Lost Carcosa

Three Lovecraftian locations have made it onto the Atlas Obscura.  The best part is two of them are right in my own neighborhood!

• The Witch House, Salem

Home to one of the judges from the Salem Witch Trials, and inspiration for Lovecraft’s “dreams in Witch House”, The Witch House is only a few blocks from my house!

• Danvers State Hospital for the Criminally Insane

Apparently, this one is a short drive away! Unfortunately, this asylum has now been converted into luxery condos.

• Atlantic Ave. Tunnel

So this is how you got between the docks and the houses at Redhook!

Find the links to Atlas Obscura at BoingBoing

Thanks in part to a busy busy life, and even more due to my trusty Thinkpad completely dieing, stone-cold-dead, I havn’t really been able to post anything for a bit now.  Today, posting from a borrowed Dell Mini 9, I’ve got yet another link to0 a cute crocheted Cthulhu!  Really.  Can we have too many cute crocheted Cthulhus?

Found at BlissTree

I love John Kovalic’s redition of Cthulhu, and Grim Reviews has found a paper Cthulhu you can make yourself! Insane fun! Head over to GrimReviews to check them out!

Today is “Blog Like it’s the End of the World Day!”

How will your day be while the zombies eat your neighbors?  I’ll unfortunately be a bit out of touch doing army stuff, but maybe I’ll Tweet Like it’s the End of the World!

Head over to the coordinating site to sign your blog up for the fun!

Some of you may have noticed the complete lack of posts in the last week and a half, accompanied by an odd assortment of twitter posts on the right.  And you may have noticed the comic from that week… Yup. I’ve gotten myself married to a wonderful girl on the 30th of May, 2009!  And then we spent almost a week in lovely Nova Scotia. You can probably gather that I was a bit focused on things other than posting on this site.

Yeay us!

Jake Hildebrandt has created a masterpiece of Steampunk PC artwork with the Damnation system.  Specs for the system are quite nice, and the system is up for grabs in the Destructoid giveaway ending June 19th.

Pictures, details, and a link to the contest site can be found at OddityCentral.

Happy Memorial Day!

LostCarcosa.net Web Comic

All we have of freedom, all we use or know -
This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.
~Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899

ComicBookResources has tracked down and interviewed Will Muray, self-proclaimed Indiana Jones of Pulp and Comic book research!

Murray is also known as the definitive pulp historian, whether discussing Doc Savage and the Shadow or H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith. Murray began in fandom in the 1970s and the “Duende History of the Shadow” Magazine, which he edited and wrote the bulk of, remains one of the most comprehensive looks at the Shadow ever published. When his longtime friend Anthony Tollin obtained the reprint rights to the Shadow and Doc Savage, one of his first calls was to Murray, who for years has been contributing biographical and contextual essays to every volume.

Head to CBR to read what Will Murray has to say on Pulp and comic publications and their amazing history.