As many of you have noticed, not much has been added to the site in a long while, and the forums have been overrun with spam. I just cleared a massive amount of it out.
I still plan to keep this site up, but unfortunately too many other things take up my time these days.
What I am interested in, is seeing if there is anyone out there who would like to help out. Either with forum moderation, or posting new links/info on the main page.
Let me know!
Wyrd studios is set to release their new documentary Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown. Directed by Frank H. Woodward, the film features interviews with Guillermo Del Toro, Neil Gaiman, John Carpenter, Peter Straub, Caitlin Kiernan, Stuart Gordon, Ramsey Campbell, S.T. Joshi and few other Lovecraft scholars. The DVD is scheduled for release on October 27 – just in time for your Lovecraft themed Halloween parties.
Be sure to visit the official website and check out the online trailer.
Featured artist at the Temple of Dagon Paul Carrick has informed us that he is ready to take pre-orders for a new set of Cthulhu Statues featuring a new color scheme.
Paul has been keeping busy lately. In addition, his first written and illustrated children’s book Watch Out For Wolfgang is now on shelves. He will be having a show for the illustrations at the Feathersone Center for the Arts near his childhood hometown in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts from April 1 to 16, with the opening celebration on April 5th from 4 to 6 pm. Be sure to drop by if you are in the area!
For more information, including pre-orders for the statues, visit http://blog.nightserpent.com
Hello again!
Something recently came to my attention that I just HAD to share with you all.
A few days ago I signed up for a few online courses on emailcollege.co.uk. (A result of boredom and unemployment!) One of the courses was Analysing Horror Stories. This course focuses on several authors, a few of them being Clive Barker, Stephen King and yes, H P Lovecraft. Here is a list of the course sections, including Fear, Nightmares and Religious Themes.
All courses are free, lessons are sent daily around midnight and a certificate is provided on completion of the course. I have not yet completed said course, but so far there’s been a lot of focus on H P Lovecraft in the Fear and Religious Themes sections.
While this course may amount to little more than a poorly recognised certificate, it’s free and definitely worth a look. As you can see, it is based in the UK, I don’t know how it works with overseas applicants, but for those of you who would like to take a look without signing up, I can email you a few parts so you can see what I mean. It’s free and worth a look.
Or as always, you can message me.
Ciao!
Ladies and gentlemen, greetings from myself, Nyarsetna. For my first post, I’m going to try and revive interest in Guillermo Del Toro – does – At The Mountains Of Madness.
Here is an MTV Movies Blog interview with Guillermo posted in January of this year. So far it seems to be the most recent mention of his pet project.
This is a link to the ATMOM page on the official Del Toro Website.
I found these links lurking in the Forums, they will serve to help catch up on what is pretty much hype at the moment.
Thanks for posting those. On the same thread,
If anybody has any links to add, maybe I missed something more recent, please post on the At the Mountains of Madness Movie Update page on the Forums which can be found here.
Or send a message to me.
Thanks for reading!
Paul Carrick, a featured artist here at the Temple of Dagon, is now accepting preorders for his Cthulhu statues. These 8.5″ tall, hand painted resin statues feature a faux oxidized bronze finish, and clearly display the artistic skill he is known for. Be sure to visit his website at http://blog.nightserpent.com/, and let him know what you think – or better yet, place an order to help support his work.
The Maison d’Ailleurs, a science fiction museum in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, is planning a Lovecraft exhibition for October 2007, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the author’s death. The show is based upon the “Commonplace Book”, a set of notes and ideas written by Lovecraft, and will showcase works by several writers, artists, and illustrators. A listing of the authors/artists being featured can be found on The Hooded Utilitarian.
“The underground fungus [is] estimated to be between 2000 and 8500 years old . . . . [It] spreads mainly along tree roots, but also through the soil using shoestring-like structures called rhizomorphs . . . . Researchers thought that individual fungus organisms grew in distinct clusters in the forest, marked by the ring-shaped patches of dead trees that they spotted during overhead flights. No one expected to find that the well-separated clusters represented one contiguous organism.
Read story here.
Other stories claim that the fungus is the world’s largest organism.
Information on the fungus at wikipedia–proceed at your own risk.
20-foot-tall organism evaded classification for more than a century. Story here.
