At The Unspeakable Oath we have fun with the fictional frights of the Cthulhu Mythos, but of course real horrors abound in the world. My friends, family and I experienced one this week. A series of huge tornadoes ravaged the U.S. southeast the night of April 27. My family and I watched the news on…
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The Primal State Chaosium, Inc., $22 By Jeff Moeller Reviewed by Matthew Pook Since 2003, the Miskatonic University Library Association series of monographs has been Chaosium’s way of making other works available to players of both Call of Cthulhu and Basic Role Playing. Bar the printing, each monograph’s author is responsible for the writing, the…
Watch more free documentaries Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown, the excellent 2008 documentary on the writing and life of H.P. Lovecraft, can be viewed in entirety online, free but with a handful of annoyingly abrupt commercial breaks. The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is…
This short film by Craig Macneill and Clay McLeod Chapman — from 2005′s Sundance Film Festival — has fun with the horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos and the far deeper horrors of burgeoning adolescence. The narrator’s insane voice is one most guys can remember raving in their heads in those confusing years. Or is it…
Colour from the Dark Studio Interzona Directed by Ivan Zuccon Starring Debbie Rochon, Michael Segal, Marysia Kay Reviewed by Brian M. Sammons Italian horror is at its best when it’s showing surreal, nightmarish images. Dario Argento, Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci were all masters of that art. Now you can add a new name to…
New Tales of the Miskatonic Valley Published by Miskatonic River Press, $29.95 By Keith “Doc” Herber, Tom Lynch, Oscar Rios, Kevin Ross and Christopher Smith Adair Reviewed by Matthew Pook New Tales of the Miskatonic Valley is special. The debut book from Miskatonic River Press, founded by the late Keith “Doc” Herber, it marked…
The Dying of St. Margaret’s Published by Pelgrane Press, $4.95 By Graham Walmsley, art by Jérôme Huguenin Reviewed by Matthew Pook The Dying of St. Margaret’s is a downloadable one-shot scenario for Trail of Cthulhu, Pelgrane Press’ RPG of Lovecraftian investigative horror set in the desperate decade of the 1930s. It is written for the…
Independent filmmakers are working on a short film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Music of Erich Zann,” and they’re looking for help paying for equipment. I have no idea what the final product will be like, but I like their enthusiasm. Here’s their fundraiser.
Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror PS Publishing, $40.00 Edited by S. T. Joshi Reviewed by Brian M. Sammons There is nothing more icky, awe-inspiring, mind-blowing or disturbing than a good Lovecraftian tale. Luckily for all of us Cthulhuheads, Black Wings, a collection of authors playing in the huge, lantern-jawed shadow cast by Uncle…
