Antarctic Horror? Could Be Interesting!

Link here.

...one thing is already clear: Lovecraft was actually right about far more than his readers could have realized.

...British team is preparing to drill into Lake Ellsworth, which sits beneath 10,000 feet of ice and has not seen the light of day for millions of years.  

...Monsters of the Lovecraft variety — the kind that will butcher a tenured university professor and take him along as camping provisions — might also find credible habitats on Europa or Enceladus, at least until space probes can disprove their existence.

Goominet

Amazing art ...

Here (Link)

The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage !

New book coming!

This classic "batgirl" is from the paperback edition

This, "witches", is from the regular hard copy.

Here is the exciting copy for the upcoming book. Likely some things you did not know about Margaret!

"Conan" is from the Deluxe Slipcased Edition that contains 16 bonus pages

"Starting in 1932, Margaret Brundage, wife of leftist revolutionary Slim Brundage, -- who she met at the wildly-bohemian Dil Pickle Club {sic} during the Chicago Renaissance -- forever changed the look of Fantasy and Horror with her alluring, sensationalistic covers for the legendary pulp magazine, Weird Tales.


Brundage, whose art contemporaries include Virgil Finlay and Hannes Bok, is unique as she was the first female cover artist of the pulp era.

Decades before the gothic fetish craze, Brundage's lush, provocative paintings, which frequently featured smoldering, semi-nude young women bearing whips, became a focus of acute attention and controversy. At the very peak of the notorious pulp's classic run, the magazine's appeal was due as much to Brundage's covers as to the stories inside by famous authors H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch and Conan creator, Robert E. Howard. Long before Frazetta, it was Brundage who was the very 1st Conan cover artist. The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage is the premier book devoted to this noted artist and features all of her Weird Tales and Conan covers.

Additional and alternative press notes that you may enjoy reading:

Margaret Brundage was an innovator who created a hybrid between Pin-Up, Fantasy and Horror art. Long before Frazetta, it was Brundage who was the 1st painter of Conana. Half of a revolutionary couple who met at the wildly-bohemian Dil Pickle Club {sic} during the Chicago Renaissance, Brundage forever changed the look of Fantasy and Horror with her alluring, sensationalistic covers for the notorious pulp magazine, Weird Tales which, featured stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch and Robert E. Howard. Her lush, provocative paintings of smoldering, semi-nude women bearing whips instigated acute controversy in the 1930s. While the "Queen of The Pulps" has endured as an elusive figure for eighty years, this lavishly-illustrated tome is the premier compendium devoted to the mysterious ground-breaking artist; features all of her Weird Tales and Conan covers; and reveals for the first time ever, her radical "Secret Life."

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CTHULHU CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT !!

What can every Lovecraft fan not be without this year?

A 2012 LIMITED EDITION CTHULHU CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT by Alex McVey (Signed Limited Edition Resin Sculpture)!
To reserve yours or get more information just click the artwork below.

Miskatonic Books has commissioned renowned artist Alex McVey to create a unique, signed, limited edition Christmas ornament specially designed for the H. P. Lovecraft enthusiast.
This ornament is limited to only 250 signed and numbered sculptures. Each ornament is hand-cast, hand painted, and hand numbered by the artist. Each year we will be creating a new holiday sculpture and those purchasing this years ornament will have first chance at getting matching numbers on next years Lovecraft Christmas ornament.

• Limited edition resin sculpture ornament of only 250
• Hand-cast
• Hand painted
• Signed by the artist
• Comes with golden tie string.
• Approximately 4 inches tall and nearly an inch thick.

Joofville

I enjoyed this, and I hope you Lovecraftians do, too.

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Chrispy:

Joofville Here.

My Story:

I'm a 39 year old married man and father of two and live in South Africa, I've always enjoyed cartoons, animation and especially aliens, space, the strange and paranormal stuff. I work as a web developer and animate as a hobby in the evenings when I have time. I animate for the fun of it and intend on improving my skills and one day create a feature length film completely animated and edited by myself and yes it will be about aliens.

YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/joofville
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Joofville-Cartoons-and-Animation/273961836031536
Wesbite: http://www.joofville.co.za 

Regards,
"Joofville"

New Lovecraft Digital Book

Keeping you posted of things Lovecraftian:  This just in!
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Hello Lovecraftians!

My name is Jessica and I'm a huge fan of all of H.P. Lovecraft works and an avid reader of all his stories, as well as a follower of everything related to him. This includes board games, movies, and writings inspired by his work. Exactly, the same as all of you! I've even been known to admire jewelry and home décor inspired by the characters in some of his works even, such as Cthulhu and House of Yig . I've read his stories over and over again - more than 400 times if I just read each of his stories 4 times!

However, I was never able to find all of his stories collected in one volume. All collections I have found were nothing more than 50% of his writings. I knew I had to change this and make it easier for fans to get on hold for all.

I solved this problem by collecting all of his stories and writings: 102 horror stories, juvenilia, novels, ghost writings, and collaborations in all, into one Kindle title that is available on the Amazon Kindle Marketplace. My goal, which was successfully achieved, was to compile the most complete collection available in the consumer marketplace. Readers can't find some of his stories, like Bothon and Four O'clock, anywhere else except within this collection, as an example.

I got this title listed in the Amazon Kindle Marketplace here:

Complete Works of H.P.Lovecraft

This collection has been released on August 18, 2012 and is affordably priced at only $1.99 per download!

The following are the included stories in this amazing collection:

Short Stories and Novels:

The Tomb (1917)
Dagon (1917)
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1917)
Polaris (1918)
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
Memory (1919)
Old Bugs (1919)
The Transition of Juan Romero (1919)
The White Ship (1919)
The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919)
The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919)
The Street (1919)
The Terrible Old Man (1920)
The Cats of Ulthar (1920)
The Tree (1920)
Celephaïs (1920)
From Beyond (1920)
The Temple (1920)
Nyarlathotep (1920)
The Picture in the House (1920)
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)
The Nameless City (1921)
The Quest of Iranon (1921)
The Moon-Bog (1921)
Ex Oblivione (1921)
The Other Gods (1921)
The Outsider (1921)
The Music of Erich Zann (1921)
Sweet Ermengarde (1921)
Hypnos (1922)
What the Moon Brings (1922)
Azathoth (1922)
Herbert West—Reanimator (1922)
The Hound (1922)
The Lurking Fear (1922)
The Rats in the Walls (1923)
The Unnamable (1923)
The Festival (1923)
The Shunned House (1924)
The Horror at Red Hook (1925)
He (1925)
In the Vault (1925)
Cool Air (1926)
The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
Pickman’s Model (1926)
The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)
The Silver Key (1926)
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927)
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
The Colour Out of Space (1927)
The Descendant (1927)
The Very Old Folk (1927)
The History of the Necronomicon (1927)
The Dunwich Horror (1928)
Ibid (1928)
The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)
At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931)
The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)
The Thing on the Doorstep (1933)
The Book (1933)
The Evil Clergyman (1933)
The Shadow out of Time (1934)
The Haunter of the Dark (1935)


Juvenilia:

The Little Glass Bottle (1898)
The Mystery of the Grave-Yard (1898)
The Secret Cave (1898)
The Mysterious Ship (1902)
The Beast in the Cave (1904)
The Alchemist (1908)


Collaborations and Ghost Writings:

The Green Meadow (1918)
Poetry and the Gods (1920)
The Crawling Chaos (1920)
Four O’clock (1922)
The Horror at Martin’s Beach (1922)
Under the Pyramids (1924)
Two Black Bottles (1926)
The Last Test (1927)
The Thing in the Moonlight (1927)
The Curse of Yig (1928)
The Electric Executioner (1929)
The Mound (1929)
Medusa’s Coil (1930)
The Trap (1931)
Winged Death (1932)
The Man of Stone (1932)
Through the Gates of the Silver Key (1932)
The Horror in the Museum (1932)
Out of the Aeons (1933)
The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast (1933)
The Horror in the Burying-Ground (1933)
The Slaying of the Monster (1933)
The Tree on the Hill (1934)
The Battle that Ended the Century (1934)
“Till A’ the Seas” (1935)
The Challenge from Beyond (1935)
The Diary of Alonzo Typer (1935)
The Disinterment (1935)
The Night Ocean (1936)
In the Walls of Eryx (1936)
Collapsing Cosmoses (1938)
Bothon (1946)

This title is huge. More than 1700 pages full of Lovecraft! Readers can also navigate easily throughout the ebook because I've created an active Table of Contents, as well as back links leading readers back to the Table of Contents from the start of each story or chapter. So, unlike some other Kindle ebooks, the need for constant scrolling isn't an issue because readers can just click around. I have also included an NCX table of contents so that you can move from one story to another with a simple click on the 5-way kindle button.

Because readability is a priority for Kindle users, spacing and font use took precedence when working on the design details of this collection. Italics are also included just as the original version of the story was printed. The last thing anyone wants to see are writings that are clustered together too tightly, or fonts that are too fancy to read - a thing you will not encounter in this collection.

Now, you can get hold of The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft and keep yourself engrossed, engaged, and addicted!

“Shall I compare thee to a Shoggoth?”

"In the same putrid vein as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Shakespeare v. Lovecraft slithers hideously onto the literary mash-up scene, whispering of cosmic horrors and eldritch tales whilst espousing sweet soliloquys and profoundly contemplating mankind’s place in the universe.

The powerful magician Prospero, driven dangerously insane by prolonged exposure to the dread Necronomicon, makes a terrible pact with the titanic alien beast known only as Cthulhu. Now only his enchantress daughter Miranda and a handful of history’s greatest heroes are all that stand between humanity and blasphemous eternal subjugation.

Macbeth, King Henry V and more clash with some of Lovecraft’s most memorable monstrosities including Dagon, The Colour Out Of Space, Night- Gaunts, Ghouls, a Shoggoth and, of course, the Great Priest himself. And which sides will the Dream-God Oberon, the monstrous Caliban and ethereal Ariel favour in this savage clash of worlds?

Will humanity triumph and celebrate with a bawdy global rendition of “Hey Nonny Nonny”, or will the rest, as they say, be silence?"

Teaser trailer artwork from the forthcoming graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare v Lovecraft... it's an excerpt that reveals that Juliet is not the girl she used to be!

Amazon Link here!

Julie Hoverson: 19 Nocturne Boulevard

This came in from a fellow Lovecraftian.


Created By Julie Hoverson inspired by H.P. Lovecraft

Sitting down to dinner with friends was never quite so .... chilling.


click here !




19 Nocturne Boulevard (award-winning podcast audio drama anthology series) has included dramatizations of a number of HPL's stories, including a 4-part adaptation of The Dunwich Horror

Ray Bradbury

Thank you Mr. Bradbury for the years of stories you gave us.

At 91, he was eternally young.  He will be greatly missed.

New Project Alert: The Shadow Out of Providence

It seems to be Lovecraft season!
This message just arrived, and as always, Chrispy tries to share the news about new books.
There is a groovy video at the link, or look at it below.


Dear Chris,

I wanted to let a fellow cultist know about an illustrated book called The Shadow out of Providence, a metafictional response to the writings of fantasist Howard Philips Lovecraft (1890-1937). Two stories and a play re-work Lovecraft’s themes and plots while critiquing his racism and his nostalgia for aristocracy. Artists Timothy Hutchings, Erol Otus, and Dan Zettwoch each illustrate one section of the book.


 We have launched a Kickstarter page to raise money to fund the design and print run:
 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/98284667/the-shadow-out-of-providence-a-lovecraftical-metat

The project also has a home page:
http://www.shadowoutofprovidence.com/ 


If any of your readers can help us make this obsessive little project a reality it would be appreciated.

 --Ezra Claverie
ezra@ShadowOutOfProvidence.com

New Lovecraft Horror Comedy Mash Up

This just came in from Dan.  Interesting Mash-up concept.

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“Shall I compare thee to a Shoggoth?”

"In the same putrid vein as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Shakespeare v. Lovecraft slithers hideously onto the literary mash-up scene, whispering of cosmic horrors and eldritch tales whilst espousing sweet soliloquys and profoundly contemplating mankind’s place in the universe."

The powerful magician Prospero, driven dangerously insane by prolonged exposure to the dread Necronomicon, makes a terrible pact with the titanic alien beast known only as Cthulhu. Now only his enchantress daughter Miranda and a handful of history’s greatest heroes are all that stand between humanity and blasphemous eternal subjugation. 

Macbeth, King Henry V and more clash with some of Lovecraft’s most memorable monstrosities including Dagon, The Colour Out Of Space, Night-Gaunts, Ghouls, a Shoggoth and, of course, the Great Priest himself. And which sides will the Dream-God Oberon, the monstrous Caliban and ethereal Ariel favour in this savage clash of worlds?

Will humanity triumph and celebrate with a bawdy global rendition of “Hey Nonny Nonny”, or will the rest, as they say, be silence?" 

Please check out my new novella at Amazon:  

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shakespeare-Lovecraft-Shakespeares-Characters-ebook/dp/B007V7VBGM

All Best  

Dan

New Lovecraftian Board Game

From Erik Chevalier:

I'm the owner of a little Portland, Oregon based game design and publishing company with a new Lovecraftian board game coming out this year as our flagship release. The Doom That Came to Atlantic City, by Keith Baker, Lee Moyer and Paul Komoda, is a parody of a classic real estate building game but with its own wacky, weird and macabre game play style. Instead of building houses and renting property on landmark streets you crush houses, sacrifice cultists and crack holes in reality to become the prevailing Great Old One.

We're currently raising funds to publish our first print run over on Kickstarter, where we hit 60% of our goal in the 1st of four weeks. Please take a look at the game and if you'd like to feature it on your site we'd greatly appreciate it. 

http://kck.st/Jbbwhg

Thanks!

Erik Chevalier

theforkingpath.com

Call of Cthulhu pendant

From Luis:

There are only 2 days to go on the kickstarter campaign. The NEW video has audio extracts of "the Call of Cthulhu with dark ambient music, it is a nice little treat. Check it out! 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/867463650/call-of-cthulhu-pendant-limited-200-piece-producti 

Cthulhu Pendant

I just  had a really cool guy named Luis email me.

He's a big HP Lovecraft fan and also an artist who's worked on big Hollywood movies like

"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter", "Piranha 3d", "G.I.Joe 2" as a visual artist.

He's making a Cthulhu pendant. 

It looks great.

He's running a Kickstarter camapaign right now and you should check it out.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/867463650/call-of-cthulhu-pendant-limited-200-piece-producti

This ends May 21st!

Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom

Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom was sent to me as a preview copy.  Please be aware that this "Lovecraft" is a horror-fantasy character, so if you just read Mr. Joshi's magnum opus biography of HPL you might be a little confused.

In this alternate reality, Howard is maybe about 6 years old (his father is still alive) and the mighty sleeping one Cthulhu is named "Spot" by little Howard.  The images drawn by Thomas Boatwright are a radical mixture of minimalism, pastels, and abstraction.  The writers, Brown and McPherson are clever with asides and wit - like one might have in an old "What's Up, Doc" Chuck Jones cartoon.  It is not all whimsy, there is also a deadly and Lovecraftian seriousness about this graphic novel.  These characters could be killed, or suffer a madness that would be much worse than death.  The evil food chain ascends eldritchly upward so that even the devils themselves could be consumed if they fail in their unstated mission.

This is Lovecraft, so there is always a "book".  Whether the book is a book, or the book is a metaphor, it is immediately critical to the plot and the devil's missions.  But in this case, He Who Dreams and Should Not Be Named, is quite tame and kind of sweet.  The world is somehow very wrong, and this little boy, Howard, must somehow make it right.  That's quite a task, if this were really a little boy, but it seems that the boy is also a paradigm of wisdom and enlightenment.

How this plays out is not hinted at the end of chapter one, but rest assured the next chapters are equally entertaining.  However, here are a few hints of the energetic fun and horror in the next chapters.

In chapter two a very interesting character appears, one who would be perfect had he been a real actor in an old Basil Rathbone movie.   You may find the character funny, or eerie, but I found this character  one of my favorites.  Then "Spot" gets himself in – well – a spot.  Will he escape in time to save Howard?  We wonder if Howard's father is mad, or is he as sly as a warped Yukon Cornelius?  Then before chapter two ends, some very Innsmouthian manifestations occur.  And oh, my, what they do to good old 454 Angell Street!

In chapter three, as a cat lover, I cringed at what might happen to Howard's little black cat.  Then come the "bubbles".  Very clever of the artistic maestro to think of that!  Whether the writers or the artists are responsible for the many sound effects, kudos to each who had a part.  I live in the part of the country that has cicadas.  I hate 'em.  But I'd take a pack of them before I would that horrid winged thing that attacks our beloved team.  (I do believe in spooks, I do, I do!) Then as we close in on the end of the last chapter, we suddenly understand the title of the graphic novel!

I enjoyed the full panel scenes, and the way that the story boards were not just rectilinear predictability, but kept me on my toes.   I loved the small homages to many very old movies, or if that was unintended I suppose I'm showing my age and love of old films.

Bruce Brown and Dwight McPherson are masters of writing.   E. T. Dollman's lettering is clean, readable, and artistic in its own way.  Thomas Boatwright so captivated me, I had to go online and see more.  What I saw confirmed what I initially thought:  Not only can he do classic illustration, but he has a style all his own.  If he continues, hymns will be written about his artistic career.

The Undersea Kingdom is in this months "Previews" and can be ordered from comic shops right now.

T-shirt, three days only

If you happen to be a collector, here is a timed announcement.

Steve dropped me a note, and says that a t-shirt is being printed for 3 days only (shirt shows up at 12 a.m. Saturday). He says it will be a limited edition, never to be printed again.

Here are the links for you to check out.

http://www.theyetee.com/

At Steve Thomas there is a discussion of this iconography.

The New Death and Others by James Hutchings

 A copy of The New Death and Others was made available to me, Chrispy.  This is one of the better of "old school" Mythos and I appreciated the way it was written.  I count 66 short stories and poems which can be savored individually, or all at once.

In "How the Isle of Cats Got its Name", it begins wonderfully with "Death stalked the cats of Tekelee."  This pretty much explains the blend of the Poe, Lovecraft and RE Howard style throughout.  It is adventurous, thoughtful, and yet Mr. Hastings allows himself the freedom to express himself as James Hastings, and not be trapped inside some preconceived notion of what the Mythos should be or not be.

A brief portion of "If My Life was Filmed" goes "...someone famous once / would have the role of me / and if five stars meant 'excellent' / you'd give it two or three ...", which to me I find refreshingly self-deprecating yet closeted in a desire to shine.  This too, is a bit Lovecraftian in the best sense, as Lovecraft strove to excellence, yet always under-appreciated himself.

Fun of Sword and Sorcery exudes in "The Mirror of Tuzun Thune", "Un-numbered years ago it came to pass / that desolation settled on King Kull / His throne of gleaming gold seemed tarnished brass / and soft and subtle silk seemed rough and dull ...", and goes on to elaborate the dynamics of the conflict between Kull and Thune in 12 epic stanzas.

James Hutchings  is selling on both Amazon and Smashwords at a very reduced and bargain value.  The links are below.

Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/New-Death-others-ebook/dp/B005Q8Q8DY

Smashwords:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/92126