Happy Monday, all.  Here are a few Lovecraftian links that will hopefully make your Monday a bit smoother.  You can play Leave Cthulhu Alone while your boss isn’t looking…

Leave Cthulhu Alone: An addicting, free-to-play flash game.

Lord of Apocalypse game: Like any Monster Hunter-style co-op game, Lord of Apocalypse has grand-looking Guardians, boss-style monsters. A new trailer for the game introduces some of these in a “Boss of Apocalypse” video. Cthulhu is in here, too…

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet: Looks to have some Lovecraftian elements — trailer below.

The Call of Lovecraft: Stories by Ramsey Campbell, William Meikle, and others: The long-anticipated homage to all-things-Lovecraft has been put to bed and sent off to the publisher… Artist Billy Tacket’s amazing original cover was contracted for, the brilliant Ramsey Campbell agreed to reprint his chilling “Cold Print,” and I chose six authors to round out the anthology, which weighs in at a very respectable 76,000 words, all told…

New mini-series of podcasts on Lovecraft in the comics: (Via the awesome TENTACLII :: H.P. Lovecraft blog) Beginning a trio of shows about the influence of writer H.P.Lovecraft on comics, Alex Fitch talks to I.N.J. Culbard about his graphic novel adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness and forthcoming adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward for Self Made Hero. Cartoonist Rob Davis briefly joins the conversation (recorded at last month’s Thought Bubble convention) as Alex, Rob and Ian discuss Lovecraft’s short stories and the difficulty of illustrating prose that is alternatively wordy, obtuse and unnamable…

Adventure Time: The Ice King’s Secret: As someone at HP Reddit said, if this isn’t Lovecraftian, I don’t know what is… 😉  See video below.

Tartarus Press’s Wormwood #17 Now Out: Joel Lane on Lovecraft: This is a measured cry of despair: an assertion that not only is horror real, but reality is horror. In all its phases, Lovecraft’s work insists that horror is truth – and what he means by horror is the loss or ruin of the human at all levels…

Shadow of the Unnameable: Director-producer-writer Sascha Renninger gives the story its first proper adaptation as he brings the scenario to perfectly realized life nearly word by word. Renninger has taken great pains to give us a pure Lovecraft adaptation and his work is befitting the classic short story. Opening with an impressive animation unfolding over a lush score by Andreas Meyer, the 16-minute short is incredibly well made.

One Night Only: Jeffrey Combs Joins Re-Animator: The Musical: The man who was, and will forever be, Herbert West in the Re-Animator series is about to reprise his role one more time, but on the stage.  Jeffrey Combs is, for one night only, going to join the cast of Re-Animator: The Musical. And he’s going to sing his ass off. The show – which we highly recommended earlier this year during its preview performances – is returning to the Steve Allen Theater in Los Angeles on December 16 for a fundraiser…

Finally, to get you into the holiday mood: