When I reviewed the re-release of John Dies at the End I speculated on the claim the book would become the movie. I was worried it might not happen. Now there’s a trailer; I’m still a little cautious! Don Coscarelli, the movie director, describes it as a mashup of Douglas Adams and Stephen King. I […]
Lovecraft Articles
Discover the blog's posts tagged with Lovecraft. This collection covers topics in Movies, Geek Stuff, and Books.
Chi Chi the All-Seeing Eye Dog is a tiny terror of dooooom
Imagine having a Lovecraftian watch dog. It would be an odd shape of angles and lines. It would have one, bold, brave and staring eye. It would hint at insanity. Chi Chi the All-Seeing Eye Dog has these qualities. There is, however, a problem. When coming to this dimension Chi Chi failed to grapple with […]
John Dies At the End review
This is a happy story. David Wong had a dull and hard data entry job. When that finished he’d go to his other dull and hard data entry job. Somehow he found time to pull together some thoughts for publication on the web. A few people read these words in the first year. That’s the […]
Sanity found as Amazon sides with Cthulhu geeks
Can you imagine the soul destroying horror of working on a huge project, making the results available for free only then to discover that someone’s ripped off your work and has started to sell it at a profit? That’s exactly what happened to Cthulhu Chick, a library student know for her excellent tiny crocheted Cthulhus. […]
Cthulhu inspiration: Innsmouth Town Hall Meeting poster set
This is a clever idea from Etsy designer Narshero; a set of posters that lined up the Town Hall meeting of the good folk of Innsmouth. It’s a quiet town, but the locals aren’t too keen on strangers and certainly swift to anger. This set of posters, designed to be shown three abreast, was a […]
The Call of Cthulhu in Under 2 Minutes
This is one awesome video. If you ever need a summary of HP Lovecraft’s majestic Call of Cthulhu then why not ask a Valley Girl for help. You can call it her school project. When she’s finished then you can say it wasn’t a school project at all. Perhaps she’ll go insane from grief. Burn! […]
The Fuller Memorandum review
The Fuller Memorandum is the third book in Charles Stross’s Laundry Files series. I don’t know when the series became known as the Laundry Files, but as our hero works for the Laundry and I sometimes describe the series as the X-Files meets Lovecraft I guess the “Files” extra works. Of course, that description is […]
