http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/07/20/legendarys-making-an-hp-lovecraft-anthology-tv-series

I don't know whether to be excited or miffed.  It would be awesome to see Lovecraft done justice, but that never seems to happen.

Of course it was only a matter of time until I did this.

I found the audiobooks. The first one I happened to click on is apparently "The Outsider" [изгой, izgoy, I assume in the sense of "outcast"], an old favorite of mine. If there is a reading of the translated "Fungi from Yuggoth and other poems," that would probably be a pretty fun one. And I ( Read more... )

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Director Guillermo Del Toro has written a screenplay based on Lovecraft's story [At the Mountains of Madness], but in 2006 has had trouble getting Warner Brothers to finance the project. Wrote Del Toro, "The studio is very nervous about the cost and it not having a love story or a happy ending, but it's impossible to do either in the Lovecraft ( Read more... )

One of the textbooks my tutees use in their course contains the following image, a political cartoon about the railroad monopoly in the late 1800's. When I took the course myself, I was repeatedly drawn to ogle the bizarre and rather Lovecraftian picture (icon doesn't do it justice):

'The Curse of California.'I recently showed the picture to the ( Read more... )