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Mythos Media Archival PageAudioThere's an interview with Toren Atkinson of Darkest of the Hillside Thickets over at Shoggoth.net. Darkest of the Hillside Thickets will be performing live on Saturday, October 29, along with the Spitfires and the Manvils at the UBC Pit Pub. Woo! I love when an email arrives simply saying, "If you are looking for the Old Ones, you should visit this page. I think I'll just let it speak for itself. Got a note from Alex of Philosopher (a Lovecraftian Death Metal Band), and he asked me to post the following: After their Demo "What dwells beyond" (Sold over 500 times) they even took a step further by recording the album at the WORLDSEND Studios near Trier, Germany. Live available is a limited Copy of their Videoclip "Dreamside" (ltd. to 100 Copies). Visit the band's Homepage: www.philosopher-music.de" Shoggoth.net has a review of Ziggurat's Hymns of the Cthulhu Mythos. The Unquiet Void have released a CD called Poisoned Dreams, which is the first CD in a planned trilogy of HPL inspired pieces. Check it out! Somnabulant Records has released The Outsider: An Aural Chanelling of H.P. Lovecraft. This 80-minute offering features tracks called things like The Colours Out of Space and Nyarlathotep. You can find samples, artwork, and reviews on their website under "Titles". Shoggoth.net posted a review of Nox Arcana's Necronomicon. Yog-Sothoth.com has made their collection of audio collection available through Podcast. Check the info out here. I am merging the Music and Audio categories, as there seems little point in having them separate. Nox Arcana has released a concept album called "Necronomicon". Check out the details here. Arkham House was recently mentioned on NPR! Great article about it here. A Shadow Over Innsmouth radio play will be premiering on Corridors of Evil, live from Borderlands Books. Correspondent Mikko Helminen directed us to Crionic Mind, a company that carries an album called The Outsider - an Aural Channeling of H.P. Lovecraft. Heheheh. There are some audio files on Yog-Sothoth.com of a play-through of Unseen Masters. I enjoyed this group's audio of the Corbitt House, so I imagine I'll be giving this a listen. Dino Manzella has added a "Modern Zombie Audio Drama" link to Shoggoth.net called The Wonder Fears. I need to give this a listen... Busy week for audio news. There's a CD called Strange Aeons, a "compilation of music and poetry inspired and influenced by H.P. Lovecraft and the ever expanding Cthulhu Mythos." sounds neat! I may need to get myself a copy. Need some internet radio with an HPL spin? Check out Arkham Radio. Shoggoth.net has an whole article about radio productions of HPL's works. Go check it out. Audio altered by biological fractal manipulation? Hmmm...this is so odd, it deserves inclusion. Go check it out here. Yog-Sothoth.com has a review of an audio CD entitled Three Horrifying Tales. This CD features adaptations of The Music of Erich Zann, The Cats of Ulthar, and The Unnameable all adapted and read by David Cade. Yog-Sothoth.com has a review of The Fourth, an album by Musica Cthulhuhia. Sounds interesting! The album "Satanized" by Abigor apparently adds them to a long line of bands with an HPL influence. Read about it here. Computer GamesThe XBox version of Dark Corners of the Earth is out as of today. And we have it, and...oh Jeez is it good. Well worth the wait, methinks. Creeepy stuff, and an oddly familiar storyline... ;) The latest word on Dark Corners of the Earth? November 1. Let's all cross our fingers... The online game Lovecraft Country Online has gone beta. Go give it a try! According to our agent at E3, Dark Corners is now slated for Fall 2005. More details when we get them. The official release date of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is set for June 1 for the PC, with an XBox version to follow. I will believe it when I hold a copy in my sweaty lil hands. GameCorner has a nice article about Dark Corners, including an interview with Chris Gray, producer and lead designer for the game. Always nice to see a sign of life. Check out this interview with Dennis Cheng, the producer of Dark Corners for Bethesda. Are we shocked? Dark Corners has been pushed to 1st Quarter 2005. Creature-Corner.com have a great article on Dark Corners. There is also news that they are working on a third-person game based on "At the Mountains of Madness". Check out the new official site of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. This is an enormously exciting project, and we look forward to its release. The good folks at Yog-Sothoth.com tracked down David Harvey, the creator of Byakhee, and they have interviewed him about a number of items. Go check it out. Apparently, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth won Game Spy's Best Adventure Game of E3, as well as being one of their top five games of the show. It was a runner-up for IGNPC's Biggest Surprise and Most Innovative Design awards. Finally! Some news on Dark Corners of the Earth. Since Headfirst Productions hadn't updated their webpage since February, I was getting a little nervous. But now, it seems, Bethesda Softworks will be publishing it for PC and XBox. Sadly, they've pushed the release date to 1st quarter 2004. The whole story is over on Game Spy. Shoggoth.net has an announcement regarding a search for coders for a Lovecraftian online game. Look at the details here. Yog-Sothoth.com has a similar article. Seattle, WA based Flying Lab Software has officially shelved their idea for a game they were developing based on the Delta Green, the modern-day setting for Call of Cthulhu from Pagan Publishing. They have indicated that this is due to lack of a publisher. If there are any new developments, we will announce them here. The United Kingdom's Headfirst Productions are working on a PC game set in the 1920s called Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. This game looks really amazing to me, and I look forward to its Summer 2003 release date. They have also announced a follow-up entitled Call of Cthulhu: Tainted Legacy, set in the modern era and scheduled for a tentative late 2004 release on Playstation 2. ContestsThe adventures from Chaosium's Halloween Adventure contest will be available in a monograph, theoretically due out sometime in November 2005. You can also check out the winners of their pumpkin carving contest. Are you in the U.K.? Would you like to win an XBox and a copy of Dark Corners of the Earth? Then check out this. Chaosium is holding a pumpkin-carving contest! Check it out! The HPL Film Festival is having a contest for Flash animations. Details may be found at Shoggoth.net. Chaosium is holding a contest for someone to design them some banners. If you have some skills in this direction, check it out here. Yog-Sothoth.com is running a contest for a box of the Call of Cthulhu Card Game. Check out the details. The good folk at Dark Wisdom are holding two new contests. Read about them here. Our good friends at the H.P.L. Historical Society are holding a NecronomiContest. Go check out the details! ConventionsGonna be in Tampa at the end of October? Then why not go to Necronomicon 05? Cthulhu One now has a website. Oo! There's a convention coming simply called Cthulhu One, held in April in Wiconsin. Details as follows are from Unfilmable.com
Cthulhu One Uber-Con IV is apparently a Cthulhu-friendly con. Check out the details here. E-ZinesAt long last, the long-awaited Issue 15 of Three-Lobed Burning Eye is here.
Three-Lobed Burning Eye announced on August 4 that the newest issue would be out in 1 to 2 weeks. "No really!" Three-Lobed Burning Eye has announced that they intend to have their newest issue (15, I think) done by July 2005.. Three-Lobed Burning Eye, a tri-annual e-zine of speculative art and fiction, has released their long-awaited Issue 14. There's a posting by the Unbound Book folks on Yog-Sothoth.com. They are looking for submissions. Issue 1 of The Unbound Book, a free e-zine devoted to adventures for Call of Cthulhu, is now available! Read it here. Issue 3 of The Black Book, Shoggoth.net's Cthulhu Mythos eZine, is now available for download. FictionElder Signs Press will be bringing us Twice Dead Things, an anthology of A.A. Attanasio's short work, including his Lovecraft pieces. Niiiice. This will come sometime in 2006. Fedogan & Bremer are now shipping Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, a collection of short stories, 9 of them original to this collection, including a new novella by Mr. Brian Lumley. Oooo! Check it out here. Part Six of The Re-Animator: The Beginning of the End, entitled A Conversation is now online. Got $1,000.00? Want a lifetime subscription to Hippocampus Press? Then check out this news. Elder Signs Press has some nifty stuff. Firstly, there's Hive, a book described as a sequel to HPL's "At the Mountains of Madness". That'd be cool! There's also Terrors, a book of Richard A. Lupoff's fiction, which includes Mythos stories. Yay! New fiction on Shoggoth.net. First, there's "The Re-Animator: The Beginning of the End">, a serial piece by Alice Pickman. You can find Episode One: The Miskatonic University, Episode Two: Have You Gone Mad, Dr. West?, Episode Three: Wait Until Dark, Episode Four: The Strange Case of Dr. West, and Episode Five: From Bolton to Boston online now. Shannon W. Hennessey gives us Strange Fruit. There's a new Mythos Fiction arc called The Coming of T'Loal available by John T. O'Connor and James W. Layne, Jr. Enjoy! Chaosium's The Tsathoggua Cycle is now available in stores. Grab it! Tatters of the King will be coming in November, and Arkham Tales in December. Nickolaus Pacione sent us the following note: "Nickolaus A. Pacione co-edited Quakes and Storms: A Natural Disaster Anthology with contributing author, Macey Baggett Wuesthoff of his anthology series TABLOID PURPOSES. All Proceeds go to the American Red Cross. His exclusive short story in this one is titled UTICA, ILLINOIS. Features a Mythos title by Melyssa G. Sprott titled Any Port Of The Storm". So there you go. Anyone interested in purchasing the works of Nickolaus A. Pacione should head on over to Lulu.com. Chaosium has announced that their new anthology "The Tsathoggua Cycle" should be shipping before the end of August. Atlantean Publishing is looking for submissions. There's an article about it here. Shoggoth.net has some new fiction. There's a piece by Chris Loveless entitled Work Week. There's also A Visage of Terror Defined by Patrick Livingston Hayes, Jr. Nickolaus A. Pacione has posted a new story called When God Damned Us All. Elder Signs Press is announcing several books, including Hive, a book which is a sequel to HPL's At the Mountains of Madness. There's a new anthology from the folks who publish Dark Wisdom. Read about Horrors Beyond here. The tale of the Sage continues! Andrew Ian Dodge's new story, "In Plaid Sight" is now on Shoggoth.net New fiction from J. Bryan Shoup on Shoggoth,net: "I've Been Wrong Before" Nightshade Books now has the rights to do a five volume Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith. This is a must-add to your Mythos Library if you have any intention of facing off against Tsathoggua. Chaosium's latest collection of fiction The Terror & Other Stories is now available. Sage's Trek, a new piece of fiction by Andrew Ian Dodge, can be found at Shoggoth.net. Nightshade Books intends to have both Lord Dunsany's Collected Jorkens, Vol. 3 and Letters from New York, a book of HPL Letters, shipping in the next few weeks. BloopWatch Correspondent Drhoz! pointed us towards Mountains of Madness: a Scientist's Odyssey in Antarctica by John A. Long. Apparently, Mr. Long has had Lovecraftian experiences in both Australia and Antarctica. This book sounds interesting even without the HPL connection. Chaosium will soon be sending The Terror and Other Tales to the printer. This is a new collection of Arthur Machen stories. We can expect to see it in March or April. Chaosium is also putting together a collection of new HPL fiction for late 2005 or 2006. Submissions should be sent according to the submission guidelines at Chaosium.com. Two new pieces from Andrew Ian Dodge on Shoggoth.net: "Runic Protection" and "Fish Date". Apparently Dan O'Bannon is working on a 'definitive' version of the Necronomicon....oh ho! But here's Donald Tyson's version, out from Llewellyn Press. And at $17.95, mind-blasting horror is tremendously afforable! Nightshade Books has their list for 2005 up, including HPL's Letters from New York, and Lord Dunsany's Collected Jorkens III. Check it out here. Andrew Ian Dodge offers another story on Shoggoth.net: "The Experiment. Shoggoth.net has an interview with author Nickolaus Pacione. Check it out here. Shoggoth.net is hosting a new story by Eric W. Norton called "Dueling Missionaries". Chaosium hopes to release The Terror, their third collection of Arthur Machen's works, in February of 2005. Shoggoth.net has a piece entitled "The Seas of Midnight" by Void_enthroned. Necronomicon Press is offering a sale of One-of-a-Kind Rarities, including a letters and postcards by HPL, as well as the only known painting by HPL in existence! Arkham House is going to be honored at the World Fantasy Convention in 2005. Check out the details of the convention here. Shoggoth.net regular andrew Ian Dodge has added his new story to Shoggoth.net called Fishies. Nickolaus Pacione has a sort of fiction double-whammy. He's posted the story "Leviathan's Ghost" on Shoggoth.net. He's also announced that this story will be appearing in an anthology called Tabloid Purposes. BloopWatch Correspondent Jason Carr pointed us to John Aegard's "The Great Old Pumpkin". It's pretty wonderful. :) Congratulations to regular Shoggoth.net contributor, Andrew Ian Dodge! His collection of short stories, The Gathering Dark, is being published by PHD Press. Chck out the details here. There's new fiction on Shoggoth.net! Andrew Ian Dodge has given us two modern-day stories: "Vicious Spam" and "Shadowed". Simon Todd gives us a yarn called "The Spider". Michael Douglas gives us the futuristic piece called "Interstellar Oblivion". There is also a story by Void_enthroned called "The Ego-less Throne". Necronomicon Press has printed H.P. Lovecraft: A Life, and it is now available here. Shoggoth.net has posted a new story by Eric W. Norton called The Breathing Tombs. Nightshade Books is shipping The Collected Jorkens, Vol. II. Yay, Lord Dunsany! Go get it! Elder Signs Press has announced an anthology called Ancient Exhumations +2 with stories by Stanley C. Sargent, and it is now available! Another spate of fiction on Shoggoth.net! Eric W. Norton posted two new stories: "The Curtain Spider" and The Temple. Andrew Ian Dodge has posted "A Dry Drowning". Jacob Lewis has posted a story called "My Part in the Dooming of Mankind" on Quantum Muse. And once again, there's a spurt of creativity being posted on Shoggoth.net. Eric W. Norton gives us, "Chosen to Rule". Someone named Elygian gives us, "Beauty Beyond the Shades of Gray". Finally, David Conner gives us "The Hyperborean Curse." Nightshade Books is now shipping Move Under Ground. They will soon be shipping a volume of Clark Ashton Smith's sci fi called Red World of Polaris. Nickolaus Pacione has posted a new story on FictionPress.com entitled "In the Eyes of a Skull". Nightshade Books is now shipping their reprint of The Ancient Track. Necronomicon Press has announced two items of potential interest - the return of Lovecraft Studies and a new issue of Studies in Weird Fiction. Go to their website to check them out. Shoggoth.net seems to be back with a vengeance! The new piece there is Eric W. Norton's Jazz Age piece The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine Disorder. More fiction updates at Shoggoth.net! Homecoming is a story that will be in three parts by Corpsecandle. There's also a story called The Shipping News by Andrew Ian Dodge. BloopWatch Correspondent Nickolaus Pacione has posted a story called Sherlock Holmes & the Case of the Great Old Ones on FanFiction.net. BloopWatch Correspondent Nickolaus Pacione pointed out this piece to us from House-of-Pain.com. It's called The Hunter of the Shadows by Clinton Green. There's been a sudden explosion of updates at Shoggoth.net! Hooray! Firstly, there's Eric W. Norton's pice, "Postgraduate Work". Then, Lynette Browning-Brock's Cthulhu/Harry Potter crossover The Curse of Yug-Succotash. Finally, Hasan Abood has posted a piece called The Potrait [sic]. Arkham House's Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith has been nominated by the International Horror Guild for Best Non-Fiction of 2003. We at BloopWatch would like to offer Arkham Hosue our congratulations for this honor and to wish them good luck! Nightshade Books is now shipping The Collected Jorkens volume 1, the first of their three volume set of Lord Dunsany's Jorkens stories. This book is edited by S.T. Joshi. Arkham House is having a sale on their "Not so Perfect" copies of books. Check it out here. Nightshade Books is publishing a book by Nick Matamas called Move Under Ground. This novel pits Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassidy, and William S. Burroughs against Cthulhu in the 1960s. This will be released in a limited edition and a trade hardcover in May 2004. NightShade Books has finally announced the second volume in their collections of H.P. Lovecraft legendary correspondence. Letters from New York covers the period from 1922-1926. It is edited by S.T. Joshi, will be a $40.00, 350 page trade hardcover, and is scheduled for November 2004. Shoggoth.net is hosting a new story by M.G. Miller called The Door to Nowhere. According to Chaosium's Rlyeh report, they are making plans to reprint Arthur Machen's "Three Impostors and Other Tales" and Robert W. Chambers' "The Yellow Sign and Other Stories" in early 2004. BloopWatch would like to make a correction and extend an apology. The forthcoming novel "That Darned Squid God" is by Nick Pollota and James Clay. It is being published by Wildside Press. It is now scheduled to be released in February 2004. You can go to NickPollotta.com for more details. You can also look in our Submissions section for an picture of the cover and two sample chapters of the book, both posted here with Mr. Pollotta's kind permission. Chaosium's reprint of the classic Encyclopedia Cthuliana is now shipping to stores. It should be on sale by December 6. In addition, Chaosium has received an order from Hippocampus press and has lots of new bits of written material in their catalog. Nickolaus Pacione has posted a new story on Shoggoth.net entitled Threshold. ZManGames has released a piece called Baby's First Mythos. I...um...yeah. It looks interesting. ;) Shoggoth.net has posted what appears to be Part One of a larger Mythos story called Below by Thomas Meade. Shoggoth.net has posted some story bits by Jeffrey Bryan Shoup. There's From the Outside, And Then Solomon Took It all Back, and An Open Letter of Recovery. Shoggoth.net has posted Andrew Ian Dodge's story, The Meddling. Arkham House is accepting pre-orders for Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith, which they expect to ship in early November. Vox13 has released their humor-Lovecraft book Hastur Pussycat, Kill!...Kill!. My very good friend Whitt has a story in it, so I definitely need a copy. 1st Books has released Other Nations by T&P Marsh. Sounds like a good book. CNN.com has posted a review of The H.P. Lovecraft Institute, a very HPL-inspired book by David Bischoff. Thanks to BloopWatch Correspondent Steve "iyu" Domanski for this bit of news. Shoggoth.net has posted a sort of prose-poem called Darkness from the Skies by Nickolaus Pacione. Nightshade Books is making a very intriguing offer, as follows: Night Shade is offering Lifetime subscriptions again! We're only offering three, and based on the last time we offered them, they won't last long. A lifetime subscription entitles you to one copy of every title, in the most expensive edition, for the rest of your life! A subscription will run you $1000, but it'll be worth it. Information about joining this service can be found on their webpage. Arkham House is now shipping to people who made advance orders for the re-release of Clark Ashton Smith's A Rendezvous in Averoigne. This collection is now available for normal orders. Shoggoth.net has recently posted two new stories on their site: Ice John by Tani Jantsang, and Ohn - the Seeker's Tale by Christos Dimitrakakis. Shoggoth.net has recently posted two new stories on their site: Andrew Ian Dodge's A Sinking Feeling, and Still. Calm. Quiet. by "David". Nightshade Books has recently shipped the first of five volumes of Lovecraft's letters. This first volume, Mysteries of Time and Spirit should be at stores now, and it is edited by noted HPL scholars S.T. Joshi and David. E. Schultz. FilkingI always cringe when I have to update this section. MC Yog-Sothoth has contributed Cultist's Paradise to the tune of Coolio's "Gangsta' Paradise". Shoggoth.net has a new filk up called Great Old Ones Party, based on Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party". The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society were interviewed on KMFB radioabout their Very Scary Solstice CD. Go read about it and hear the recording here. Yog-Sothoth.com has posted Reviews of both Shoggoth on the Roof and the new Solstice CD from the folks at the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. Ben Counter, our beloved U.K. Correspondent, seems to have added to the collective cultural pain of humanity by filking. His piece "Cthulhu in a Bottle" appears on Shoggoth.net. No sooner had I made this category than I need to tell you about a whole album of it. Those good folks at the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society have made a whole album of holiday songs called A Very Scary Solstice. You can hear samples of it on the site. Well, I never thought I'd create a category for this, but...oh...well...why not? I've filked before, so who am I to be high and mighty? ;) There are new filk pieces at Shoggoth.net. There's Cthulhu's Game, Call Me, and Sympathy for Cthulhu by Ceronomous and I Ran by Rebecca Kemp. Graphic NovelsIt would appear that "Dreams in the Witch House" will be getting a graphic treatment in the upcoming series Masters of Horrors, comics based on the Showtime series. Issues 3 & 4 are scheduled to bring you DitWH, via the Stu Gordon version. Neat. :) Re-Animator Issue #0 hit comic stores this week. This is a prequel to the Army of Darkness vs. Re-Animator series starting this month. Sounds like it might be fun. There is a new comic coming called The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft. Their website can be found here. Following on the popularity of Alan Moore's Lovecraftian works The Courtyard and Yuggoth Cultures, Avatar Press has announced the development of Yuggoth Creatures, a three-issue mini-series that follows the adventures of Anders Ericsson, Professor of Anthropology at Miskatonic (oy! There's a job...) And it looks like a period piece. Hot-diggety! Issue 1 seems to be slated for July, 2004. The Lovecraft hardcover graphic novel from Vertigo Comics is now on sale! I recently acquired a copy of the Graphic Classics HPL collection. This excellent collection was also announced to BloopWatch by the publishers, so we'll reprint their announcement here: Eureka Productions is pleased to announce the publication of Graphic Classics: H.P. Lovecraft. Graphic Classics is a series of books presenting great fiction adapted in comics and heavily-illustrated text for Readers of all ages. Each volume contains the works of one great author, illustrated by some of the best artists working today in the fields of comics, book illustration and fine arts. Graphic Classics: H.P. Lovecraft features a unique five-artist collaboration on "Herbert West: Reanimator", with Richard Corben, Rick Geary, J.B. Bonivert, Mark A. Nelson and R.K. Sloane. Also "The Cats of Ulthar", "The Outsider", "The Terrible Old Man", and "The Shadow Out of Time", adapted by Matt Howarth. With a "Dream -Quest of Unknown Kadath" portfolio by the late Tom Sutton, and a presentation of Lovecraft's epic poem "Fungi from Yuggoth", illustrated by seventeen artists including John Coulthart, Stephen Hickman, Allen Koszowski, Maxon Crumb and S. Clay Wilson. Plus more features, a cover by Todd Schorr and an introduction by Gahan Wilson. Graphic Classics: H.P. Lovecraft was created by permission of the Lovecraft Estate. It is available from bookstores, comics shops, or direct from the publisher at graphicclassics.com. Internet StrangenessThis is kind of cool. Paul of Cthulhu now has a Members Location Map. Check it out today! You've gotta see Michael Dashow's image Wage Slave, which won him an award. All his art is mighty fine, but this one is both mighty fine and Lovecraftian. ;) "Miguel" has posted a special Lovecraftian GoogleEarth for everyone to see. BloopWatch Correspondent Harald Åberg sent us this rather intriguing link of Incredible Huge Animals. Oh well, you've gotta love this. It was sent to me by BloopWatch Correspondent Jonny Durran. Need some new wallpaper for your computer? How about this stylish new Yog-Sothoth.com wallpaper? This article arrived with a very mundane appearance, but the link it led to is quite fascinating... Nick Mamatas, author of the Lovecraftian beat novel Move Under Ground, sent us this link to his eBay auction of a "Cthulhu chocolate." Quoth Mr. Mamatas, "I couldn't bear to have the woman who found that cheese sandwich with the Virgin Mary on it have all the fun..." Well said, sir. And well done. Temple of Dagon is now hosting the Mythos art of Dave Carson. Good stuff! Shoggoth.net recently interviewed Andrew Ian Dodge, fiction writer who often contributes to their site. Check it out here. Now that the election is over, it will be interesting to see what Chaosium does with its Cthulhu for President 2004 website. Stay tuned! Our friends at The Temple of Dagon recently finished an interview with HPL Scholar S.T. Joshi. Check it out! Lots of updates at The Temple of Dagon. Go check it out! New BloopWatch Correspondent Phisrow Happyhobbit pointed us to the David Ehi Reverse Scam. This is funny, funny stuff. As Phisrow puts it, this article "Provides a cheery mixture of those things that make the internet what it is, Cthulhu and Nigerian spammers." Well said! BloopWatch Correspondent Seth Russell pointed us to the Lovecraftian Qabalah. Yog-Sothoth.com has done a Year in Review. There's some great thoughts there, and a fun look back. Shoggoth.net is looking for PHP Coders. Go to their website for details. Heheheh. If, like me, you grew up on a steady diet of Chick tracts, this will amuse you. Chaosium has added an Advanced Search to their website. Very nifty. Wizards of the Coast is closing its Cthulhu D20 forum. Read all about it here. I guess this goes here...you just need to see the Case That Must Not Be Named. The Esoteric Order of Dagon has gotten themselves a webpage! It's great to see a religion getting modernized like that... There's a site called m00sedroppings.org, the self-proclaimed Home of the International M00se Illuminati. As their secret m00se call is "bl00p", they were intrigued by our page, and they mention it here. There's an article on Shoggoth.net regarding the state of the various webrings out there. It turns out that TrollBoy, administrator of the Cthulhu Webring, is now the head of the Mythos webring as well. And, in a related note, I, your humble BloopWatch Founder, am now the webmaster of the H.P.Lovecraft Webring. Small world... Chaosium has gotten itself an eBay identity. Their ID is "chaosium-inc". I know I'll be taking a look to see what they have. Yog-Sothoth.com went to Scotscon and brought back two great pieces. Firstly, they have a very amusing picture of Call of Cthulhu RPG creator Sandy Petersen. They also brought home an audio recording of a Cthulhu Panel that Mr. Petersen attended. Yog-Sothoth.com is having an auction to raise funds to keep their site going. I'm sure everyone who comes here goes there, too, but you should really go and check out their site and see what you can do to help. Yog-Sothoth.com is five years old! Congrats, guys! The whole story is at here. To continue their trend of amazingness, Chaosium.com will be updating weekly. You can read all about it here. Pow! The new Chaosium.com's website is up online, and it looks great! Go check it out! Shoggoth.net is moving to a new, more powerful server at a new ISP. You can read all the details here. Lenny, a contributor to Shoggoth.net, has created a script that helps create Lovecraftian Ramblings in Latin, based on the concepts from Propping Up the Mythos. Yog-Sothoth.com has an interview with Gary Sumpter, who has been writing and/or editing for Call of Cthulhu for over ten years. Their interview can be found here and includes a hint we talk about in the Gaming News section. Chaosium has experienced some difficulties with its online store, and they intend to switch to a new store system in the very near future. The details are on their website. Yog-Sothoth.com has added new forums to their webpage, including the official forums for The Whisperer magazine. There's a "Which Great Old One are you?" quiz up on Quizilla.com. Yog-Sothoth.com has an interview with Keith 'Doc' Herber about his involvement with Call of Cthulhu and Chaosium. You can read the full text here. If you've done some hunting around online, you might well have run across Cthuugle, the HPL Search Engine. Shoggoth.net is currently running an interview with Derek Anderson, Cthuugle's creator. I feel no need to offer an explanation of this bit from Something awful. It's just kind of basically wonderful. Shoggoth.net has posted reviews of The Ring on DVD and of Aaron Vanek's new short film, The Yellow Sign. Shoggoth.net has posted an announcement regarding some changes and additional features on their site. The full story may be read here. Hmmm...lotta HPL sites changing their formats of late. An announcement on yog-sothoth.com indicates that their site will soon be undergoing some major updates. You can read all about it here. Facade.com is now offering Tarot readings using Daryl Hutchinson's Lovecraft tarot. MagazinesRue Morgue's 50th issue (its 8th annual Halloween issue) has a big chuck about Mr. HPL. Check out details here. And now there's Dark Wisdom #7. Go check it out. Issue 4 of is now accepting submissions. Whoa! Dark Wisdom issue #6 snuck in under my radar! You can see the contents and cover art here. Issue 3 of Dreaming in R'lyeh is out now. Issue 3 of Dreaming in R'lyeh is allegedly being sent out now. I look forward to receiving my copy. New issues of Lovecraft Studies and Studies in Weird Fiction are available from Necronomicon Press. Check out the details. Issue 14 of Dark Legacy is now available. Issue 2 of H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror is now available! Issue 3 of Dreaming in R'lyeh is set for a February 2005 release. We'll look forward to receiving our copy. Dark Wisdom number 5 is back from the printer. You can see cover art, contests, and a preview on their website. Simulacrum Magazine's HPL issue is out! The magazine Simulacrum is looking for submissions for an HPL issue. Here is their ad from Unfilmable.com. Apparently issue 3 of Dreaming in R'lyeh has been delayed while they wait for art. We'll let you know once we have any news. If you didn't get a chance to read the Fortean Times article "Dreamer of the Dark" in Issue 184, you can now read it online! There's a special Issue 1.5 of H.P.L.'s Magazine of Horror. Read about it at Wildside Press. Dark Wisdom now has previews of Issue 4 online. Check it out at their site. Worlds of Cthulhu is now available from Pegasus Spiele. Chaosium has info on it on their website. Further cyberness from Dark Wisdom! Go to their forums and vote for the kind of stories you want to see in future issues! The Dark Wisdom folks have gone all cyber! You can now join their emailing list or check out their forums! Go look on their website. Also, they have an interview with C.J. Henderson. All good stuff! Issue 3 of The Black Seal is now available. I got my copy of the first issue of H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror. Very excited to sit down and read it. Issue 13 of the long defunct magazine Dark Legacy is now available through ProjectPulp.com. Check it out! Issue 3 of Dark Wisdom is now available. Changes are coming! First, there's the new Worlds of Cthulhu gaming magazine from Pegasus Spiele. Secondly, as a result of this, Book of Dark Wisdom is switching to an all-fiction format. Huh. Go fig. Issue #5 of The Whisperer is on sale now. Check it out! The folks over at the Three-Lobed Burning Eye e-zine are taking pre-orders for the 2nd Annual print copy of 3LBE. Shoggoth.net has prepared a review of the 2nd issue of The Black Seal. There's an article on Yog-Sothoth.com about the return of Dagon, the Cthulhu/Lovecraft fanzine from the 1980s. For full details, read the article here. MoviesI don't normally include reviews here, but, well, I finally got to see the HPL Historical Society's The Call of Cthulhu movie. It's really amazing, and I can't recommend it enough, and that's all there is to it. Buy it. I can almost guarantee you won't be sorry if you do. So, I'm hearing about a movie due out in 2006 called just Cthulhu that is rumored to follow the plot of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and to feature Tori Spelling. Anyone have any info on this? It's out! It's out! The stars are right! "The Call of Cthulhu" is now available. My copy is on the way. Can't wait to see it! Get yours here. The schedule for the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival is now online. Go check it out! Ooo! The Horror Channel website interviews the HPL Historical Society about the forthcoming Call of Cthulhu film. Go check it out herein! September 20...a good day. Because The Resurrected finally comes out on DVD! The 2005 HPL Film Festival has been announced. Reserve the weekend of October 7-9, 2005. The hosts have said that they have "several surprise guests that you might not expect to be Lovecraft fans." More news when we get it. Out of Mind, the 3rd DVD in Lurker Films' H.P. Lovecraft collection, is now available. Lovely! The DVD for the Special Edition of Stuart Gordon's From Beyond has been pushed back to 2006. This is disappointing, but I hope the DVD will make up for it. Ready for a new trailer for the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's adaptation of The Call of Cthulhu? Well, go check it out here. BiFF JUGGERNAUT Productions is now accepting submissions for "LovecraCked! The Movie", a feature length DVD anthology dedicated to the life & work of influential horror author H.P. Lovecraft. BloopWatch Correspondent Gabe Smith pointed out an article from Ain't It Cool News. This article has info on an upcoming DVD release of From Beyond...yes, the Stuart Gordon one, with 19-minutes of restored material. It also had info about the first 3 HPL Library DVDs, and an upcoming version of Beyond the Wall of Sleep! Life is good! The second volume of the HPL Collection DVD's is now available. This volume includes "Rough Magik", Bob Fugger's "The Terrible Old Man" and "From Beyond", and music videos from Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. The Miskatonic Acid Test is now in production, and they're seeking cast members. Check out the info at their website. There's something coming called LovecraCked from BiFF JUGGERNAUT productions. Their synopsis of the film follows: The second volume of the HPL Collection DVD's will soon be available. This volume includes "Rough Magik", Bob Fugger's "The Terrible Old Man" and "From Beyond", and music videos from Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Apparently, Stuart Gordon is kicking around an idea called House of Re-Animator - yes, the 4th film in the series. In an interview with Bloody-Disgusting.com, Gordon said it would be "a political satire that should certain people be back in office, then I would do it. I hope I do not have to go ahead with it, but if I do, it would be about V.P. Cheney passing from a heart attack and since he basically runs everything, Dr. West is called in to bring him back. I would only go on with this in the event of re-election as otherwise it would be old news..." Well, now it seems like he'll have the chance... Ivan Zuccon's Unknown Beyond is now available on DVD from LEO Films. The good folks at the H.P.L. Historical Society have posted an amazing trailer for their blac kand white, silent film "The Call of Cthulhu." Check it out here. Out of Mind will be released on DVD by Lurker Films. Great film; can't wait to have it on DVD! The HPL Film Festival has released their schedule. We received the following press release from Lurker Films: "LURKER FILMS, INC. is proud to announce the availability of the H.P. Lovecraft Collection on DVD based on films shown at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival over the last 10 years. Volume 1 contains Bryan Moore's Cool Air starring Jack Donner (Star Trek, Mission Impossible, Stigmata, Exorcism) a moving adaptation of Lovecraft's short story. The disk also contains many shorts such as Christian Matzke's Nyarlatotep and An Imperfect Solution (based on the original Re-animator series) and Anthony Reed's The Hound and The Hapless Antiquarian. Rounding the disk off are exclusive interviews with the cast and crew of Cool Air, an interview with Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, bumpers from the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and a couple of Easter Eggs. Approximately 150 minutes of goodies. Available now. Chaosium has released a Cthulhu for President DVD. I must see this! Ivan Zuccon is now filming Colour from the Dark, based on "The Colour Out of Space". This should wrap in January 2005. Our friends at the HPL Historical Society are making a film based on The Call of Cthulhu. We wish them all luck! Guillermo Del Toro has turned down several comic-book-based film projects to move on to his ghost movie, Pan's Labyrinth. He reports that, after P.L., he'll be moving on to "my next big film, almost back to back. That project will either be Hellboy 2 or At the Mountains of Madness." I figure we win, either way, but I'd prefer Mountains, obviously. Fangoria.com reports that Echo Bridge Entertainment has acquired the rights to Mortuary, which s filming this summer for a winter 2005 release. We look forward to hearing casting choices. Fangoria.com has an article with some quotes by screenwriter Adam Gierasch about his film Mortuary, which he describes as being not a zombie movie. "There are zombies in it, but it's based more on the Cthulhu Mythos." The story, about a family that buys a mortuary in Arkham, is not supposed to be based on any specific story, but just to be a Lovecraftian horror tale. Read the article here. The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival has announced that they will be running on October 1-3, 2004. The materials to be presented have yet to be determined. Ivan Zuccon's Unknown Beyond is out on DVD in the UK, from Xploited Cinema. There is a rumor that the great HPL movie The Resurrected may finally make it to DVD due to Lions Gate's purchase of Artisan Entertainment. We'll keep y'all posted. Beyond Reanimator is now out on DVD and VHS, as of today, December 30. Trailers, screen shots, and a quick plot synopsis can be viewed here. I can personally attest that the Limited Edition Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath DVD has been shipped, as it arrived at my door yesterday. I am eagerly looking forward to viewing it. Our friends at Unfilmable have a great update about the animated Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. The VHS is now available, and the DVD should be here in time for Christmas. To read about this, as well as about their upcoming films (which include a piece called Innsmouth Legacy), look here. Edward Martin III, director of the animated Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath movie, has announced that he is seeking funding for a live-action Cats of Ulthar film. Good luck with that, guys! Oh! And you can now pre-order the Dream-Quest DVD by visiting here. Ivan Zuccon's film of The Shunned House is now available on DVD. Heheheheheh. I am most amused by White Radish's movie "Cutethulhu". Go check it out. At Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors, director Guillermo Del Toro apparently spoke more about his adaptation of "At the Mountains of Madness". The article about it may be found here. Another article relating to this may be found here. A company called Best Destiny has just finished principal photography on a film project based on "The Picture in the House". PoetryBlack Pharoah's poems The Old Ones and The Nameless City can now be found at Shoggoth.net. M.W. Hess' poems The Dig and A MYTHos can be seen on Shoggoth.net. There's a new piece on Shoggoth.net called Ode to Cthulhu by L.L.R. Jordan. Shoggoth.net gives us more poetry. Void_enthroned gives us the piece IkShakThutak. More poetry on Shoggoth.net. They've posted The Ballad of the King in Yellow by G. Caliban Fournier. There's a little piece at Shoggoth.net called Innsmouth Lullaby by Mors Profundus. Dark Wisdom has announced the winners of their first annual Cthulhu haiku contest. Congratulations, everyone! Wolf636etta has posted a poem, The Strep from Yuggoth on Shoggoth.net. Shoggoth.net has put up a new poem by Nikesh Murali called The Old Ones. A third poem by Jedidiah Long, "Cthuluody", has been posted on Shoggoth.net. Two poems by Jedidiah Long, "Cthulhu's Magic" and "There's a Party On", have been posted on Shoggoth.net. Elegantly Amused Press appears to be a new publishing company devoted to Lovecraftiana. Their first offering is The Eldritch Quintuplets which is, yes, a book of Lovecraftian limericks. Evil! TelevisionShowtime is debuting the "Dreams in the Witch House" episode of Masters of Horror on Friday, November 4. Set your VCRs! Sadly, Horror Channel did not launch on Halloween. Very sad. I hope its launch won't be delayed much longer. Cross the tentacles...according to their webpage, the Horror Channel is going online on Halloween 2005! Let's hope. Oh, let's hope! Showtime is producing a show called "Masters of Horror". One segment for it will be based on "Dreams in the Witch House" and will be directed by HPL lover Stuart Gordon. Woo! Fangoria Magazine joins the T.V. crowd. Look for Fangoria Television to debut in January 2005! On the new episode of Sealab 2021, "Isla de las Chupacabras", team member Stormy explains that the Chupacrabras were "created by the Old Ones to guard their temples from the evil Cthulhu in the time before time..." Just thought you might want to know. ;) The Horror Channel's debut has been delayed. Check out the story here. And yet again! Now there's Monsters Hd - a high definition channel for horror. And on October 22,they're hosting an HPL marathon! Go guys! When it rains, it pours! Unfilmable reports that Silver Pictures and Orchid Ventures are developing another horror-based T.V. channel called The Scream Channel, which should debut in the U.S. in January 2005. Cool! I have gotten confirmation that The Horror Channel has begun testing in prepartion for its debut on October 31, 2004. Woo! Excited! I suspect few people will try to deny that the creatures of the movie series Tremors bear a familial resemblance to the Cthonians. Now we'll be able to experience the problems of Perfection, Nevada on an ongiong basis. The SciFi Channel premiered Tremors: the Series on Friday, March 28, 2003 at 9 pm E/P with back to back episodes. The cast includes Michael Gross, who reprises his role a a Burt Gummer from the Tremors movies. TheaterThere's a live (and apparently quite gory) adaptation of Herbert West: Re-Animator, entitled Re-Animator of the Dead. It's playing at the end of this month. The Open Circle Theater is doing H.P. Lovecracft Arkham. Adaptations of "The Shunned House", "Cool Air", and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" will be performed. Man, I wish I could be there! Well, hey now! If you happen to be in Sweden in October of this year, you could finally see the World Premiere of A Shoggoth on the Roof. I am jealous as all get out! Derned Swedes! Open Circle Theater is again offering Lovecraftian pieces for October and November. Details on the Theater of Horrors can be found here. I'm very sorry to have found out that A Shoggoth on the Roof will not be debuting this Fall. The sad details can be found here. ToysMore toys on the way! Toy Vault's in overdrive! Entertainment Earth has pics of the forthcomig Ithaqua and Hound of Tindalos plushies. Wheeee! Yikes! While I wasn't paying attention, Toy Vault snuck out the Nightgaunt! Check out the pic here. Apparently, a couple of new HPL toys have snuck by my normally vigilant agents! A chance browse through Entertainment Earth led me to pictures of a plush Moon Beast, a plush Gug, and a forthcoming plush Nightgaunt! Nifty! You know you wanna see what the Cthulhu toys from SOTA are gonna look like. Well...gaze upon the horror! Action-figure.com has news from SOTA, that they will soon be releasing their "Horrors of Lovecraft" line of figures. The specific figures mentioned are Ctulhu (of course), shoggoth, and Pickman's Model. For some images of Cthulhu, go here and scroll to the bottom. SOTA toys may be producing some HPL toys. Check out an interview and some images here. Blub, blub, blub! The Deep Ones plush is now rampaging through the world of online retailers. For example, they are available at Toyzz.com. Hey, at last, a photo of the new Deep One plush toy coming from Toy Vault. Our friends at Yog-Sothoth.com have details about the finalists in the Design-a-thulhu Competition. In order to read more, and to cast your vote for the winner, go here. Whoa! Almost snuck this by us, but look how great Toy Vault's Plush Shoggoth looks! Also, check out the upcoming Superhero Cthulhu, Cthulhu Hand Puppet, and Cthulhu Statue look. Toy Vault, in conjunction with Yog-Sothoth.com has announced the Design-a-thulhu! Competition. Read all about it here. Toy Vault has announced some of its upcoming designs in the Cthulhu line, including a sort of Elder Sign necklace and a Necronomicon pillow, as well as Secret Agent Cthulhu and Superhero Cthulhu. Toy Vault, makers of the plush Cthulhu, have produced their second Lovecraftian creature offering. According to their website, the plush Nyarlathotep has been shipping since November 2002. While I know some stores must have received it (thanks to its presence on eBay,) my local store, Pandemonium Books & Games has not received any yet. As soon as I have confirmation of their arrival there, I will acquire one. :) WebcomixI'm informed that various Mythos related references keep popping up in the online comics at a site called Nightmare World. I'll have to check that out for myself...some good looking stuff there. BloopWatch Correspondent Scruffy pointed me towards this strip from The Perry Bible Fellowship. Hope you get a chuckle. Return to Arkham is a new webcomic from Skotos, the folks who produce Lovecraft Country Online. A heartwarming tale, fully painted by hand? Shaggy the Shoggoth? Well, of course I'm posting a link. Penny Arcade has a lovely story of Yuletide cheer called The Last Christmas. Awww. Ain't dat cute! Unspeakable Vault of Doom is on hiatus until December, while its creator treks through French Guyana. Also, if you hadn't been reading Call of Whatever, it has finished. Unspeakable Vault (of Doom) is now available as a graphic novel. Enjoy! J. Bryan Shoup's webcomic Wonder and Glory has begun. You can read about the comic here. BloopWatch Correspondent J. Bryan Shoup submitted a link to Weirdass.net. Some great stuff here. BloopWatch Correspondent Drew Clark continues to scour for Webcomix references. He has unearthed a strip called Hello, Cthulhu. He asked me how I could have missed it, and I find myself wondering the same thing. He also pointed out College Roomies from Hell and directed us back to a Cthulhu storyline that ran back in 2000. Thanks, Drew! Another Cthulhoid webcomic - The Unspeakable Vault of Doom. BloopWatch Correspondent Drew Clark spotted a Cthulhu reference in Sluggy Freelance. Check out this strip. I want to give a very special thanks to my good friend Randy Milholland, who writes the comic Something Positive. Not only does Cthulhu show up at regular intervals in his comic, but he recently mentioned BloopWatch.org on his webpage, and our traffic increased substantially. Randy, I really appreciate it. BloopWatch Correspondent Brom Clancy turned us on to a fairly amusing strip called The Call of Whatever. It deals with Lovecraftian themes constantly, and it has some really funny stuff. I especially enjoy their adoption of a Hound of Tindalos. Return to the Main Page This website was developed and is maintained by Andrew "Aethan" French. Any complaints, compliments, or comments should be sent to him. |
