Lovecraftian Links: Dreamlands, Astounding Tales contest, Lovecraftian game

 Here are 4 links I think you’ll enjoy:

Color Map of H.P. Lovecraft’s Dreamlands: From the same artist who brought you the free-to-read graphic novels adapted from the Lovecraft stories The Strange High House in the Mist, The White Ship, and Celephais: Based loosely on the black and white version I did a few months ago, but much revised, it includes all the place-names mentioned in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Doom That Came to Sarnath, The Quest of Iranon, The White Ship, The Cats of Ulthar, The Other Gods and all of Lovecraft’s even marginally dream-based stories and poetry…

Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land Competition! Win a Piece of Horror History: Red Wasp Design, the developers of the new Cthulhu-mythos horror/strategy RPG ‘Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land‘ have announced a competition where you could win an original 1936 copy of a pulp fiction magazine featuring the writing of H.P. Lovecraft.  The prize is an original March 1936 issue of ‘Astounding Stories’ which features part of Lovecraft’s classic tale of Antarctic horror, At The Mountains of Madness. Not only that but it has the amazing cult illustrations of Howard V. Brown, who was commissioned to bring Lovecraft’s dark imaginings to life…

Amnesia: The Dark Descent (game): Raven, an ezine reader, sent me the following email: I have only very recently become a fan of Lovecraftian horror. Of the many horror authors I have read, he is the only one who is able to retain my undivided attention for an extended period of time. Anyway, on to why I’m contacting you. I am a fan of survival horror games. I have recently started playing one, and I think that it deserves mention in the ezine. The game is called Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and is available on Steam.  The game positively screams Lovecraft. Just the overall atmosphere from the very beginning speaks of Lovecraftian horror. Plus, the fact that you have to watch your health as well as your sanity. There’s the shadow that hunts you constantly, the red organic material that often gets in your way, and the monsters you can see, plus, the water lurkers, which you cannot. I could go on and on, listing everything that reminds me of Lovecraft in this game, but I won’t. I strongly urge you to at least play the demo if not the full game, $19.99 on Steam, which I recommend to truly experience the Lovecraft-esque horror of the game. I hope you agree with me enough to post about it in the ezine. All Lovecraft fans should check this game out if they want to, quite literally, play through one of his stories and also be scared out of their wits, which this game is good at doing. Definitely the scariest game I’ve ever played.

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The Key of Cthulhu: Sealed in a sunken crumbling temple in a primordial jungle bordering two warring, desperate lands, the Key of Cthulhu has been discovered and brought to the light of day. It’s bronze skin is slick and weathered by the countless years of futile caressing by blind and feeble-minded worshipers. The dark alien stone of its pedestal bears the wear of millennia of dripping onyxian stalactites and the crawling of obscene, alien insects.  A lone surviving member of Joyner Studio’s first expedition was found clutching this very same idol in his pale bloodless hands, blind and gibbering in an exotic dead language, “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn”.


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