Lovecraftian Links: H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of Ideas, Weird Fiction Music, and more

H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of Ideas: It’s amazing that this is online: This book consists of ideas, images, & quotations hastily jotted down for possible future use in weird fiction. Very few are actually developed plots—for the most part they are merely suggestions or random impressions designed to set the memory or imagination working. Their sources are various—dreams, things read, casual incidents, idle conceptions, & so on. —H. P. Lovecraft, Presented to R. H. Barlow, Esq., on May 7, 1934—in exchange for an admirably neat typed copy from his skilled hand…  (Thanks to Sean Brannery of HPLHS for the link.)

Cthulhu Rising: One of the best visualizations I’ve seen of Cthulhu.  From the artist: Imagine if you were a lighthouse keeper on a small island and one night in the storm light falls on something like this…

H.P. Lovecraft’s Fountain Pen: Howard was fascinated by small articles of stationery — writing pads, rubber bands of assorted sizes, phials of India ink, unusual letterheads, erasers, mechanical pencils, and particularly fountain pens.  He used one pen, chosen with the most painstaking care, until it wore out…

“Weird Fiction” Music Album from Daniel Klag: Listen to a sample of Daniel Klag’s music below.  Inspired by the writing of HP Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, and Lord Dunsany.  Says Klag, “I wanted to create eerie soundscapes to complement the weird tales I have been into lately… (Thanks to Adequacy.net for the link.)

Kid Cthulhu: Kid Cthulhu follows the titular character in his occult investigations of (where else?) Arkham, Massachusetts, appropriately steeped in Lovecraftian lore. With a far more animated and angular art style than one would expect, “Kid Chthlhu” feels like a deranged Saturday morning cartoon… (Buy the digital comic at this direct link.)


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  1. HPL’s Commonplace Book has inspir’d so much fiction! It inspir’d the prose-poem sequence I wrote for THE TANGLED MUSE, “Uncommon Places” (my title is obviously a play on the name of HPL’s book), and at the moment I am working on a new prose-poem sequence inspir’d by Lovecraft’s CB, “Unhallowed Places,” the first portions of which will be my submission to your August issue.

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