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Lovecraft Doc @COMICON 2008

2008-07-18T19:56:50Z

Greetings all my fellow Cthuligans. Just wanted to drop a heads up to any of y'all in the San Diego area. It's been a long road, but the documentary film "LOVECRAFT: Fear Of The Unknown" is complete and will premiere at ComiCon 2008 in San Diego on July 24th, 8:00pm.

As a lifelong fan of HPL, creating the music for this project has been a dream realized for me.
I have been invited (along with the production team) to attend the event, and to do a Q & A after the film's screening. It's very exciting to think of how many people will be there, as over 120,000 people attend ComiCon each year. (no pressure.....)

The film features educated insight into the man and his legacy from :

John Carpenter (director - Halloween, The Thing)
Neil Gaiman (author - Fragile Things, American Gods)
Guillermo Del Toro (director - Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy)
Ramsey Campbell (author - Inhabitant of the Lake, Darkest Part of the Woods)
Stuart Gordon (director - Re-Animator, From Beyond)
S.T. Joshi (author/biographer - H.P. Lovecraft: A Life, The Angry Right)
Caitlin R. Kiernan (author - Daughter Of Hounds, Silk)
Andrew Migliore (founder - H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival)
Robert Price (author / editor - Crypt of Cthulhu, The Da Vinci Fraud )
Peter Straub (author - Ghost Story, Lost Boy Lost Girl)

The documentary also features creature art from some of the top Lovecraftian artists including Tom Sullivan (artist, "The Evil Dead" and "Call Of Cthulhu" role playing game).

Hope to see any friendly faces there-
IA!

MARS
www.deadhousemusic.com

www.myspace.com/fearoftheunknownsoundtrack

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Chapter 4 of "City of Pillars" is, like, done...man.

2008-07-18T02:41:20Z

Damn. Took me long enough, didn’t it? But you’ll definitely get your money’s worth with this chapter of “City of Pillars,” as it takes you into the North Tower of the World Trade Center after the impact of the first plane, and…well, let’s just say that the impact is the least of the survivors’ worries. Check it out:

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There were three men pushing the stairwell door shut but Raj threw himself into the gap shouting, “No, no, not yet—there’s still someone in there!” and the guys started arguing with him, telling him they had to shut the door or they’d all suffocate, and they were pulling him, trying to get pull him back in so they could shut the door but Raj said, “Stop it, goddamnit, I got him! I got him!”

And then Raj just disappeared.

One second he was there, the next…gone.

One of the men at the door went in after him—I guess they thought he’d gone back into the stairwell for Ray. We all heard the man scream, but it was cut off almost instantly. The last two guys on the door were calling him—“Bob! Bob, what happened?!”—and then the…the worms came through the door.

Well, they looked like worms. Like earthworms, but big and purple, big as firehoses. And covered with ash—there was ash all over them, like they’d come out of the fire…and I think I even saw one of them still burning.

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Two of them whipped out of the smoke and wrapped around the man closest to the doorway and he didn’t even have time to say anything—he was gone. They’d pulled him into the smoke. “Close the goddamned door! There’s more of them!” somebody shrieked and then I was throwing myself at the door with a bunch of terrified people and the heavy emergency exit door slammed shut. I had my hands on the door and felt something hammering against the other side. Hammering. Hard. The door was jumping beneath our hands and everyone was saying, “Block the door, block the door.”
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Oh, it gets a lot worse than that, too.

So take a look, and lemme know what you think! Here are the links:

http://footnotes.pegritz.com/2008/07/17/city-of-pillars-chapter-4/ (just the new chapter)
http://footnotes.pegritz.com/category/city-of-pillars/ (the whole damn thing, in case you're new to it)

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old nick

2008-07-17T17:01:48Z

http://totallylookslike.com/2008/07/15/nick-nolte/

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Chapter 3 of "City of Pillars" is up...freakin' FINALLY.

2008-07-04T05:52:10Z

That's...uhhh, prettymuch it! I've finally finished the revised third chapter of my serial novel, "City of Pillars," over at <em>Footnotes to the Human Species: http://footnotes.pegritz.com

Have a look at what the Bronx has become eight years after the monstrous horror of 9/11:

Now I noticed the graffiti. Graffiti everywhere—more than I’d ever seen. Almost every building had something spraypainted on it: tags, gang signs, strangely beautiful cartoons and murals…and weird sketches that made me feel antsy. My stomach knotted when I spied the stick-like device again. “Greg?” I asked, pointing. “What is that?”

“What—the graffiti? Idaknow. I think it’s somekinda new gang sign. You see it in Queens, too, and Staten Island, for that matter. Ever since half of Harlem got dumped into the Bronx we’ve had gang trouble like you wouldn’t believe. We even got some genuine homegrown Cthulhu cultists, can you believe that?”

Of course I could: they were everywhere these days. Even San Diego. Every year in early March the lunatics gathered at beaches up and down the West Coast to wade into the chilly waters and sing praises to their comatose god beyond the horizon. Since 9/11 their gathering had drawn mockers and increasing violence, to the point that police had to be called in to guard their ridiculous ceremonies. I could only imagine them doing the same here, gathering on shores facing the ruins of Manhattan….“How many?” I wondered.

Greg shrugged. “A few, here and there. Not as many as you’d think. Right after 9/11 they were fucking everyplace, but the police ran most of them out of town. The Church of the Great Old Ones had a little storefront on Whateley Street for a little while but the neighborhood, they didn’t take too kindly to them, for obvious reasons. Someone torched the place. I’ve got it on good authority that it was the FDNY themselves did it. The fire only destroyed the cultists building; didn’t damage anything else.”

“That symbol has something to do with them,” I muttered under my breath.

Greg still heard me. “Probably. Who knows. All kinds of whackjobs in this City these days.”

As we passed a building standing all alone between two vacant lots, I saw that the entire base of the building had been spraypainted with weird, jagged designs that almost looked like Egyptian hieroglyphs and, on one side there was a tall white blot where something had been sprayed over in white paint. You could still recognize the outline, though: the huge, cephalopod head, the wings, the bulbous body. One each side of the blob, an eight-pointed star had been painted. In the center of each star, an eyes with a tripartite pupil.

Feeling sick again, I turned away and looked straight ahead at the line of traffic creeping toward the onramp and said nothing. Greg fiddled with the radio until he settled on a classical station playing an odd, frantic violin piece. I closed my eyes, pretending that I hadn’t seen the coils of light writhing sickly in the weeds and brickpiles beneath that malevolent white stain.

Check out the rest of it here: http://footnotes.pegritz.com/2008/07/02/city-of-pillars-chapter-3/

Enjoy! (And BTW: these forums completely suck. What kind of forum doesn't support basic HTML code or even BBcode in posts?)

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Footnotes to the Human Species

2008-06-09T03:33:40Z

Heya, folks--here's some Mythos-related action for y'all:

I've recently started a website, <a href="http://footnotes.pegritz.com"><em>Footnotes to the Human Species</em></a> to publish my Lovecraftian stories, all of which are modernized "sequels" to many of his best-known tales. The basic idea behin the series is: what would the world of H. P. Lovecraft's stories be like today? Well, for one, you don't have "islamofascist" terrorists--you've got Azifists, who, on September 11th, 2001, plow two airplanes into the World Trade Center in an effort to release the larvae of the Other Gods to provide a distraction while they attempt to wake Cthulhu up in R'lyeh. That's the subject of the first story I'm working on, <a href="http://footnotes.pegritz.com/category/city-of-pillars/">"City of Pillars."</a>

I recently had some weird website problems, and the site was down for a while, but it's back now and better than ever. So, umm, have a look, if you like. And feel free to leave comments, positive or negative!

D. Pegritz

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huh..thats odd

2008-06-07T15:34:30Z

I found the Seal of Zisi, the 19th name of Marduk (page # 134 in my copy of the Necronomicon)scratched n to a table at work. Think that means that table will give me peace?

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Old Greg the, um, Deep One.......

2008-06-03T15:30:35Z

Hold tight to your sanity.
Once watched, Old Greg cannot be unwatched...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcNHoOaoNhU

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the call of... uhm....

2008-05-30T20:11:01Z

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/05/27/microwaved-cell-phon.html

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Frontier Cthulhu Nominated for Origins Award

2008-05-11T08:06:30Z

Vote for our Call of Cthulhu Fiction Anthology at Origins!

Frontier Cthulhu The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design has nominated our Call of Cthulhu fiction anthology Frontier Cthulhu, edited by William Jones, to the final ballot for the 34th annual Origins Awards. Academy members and attendees of ORIGINS will get to decide who wins later this summer. Frontier Cthulhu is available wherever fine books are sold.

We'd like to thank all of the Frontier Cthulhu contributors for their part in bringing this collection together: Paul Melniczek, Angeline Hawkes, Lee Clark Zumpe, Lon Prater, Stephen Mark Rainey, Durant Haire, Stewart Sternberg, William Jones, Scott Lette, Ron Shiflet, Robert J. Santa, Jason Andrew, Charles P. Zaglanis, Matthew Baugh, Tim Curran, Darrell Schweitzer, Steven Gilberts, and you the reader!

We're also quite happy to hear that Q-Workshop's Call of Cthulhu Dice have been nominated in the Game Support Category. These dice have been wildly popular among Chaosium.com customers. In fact, we can never get enough of them to fill demand.

(Originally posted and quoted from):
Dustin O'Chaosium

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Excellent Story With Full Tentacled Goodness

2008-05-11T06:50:08Z

Steve Perry - the author, not the musician - has posted a very nice Cthuloid story on his blog. In private conversation he describes the main character as "nacreous but lovable"

http://themanwhonevermissed.blogspot.com/2008/05/horror-horror.html

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Calls for Cthulhu

2008-05-09T19:18:10Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DsgZ4JXXB8

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Cthulhupalooza @ Myspace

2008-05-09T16:04:38Z

Hello artists and aspiring artists! Cthulhupalooza is looking for a new logo! Something we can use as our Myspace profile picture and on the zine.

There are few requirements. It should have the title name Cthulhupalooza in the design, or somehow represent the title of the zine. It can be color, but should be something that will show up/ look good in black and white.

The deadline: Aug 20, 2008.

The prize: Your choice: A collection of cool Lovecraftian comics, including some Herbert West Reanimator comics or a set of Cradle of Filth CD's

Format guidelines: You can post it as a comment, but make sure to say that is is for the contest. You can also send a .gif or .jpg file to tentacruella at yahoo dot com. Title the email "Cthulhupalooza logo contest."

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=362395235

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I just read "At the Mountains of Madness" again after a long while

2008-05-06T02:31:55Z

and was really impressed with it. It has a genuinely subtle creep effect, like good weed but with loin-paralyzing "I'm a dot of jelly dwarfed by time" barely-restrained lunatic self-loathing instead of, like, "dude, killer" contentment.

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assmonkeys

2008-05-05T15:55:43Z

http://silence-without.blogspot.com/2008/05/after-war.html

o-kay then.

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Baby Shoggoths found in Antarctica!

2008-05-02T23:15:16Z

http://www.startribune.com/world/16891691.html

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New tribe weirdness

2008-04-02T05:57:25Z

come check it out-

http://tribes.tribe.net/kjbfdhjhrujirewtrewiopiop

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Dead tree magazines featuring Lovecraftian fiction?

2008-04-01T18:32:23Z

Are there any good print magazines or journals featuring Lovecraftian fiction and Tentacled Goodness?

Thanks in advance.

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Japanese style Cthulu pic

2008-02-22T23:31:55Z

***Not work safe***

http://www.nickscipio.com/pod/2008/02/22_octopussy.html

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The H.P. Lovecraft Collection Volume 5: Strange Aeons is now available!

2008-02-22T06:05:48Z

The H.P. Lovecraft Collection Volume 5: Strange Aeons is now available!
http://www.arkhambazaar.com/hplc05_strange_aeons.html

This collection includes the featured film Strange Aeons directed by Eric Morgret (with English subtitles, commentary, a bonus "making of" featurette and slideshow), Patrick Weber's short film Maria's Hubris and the animated shorts From Beyond by Michael Granberry and Don't Feed the Book by Robin Ator. The disc is also packed with special features including an interview with director John Carpenter, trailers from the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, trailers and much more!

Get your copy today!
http://www.arkhambazaar.com/hplc05_strange_aeons.html

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Why is it....

2008-02-21T21:05:46Z

........that Cthulhu is the only Old One who ever runs for office?

I could so totally vote for Nyarlathotep for president, or even Yig.

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Cthulhuvida, the handcarved webcomic, now in book form!

2008-02-12T06:06:15Z

http://www.lulu.com/content/2034796

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Two Cthuloid Stories from Kickass Sufi Poet Tiel Aisha Ansari

2008-02-06T23:20:01Z

http://knockingfrominside.blogspot.com/2008/02/pickmans-supermodel.html
http://knockingfrominside.blogspot.com/2005/06/tentacles-in-oil.html

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Dark Op

2008-02-06T05:33:45Z

I have always executed my own WILL, but am now requesting the participation of any with Dark talent to assist me in a "well deserved" "Special Dark Operation." YES, I AM and WILL continue the "project" by my own Sorcery, but any brothers and sisters who wish to join (as hackers say, "For educational purposes only" - >;) would be MOST welcome. If interested in "exercising your talents," please message me here, then I will provide you with an anonymous email address that we can communicate over (so as not to violate the Tribe TOS, if you get my meaning). All will be explained.

Screaming for Vengeance

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The Callgirl of Cthulhu...

2008-01-11T04:39:22Z

Best sex ever. Until she bites your head off.

Lets be careful out there, shall we?

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The TRUE Call of Cthulhu...

2008-01-10T04:42:30Z

http://www.choppingblock.org/d/20021009.html

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New Cthjulhu Tribute

2008-01-09T00:16:50Z

In his Star Wars book, "Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter", Michael Reaves presents a man-eating species of aliens called "Cthon". These dark fearsome fellows live in the bowels of the city-world of Coruscant, trap passersby with thrown nets, and devour their captives. Those who miss being added to the menu are then fed as sacrificial victims to a cave-dwelling monster with horrible translucent skin.

H.P.L. would be proud!

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Waiting for the Lovecraftian version... Squamous New Year!

2008-01-09T00:16:10Z

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind ?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' auld lang syne

CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

And surely ye’ll be your pint-stoup !
And surely I’ll be mine !
And we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

CHORUS

We twa hae run about the braes,
and pou’d the gowans fine ;
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,
sin’ auld lang syne.

CHORUS

We twa hae paidl’d in the burn,
frae morning sun till dine ;
But seas between us braid hae roar’d
sin’ auld lang syne.

CHORUS

And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere !
And gies a hand o’ thine !
And we’ll tak a right gude-willie-waught,
for auld lang syne.

CHORUS

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The Last Winter - Miss it at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival? In Portland?

2007-12-14T07:52:27Z

Miss seeing "The Last Winter" at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival this year? Well now is your chance to see it on the big screen! This is a great film and I highly recommend it. Check it out:

THE LAST WINTER opens Friday, December 14st at the Hollywood Theatre

Larry Fessenden, the acclaimed director of intimate horror films such as No Telling, Habit, and Wendigo, explores new ground with this chilling tale of an ancient evil released upon the world due to man’s constant disregard of the environment.

In one of the most pristine landscapes in the world, a ragtag team working to exploit the oil resources of Alaska is tormented by an unseen evil. After one crewmember is found dead near an abandoned drill site, his body naked and contorted into a pose of terror, each member of the team begins to feel disoriented and paranoid. Violent outbreaks and hallucinations follow and soon a distress call is sent out. The more scientific of the team believe that they are reacting to a microorganism that is being released from the thawing ice plains. The native people believe that an ancient spirit, a Wendigo, has come seeking revenge.

The rescue plane is brought down by a malevolent wind, and with little hope of another rescue attempt, two of the surviving members set off into the cold on a desperate bid for survival. Once they leave the camp, the tormentors are finally revealed in a visually stunning finale that will take the audience’s breath away.

In English. 101 minutes. Not Rated. Showing Friday, Monday-Thursday at 9:40pm, Saturday and Sunday at 5:00pm & 9:40pm.

"Far and away the scariest movie of the year - and certainly the smartest... What we don't know, what we don't want to know, what we can't figure out in time; these are the true demons stalking The Last Winter." -- Bob Strauss, L.A. Daily News

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No. No Way. Not Even. Unh-uh.

2007-12-12T04:00:48Z

The Wendigo Lodge (http://www.wendigolodge.com) in Grand Rapids, MN

There's something for everyone at Wendigo.
Whether planning the wedding of your dreams,
a corporate retreat or a weekend getaway,
we'll keep you coming back with our excellent
service, charming atmosphere, superb food

...

Bring someone special for a fine dining experience

I'm sorry. Anyone who goes there has been given fair warning. If it's run by a chain you have to wonder about their other properties. The H.H. Holmes Hotel? Dahmer Arms Apartments? The Donner Party Restaurant? Ed Gein's Backwoods Cabins?

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IM IN THE ANGLEZ SUCKING YOU SOUL

2007-12-11T00:26:48Z

Be afraid. Be very afraid

http://lolthulhu.com/

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Thirdspace - Cthulhu Influence?

2007-12-04T08:23:13Z

I was re-watching the Babylon 5 movie, Thirdspace, last night. The Thirdspace aliens definitely show signs of Lovecraft. Their jumpgate is equipped with internal tentacles, their defensive technology is a telepathic jamming device, and the aliens themselves have hooked tentacles.

Howard would be very proud.

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Happy Holidays!

2007-11-26T04:00:22Z

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7953956

It's not nearly... gibbous enough, but it's a start.

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At the Rivers of Madness

2007-11-22T06:13:11Z

Check out this crawly:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7104421.stm

<<The size of the beast suggests that spiders, insects, crabs and similar creatures were much larger in the past than previously thought, the team says.>>

I'm getting hungrier by the minute...

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The Black Dossier

2007-11-20T08:47:17Z

If you haven't already, you MUST go and read The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier. More awesome Lovecraftiness than you can shake a yuggoth at. Even if you aren't a fan of the first two, get it.

Don't get me started about the movie...

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"The Call of Sam I’aem"

2007-11-19T21:22:56Z

"The Call of Sam I’aem"
by H. P. Seuss
Would that I had never agreed to meet with that sinister personage, Sam I’aem.
I was taking a much-needed sabbatical from my tenure at Miskatonic University. I had spent the better part of the week wandering over the hoary New England shoreline. The gray winter skies spread cold comfort through my thought-weary mind. Waves crashed with mindless puissance in their ceaselessly struggle to dominate the grotesquely eroded cliffs. I had stopped to re-tie my boot when I heard the whispered voice:
"Would you try them?"
I spun about to confront my inquisitor, but found only the uncaring tides. Puzzled, I returned to the bed and breakfast that had been my home for the past week.
As I sipped a cup of rather watery coffee, the proprietor of the hostel approached me. She handed me a note, scrawled in a spidery hand upon a paper napkin.
"Would you try them, try them if you can?"
I confronted the proprietor, who told me that the note had been delivered by a peculiar man. She was unable to elucidate, but intimated that he had seemed queer to her, and hinting (only with great reservation) that he exuded the fetid odor of some rotting food. This mysterious visitor had refused to identify himself, promising only to contact me at his earliest convenience. With only this paltry information to go on, I was perplexed. My colleagues knew not where I was, and I had no family in this area. Left with no other choices, I awaited my visitor's appearance.
Still, his cryptic message haunted me. "Would you try them, try them if you can?" It hinted at some forbidden rite, awful in its possibilities.
That evening, he came. He was a short man, if "man" indeed described his breed. His skin was a sickly, baleful yellow color. He seemed to be almost furred, but that was undoubtedly a trick of the poor lantern light in this quaint hostel. His eyes were mesmerizing, seeming to emanate a light of their own. But his smile will be with me until I pass thankfully from what we call life. Whether from some hideous deformity or an unfathomable accident I cannot guess, but his smile seemed to literally stretch from ear to ear. He gestured to me, his oddly lisping voice whispering to me.
"I am Sam. Sam I’aem. Follow, follow if you can." For a moment, I hesitated. He gestured again, a singularly disturbing act, almost more simian than human. Then (foolish man!) I agreed.
We were quickly enveloped by the forbidding night, sight unaided by the inconstant moon. He led on and on, cackling and beckoning with his degenerate lope, to my mind as much an animal motion as human. All the while, he refused my every question, taunting me with his unholy question, "Would you try them, try them if you can?" After a dark eon of travel, we arrived at some sort of alcove. It was then that my tormentor turned to me, teeth flashing wetly in the dim star light. It was then that I noticed the stone slab (or was it an altar?) in the center of the alcove. It was then that I finally understood his profane utterance. My mind reeled at his unholy implication. The wet slap of his feet on the slab, his insane laughter filled my ears.
"I am Sam! Sam I’aem! You will try them, if you can! You will like them..."
At last, mercifully, I let loose the reins of consciousness, and passed into uncaring oblivion.
* * *
I have never again seen the twisted, leering face of Sam I’aem. Whether he still haunts the forbidding crags of that dreary coastline I can only guess. Indeed, I sometimes wonder if the entire incident was not the product of my over-taxed mind. Still, when the raging winds howl in the night, and the flimsy veil of sanity is lifted to show the gibbering horror of our universe, I recall his crazed overture, that insane and blasphemous offer:
"Would you like these brains of man? Would you eat them, if you can?"

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Save the Tree Octopus

2007-11-15T14:11:34Z

Save the Northwest Tree Octopus!

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

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See what happens when I'm bored?

2007-11-09T02:19:12Z

Cthulhu Math Camp Massacre!
Guest Appearance by H.P.Lovecraft as the Camp Counselor!
Ty, Dan, Anekke, and Riley even gets nekkid!
http://www.jibjab.com/starring_you/receipt/1984052

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With Teeth

2007-11-03T03:49:34Z

check it out: http://www.wunderkabinett.co.uk/damndata/index.php?/archives/1101-Cometh-the-Starbeast.html

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It's The Great Cthulhu, Charlie Brown!

2007-11-02T05:24:49Z

HallowE'en is nearly here...
Why is the tribe so dead?

That is not Dead
Which can Eternal Lie,
And with Great Bags of Candy,
Even Death may Die!

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just a little taste...

2007-10-23T20:30:29Z

http://www.cthulhulives.org/Whisperer/trailer.html

Heh, Heh, heh, heh....

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How did the screening of CoC go at Chicken John's??

2007-10-20T06:33:28Z

Did the audience enjoy it? Was it well received? Vicious, you were there, right?

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Mythos in the comics

2007-10-19T12:56:58Z

http://images.amuniversal.com/ups/features/lio/samples/lio070811.gif

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Cthulhu Spotted

2007-10-11T22:57:24Z

I was watching Justice League cartoons with my nephew recently, and spotted Cthulhu. It's the episode "Kids' Stuff". Nasty sorceress Morgana La Fey and her son are entering the Tomb of the First Magic. Cthulhu statues are flush against the wall as they walk in, and the guardian statue holding the magic medallion in its claws looks suspiciously like a Deep One!

H.P.'s influence continues to be felt.

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Upcoming 2007 Titles

2007-10-06T05:06:00Z

Upcoming 2007 Titles
Chaosium books you might see by Christmas.

Chaosium Release Schedule Update

The Secrets of Los Angeles Call of Cthulhu sourcebook (23111, $24.95) has shipped to distributors worldwide. You may be able to find this book in a store near you by the weekend.

Our next Call of Cthulhu Fiction release, Frontier Cthulhu (6041, $14.95) is at the printer and just might be available by Halloween. It includes 15 short stories of horror and exploration.

The Call of Cthulhu rulebook (23106 $34.95), which recently sold through another print run, is likewise at the printer for re-release in November.

There are two more new books that may release this year. The Strange Cases of Rudolph Pearson (6042, $14.95), a fiction anthology by William Jones, is in editing and lay out now. It’s on track for a November or December release.

Our Basic Roleplaying (2020) rulebook has very nearly finished. We’re awaiting the second half of the very last chapter. It’s release by Christmas will depend upon how quickly that material comes in and the speed at which all those words can be turned into a finished book.

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Call of Cthulhu Writers Wanted

2007-09-30T04:49:45Z

CoC writers wanted
Contributed by Dustin Wright on Saturday September 29, 2007 08:49AM
Call of Cthulhu Writers Wanted
Crusader Magazine Seeks Call of Cthulhu Material.

Troll Lord Games is looking for some Call of Cthulhu articles to publish in upcoming issues of Crusader Magazine.

For more information, or to submit your ideas, contact Steve Chenault troll@trolllord.com or check out their website.

Good Luck!

Dustin O'Chaosium

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6 die from brain-eating amoeba in lakes

2007-09-28T20:54:51Z

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070928/ap_on_re_us/killer_amoeba_1

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The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival is just one week away (in case you missed the event posting)

2007-09-28T20:50:45Z

Come one, come all and be prepared to lose your grip on sanity!

Yes folks, it is that time of year again... time for the annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.

__________________________________________________________

The 14th Annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival at Hollywood Theatre

For the fourteenth year in a row, Portland represents the nexus of all that is unspeakable and unseeable, yet spoken and watched. The H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival features films inspired by and adapted from the works of H. P. Lovecraft, as well as other authors of weird tales and supernatural horror, such as Edgar Allen Poe.

The weekend introduces eight feature films - including the regional premier of Nobody, 9 Lives of Mara and Cthulhu, as well as other world, regional and local premieres and a few perennial favorites.

In addition to the features, the film festival collects more than two-dozen short films, art, vendors, music, panels, door prizes, giveaways, and other activities.

Special guests include:

-legendary artist Bernie Wrightson (Illustrations for Swamp Thing, Frankenstein, etc. and conceptual art for Serenity, Ghostbusters, Spider-Man, Galaxy Quest, etc.)
-composer Richard Band (music for Re-Animator, From Beyond, The Pit & the Pendulum, Ghoulies [filmed in Astoria] etc.)
-authors Robert M. Price, S.T. Joshi, Stanley Sargent, Joe Pulver, etc.
-directors for most films will be attending screenings, with introductions and Q&A sessions afterwards
-pre-recorded message from director John Carpenter for film festival attendees.

For up-to-date information, or to purchase advance tickets go to: http://www.hplfilmfestival.com

Details:
Date: October 5-6-7, 2007
Time: Doors open at 6pm on Friday, 1pm on Saturday and Sunday.
Location: The historic Hollywood Theatre in Portland, OR
Cost: Tickets are $12 per day per person on Friday, $15 per day per person on Saturday, $15 per day per person on Sunday.

__________________________________________________________

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CTHULHU THE MOVIE

2007-09-28T20:49:22Z

Has anyone seen the movie "Cthulhu"? It's been showing for a few months now at several film festivals.... I'm curious on the feedback.

http://cthulhuthemovie.com/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478126/
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=161094412

UPCOMING SCREENINGS:

OCTOBER 6TH AND 7TH
HP Lovecraft Film Festival
Hollywood Theater
Portland, Oregon
(panel on one of those days with director/producer
Daniel Gildark, screenwriter/executive producer Grant
Cogswell, the world'd foremost Lovecraft scholar S.T.
Joshi, Astoria artist Diabolus Rex, and HPL Festival
director Andrew Migliore.)

OCTOBER 11TH
6:30 PM
Eerie Horror Fest
Erie, Pennsylvania

OCTOBER 13TH
11:30 PM
Reel Affirmations Film Festival
Lincoln Theater
Washington, D.C.

OCTOBER 14TH
9:30pm
Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Harvard Exit
Seattle, Washington

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lol-thulhu?! Be afraid.....

2007-09-23T08:38:34Z

http://lolthulhu.com/
/fails sanity check...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
/thud

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Cthulhu fhtagn

2007-09-18T17:06:18Z

CTHULHU FHTAGN
Lyrics by Arthur Levesque -- bs@boog.org -- http://boog.org
(To the tune of the "Kahuna Matata" from "The Lion King")

[This educational song is a favorite with the kids in Innsmouth,
Massachusetts; and is often performed on special religious
occasions... in this particular case by the cultists Timon
Gilman and Silas "Pumbaa" Waterly, with child Simba Scott
participating.]

TIMON
Cthulhu fhtagn!
Chant it from all the deeps

PUMBAA
Cthulhu fhtagn!
Means our master sleeps

TIMON
And when he wakes up
The whole world's his for keeps

TIMON & PUMBAA
He'll wipe the world free
Of humanity

TIMON
Cthulhu fhtagn!

[Spoken]

SIMBA
Cthulhu fhtagn?

PUMBAA
Yeah, it's our motto.

SIMBA
What's a motto?

TIMON
Amato? One of our brethren in the US Congress! [laughs]

PUMBAA
You know what, kid?
Someday Cthulhu will take away all your problems...

TIMON
That's right! Take Pumbaa for example.

[Song resumes]

TIMON
Why, when he still looked human...

PUMBAA
When I still looked humaaaaaaaaaaan!!!

TIMON
Very nice.

PUMBAA
Thanks!

TIMON
He found that his species lacked a certain appeal
To just clear the whole planet was his whole ideal

PUMBAA
I know that it's evil, not what I oughta
So I left all my friends, moved underwater
And oh, the shame

TIMON
He was ashamed!

PUMBAA
Wondered what was to blame

TIMON
Don't blame it one the rain!

PUMBAA
I moved into the muck

TIMON
How did you feel?

PUMBAA
Went to rituals and...

TIMON
Pumbaa! Not in front of the kids!

PUMBAA
Oh... Sorry.

TIMON & PUMBAA
Cthulhu fhtagn!
Chant it from all the deeps
Cthulhu fhtagn!
Means our master sleeps

SIMBA
And when he wakes up
The whole world's his for keeps

TIMON
Yeah, sing it, kid!

TIMON & SIMBA
He'll wipe the world free

PUMBAA
Of humanity

ALL
Cthulhu fhtagn!

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Stephen King's "The Mist" movie

2007-09-18T14:11:01Z

King's Lovecraftian novella is finally coming to the big screen! I have to say, it looks pretty good:

http://www.themovieblog.com/archives/2007/08/the_mist_trailer.html

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Something that must be read by all....

2007-09-18T04:19:06Z

Something that must be read by all....
Found via a variety of different peoples and sites...
This applies to any online gamer, any tabletop gamer, and, really, to anybody posting in any journal or web log anywhere that exists in the known (or unknown) multiverse...
Read it now!
http://wadewilson.livejournal.com/11285.html

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El Chalupa-Cabra!

2007-09-04T00:07:10Z

Has a mythical beast turned up in Texas?

By ELIZABETH WHITE, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 21 minutes ago

Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She's been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it. But the roadkill she found last month outside her ranch was a new one even for her, worth putting in a freezer hidden from curious onlookers: Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra.

"It is one ugly creature," Canion said, holding the head of the mammal, which has big ears, large fanged teeth and grayish-blue, mostly hairless skin.

Canion and some of her neighbors discovered the 40-pound bodies of three of the animals over four days in July outside her ranch in Cuero, 80 miles southeast of San Antonio. Canion said she saved the head of the one she found so she can get to get to the bottom of its ancestry through DNA testing and then mount it for posterity.

She suspects, as have many rural denizens over the years, that a chupacabra may have killed as many as 26 of her chickens in the past couple of years.

"I've seen a lot of nasty stuff. I've never seen anything like this," she said.

What tipped Canion to the possibility that this was no ugly coyote, but perhaps the vampire-like beast, is that the chickens weren't eaten or carried off — all the blood was drained from them, she said.

Chupacabra means "goat sucker" in Spanish, and it is said to have originated in Latin America, specifically Puerto Rico and Mexico.

Canion thinks recent heavy rains ran them right out of their dens.

"I think it could have wolf in it," Canion said. "It has to be a cross between two or three different things."

She said the finding has captured the imagination of locals, just like purported sightings of Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster have elsewhere.

But what folks are calling a chupacabra is probably just a strange breed of dog, said veterinarian Travis Schaar of the Main Street Animal Hospital in nearby Victoria.

"I'm not going to tell you that's not a chupacabra. I just think in my opinion a chupacabra is a dog," said Schaar, who has seen Canion's find.

The "chupacabras" could have all been part of a mutated litter of dogs, or they may be a new kind of mutt, he said.

As for the bloodsucking, Schaar said that this particular canine may simply have a preference for blood, letting its prey bleed out and licking it up.

Chupacabra or not, the discovery has spawned a local and international craze. Canion has started selling T-shirts that read: "2007, The Summer of the Chupacabra, Cuero, Texas," accompanied by a caricature of the creature. The $5 shirts have gone all over the world, including Japan, Australia and Brunei. Schaar also said he has one.

"If everyone has a fun time with it, we'll keep doing it," she said. "It's good for Cuero."

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Happy Birthday H.P., August 20th!

2007-08-28T02:45:36Z

So, what did YOU do to celebrate ol' H.P.L.'s birthday, August 20th?
I watched bad horror movies in his honour...

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ISO: Kilted Cthulhu design

2007-08-03T16:42:17Z

Hey there, artist types
I am in need of your abilities to help me create a patch for my kilt apron. If possible, I'd like to have one to wear for the Highland Games still going on here in the WA / OR area. If possible for barter, I'd greatly appreciate it; otherwise, give me an estimate of what you'd be wanting to make one of these patches. I'd like the style to come out like one of those jacket patches that are about a foot squared that are seen on Levi's or leather jackets from Another State of Mind or Hot Topic.

I can supply materials; canvas,Krylon, whatever. Thanks in advance!

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License Plate

2007-08-03T10:15:17Z

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2006/10/virginia_plate.jpg

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i want one!!!

2007-07-19T19:04:18Z

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/photos-of-cephalopodian-playscapes/

fuck yeah.

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Those damn Australians will pay

2007-07-19T18:33:47Z

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070711/sc_nm/australia_squid_dc

When the Masters rise out of the ocean, we know who gets eaten first

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Cross Posted from http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1247#comment-72536 …

2007-07-17T21:23:57Z

Cross Posted from http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1247#comment-72536 …

“Last weekend one of my gaming buddies and I were talking about surgery. I have surgery coming up this weekend and we were comparing notes. One thing we both realized was that both of us would have died before we were six if not for modern medicine. He had his appendix out at five. My life more or less depends on medication to keep my asthma under control. I’ve had several life-saving trips to the hospital due to severe attacks in my lifetime.

I’ve mused on this sort of thing before, but since we were about to play D&D in a fantasy setting my mind was on it again. In the medieval times people got married at ages that would scandalize us today. They began having sex at a young age, and continued to do so without birth control for their entire lives. Women cranked out babies at an alarming pace, yet the population remained flat. Run those numbers in your head and it becomes clear that people who lived to adulthood where a small minority of the total number of people born. Their lives were bleak, harsh, and filled with death. They died of things that are trivial to fix today.

I wouldn’t have made it. Asthma would have killed me. If that didn’t get me, the infection I had at 20 would have done the job.

My dad would have died six months before I was born.

My mother would have died a few years after I was born.

My friend wouldn’t have made it. He would have died of a burst appendix at five.

I think my brothers and my sister would have made it. (Ignoring the fact that two of them were born after my mother would have died.)

How about you? How long would you have lived in the middle ages? Ignore all the general risks - like typhoid or the plague or cholera - that everyone would have faced in general. Let’s assume you were lucky and missed those. (Unless by some chance you actually DID face one of them in your life.) Also ignore the fact that your deadly injury might have been caused by modern technology, like an auto accident. Just pretend you were trampled by a horse or something. So, given the injuries and illness you’ve faced in your life so far: Did you make it? Would you have survived to your current age?

I don’t want to go on the cart!

I’m curious to see the responses on this one. If you like, post your results to your blog (I’ll link back) and pose the same question to your readers.

(ADDITIONAL: Let’s assume we didn’t die in a flood, or a famine, or get worked to death, or die in a war, or anything else like that. Let’s just go with what’s happened to us in our modern lives. For a lot of us, even that is enough to kill us.)”

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J.J. Abrams Cthulhu Movie?

2007-07-16T03:26:32Z

J.J. Abrams Cthulhu Movie?
Could we really see Cthulhu on the big screen soon?.

Will H.P. Lovecraft and Call of Cthulhu fans soon be get to see Great Cthulhu on the big screen?

Last week Transformers movie goers were treated to a 30 second hand camera trailer hinting at something "alive" destroying part of New York City. At about the same time, a viral marketing campaign sprung up on the internet to fuel interest in the upcoming movie project code named Cloverfield, produced by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Armageddon, etc.) Attempts to post the trailer on the internet have been shut down so far.

You can find two websites that feature Ethan Haas, who has supposedly predicted the return of the gods at Ethanhaaswasright.com and the Ethan Haas Myspace Page. The story has attracted a fair bit of attention on AIN'T IT COOL NEWS as well. Also of interest is the Cloverfield and J.J. Abrams wikipedias. 1-18-08.com may also have information in the near future.

It appears that up until August first we'll all be trying to uncover more about the project on our own. On that date it looks like the real name of the movie will be released along with more information. The movie looks to be releasing in theaters January 18, 2008.

Lets all keep our tentacles crossed!

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Re-Animator, The Musical!

2007-07-13T20:23:34Z

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp07132007.shtml

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Halloween Adventure Contest

2007-07-12T05:20:29Z

http://www.chaosium.com/article.php?story_id=252&section_id=3

Contributed by Dustin Wright on Friday June 22, 2007 05:05AM
Halloween Adventure Contest
Submit a Halloween BRP Adventure by September 15th, 2007

Starting today, Northern Hemisphere nights start getting longer. So perhaps it's time to start thinking about Halloween. So we thought we'd get an early start on our nest adventure contest.

The winning entries, and there may be several of them, will be published in a future monograph. If we choose your adventure, you will receive 2 copies of the monograph in which your adventure appears, A Chaosium T-shirt of our choosing, and a copy of Secrets of Los Angeles.

Each entry must feature Halloween, or at least the Fall Equinox.

Each entry must be between 10,000 -15,000 words. Submit your adventure as text files or word documents only. Don’t submit PDF’s, quark files, etc.

All entries must be in English.

Any images or maps that accompany your adventure must be copyright free.

Your adventure must use our Basic Roleplaying rules or Call of Cthulhu 6th edition rules.

Entries must be emailed to dustin@chaosium.com.

The deadline for entries is midnight September 15th, 2007.

Entries must be submitted along with your name, email address, T-shirt size, and shipping address.

All entries become the property of Chaosium Inc.

Chaosium reserves the right to change these rules as often as we like, with no warning.

Good Luck!

Dustin O'Chaosium

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Lovecraftian Concept Album Review

2007-07-11T22:25:37Z

http://thethunderchild.com/Music/ConceptAlbums/Kadath.html

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Hmmm...

2007-06-27T03:09:46Z

ORFOLK, Va. - Veterinarian Bob George sliced open the dead shark and saw the outline of a fish.

No surprise there, since sharks digest their food slowly.

Then George realized he wasn't looking at the stomach of the blacktip reef shark, but at her uterus. In it was a perfectly formed, 10-inch-long shark pup that was almost ready to be born.

George was dumbfounded.

He had been examining the shark, Tidbit, to figure out why she reacted badly to routine sedatives during a physical and died, hours after biting an aquarium curator on the shin. Now there was a bigger mystery: How did Tidbit get pregnant?

"We must have had hanky panky" in the shark tank, he thought.

But sharks only breed with sharks of the same species, and there were no male blacktip reef sharks at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center in Virginia Beach.

Could Tidbit have defied nature, resulting in the first known shark hybrid?

The other possibility was that Tidbit had conceived without needing a male at all.

A recent study had documented the first confirmed case of asexual reproduction, or parthenogenesis, among sharks: a pup born at a Nebraska zoo came from an egg that developed in a female shark without sperm from a male.

One of the scientists who worked on that study contacted the aquarium, which sent him tissue samples from Tidbit and her pup for testing. If the pup's DNA turns out to contain no contribution from a male shark, this would be the second known case of shark parthenogenesis.

George hopes to receive a preliminary report soon, but conclusive results could take months.

Tidbit had lived at the aquarium for most of her 10 years, swimming with other sharks in a 300,000-gallon tank.

The sharks get yearly checkups. On May 24, workers guided the 5-foot, 94-pound Tidbit from the main aquarium into a smaller corral to be examined out of public view.

Blacktip reef sharks are sensitive to change, so it was standard procedure to give Tidbit a sedative. This time, Tidbit went under the sedation too deeply - maybe because of a combination of the unknown pregnancy and the stress of being handled and of having recently been bitten by another shark, George said.

George and Beth Firchau, the curator of fishes, massaged Tidbit's tail to get her blood flowing and gave her a stimulant to help her breathe.

The shark swam away, bumped into a wall, headed back toward Firchau and clamped onto her left shin. Whether Tidbit meant to attack Firchau or just collided into her and snapped reflexively is hard to know.

The pain didn't hit Firchau right away.

"Oh, you're not supposed to do that. That was weird," she thought as she felt the shark tug on her leg.

Members of the shark physicals team pulled Firchau out of the tank and began administering first aid. She credits their swift reaction with saving her life.

Firchau was taken to a hospital to get stitches while George and other team members tried to revive Tidbit. The shark rallied a couple times but died about 12 hours later.

George initially was depressed by the events. But something positive emerged out of the negative.

Since Tidbit hadn't looked pregnant - and there was no reason to think she was pregnant - the pup likely would have been born and immediately eaten by another shark, without aquarium employees ever knowing it had existed.

But Tidbit's death led to George stumbling upon a mystery of nature.

In normal reproduction, an egg is fertilized by sperm, producing an embryo that contains a set of chromosomes with half coming from the mother and half from the father.

In asexual reproduction, an egg splits in two and DNA contributed from the mother doubles, so each resulting egg has a full complement of chromosomes from the female. The eggs then fuse, producing a single embryo with no DNA from a father.

Asexual reproduction is common in some insect species, rarer in reptiles and fish, and has never been documented in mammals. Until now, sharks were not considered likely candidates.

But with sharks, "this is probably something that does happen in aquariums, more often than we realize," said Bob Hueter, director of the Center for Shark Research at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Fla.

He said the phenomenon is coming to light with the joint Northern Ireland-U.S. research that analyzed the DNA of a hammerhead shark born in 2001 in the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Neb. The study was published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters on the day before Firchau was bitten.

Asexual reproduction among sharks is more likely to happen in captivity, when there is no other option for reproduction, than in the wild, Hueter said.

Crossbreeding, on the other hand, is not known to happen at all among sharks, said Heather Thomas, aquarist at the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.

"It's not natural," Thomas said. "If you've got a shark that needs to swim to breathe and cross it with a shark that can lay on the bottom to breathe, what are you going to get? Are you going to get these weird mutations?"

If the pup indeed turns out to be a hybrid, DNA testing should be able to identify the species of the father. The most likely candidate would be a sandbar shark, the most similar shark to a blacktip reef in the aquarium, George said.

While parthenogenesis "is certainly kind of a spiffy, interesting thing," George hopes the tests confirm crossbreeding, since that would be a first among sharks.

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*note*~ I'd check to see if any of ye staff members has anything that looks like gills or webbed digits. "Hanky-panky" and "crossbreeding", INDEED, eh?

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Mythos Busters!

2007-06-23T03:52:46Z

http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/archive.asp?nextform=viewcomic&id=1260

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Girl, you'll be a Deep One soon...

2007-06-13T02:20:33Z

The article doesn't say so, but I am certain that this is just an early phase to become something far more sinister!

http://www.usrf.org/news/010308-guevedoces.html

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Lovecraft doc on BBC Radio

2007-06-12T16:10:24Z

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/sundayfeature/pip/96knh/

But it'll only be up until June 17th.

You need Real Player to hear it. (If you hate Real Player, like I do, Google "Real Player Alternative." It's a lovely little program that convinces your computer it has Real Player, when it doesn't. Works a treat with Firefox. I assume it works with IE. Works nicely with Media Player Classic, too, which comes with the download.)

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sculpture= -1 SAN

2007-06-12T12:56:02Z

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bugmaker999/

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New Lovecraft Tribe

2007-06-12T04:15:53Z

Come join the official H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival Tribe for updates and discussion!

http://tribes.tribe.net/hplff

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Global warming brings vampire moths to Finland

2007-06-04T20:55:18Z

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070604/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_finland_moth;_ylt=Ajr9fpJ4ksp5R6nsbxhRCyntiBIF

Mon Jun 4, 10:24 AM ET

Global warming is bringing more warmer-climate creatures to Finland, including moths that feast on human blood, according to nature researchers.

Insect-watchers are spotting more and more calpe moths in the Nordic country, which used to be considered too cold for the insects from southeast Asia, Finnish nature magazine "Suomen Luonto" reported in its June edition.

The journal published what it said were the first pictures showing the moths -- calyptra thalictri -- sucking human blood.

The species was first sighted in Finland in 2000, but more than 100 of them have been counted since then, the journal said.

Copyright © 2007 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.

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Neil Gaiman - "I Cthulhu"

2007-05-22T21:18:08Z

http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/shortstories/chulthhustory

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Cthulego

2007-05-16T03:09:53Z

I recently found this tribe and not sure if you guys have stumbled across this phenomenon in the legoverse

this is one of the major players in the movement:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=153341

here's a fine example of an illustrated interpretation:

http://www.brikwars.com/downloads/brikthulhu_1024.jpg

here's my humble totem that the minifigs fear and whorship:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1594664

looking forward to going through the rest of the posts!

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Cthulhu in the Media

2007-05-15T20:57:15Z

Have any of you noticed how Cthulhu lookalikes keep popping up? Here's a few that I've noticed:

1. Grindylows, in the movie version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Small orange Cthulhu-like creatures with tentacles and mouths full of jagged teeth, which live in the school's lake.

2. Kang and Kodos, the recurring alien characters on the Simpsons.

3. Davy Jones, from the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie, of course.

Can anyone think of others?

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Sherlock Holmes and Cthulhu. Two Great Tastes that go GREAT Together!

2007-05-12T00:50:27Z

There's an upcoming adventure game that fuses Sherlock Holmes and the surreal horror of H. P. Lovecraft!
Ack!
Geek-gasm!!!!
http://www.sherlockholmes-thegame.com/

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My new, linoblock-printed Lovecraftian Norse webcomic:

2007-05-10T12:45:32Z

http://cthulhuvida.updownstudio.com

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Now How Did the Tribe Miss This?

2007-04-01T17:39:21Z

from BoingBoing:

Lovecraft's 70th death-a-versary, Cthulhu adoration everywhere

March 15th, 2007 marked the 70th year since HP Lovecraft's death. Necronomicon junkies and devotees of the Cthulhu mythos celebrated that day with online commemorations.

Full entry here: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/18/lovecrafts_70th_deat.html

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Deep Pne Mating Rituals?

2007-03-25T19:40:19Z

While everybody seems to be oooo'ing and aaaaahhh'ing this video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyfUT0WKH9g ) for being so odd and artistic, I am thinking of Deep Ones mating...

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Lovecraftian short film -- CALL OF TUTU

2007-03-23T21:21:46Z

I wrote a short film called CALL OF TUTU for Aaron (THE YELLOW SIGN) Vanek, and it's on YouTube here

http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=457j2cIjiGs

(delete the space between "watch" and "?v=457j2cIjiGs" and cut and paste into your browser)

Have a look, let me know what you think, say hi, whatever you wish...

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New Calls for Cthulhu episode is live

2007-03-21T04:10:31Z

Just got this in from the creator:

For any C4C fans out there, I thought you’d want to know that Episode 4 is now available on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu1RikQPJHE

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My Little Cthulhu to Arrive in 2007

2007-02-28T03:16:08Z

Oh man oh man oh man!

http://dreamlandtoyworks.com/my_little_cthulhu.html

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Shoggoth's Old Peculiar, By Neil Gaiman

2007-02-25T16:53:11Z

Clever, tongue-in-cheek Lovecraftian satire. It was published as a chap book and has also appeared in several SF/Fantasy anthologies.

It's worth the hunt to find it ;)

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Daoloth

2007-02-24T21:49:26Z

Seems to me that the story was "The Render of Veils" by Ramsey Campbell.
Made reference to a tract written by members of a "curious cult" in the 1700s titled "We Pass From View".
Anyone know where I can find a copy of any anthology of short stories that actually has this piece in it?

*(Blackie... you seem to be up on such arcane lore, what do you know about this piece?)

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New Zealand fishermen land massive squid

2007-02-24T11:53:45Z

New Zealand fishermen land massive squid

Thu Feb 22, 2:25 AM ET

New Zealand fishermen may have caught the largest Colossal squid ever found -- weighing around 450kg (992 pounds) and with rings the size of tyres.

The adult Colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) was caught by fishermen long lining for toothfish in deep ocean off Antarctica, New Zealand Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said on Thursday in announcing the catch.

The squid was still alive when caught and was eating a hooked toothfish when hauled aboard, Anderton said in a statement.

"The squid was almost dead when it reached the surface, and the careful work of the crew was paramount in getting this specimen aboard in good condition," Anderton said.

"The crew stopped winching in the longline for two hours, while the squid was manoeuvred into a cargo net and hauled aboard," he said.

The squid was frozen in the ship's hull and brought back to New Zealand for scientific examination.

"The colossal squid has just arrived in New Zealand and it is likely that it is the first intact adult male Colossal squid to ever be successfully landed," Anderton said.

Colossal squid are one of the most mysterious creatures in the deep ocean, growing up to 12 to 14 metres (36 to 42 feet) in length. Anderton said the squid would be photographed, measured, tissue sampled, registered and preserved intact.

"On-going examination of this giant will help to unlock some of the mysteries of the deep ocean. Even basic questions such as such as how large does this species grow to, and how long does it live for are not yet known," he said.

Local media said early estimates put the squid at 10 metres (30 feet) in length and weighing 450 kg (992 pounds) -- 150 kg (330 pounds) heavier than the next biggest specimen found.

"I can assure you that this is going to draw phenomenal interest. It is truly amazing," squid expert Steve O'Shea at Auckland University of Technology told local media.

O'Shea said if calamari were made from the Colossal squid's rings it would be the size of tractor tyres.

Anderton said Colossal squid were found in Antarctic waters and were not related to Giant squid (Architeuthis) found around the coast of New Zealand. Giant squid also grow up to 12 metres (36 feet), but are not as heavy.

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Hello Cthulhu

2007-02-23T19:58:11Z

http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/?date=2003-11-30

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Chasosium Cthulhu Mythos question

2007-02-23T03:54:32Z

Okay, here comes some vagueries for you all.

I think Chaosium put out a module for the Cthulhu RPG that featured a man composed of strange angles. Does this sound familiar at all? All I remember is an illustration of the guy, leaping up on a car, and the car crumpling beneath his multi-dimensional form.

What's this guy called?

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can I pick a nit here? "Dunwich" is not pronounced...

2007-02-22T23:41:32Z

As "Dun-Wich." I hear this far too often from people who should know better, and it gets irritating.

Lovecraft was not only a Rhode Islander, but an Anglophile. The British and New England pronunciation of the word is "Dun-Itch," consistent with not just British cities, but, say for example, Greenwich in Connecticut. The incorrect way would be the same as pronouncing "Worcestershire" (in Britain) as "Wor-Cester-Shire." Any Brit would either laugh at you or smack you. W is pronounced as "Woosta-sher," and American towns and cities named by British custom would follow as well.

Sorry for being anal here, but I grew up in Connecticut, and that's just how it is... :)

- k

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Video Tribute to Cthulhu Mythos

2007-02-15T19:13:59Z

There was an excellent video tribute to the Cthulhu Mythos done as a movie. It's called "Cast A Deadly Spell", and can still be found in some video stores, sadly, only in VHS.

Veteran B-Movie actor Fred Ward plays H. Philip Lovecraft, a private investigator in an alternate 1947 Los Angeles (where everybody does magic). He's hired by Amos Hackshaw (David Warner) to find his stolen copy of the Necronomicon before midnight on a certain day. The movie is replete with demons, ancient monsters, lots of film-noir props. The dialogue is composed entirely of cliches! It's a lot of fun.

A sequel was made set in 1955 with Dennis Hopper as the P.I.

These films are hard to find, but they're worth owning.

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Scarier than The Old Ones

2007-02-13T17:08:12Z

A True Tale of what happens when Seething Nuclear Chaos actually *does* come to call...
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html
Don't miss the bit in there about the trees that glow red at night...

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Great Cthulhu Horror Clix

2007-02-07T21:09:27Z

From WhizKids, the makers of Hero Clix, coming soon, HORROR CLIX, with our great buddy Cthulhu as the big guy (remember the Galactus Hero Clik) !!!

When any modern horror author, filmmaker, or video-game designer is asked to name inspirations, a variety of answers is offered, from Mary Shelley to Ed Wood to Stephen King. Perhaps more than the artists in any other genre, the current artists of the horror genre acknowledge the contributions of those who came before them. But arguably, there is one horror creator who stands out above all others, one who nearly any horror writer or filmmaker will cite as inspiration: Howard Phillips Lovecraft...

Pics here!!
http://www.wizkidsgames.com/wk_article.asp?cid=40709

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Calls for Cthulu

2007-01-26T12:35:50Z

A co-worker of mine is responcible for this: http://callsforcthulhu.blogspot.com/

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still going....

2007-01-26T01:49:21Z

My old Lovecraftian webcomic is still going strong. A while ago it moved to http://theywilldevour.us.

astute readers will note that whilst Chibithulhu was once dwarfed by common household items, he is now actually larger than the rest of the cast, suggesting that the curse of cute-tinyness is wearing off....

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