In case you missed it, here are some links I’ve posted on the Lovecraft eZine Facebook page lately:

Alan Moore compares his new graphic novel Providence to Watchmen: “It’s actually a little bit like Watchmen in that it – the basic premise of Watchmen was, if these ridiculous characters, superheroes, actually existed in a real world, then what kind of characters would they be, and what kind of real world would it be to accommodate them. And it was also commenting upon superhero fiction and various other things while it was doing that.  Very similar things are happening with Providence. It’s obviously a completely different animal to anything like Watchmen, but there is that point of similarity. It’s starting from – if Lovecraft’s characters, if Lovecraft’s monsters, if Lovecraft’s locales actually existed in A Real World, then what would they really be like, and what would the world be like? So it’s the same premise, but it’s taken me into some very interesting new directions…”  (Read the entire article here.)

Deadmau5 and Kat Von D Plan an Underwater-Themed Wedding: Drawing from their mutual love for H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Call of Cthulhu, about a character that is half-man, half-octopus, Von D assures PEOPLE that she and the electronic musician’s ceremony will be “the furthest thing from traditional…”  (Is that what Call of Cthulhu is about?  A half-man, half-octopus?  Um…no.)

Mariana Trench Life Forms More Diverse Than You Might Imagine: Somewhere inside those unstable, irregular piles of sand, a giant, filamentous protist called a foraminiferan lives…

More Lovecraftian locations that really exist: I’ve posted a couple of my favorites below, but go here to view many, many more.  Really cool.

More here: Forget Your Past

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