Tag: cthulhu

Snailiens and other delights from Ravendark Creations

Arend Smith — AKA Ravendark Creations — is an Etsy seller who sculpts beautiful monsters in a variety of materials, ranging from the Snailien (3.75″ x 4.25″ x 7″, resin, $150) to the Miskatonic Bookworm (6.5″ x 6″ x 11″; resin, chicken quills, epoxy, many finishes available, $275) which is also available as a Chrysalis (9.75″ x 4.5″ x 4.75″, custom finishes available, $150); to massive custom piece like this massive apoxie/bronze/iron octopus (6″ – 10′!) — or a wonderfully/horribly squishy Silicone Cthulhu Octopus Lovecraft Pet (5″ x 2″, $50, many finishes available).
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Chinese censors incinerate entire run of a kickstarted Call of Cthulhu RPG sourcebook

Julio writes, “Sons of the Singularity is a small RPG publisher. Last year, they kickstarted The Sassoon Files, a sourcebook for the popular Call of Cthulhu RPG and Trail of Cthulhu RPG. As a lot of publishers, theydid the printing in China. The same day that the print was finished, a Chinese Government decided that it was “problematic”, so they burned the entire print run.
Targeting foreign publications is a first, specially when it seems there wasn’t anything problematic (the supplement was based on Shanghai but was respetful and documented carefully).
Will this be a new sign of Beijing tightening its iron grip or just a show of bravado with a small publisher used as an example?”
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Play: a VR “lurking simulator” set on Toronto Island where you’re “part coral reef, part Cthulhu”

Filmmaker/writer/games developer Jim “Ghosts With Shit Jobs” Munroe (previously) has just launched his first VR venture. Manimal Sanctuary is a “lurking simulator” that “leverages low-end VR technology to enable every player’s ultimate fantasy: to play a creature part coral reef, part Cthulhu, who consumes human emotions. Set after the rest of the city is consumed by gibbering monstrosities, you eavesdrop on the survivors and their dramas involving things like bad potato crops and graffiti tags. And if those everyday emotions aren’t filling enough, you can always uncover some devastating secrets…”
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Matt Ruff talks about his masterful antiracist novel Lovecraft Country, out in paperback today

When I reviewed Matt Ruff’s incredible Lovecraft Country last February on its hardcover release dates, I wrote, “Ruff inverts the Lovecraft horror, which turned so often on “miscegenation” and the duty of advanced humans to trample those around them in their drive to recapture this lost wisdom (and humanity’s lost grace). His Lovecraftian horror is the horror of the people whom the Lovecraftian heroes viewed as subhuman, expendable, a stain on the human race. By blending real history (such as the Tulsa riots) and Lovecraftian tropes, Ruff’s characters shine as active protagonists in their own story who have lives, have dignity, and have indomitable spirit that they use to fight back against the power structure that Lovecraft lionized.”
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Lovecraftian letters: magnetic fridge-poetry from the eldritch realms

Paul writes, “Now you too can create miniature tales in the style of “The Gentleman of Providence” with LOVECRAFTIAN LETTERS – magnetic words featuring H.P. Lovecraft’s unique vocabulary. This cyclopean set contains over 500 pieces with which to share your dark wisdom and Lovecraftian tales with friends, family & unnamable things from beyond…”