Now that Miss Robichaux’s Academy is closed for business after a season which played out like the bastard offspring of Dennis Wheatley and Jacqueline Susann, American Horror Story fanatics are already filled with a giddy sense of anticipation at what demented devilry the show’s creators will serve up when the fourth season rolls around in the fall.
The kind of creative risks and innovative storytelling displayed in American Horror Story might well have proven the kiss of death for a show in less capable hands. Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk cunningly side-stepped this by utilizing an anything-goes format and taking a familiar core concept (i.e. haunted house, institution, witches coven) in a refreshingly bold direction where nothing is outside the realm of possibility (and in many instances: of plausibility) and absolutely nothing is sacred.
So it begs the question: where will they go next? We know that...
The kind of creative risks and innovative storytelling displayed in American Horror Story might well have proven the kiss of death for a show in less capable hands. Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk cunningly side-stepped this by utilizing an anything-goes format and taking a familiar core concept (i.e. haunted house, institution, witches coven) in a refreshingly bold direction where nothing is outside the realm of possibility (and in many instances: of plausibility) and absolutely nothing is sacred.
So it begs the question: where will they go next? We know that...
- 2/20/2014
- by Alan Kelly
- FEARnet
A graphic designer that goes by the name of Muzski has created an incredibly fun series of art that takes Hergé’s classic comic character Tintin and throws him into the terrifyingly awesome universe of H.P. Lovecraft. I'd love to see how these stories play out! Maybe Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg's next Tintin film should be The Adventures of Tintin: At the Mountains of Maddness.
Watch our brave adventurers flee from shoggoths, Deep Ones, fish folk, ghouls, Formless Spawn, Mi-Go, Elder Things, nightgaunts, Old Ones, Outer Gods and foreigners (i.e. non-Anglo-Saxons) as they face many an existential crisis regarding their insignificance on a cosmic scale!
What eldritch horrors await our companions as they unearth the secrets from untold aeons in the dark corners of the earth? Will they heroically flee from these abominations from the stars, or will they choose the merciful oblivion that is death...
Watch our brave adventurers flee from shoggoths, Deep Ones, fish folk, ghouls, Formless Spawn, Mi-Go, Elder Things, nightgaunts, Old Ones, Outer Gods and foreigners (i.e. non-Anglo-Saxons) as they face many an existential crisis regarding their insignificance on a cosmic scale!
What eldritch horrors await our companions as they unearth the secrets from untold aeons in the dark corners of the earth? Will they heroically flee from these abominations from the stars, or will they choose the merciful oblivion that is death...
- 6/11/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Fans of the meme-monster Cthulhu and other creations of cult horror novelist H.P. Lovecraft can get a little extra help in counting down to Christmas, thanks to a new mobile advent calendar app. Titled ‘Cthulhu Christmas Calendar’, it features 25 original pieces of artwork – one for each day in December until Christmas Day. Each image presents a fun mashup of festive icons like Santa into the Cyclopean world of the great Cthulhu, the malevolent Mi-Go and the dark god Nyarlathotep.
Indie developer Red Wasp Design today released the Cthulhu Christmas Calendar for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android.… More...
Indie developer Red Wasp Design today released the Cthulhu Christmas Calendar for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android.… More...
- 11/24/2011
- by HorrorNews.net
- Horror News
(coryo reviewed this complete compendium of fiction by H. P. Lovecraft in three parts, grouped thematically into "The Fantastic," "The Short Horror," and "The Long Horror." Here is his review of "The Fantastic."--Tu)
1/3 - The Fantastic
Alright team, here we go. Barnes & Noble, bottom shelf, huge tome of a book with purple cosmic geometry for a cover design. Great big letters: H.P. Lovecraft. This is what I had been waiting for. I had long wanted exactly this: something in which I could easily approach the entire library of a man who has influenced so complete a volume of everything I love and find myself interested in. Did it disappoint?
1098 pages of stories, long and short, essays, introductions, notes, drafts. Anything that big is bound to disappoint in part (*harhar*), but the man didn't effectively originate (or at least concretize) an entirely unique and novel genre without producing an overall phenomenal output.
1/3 - The Fantastic
Alright team, here we go. Barnes & Noble, bottom shelf, huge tome of a book with purple cosmic geometry for a cover design. Great big letters: H.P. Lovecraft. This is what I had been waiting for. I had long wanted exactly this: something in which I could easily approach the entire library of a man who has influenced so complete a volume of everything I love and find myself interested in. Did it disappoint?
1098 pages of stories, long and short, essays, introductions, notes, drafts. Anything that big is bound to disappoint in part (*harhar*), but the man didn't effectively originate (or at least concretize) an entirely unique and novel genre without producing an overall phenomenal output.
- 1/11/2011
- by Tamatha Uhmelmahaye
I love H.P. Lovecraft. I’ve read all his works and meticulously watched every Lovecraft-related movie, and a Cthulhu statue stands watch on my desk, guarding my pens from my implement-snatching Fango co-workers. I’m always excited to review a Lovecraft flick, Midnight Releasing’s recent DVD release In Search Of Lovecraft being no exception. The concept sounded very promising—a mockumentary on Lovecraft revealing that his mythos were in fact true—but the movie, written and directed by newbie David J. Hohl, proves that even a sound idea can be easily lost in the execution.
In Search Of Lovecraft begins as a news-style mockumentary, with TV reporter Rebecca Marsh (Renee Sweet) doing a Halloween story on the famed author. Though she’s at first bored by the assignment, Rebecca, along with her camera guy (Tytus Bergstrom) and intern (Denise Amrikhas), soon begins to realize that what Lovecraft wrote of was not fantasy,...
In Search Of Lovecraft begins as a news-style mockumentary, with TV reporter Rebecca Marsh (Renee Sweet) doing a Halloween story on the famed author. Though she’s at first bored by the assignment, Rebecca, along with her camera guy (Tytus Bergstrom) and intern (Denise Amrikhas), soon begins to realize that what Lovecraft wrote of was not fantasy,...
- 3/18/2009
- Fangoria
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