Lost Carcosa

Lets see… How can I tie in trailer for the new Star Trek movie into this Lovecraft/Pulp/Cthulhu based blog?  Well, Geeks of Doom does mention a Cthulhu like beast that Kirk ends up fighting!  How bout that?

Actually, Star Trek (the original series) was for the most part a pulp story, or set of stories.  Captain Kirk and his adventures were pretty much 1940’s pulp thrown into space.  Can you really get any better than that?

Check out the awesome trailer, and read the analysis at Geeks of Doom!

I assure you, that the recent lack of posts has nothing to do with yesterday’s launch of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft expansion “Wrath of the Lich King”.  Instead, it has to do with my super busy schedule, and the holiday season is only making it worse.  Fortunately, I can find stuff like L. Ron Hubbard Pulp Fiction on the YouTubes for potentially taking up even more of my time!

Galaxy Press has launched a video channel on YouTube ( www.youtube.com/goldenagestories) containing entertaining, original content dedicated to the newly-released 150-story, 80-plus novel pulp fiction series, “Stories from the Golden Age,” all authored by master storyteller L. Ron Hubbard during the 1930s and 40s.

“The most popular pulp fiction artists of the time read like a who’s who of acknowledged masters of their genres - H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Max Brand, Louis L’Amour, Elmore Leonard, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, John D. McDonald, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein - and of course, L. Ron Hubbard.”

Read more at MarketWatch

Elder Sign Press’ “Hardboiled Cthulhu” is a great treat for fans of Lovecraft and pulp detective stories. It is a collection of unimaginable horror, leggy dames, and the stubborn men who charge up against both.

William Jones’ “A Change of Life”, a great pulp story, and John Sunseri’s Pickmanesque “A Little Job in Arkham” are both excellent stories, doing a great job with merging Lovecraftian horror into the gritty detective genres. And no other story in the collection has quite the Lovecraft ending as Robert M. Proce’s “The Prying Investigations of Edwin M. Lilliibridge”.

James Chambers’ “The Roaches in the Walls” is the star of the collection. Not only does it hold very well with the style of the old pulp detective stories, and to the horrific nature of Lovecraft’s terrors, but it’s also one of the most original and creative stories in the collection. Chambers wrote a fantastic story and I hope to read more from him.

Sometimes you fight your whole life for everything you believe is right and come up the loser for it. What keeps you going is the golden fragment of your past, that fading memory that stokes the last ember of hope glowing in your soul, because when that burns out - which it inevitably will - all that’s left is terminal emptiness.

- James Chambers : The Roaches in the Walls

I really enjoyed this collection. I could say something nice about just about every story in the collection, but I’ll leave it at this: This is a must purchase item for fans of Horror and Pulp detective stories.

You can find “Hardboiled Cthulhu” and more books from Elder Sign Press at their website.

Heres a really interesting trailer about Nazi’s having gone to the moon in 1945, and set to return in 2018. Hopefully there will be giant mech fights!

Found at Ectomo

What could be more awesome than comic books, pulp horror, H.P. Lovecraft, or video games?  How about all of these rolled up into one Penny Arcade game?  Penny Arcade’s “On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness” has gone gold, which means we’re oh so much closer to playing the game ourselves!  The game will be available for download for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and the XBOX 360 all for about $20 each.

Monsters and Critics

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!

Want to read a good comic? Read mine…. Want to read an awesome comic? Read Penny Arcade.

Want to play a game where you control Gabe and Tycho? Soon you shall be able to do just that! But first, why don’t you check out some screen shots and a trailer?

• Gabe, Tycho, Annarchy, The Fruit F*cker 2000 and many favorite Penny Arcade characters, plus new characters designed by Mike Krahulik.
• Set in a steampunk meets pulp horror meets H.P. Lovecraft alternate Penny Arcade universe.

Check out the screens and trailer at Gameworld Network.

This time in book format!

Unfortunately, this book doesn’t provide an in-depth coverage of any one title or category. This is more of a representative quick peek. No book could effectively cover all the titles there ever were, anyway. You would need a library full of coffee table books to do that. And this little book is no coffee table book. It’s small enough to fit in your coat pocket, and that might make it a good resource to take with you to comic book conventions.

Read more at SkullRing.org