The idol for the contest is now complete!  See picture below.  Jason, the sculptor, says: “It’s made from a polymer clay called Sculpey. I then used several layers of paint to create the stone texture. The hieroglyphs on the block are ones that I created a while ago and they actually do say things. For example the back side has the coordinates of R’lyeh. The rest can be left as a mystery! Haha!”

For more details on how you can win it or Lovecraftian chocolates and candy, go here.

The sculpture and the Lovecraftian candies and chocolates are from Jason McKittrick.  Jason owns Cryptocurium: Custom Chocolates & Candies: www.cryptocurium.com .

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You may have noticed that Lovecraft eZine has some stellar new banners!  The three new banners were created by Leslie H.  Check out here website here.  You can see all the current ezine banners by clicking your browser’s “refresh” or “reload” button.

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I’m sure looking forward to this movie.  Preview below: John Dies at the End recalls a punk-rock Ghostbusters by way of H.P. Lovecraft… Most horror and science fiction films make at least a token effort to establish the rules and parameters of their universes in order to orient audiences. Not John Dies At The End. Rather than ease audiences into a dizzyingly complicated world of alternate universes, shape-shifters, sentient drugs, giant monsters, and free-floating freakiness, John Dies At The End tosses viewers into the deep end, then hopes they can swim.  The film’s framing structure finds freaked-out protagonist Chase Williamson recounting a series of mind-blowing events to a reporter played by Paul Giamatti (who also executive produced) involving a drug called “Soy Sauce” that gives its users supernatural powers and serves as a window into other worlds and alternate universes…

And you gotta love a movie trailer than begins with “Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe… assuming you do not go mad in the attempt.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my9Pr-W92SM&feature=youtu.be

That is all.