Lost Carcosa

One of my favorite Lovecraftian blog sites on the Intarwebs just turned a year old this recent Saturday!  Happy Birthday Grim Reviews!

A transcription of H.P. Lovecraft’s “Commonplace Book” is now available online at the blog “La Petite Claudine”.  Check out GrimReviews for more details and a link.

Cthulhu Wiki, The Wiki for the RPG Gamer.

Grim Reviews has more words and links on the subject.  Me?  I’ve been busy busy busy.  One wouldn’t think I could get busier, but it happens.  One more book down, and many reviews need to be made.  Maybe I’ll read the Cthulhu Wiki instead.

Funny coincidence that Grim Blogger should post up some news about an upcoming performance of Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan”, as my current reading is a collection of Machen stories.  Machen was a big influence on Lovecraft, and this story was one of Machen’s more acclaimed stories.

Check out the details at Grim Reviews.

Grim Reviews has found word of an Italian film based on Robert W. Chambers’ “The King in Yellow” stories.  If you haven’t guessed by the title of this site, I’m a fan of this mythos, not just Lovecraft’s mythos and his inclusion of the Yellow King mythos.  Grim’s got a trailer up for us to view and enjoy, and I have to say it looks pretty dang spiffy.  Especially that end part. :P  I’m especially intrigued by the masked man shown in the video.

Head over to Grim Reviews to view the trailer!

Yig, although not as mind-numbingly horrific or as powerful as The Great Old Ones, is still a character you really don’t want to meet up with on any sort of night, or day.  Really.
While most prominently and directly known from the H.P. Lovecraft story, “The Curse of Yig“, Yig may also have some footing in Robert E. Howard’s realm as well.  As Set in Conan’s time, and the Great Serpent in Kull’s time (complete with a worshiping following of snake people), we have some crossing of characters between Lovecraft’s and Howard’s stories.  Howard is well known to have been a big fan of Lovecraft, and has been inspired many a time to borrow Mythos and characters for his own stories, as well as the same being done by Lovecraft a few times.

Check out the excellent artistic depictions of Yig over at Grim Reviews.

The picture above is of Kull versus some Snake Men, and can be found at Xoth.net

The Grim Blogger of Grim Reviews (who happens to be kicking my ass with the quality and quantity of Mythos content he posts) has yet more good stuff up on his site! This time its about the GumShoe system based RPG “Trail of Cthulhu” and he’s got all sorts of good comments and links to entertain and inform you about the game.

After having listened to the recorded audio of a sample game over at Yog-Sothoth.com, and then listening to their interview with the guys of Pelgrane Press, I forone am highly intrigued by the game. Heres a little bit of a summarization I remember from the audio. “They wanted to make a game that kept dice rolling when it was fun, but removed dice rolling when it wasn’t”. They’ve come up with a point cost system to remove dice rolling for parts of the game mechanics. You can hear more details in the YSDC interview audio on Yog Radio #27.

Now I just need to find the time and people to play with! Not to mention pre-ordering the game manuals!

Grim Reviews has found an animated version of E.A. Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Who says you’re too old for morning cartoons?  What better way to start a day, than with some animated suspense and horror?

Go watch it over at Grim Reviews.