Lost Carcosa

Those of you who read my posts regularly, will probably have guessed that I love Guillermo Del Toro’s work.   He’s awesome.  Seriously.  So when I saw this bit of news about Del Toro making a Frankenstein movie, you know I immediately had to jump to linking it here, as it made me happy like a little school boy.

“I’m not doing ‘Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein.’ I’m doing an adventure story that involves the creature. I cannot say much, but it’s not the central creation story, I’m not worried about that. The fact is I’ve been dreaming of doing a ‘Frankenstein’ movie since I was a child. The one thing I can promise is, compared to Kenneth Branagh, I will not appear shirtless in the movie!” 

Read more at Movies.ie

The fine people behind “The Scaryfiers” adventure audio dramas have put out another adventure, “For King and Country”, their third so far, for all of us to purchase and enjoy.  I bought and most thouroughly enjoyed “The Nazad Conspiracy” and “The Devil of Denge Marsh”, and I’m certain, that I will enjoy “For King and Country” just the same. 

‘Sir’ Harry Price, self-proclaimed ghost detective, has built a machine. His previous experiment - to turn a goat into a man - may have ended ignominiously, but now Harry plans to capture the spirits of the dead with his Price Ghost Captivator™. If he can make it work, that is.

Meanwhile, Londoners are being killed, in especially gruesome fashion, with their own electrical appliances. But most puzzling of all is the Faraday Murderer’s habit of leaving cryptic messages in 17th century English at the scene - cryptic messages that mention a certain Harry Price…

Age-old forces are stirring… The dead will rise… The Crown will fall. Can Lionheart and Dunning save King and Country?

If you havn’t checked out “The Scaryfiers” just yet, head over to Cosmic Hobo Productions and listen to the trailers!

For King and Country!

It looks like Guillermo Del Toro has signed on to write a trilogy of vampire novels with crime authoe Chuck Hogan.  Also of interesting note is hish signing a four picture deal.  To quote BBC UK:

There are plans to remake Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Frankenstein and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five.

BBC UK

WildClaw Theatre, Chicago’s only horror-centric theatre company, proudly announces DEATHSCRIBE: Ten Minutes of Terror Radio Play Festival, Monday October 6th, 8:00pm at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave, Chicago IL.

More details at HorrorYearBook

ComicBookResources, ever the amazing site for comic related news, has posted an official press release announcing the hard cover version of Joe Hill’s “Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft”.  We’re looking at 152 pages of hardcover goodness, illustrated by the same artist who did Clive Barker’s “The Great and Secret Show”, for only $24.99, set to be released on October 1.

ComicBookResources has much more details.

Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs make a great pair in the movie industry.  At least I seem to think so.  They do a great job creating entertaining movies together, but it looks like Combs has turned down playing a part in Gordon’s adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Thing at the Doorstep”.

Stuart was like, ‘Yeah, I know, being in bed with beautiful women all day, it sounds tough, and I went, ‘You know, Stuart, actually, it is. I’m married, and I don’t wanna do that.’ It’s not part of my world. It was just too much, it was like, ‘And then they’re writhing, and then they’re humping some more, and then they build to a climax, and then they climax, and sweat…” I wish him all the best with that one, but not every project’s right for me.  

~Combs

You can read Comb’s thoughts over at Arrow in the Head News.

I have several odd recurring dreams, but this is one in particular that seems rather Lovecraftian.  It involves… -dramatic pause- … a KittenWitch! Dun dun Duuuunnnnn!

In this dream, it becomes known to me that the cute little soft and purry kitten is in fact a witch or other being intent on the destruction of myself and those around me.  This creature may look all soft and cuddly, but it lives in the spaces between the walls plotting our demise.  This space, of course, is much larger than the actual thickness of the walls, and at an odd angle such that if you were to hold a mirror so that you could see the rooms reflection but off kilter at about 5 to 10 degrees, that space in the angled area; Thats where it lived and performed the evil rituals.

Now, like any good Lovecraftian dream, we have a problem.  I need to kill the KittenWitch to prevent it from killing us and possibly destroying humanity… But only I know the truth of the matter.  No one else sees the evil being in all its horrific ugliness superimposed on its physical kittenish exterior.  All anyone else sees is me choking a kitten.  Or at least that is all they would see if I were to attempt to extinguish said KittenWitch in the presence of others.  Instead I can only hold the thing and keep it from escaping back to its lair within the angles of the walls, while people continuously enter and leave the room.  So I sit there trying to save the world in the brief moments between interruptions by innocent and unknowing minds.

Or am I just slowly going insane?  Is it in fact just a normal kitten, trying to go about its kittenish ways?  Am I seeing something only a broken mind can see?  Or am I really seeing the truth, and by doing this deed, bring my own sanity into question for others?  Either way, it is an insane problem.

Chaosium is now accepting submissions for the fourth Halloween Horrors Monograph.

Each entry must be an original BRP adventure between 6,000 - 10,000 words. Text files or word documents only. Don’t submit PDF’s, quark files, etc. Don’t worry, 6,000 words is much shorter than it sounds!

Entries must be turned in before October 1st, 2008.

If you think you’re a good writer, or a good artist, then why don’t you head over to Chaosium and take a look.