Moe Lane

For all your Cthulhu Solstice needs.

Not on Amazon.com, but you can find it here.

I would buy this.  Seriously. Call it a ‘parody’ and everything’s jake… no, wait, the text is probably still under copyright.  Still, straighten it all out and I’ll buy it.

Via io9, via AoSHQ.

Specifically, Lovecraft’s ghouls.  I hate to say, but… they just ain’t that scary to me, sorry.  Or mind-blastingly evil.  Mi-Go?  Sure: brains-in-a-can and deep space frightfulness.  Deep Ones?  No problem, especially since Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity did a revamp.  Great Race?  Yeah, those SOBs are pretty freaky-deaky when you realize that they’ve got a real problem with personal head space.  But… ghouls?

OK.  You eat dead people.  Hold on, am I dead?  No?  Well, then, you just keep on with gnawing on that head then, buddy:  he’s obviously past caring and it’s nobody I know. I mean, seriously: read “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath” again.  You can recruit those guys as a ally race in that one.

They got real nuanced after “Pickman’s Model,” is all I’m saying.

Moe Lane

Cthulhu Mythos short fan film; it’s a couple of years old, but interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI0M4xRwbs8&feature=player_embedded

More here; first referenced here. I’m afraid that I have to agree with the implicit message found in the second link, though: adapting Lovecraft to the cinema is hard.

In fact, I probably could buy a copy. At least, of the cover.

Via Grim Reviews.

That was possibly the most eldritch part.

Or perhaps ‘squamous.’ OK, that’s not fair… well, maybe it is. No, it’s not. Damn this inconveniently soft heart of mine, anyway.

Moe Lane

PS: You know you don’t want it.

I would like to note for the record that I am so stoked for this:

“This” being the movie adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s The Whisperer In Darkness. The same people who did The Call of Cthulhu a couple of years ago; you may remember that I watched and enjoyed that one a good deal. I expect that I will enjoy this one possibly a bit more, if only because I prefer talkies to silent pictures.

I do have a couple of kids’ books with which to start things nice and non-Euclidean:

Although those may have been more for me than for my kids. Both worth it, by the way.

You would have think that I would have posted this one. It’s how I roll.

Via Liber Ex Machina.

Yes, I know: when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when you’re me, everything looks squamous. But tell me that there isn’t something eldritch* going on there with this.

Tell me.

Moe Lane

*’Squamous’ passes the spell-check, but ‘eldritch’ doesn’t. Go figure.

This got sent to me by a friend: apparently he felt that I’m the sort of person who would appreciate this kind of humor.

(pause)

Yeah, pretty much.

Yes. Where the Deep Ones Are is precisely what you think that it is.

And this is why Ken Hite has a devoted following, and you should get him to write things for you.

Moe Lane

PS: Obviously, this replaces Juggler of Worlds.