13 Tuesday Mar 2012
Posted in Historical context
Added to the Directory… Tellers of Weird Tales…
“an online encyclopedia of the men and women, writers and artists, who contributed to Weird Tales and other weird fiction magazines of the pulp era.”
12 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
What the cool kids are sewing onto their swimming bags this semester…
12 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian places, Odd scratchings
Buzludzha (Bulgaria, Eastern Europe)
Mount Roraima plateau, South America.
Rock House, Brittany, France.
Mi-Go Pilot Mountain, Carolina.
12 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Spectrum Fantastic Art Live! is a U.S. weekend convention dedicated to artists of the fantastic. It’s in Kansas City in May 2012. The event is a venture of the editors of Spectrum magazine.
12 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The winning entries for the Call of Cthulhu: Wasted Land game review competition. The task was to write a review of the game in the style of Lovecraft…
I am not mad. That they found my wretched form in the darkest recess of the library long after closing, staring into a pane of blackened glass and maniacally gesturing at imaginary denizens within, proves only that the twisted minds at Red Wasp Design have succeeded in channelling the Great Old Ones, unleashing their eldritch horror into our unsuspecting homes. I imagine the jaundiced, hunched forms toiling at their arcane art, rictus grins broadening at the thought of the psychological terror they have realised in their “Wasted Land”, at the innocent minds corrupted by this absorbing, addictive “pastime”.
10 Saturday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The great French comic book artist and writer Moebius has passed away.
10 Saturday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Two new 3D portraits of Lovecraft…
Adelben sculpted a face of H.P. Lovecraft in ZBrush and rendered it with 3DS Max…
Tom Kuebler’s “I am Providence”…
Are we getting to the point where a sumptuous coffee-table book could be produced, collecting all the portraits of Lovecraft?
10 Saturday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Philip Horne in The Telegraph today muses on Edgar Allan Poe’s stranglehold on popular culture. I suspect we’ve passed the cultural tipping point, and are now heading for a similar long-term endurance for Lovecraft.
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.”