gordon and William Norris, with music and lyrics by Mark Nutter, helmed by Gordon, the Ovation Award-winning rock tuner – also nominated for 4 LADCC Awards and 8 LA Weekly Awards – is moving to downtown LA’s Hayworth Theatre for a 10-week run, prior to its appearance at NYMF (New York Musical Theatre Festival) and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The original cast, including George Wendt, is intact – occasionally headless, but intact.”
09 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
The Heinlein Society Scholarship Program is offering a nice little travel grant for someone. Fancy looking at the biological science of the Providence shoreline, and relating it to Lovecraft’s depiction of aliens?
“The Heinlein Society is pleased to announce that for the 2012-2013 academic year we will be offering the first of many scholarships. There will be two $500 scholarships awarded to undergraduate students of accredited 4-year [USA] colleges and universities majoring in engineering, math, or physical sciences (e.g. physics, chemistry), or in Science Fiction as Literature. Applicants will need to submit a 500 to 1,000 word essay on one of several available topics. To apply, fill out the form below and print or email. Deadline is 15th May 2012.”
08 Thursday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
Not sure where to start with Lovecraftian music? Need a sampler anthology? The new Soggy Bog Podcast, number 66, has done the heavy curation for you, and his “Tribute To The Great Old One, H.P. Lovecraft”, is now available for download…
“features a ritual of tracks, which as the title suggests, are influenced by H.P. Lovecraft from the likes of Nox Arcana, Aldebaran, Arkham Witch, Black Sabbath, Reverend Bizarre, Old One, Thee Lamp of Thoth, Electric Wizard, Moss, Saturnalia Temple, Tyranny and so much more, in fact the entire show lasts a whopping 3 hours!”
08 Thursday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
MP3s of Roddy McDowall Reads: the Horror Stories of H.P. Lovecraft at SFFAudio. Roddy was of course the superb main ape star (Caesar) of the original Planet of The Apes series of movies, now being so wonderfully re-booted [update: this applies to the first movie only]. His vinyl L.P. disc is long out-of-print, and is not listed on either Amazon USA or UK or avalable for sale anywhere I can find.
08 Thursday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
The Guardian, a large left/liberal newspaper in the UK, has a short blog post today on the cute Cthulhu trend.
07 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Scholarly works
Added to the Lovecraft on the Web directory: Cthulhu Libria, a regular and substantial German-language magazine on Lovecraft…
Latest issue, #42 (PDF link)
07 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Alexander Rosetti writes today…
“I’m currently writing a song cycle based on Lovecraft’s Fungi From Yuggoth, and a poem in this collection entitled Nyarlathotep (after the character) is what I’m working on setting to music right now. I plan on premiering this song by itself this semester and the full set next year for my senior composition recital”
07 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A new mini-interview with Lovecraftian sculptor Bryan Moore, of Arkham Studios…
“[I] am currently creating a sculpture of H.P. Lovecraft for the city of Providence, Rhode Island”
07 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The perils of Spore, a popular videogame with evolutionary aspects built in…
The [videogaming experience] that sticks in my mind was a result of my incessant playing with Spore’s creature creation tools. I spent one afternoon creating monsters from H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, looking up their descriptions and trying to build creatures that perfectly matched Lovecraft’s vision. I felt at the time that I’d had little success, since Spore’s cutesy look left most of them looking more cuddly than terrifying.
I had completely forgotten this exercise as I played through the main game a few weeks later. My new species was [now autonomously] developing toward a tribal culture, and were learning to hunt in a pack and find fruit. Suddenly a huge shadow passed overhead, and with a ground-shaking crash, the great lord Cthulhu himself landed in front of us.
You see, Spore would randomly seed the game world with creatures you and your friends had made, sometimes in groups, and sometimes as larger solitary creatures. This was an [game-evolved] “epic” instance of Cthulhu, perhaps 100 feet tall. What had looked cute when I had made it was suddenly one of the scariest things I had ever seen. The hulking green monstrosity then proceeded to devour my entire tribe.
That’s right, in my game of Spore I had a budding civilisation wiped out by Cthulhu himself.