NecroVision (2009) Quote: Description: NecroVisioN is first-person shooter that takes places in a varied range of locations, from the horrific and bloody trenches of World War One, to secret labs and underground caverns plagued by gruesome undead creatures. You must battle through legions of German soldiers and hideous monsters, as you venture forth into this terrible underworld. Inspired by infamous...
Here are the comics we added to our library collection in July (yes, I'm way behind; I'll be catching up over the next several days...): Adachi, Mitsuru. Tatchi = Touch vols. 2, 7 / Tōkyō : Shōgakukan, 1992-1994. Adams, Scott, 1957- Stick to drawing comics, monkey brain! : cartoonist ignores helpful advice / New York : Portfolio, 2007. Akimoto, Osamu, 1952- Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari...
“The Adventures of Lil’ Cthulhu” by Zachary Murray, a wonderful way to explain H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu to children, maybe even a few adults too. Want a child-friendly way to introduce your little one to the traditions of the Old Cult? Meet little Cthulhu, who lives in the magic city of R’lyeh with all his friends, [...] This is a blog post from Laughing Squid , subscribe...
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There's nothing manlier than H. P. Lovecraft's horror tales and especially that of Cthulhu...unless it takes this version. The Adventures of Little Cthulhu Forwarded my direction from the wife, this is a great video which carves the tales of H. P. Lovecraft just a wee bit differently. I hope you enjoy it!
On Friday I went to an exhibit at the Fenimore Art Museum called “American’s Rome : Artists in the Eternal City 1800-1900 that spotlighted the Roman themed work of 19 th century American Artists. The exhibit included many painting of ruins and the commentary on these featured a quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Marble Faun that I really liked: “( America is) a land...
Quatable Sunday is hosted by Toni at the blog A Daily Dose of Toni On Hallowe'en the thing you must do Is pretend that nothing can frighten you An' if somethin' scares you and you want to run Jus' let on like it's Hallowe'en fun. - - - from an Early Nineteenth Century Halloween Postcard If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost. - - - Lloyd Douglas The oldest and strongest...
While talking about _The Raw Shark Texts_ yesterday I remembered a short story about the Necronomicon corrupting texts it was stored with - put it with a copy of Milton and *all* copies everywhere of Paradise Lost are permanently corrupted. That story I couldn't remember the name of at the time is "The Adder" by Fred Chappell, which I had in the Chaosium trade paperback anthology of Necronomicon-related...
Recent events and discussions once again bring the topic of genre fiction's mainstream respectability to the forefront. So we thought it'd be timely to ask this week's panelists: Q: In your opinion, does literary science fiction and fantasy have mainstream respect? Why, if at all, does it need mainstream approval? What would such approval mean for genre fiction? Read on to see their level-setting...
{Photo and jack-o-lantern by flickr user coldways , used under a Creative Commons license .} A weekend of air travel--whose horrors are all too real to offer any of the pleasures of the season--allowed me finally to cross from Volume I to Volume II of the Library of America 's new American Fantastic Tales . The break between volumes coincides with World War II and the concomitant shift from agrarian...
Road Trip Part 1 It had been a while since my friend Denis and I had been on a little road trip so we packed up his Ford and headed down to Rhode Island to The National Museum of American Illustration in Westport. On the way we stopped at a couple of diners to eat and met some nice folks. Denis practiced his Maxfield Parrish pose on some impressive urns. Saw the ocean. The gallery itself is housed...
By Brett Villarreal If you arrived to see film reviews skip down to read them. You can get to a good film download site through the search engines. You should have good luck with a search like "Online Movies Rentals"; if not then try "Unlimited Downloads" and "Movie Download Site". The Dunwich Horror: Adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's tale in regards to wizard Stockwell's...
Not since Edgar Allan Poe* and H. P. Lovecraft conjured the demonic creatures of the unconscious by candlelight, the wax dripping on their pages like the blonde blood of an custard monster (chilling, huh?) has there been a tale of...
H. P. Lovecraft's elder god Cthulhu is supposed to be terrifying, hideous, and awe-inspiring—but whoever knew he could be this darn cute? Check out 14 toys that take a slimy monster and turn it cuddly. And join us tomorrow at noon for haunted cereals that will scare your dentist!
This has nothing to do with philosophy, science, or history, I just think it's absolutely hilarious (it helps if you have some knowledge of the works of H. P. Lovecraft ). Discuss this post at the Quodlibeta Forum
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