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Lovecraft Country Has Given Up Cohesive Storytelling in Favor of Something More Dramatic

What little hope there was for Lovecraft Country’s first season trying to tell a single, cohesive story went completely out the window this week with “I Am,” a statement episode that gave Aunjanue Ellis’ Hippolyta Freeman everything she’d ever dreamed of…just to ask her to give it all up. The episode plays by Chekov’s narrative…

A Long-Lost H.P. Lovecraft Manuscript Has Been Uncovered

Good news, Lovecraft fans! While it’s not a new piece of fiction, a new manuscript penned by the famous horror writer has been discovered, tucked away in a collection of magical memorabilia. The 31-page manuscript, titled “The Cancer of Superstition”, was a project requested by Harry Houdini for Lovecraft to ghostwrite shortly before the magician’s…

Watching In the Mouth of Madness Too Many Times Might Actually Drive You Insane

In 1994, John Carpenter was several years removed from his last bona fide triumph—1988’s They Live—but he still hadn’t given up. (He’d sorta do that the next year, with Village of the Damned). His mindfuck extravaganza In the Mouth of Madness borrows heavily from H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King, but it’s also its own bizarre…

How did H.P. Lovecraft conquer popular culture? In The Atlantic, writer Philip Eil examines the posthumous history of Lovecraft’s works and the current mania for all things Cthulhu. At the same time, he asks: How can fans reconcile their affection for Lovecraft’s fiction with the author’s virulent racism? [via Boing Boing]

We’d Like An Invite To The Wedding This Cthulhu Ring Was Created For

We’re imagining a nighttime beach ceremony to celebrate what was clearly a match of two people deeply in love(craft) with each other, based on this engagement ring made by Denver jeweler Drew Rummell. Check out the artist’s (more conventional) offerings here and here … and his Star Wars-themed ring, another custom creation, here. Via Archie…

In his House at Funko, Vinyl Cthulhu waits dreaming

Another day, another Funko toy reveal – and now not even the Great Old Ones can escape the grasp of the toymaker’s line of cutesy vinyls. You might not lose your mind staring at this one for too long though. A thematically appropriate announcement for today, this little Cthulhu works surprisingly well in Funko’s trademark…

H.P. Lovecraft Stories Retold As Goofy One-Page Comics

What happens when you take H.P. Lovecraft’s tales, shorten them, and replace their florid prose with a rather silly sensibility? You get Patrick Dean‘s Underwhelming Lovecraft Comic Synopses—which are, fortunately, not underwhelming at all. This is just one in a series of comic synopses that Dean has launched on his Underwhelming Lovecraft Tumblr, which is…

Watch A Feature-Length Adaptation Of HP Lovecraft’s Colour Out Of Space

HP Lovecraft’s story The Colour Out of Space is a disturbing account of a family’s gradual degradation. The full-length film Die Farbe captures those horrors in sinister black and white. Huan Vu directed Die Farbe, moving the action to Germany for his German-speaking cast. He’s also currently raising money for another Lovecraft adaptation, this one…

Crowdfund The Release Of The Best Scifi Film You Haven’t Seen

One of our favorite unsung science fiction movies is finally getting a digital release, and you can help make it a success. You can also help fund a film based on HP Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle stories, a collaborative storytelling game, and anthology of science fiction stories about ladies and their bikes. Sleep Dealer’s Second Chance…

Crowdfund An Anthology Of Pornographic Comics By Lady Cartoonists!

The second volume of the genre-filled, women-created pornography anthology Smut Peddler is on its way, and you can preorder your copy. You can also help fund a space telescope, an indoor greenhouse, a kit to build your own velociraptor (out of cardboard), miniature busts of HP Lovecraft and more. Top image from Smut Peddler cover…

The secret history of the book behind True Detective

Over the past week, we’ve been looking at references from True Detective to the book The King in Yellow published in 1895. But, the world The King in Yellow was building actually began years before that, with another book published in 1893. TRUE DETECTIVE SPOILERS (and literary analysis) ahead, people. After True Detective’s references to…

I Can’t Do Space Art All Day, So Here’s Cthulhu

While astronomical art is my specialty, I can’t do planets 24 hours a day. So sometimes I set that aside to do something to get my mind off Mars or Titan or Gliese 467b or whatever it is I have been sweating over. H.P. Lovecraft has always been one of my favorite authors, so a…

Baby Cthulhu sculpture will drive the world to adorable madness

Baby Cthulhu doesn’t wait dreaming. He’s bright-eyed, curly-tentacled, and ready for your squeeing worship. Cassia Harries of Monster Mind Sculpts made this little guy. She cast the original sculpture and will soon have an army of Cutethulhus available for sale. In the meantime, you can check out her artwork on her Facebook page, including these…

Feminist Yog-Sothoth will drive you insane after getting your consent

Can you be an Eldritch horror and a feminist at the same time? Dave Hughes introduces us to the cosmic hilarity of Feminist Yog-Sothoth, who disregards gender when deciding whom to eat next. Feminist Yog-Sothoth has a nemesis in Men’s Rights Advocate Cthulhu: You can see all of Hughes’ feminism memes on Tumblr. [via The…

7 Real Natural Events that Inspired Works of Science Fiction

Science fiction is filled with tales that pit humanity against the natural world: earthquakes, meteor strikes, Sharknados. While some of those stories are birthed from abstract (or entirely made-up) fears, others are inspired by specific occurrences—comets, catastrophes, and climate events. Top image: Biela’s Comet via Wikimedia Commons. The Year Without a Summer: In April 1815,…

Summon Old Ones with these painstakingly crafted HP Lovecraft props

Jason McKittrick crafts elaborate prop sets based on H.P. Lovecraft’s horror stories. Grab yourself a cultist’s kit and you’ll be summoning Cthulhu in no time! McKittrick sells many of his Lovecraft-inspired pieces at Cryptocurium, but his larger sets of faux-relics tend to land in private collections. The one up top is a collection of items…

Crowdfund a documentary about Bikini Atoll’s wrecks and tales of bicycles in space

The ships sunk by an atomic blast at Bikini Atoll are the subject of a documentary—and you can give it a helping hand. Also check out a Lovecraft-inspired marionette show and an anthology of science fiction stories about bicycles. Top image from The Doom That Came to Fiddle Creak. The Atomic Armada – The Forgotten…

Crowdfund a documentary about science fiction’s forgotten visionaries and an animated adaptation of Lovecraft’s “Dagon”

Here are three intriguing film projects looking for a little crowdfunding boost: First is a documentary that uncovers the men and women who first thought up our favorite science fiction tropes, decades—and even centuries—ago. Next is an animated adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story “Dagon,” with a nightmarish vision. Last comes a film about a…

H.P. Lovecraft’s Advice to Writers: Read the King James Bible and develop a love for unusual words

What advice would horror writer H.P. Lovecraft give to writers? Lovecraft’s work is filled with rich, often florid language, and he was keenly interested in the descriptive powers of language. It’s no surprise then, that, when Lovecraft wrote an essay on writing fiction for The United Amateur, words and grammar were among his chief concerns.…

Celebrate H.P. Lovecraft with amazing fiction and essays!

It’s always a great time to pay homage to the master of eldritch horror — and The Revelator is here for you, with a fantastic H.P. Lovecraft themed issue. There’s a highly entertaining editorial, plus amazing fiction by Meghan McCarron and Laird Barron. McCarron’s “Lovecraft in Brooklyn” not only takes its name from a great…