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.
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
ARRR! It appears it be International Talk Like a Pirate Day again!
Git yer wenches and yer yard arms an head fer th’ docks, cause thar be booty an’ wenches an’… um… ARR!!!
Head to the official site and start having some fun!
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.
It looks like Dan Harm’s “Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedias” are ready for shipping or on they’re way out already, in both paperback and hard cover!
Baker and his team are searching for something called the Higgs Boson, sometimes referred to as the “God particle.” Scientists have theorized that the elusive Higgs Boson, if it exists, is what gives particles mass, but researchers have not found it. Baker has hopes that if it does exist, the Large Hadron Collider will help find it.
Personally, I think the Large Hadron Collider is not going to find any Higgs Bosons (aka God Particles). Nope. I think it will find something of a god, but this will be the blind idiot god type, Azezoth. Either the returning data will make every scientist who looks at it go completely insane and start up a new cult, or the collider will tickle Azazoth just enough to wake him and we will all blink out of existance.
Either way, this is still fun geeky news! Read on at Courant.com.
Somehow, I’ve managed to have a couple of friends and my brother send me this, and yet, I haven’t posted this up yet! I’m really slacking. That or just way too busy at work and home! (It’s actually option 2, busy, unfortunately) So without further ado, what would happen if Lovecraft had written about tasty chocolate treats? Would his writing bleed into the descriptions? Or would they be the usual mundane affair? We might get something like this:
Caramel Chew
There is a dimension ruled by a blind caramel God-King who sits on a vast, cyclopean milk-chocolate throne while his mindless, gooey followers dance to the piping of crazed flutes. It is said that there are gateways in our world that lead to this caramel hell-planet. The delectable Caramel Chew may be one such portal.
Read all of the sanity shatteringly sweet descriptions at McSweeny’s page.
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.
