Lovecraft Ezine Issue # 7 October 2011

Happy Birthday to me! I woke up this morning and was excited to receive on my Kindle, Lovecraft E-zine’s Issue # 7. I geeked out this morning reading a couple of this issues great story selections. Head editor, Mike Davis, has created one hell of a Lovecraftian fan base, and with the recent stamp of approval  from S.T. Joshi, a leading Lovecraft scholar, more and more people are getting turned on to the E-zine.

Intriguing tales this month are; Sky Full of Fire by Corinna Sara Bechko, The Lord of Endings by John R. Fultz, Loaners by Aaron Polson, The Prophecy of Zarah by Jenne Kaivo, and The Stranger From Out of Town by John Prescott.

Seriously folks check these out and chuck Mike a donation to help the continuation of this excellent source for Lovecraftian horror. I signed up for the monthly Kindle subscription, and I highly suggest everyone else do the same. Cheers!

HPPodcraft.com – Episode #92 – The Man of Stone

Finally we have some ladies in the house with Lovecraft! Hazel Heald jumps on the Lovecraftian bandwagon this week as Chris and Chad cover "The Man of Stone". A tale penned a little differently than most HPL stories, "The Man of Stone" certainly shines of Hazels hand as well. A great read that you can check out free here!

Great reading done by fan of the show, Brother Voodoo. Further news, the race to collect money for a full reading of "The Call of Cthulhu" by Andrew Leman is over. And the boys sound like they have plans for a Halloween release. But just because the fundraiser for the reading is over, doesn't mean you can't still DONATE to keep the show going further. Great job guys!

In two weeks the guys return with "The Horror in the Museum", another Lovecraft/Heald mash-up.



HPPodcraft.com – Episode #91 – Dreams in the Witch House pt. 3

Wow didn't see this one creep by me. Finishing up this week, Chris, Chad, and Ken Hite tunnel through the end of this story and reveal some pretty gruesome and heart breaking stuff. I've read this story and didn't particularly care for it, but like usual, after hearing the guys discuss this and go through the finer points I missed, I really liked this one folks.

The delivery of this tale makes the skin crawl and the mind feverish as H.P.L unravels the fibers of reality and makes anyone believe that the bad guys don't need a front door to get you and sometimes there is no escaping the horror.

Close to $600 left in the race to raise R'lyeh, we can do it!

HPPodcraft.com – Episode #91 – Dreams in the Witch House pt. 2

Sorry for the late post on this one. This last Thursday the guys got a little farther in discussing H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dreams in the Witch House". In the last episode the essence of terror that surrounds Brown Jenkin was one of the main topics. A new character is discussed and the confusion of how Lovecraft intertwines Christianity with his Cthulhu mythos.

Joined again with Kenneth Hite, and the voice of Dave Stinton, Chad and Chris, deliver another hilariously informative installment in their three part series covering the story. Check it out!

Still need donations to get those great readings of H.P. Lovecraft's "Call of Cthulhu" read by the mighty Andrew Leman.

HPPodcraft.com – Episode #90 – Dreams in the Witch House pt. 1

The Boys are back from their two week vacation, and there not alone. This week we join hosts Chris Lackey and Chad Fifer, as well as guest host Kenneth Hite, and reader Dave Stinton, as they delve into H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dreams in the Witch House”. In this first part, the boys scratch the surface of the actual story while they talk about the nuzzling human-faced rat, Brown Jenkin, and why he portrays such a terrifying character in this story.

Art by Chris Lackey

The HPPodcraft is a podcast that I have been listening to for a little over a year. I stumbled upon them on iTunes after I heard another podcast talk about the Necronomicon. Since 09’ Chris Lackey and Chad Fifer have been going through the list of H.P.L stories in order of when they were written. They rely on the donations of listeners to keep them going, and the support of all the fans to make the show better and better. On occastion they have been known to(with the help of those donations I was talking about.) release full story readings of Lovecrafts work. They’re definitely one of the things I look forward to every week.

They are 3/4 of the way there, but the guys need just a little more help to deliver a full reading of "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft, with reader Andrew Leman

Where's My Shoggoth?

There’s a new crowd getting into Lovecraft these days, and im not talking about your average cultists. I was bumping around Amazon.com one day looking for a couple new books to bury my nose in, when I came across this.

Little Wilbur Whateley has a god.
It's a big red god.
Other folks have gods, too ...
but Wilbur has the biggest, reddest god in Dunwich

I was dumbfounded, and lost my sanity as I scrolled down to see a relative list of children’s books based in the Lovecraft Mythos. A sense of hopeless joy washed over me as I browsed through the reviews of “Where the Deep Ones Are”, “The Antarctic Express”, and “Baby’s First Mythos”.

"Baby's First Mythos" is a collection of short stories and poems "to blast your childs soul" as one description put it, and is written by C.J. Henderson and drawn by Erica Henderson. The author of "The Antarctic Express", and "Cliffourd The Big Red God", - Kenneth Hite is quite prolific in the realm of Lovecraft, and  does an amazing job addapting two childrens classics ("Where The Wild Things Are", and "the Polar Express") for children, and I am happy to say that I will be looking forward to sharing these with my kids someday.

Interested in what else might be floating around for children mythos books, I looked around some more and came across what seems to be a promising book in the future. “Where’s My Shoggoth?” is a fully illustrated book from Archaia publishing written by Ian Thomas and dawn by Adam Bolton. The book has recently been finished and will be in Archaia’s spring catalog. The tale is about a young boy who loses his pet shoggoth, and in the journey to find it encounters a bunch of other Lovecraftian creatures. Im looking forward to grabbing this one and I will throw up an update when I hear more news.

 



IDW's The Dunwich Horror

Lock up your Necronomicon, and hide the cows, because here comes IDW Publishing’s adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror”! Announced last July, Joe R. Lansdale will start writing the tale, while artist Peter Bergting will begin illustrating. As if people aren’t excited enough to see how Bergting will portray one of H.P.L’s greatest stories, but to be teamed up with eight time Bram Stoker Award winner, Joe R. Lansdale….. I have no words.

“It’s flattering to be working on a Lovecraft project, one of the most influential horror writers of all time,” says Lansdale, I would have to agree, I think I would simply go… well shall I say mad if I got to work on a Lovecraft project.

It is going to take four issues to get through, which im sure most people will enjoy more, but a sweet bit of desert for each issue will include a tiny adaptation of Lovecraft’s “The Hound” with help from . I also saw while looking for info on this topic that readers are encouraged to ask their retailer about the variant Nick Percival covers and “The Dunwich Horror” prose chapbooks for each issue. Those will include original prose from the original story.

This is one of my favorite stories and I am happy to also say that I have heard that this is the beginning. That’s right supposedly there are more possible H.P. Lovecraft stories on the table for consideration. Praise Yogsothoth!!

I couldn't find the fourth cover, but im sure soon enough it will be brought to my attention.