From Lovecraft to Evil Dead: the history of the Necronomicon: With the Evil Dead remake on the way, Ryan at Den of Geek looks back over the unholy history of its forbidden volume, the Necronomicon.

Tiny octopus-like microorganisms named after science fiction monsters: Silvia Moreno-Garcia, publisher of Innsmouth Free Press, writes: I work at the University of British Columbia, where we recently found Cthulhu. Please note: he measures about 10 microns (and I wrote this story, so I’m silly proud I got to talk about Elder Gods at the day job).

Augmented Reality Providence Tour Guide Survey: Niels Hobbs with Necronomicon writes: As part of our goals of creating a more visible presence for Lovecraft in Providence, we’re working with some students from Brown University (AKA Miskatonic University) to develop an Augmented Reality tour guide app for Providence.  As they develop the content, they’d really like some feedback from Lovecraft fans to gauge what would most interest you in Providence, as well as the seminal story, “The Call of Cthulhu.” They’d like to loosely use themes in this story as a hook to draw people into the app.  Please take a few minutes to answer this survey.

“John Dies At the End”: The Lovecraftian movie John Dies At the End is now available on DVD and on Amazon streaming.

C. S. Lewis and H. P. Lovecraft on loathing and longing for alien worlds: Interesting article.  Several years ago — almost seven, in fact (he said with a sense of temporal vertigo) — I published a series of posts here about what I then termed the “autumn longing,” that exquisite, fleeting, piercing experience of being tantalized by a vision of ultimate beauty and fulfillment that trembles just beyond the edge of our ability to attain or even fully imagine.