More on Lovecraft

[paeng]

"H.P. Lovecraft Had a Sense of Humor"

http://scififantasyfiction.suite101....sense_of_humor

The Whisperer in Darkness trailer:

http://www.cthulhulives.org/Whisperer/trailer.html

[semiosteve]

“At The Mountains of Madness” redux…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7668070.stm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...den-world.html


And yes, it is pretty close to where Lovecraft told us it was…!!!

Note the quote …from Dr Robin Bell “They shouldn't be there…. I like to say it's rather like being an archaeologist and opening up a tomb in a pyramid and finding an astronaut sitting inside. It shouldn't be there”


I don’t think I will be volunteering to join this expedition.

steve

[Aetherwing]

So damn cool. I agree, I would join this expedition but reticently, as I have no desire to be

A) Dissected by Star-headed Old Ones awakened from their aeonic slumber

B) Rent asunder by angry Shoggoths

C) See the mind-wrenching ultraterrene horror of the forbidden peaks of Kadath in the Cold Waste.

That about covers it.

-Jimmy

[paeng]

On the special effects needed for At the Mountains of Madness:

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index...ory=3&id=62063

[Jeff Coleman]

I like the 'Cats And Dogs' essay by Lovecraft (http://terror.snm-hgkz.ch/lovecraft/html/catsdogs.htm). I have a preference for cats.

Some parts reminded me of Otto Weininger's writings about dogs.

'The Dog' by Otto Weininger: http://theabsolute.net/ottow/cheveng.html . "it is blindness to consider the dog an ethical symbol"

[Odalisque]

Quote Originally Posted by paeng

"H.P. Lovecraft Had a Sense of Humor"

Yes, he did. In some of his letters he reveals himself as quite a funny man. His formal attempts to write humorous stories and verse, though, are mostly downright unfortunate.

[paeng]

From Wikio:

Entry in Marysia Kay's web log on Colour from the Dark:

http://marysiak.livejournal.com/743513.html

An immersive horror series:

http://www.eldritcherrors.com/index.php

[hopfrog]

As for HPL's rich sense of humor, it is evident even in some of his serious fiction -- subtly in alusions to friends, &c. Two years ago at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival, S. T. Joshi read, in its entirety, "Sweet Ermengarde; Or the Heart of a Country Girl By Percy Simple," -- and this was one of the funniest events I've ever witness'd. Of course it added that this very serious scholar, the world's foremost authority on Lovecraft, was reading this hilarious work. But when S. T. gets excited and is having fun, he becomes extremely animated, especially in voice and facial expressions. We were rolling on the floor. The entire text of the piece may be found in the new edition of Lovecraft's comlete fiction published by Barnes & Noble.

[paeng]

The Independent Gaming Source competition: games inspired by Lovecraft:

http://www.tigsource.com/features/cpb/

A video featuring the entries:

YouTube - TIGSource CPB Entries in 10 Minutes

YouTube - TIGSource CPB Entries in 10 Minutes

Reported by When Gravity Fails:

http://solaris-editors-blog.blogspot...ecraft-on.html

[hopfrog]

For those of you who live in the Pacific Northwest -- or who may want to visit Seattle in March -- I have just learned that the gentlemen who run the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival will hold a mini-Lovecraft film festival in Seattle, beginning March 21st!! It will be held for one week (one week? -- awesome!) at the Grand Illusion cinema house. The festival's organizer, Andrew Migliore, will be in attendance on Saturday, as will David Prior of AM 1200, which was the big hit last October in Portland. I will be there, probably doing readings and panels, as will, moft certainly, S. T. Joshi. I am so flipping hyped!!! A mini-Lovecraft con/festival in Seattle. Yog-Sothoth!!