Lovecraftian Horrors

From the Skyrim: Dragonborn downloadable content. Kind of looks like something in between a Yithian and an Elder Thing, doesn't it? There are also mind devouring tomes of forbidden knowledge, and "Lurkers" that look just like Deep Ones. Definitely enjoying all the inspiration from Lovecraft in this expansion. :-)

The H P Lovecraft Chronicles - Friday, 05/10/12 - 07:45 PM
Harrogate Theatre
Oxford Street
Harrogate, North Yorkshire

It's currently sold out, but a friend of mine has three spare tickets, due to a crazy mix up in dates. £15 per ticket - which is what she paid. PM me if you're interested.

I hope this is of interest. Lovecraft is one of the assigned readings/topics, as is Poe.

Registration is now open for the first of a two-part online history of science fiction course, Science Fiction, Part 1: From Modern Beginnings to the Golden Age, for The Mythgard Institute. You don't have to be seeking a Master's degree from Signum University in order to "sit in" (or audit) just for the love of the subject. Anyone may sign up!



This Fall 2012 class will consist of 24 90-minute online lectures with live Q&A. These lectures will also available to registered students for immediate download as audio and video files.

More information, including a full list of the lecture topics, assigned readings, and more, is available here.

From xerhino and friends - 24 page comic in .pdf

http://www.eyedamage.net/old_websi…

Thought this might be of interest. FYI, this will have a section dedicated to crossovers between Lovecraft and Holmes...


The Hugo Award-winning StarShipSofa presents...

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND SCIENCE FICTION:
A Live Video Lecture by Dr. Amy H. Sturgis



What does the world’s only consulting detective have to do with science fiction? What was the relationship of his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to the genre? Why have so many science fiction authors since Doyle found ways to incorporate Holmes into their works? What is the unique history between Holmes’s world and H.P. Lovecraft’s? In what ways has Holmes been recreated and reimagined via science fiction over the years? What is it about Holmes that makes him so at home – and popular! – in the 21st century?




Join award-winning genre scholar Amy H. Sturgis live as she investigates Sherlock Holmes then and now through a science fictional lens. A live Q&A will follow the lecture.

Click here for full details (date, time, tickets), including a synopsis of this four-part presentation.

For a limited time (that is, until Thursday, 6 October), the essay "In Search of Fringe's Literary Ancestors" (from Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and Mad Scientists, 2011) is available online in its entirety from Smart Pop Books. The essay includes a section entitled "Reanimation: The H.P. Lovecraft Influence." Read the complete essay here.

Anyone gone out to see "Don't be Afraid of the Dark"? Guillermo Del Toro allegedly "took inspiration from" Lovecraft's The Rats in the Walls. I'd say the tone carried through, but there is only one clear nod to HPL's story visible just above the ash pit grate shown in the preview.



Thoughts on the movie?

New at Revolution Science Fiction: "H.P. Lovecraft and the Imaginative Tale", Part 1 and Part 2.