H.P. Lovecraft, inspired by
Lord Dunsany (Wikipedia; Project Gutenberg; UPenn online library) and Edgar Rice Burroughs'
Barsoom (annotated stories online), created
the Dreamlands, in which he set the 20+ stories of
the Dream Cycle. The longest story was
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (
Wikipedia), completed in 1927, but unpublished in his lifetime. Comic artist, Jason Thompson,
started illustrating the story in high school, then re-drew the story after college, and that comic was
semi-animated as a feature-length film. He wrote up his influences for a hidden commentary on the DVD, and expanded it online as
The Annotated Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. More Lovecraft sketches and comics online in Thompson's
Mockman archive. [Previously:
Lovecraft comic adaptations]
posted by filthy light thief
on Feb 1, 2013 -
34 comments
Physicist Ben Tippett has
written a paper
[PDF] showing that the events of Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu could have happened.
posted by Chrysostom
on Oct 30, 2012 -
38 comments
Have you ever wondered what non-euclidean geometry actually looks like?
This video uses a custom ray tracer for the Minecraft engine to give some examples.
posted by codacorolla
on Apr 25, 2012 -
33 comments
Kevin J. Weir is an artist, making ads (
1,
2,
3,
4,
5), and more interestingly, not ads. In the latter category, he has made 3 stand-alone sites:
the Flux Machine, a tumblr of public domain images turned into animated GIFs, ranging from amusing to surreal (with an extra dash of Lovecraft), which
Cartoon Brew likened to
Terry Gilliam and
Stan VanDerBeek;
Nyan Waits, another spin-off of the
Nyan Cat meme/theme, now with more Tom Waits; and
Loud Portraits, an interactive portrait gallery.
[more inside]
posted by filthy light thief
on Apr 4, 2012 -
9 comments
After the, aheh, weirdness surrounding Ann Vandermeer's departure from Weird Tales (
Previously), Jeff and Ann Vandermeer have now released the succinctly titled compendium of weird fiction, "
The Weird," covering 100 years and 750,000 words of weird fiction.
The hitherto-silent "companion site,"
Weird Fiction Review, launches today, revealing itself to be a bit of an all-purpose blog about fiction as well as general strangeness and affiliated oddities.
[more inside]
posted by Scattercat
on Oct 31, 2011 -
27 comments
Yog-Blogsoth This blog will be an attempt to draw all the creatures Lovecraft ever wrote about or mentioned. (Poss NSFW - drawn nudity, Def NSFSanity)
posted by fearfulsymmetry
on Jun 1, 2011 -
53 comments
Today is a day to celebrate the Risen God. I mean, of course, Cthulhu, that most adorable of Old Ones, who stars in
The Adventures of Lil Cthulhu. If you haven't been eaten yet and need to waste time until then,
The Calls for Cthulhu series is a nice way to distract yourself from your impending doom. If all that cuteness isn't enough, or perhaps too much, then you might want to check out oldie but goodie
Cutethulhu.
posted by Kattullus
on Apr 24, 2011 -
35 comments
The Ward (
Part 1 -
Part 2 -
Part 3) is a silly little Lovecraftian sitcom from the folks who bring us the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast. (previously:
1,
2,
3,
4) The guys Lackey and Fifer are also writing a graphic horror novel set in the Jazz Age,
Deadbeats.
posted by JHarris
on Apr 9, 2011 -
11 comments
Following the success of
The Haunter of The Dark, the HP Lovecraft Literary Podcasts presents two new readings,
From Beyond and
The Picture in The House, by Andrew Leman and Bruce Green. Both recordings are available "In 3D". Alternatively if you like your Lovecraft with both pictures AND sound, the HP Lovecraft Historical Society version of
The Whisperer in Darkness is complete and being shown at worldwide film festivals - it's a talkie! (The HPLHS are now also offering a rather handsome
"official membership" pack.) Want something more interactive?
Cthulhu Dark offers a complete Lovecraftian tabletop RPG system that fits on two sides of a sheet of paper. Please note:
"If you fight any creature you meet, you will die. Thus, in these core rules, there are no combat rules or health levels. Instead, roll to hide or escape."
posted by Artw
on Mar 29, 2011 -
21 comments
6 ways to turn Cthulhu into an emoticon. How to pronounce "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" via
The Lovecraftsman A contemporary blog about HP Lovecraft, Cthulhu, the Necronomicon, Miskatonic University, Arkham, R'lyeh, The Book of Eibon, Yog-Sothoth, De Vermis Mysteriis, & other unspeakable things...
posted by fearfulsymmetry
on Mar 27, 2011 -
105 comments
Social news site
Reddit recently held their
"Best of Reddit 2010" awards honoring key players in the site over the last year, including the progenitor of
the Rally to Restore Sanity, the clever drive-by cartoonist
Sure_Ill_Draw_That, unofficial image host
Imgur, and feel-good story of the year
"Today you, tomorrow me." But perhaps most interesting was the winner for Best Big Community:
FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU! Originally inspired by 4chan's popular
Rage Guy meme, F7U12 (for short) is a clearinghouse for user-made web comics, slice-of-life affairs that
tell a story or
share a common frustration using
a small collection of crudely drawn yet highly evocative facial expressions. Several have become small memes in their own right -- the wily
Trolldad, the doormat
Okay, the prideful
Fuck Yea, the melodramatic
Gasp. And
one comic, inspired by the warped text randomly generated by
reCAPTCHAs (
previously), has given us
Lord Inglip --
god of
a dark religion now
rivaling FSM whose
cryptic commands marshal
loyal armies of
gropagas,
falcows,
Sellicks, and...
canary into exploits both
monstrous and
inconvenient (
timeline,
wiki). Obey him --
or else! More fun with F7U12:
rage face origins,
rage faces in real life,
Twitter feed,
search comics,
create your own (
alternate).
posted by Rhaomi
on Feb 8, 2011 -
168 comments
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein was born in Wisconsin on July 31, 1910. He lived in a small house in Milwaukee with his wife Marie, and he worked in a bakery. Between 1954 and 1963 he used his fingers, combs, quills and bakery tools to create hundreds of
explosively colorful semi-abstract landscapes that evoke
primordial soup biology,
Lovecraftian horror,
scifi weirdness and
hellish alien beauty ('Full-Screen View' and its zoomable interface increase the pleasure dramatically). The
12 galleries of paintings at his memorial site are all available for free hi-res download, you can hear him talking about drugs, brain chemistry and visions at the 'Listen' link, and there's currently an
exhibit honoring the centennial of his birth at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore.
posted by mediareport
on Aug 25, 2010 -
24 comments
Breaking the Fourth Panel: Neonomicon and the Comic Book Frame (
1,
2) Alan Moore’s recent Lovecraftian comic dissected. (MLYT, Possibly NSFW language and SAN loss)
posted by fearfulsymmetry
on Aug 3, 2010 -
18 comments
Inspired by Charles Stross'
A Colder War and
Atrocity Archives stories, noder
The Custodian has written a series of fictional, Lovecraftian intelligence briefings entitled "The Benthic Wars":
SPECWEAPS,
DEEP BLACK,
PRIOR TENANT,
BENTHIC OUTREACH,
PORTAL/ALEPH,
VIOLET CAIN,
SAKNUSSEM THUNDER and
INDRA NEPTUNE.
Meanwhile, others ponder the question:
What if HP Lovecraft had co-invented C?
posted by Zarkonnen
on Jan 12, 2010 -
107 comments
