Category Archives: Countdown

Happy birthday wishes to Cthulhu’s creator, the guy who started it all, Howard Philips Lovecraft. H.P.L. would have been one hundred twenty-one years old today. And unlike the protagonist of his short story “The Outsider,” Lovecraft doesn’t look a day over ninety-nine… Continue reading →

Just a couple more weeks to go until The Book of Cthulhu rises from the sea. Time to clip on a tie, hop on my bicycle, and go door-to-door to spread the good word. I imagine it will go a little something like this… Continue reading →

I love a good giveaway, don’t you? There’s nothing quite like a door prize to send somebody home happy. But seven somebodies… that’s crazy talk… Continue reading →

Today was a good day for Lovecraftian podcasts. Continue reading →

We’ve told you about the Cthulhu Summer at Night Shade Books, with Jonathan Wood’s No Hero, John Hornor Jacobs’ Southern Gods, and my own The Book of Cthulhu, but here are some of the other Mythos-related releases I’m looking forward to… Continue reading →

“Some of ’em have queer narrow heads with flat noses and bulgy, stary eyes that never seem to shut, and their skin ain’t quite right.”
-H.P. Lovecraft, “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”

I recently posed a question to a few friends in the Pulped Culture Facebook group: Which celebrities have the Innsmouth look? Here are a few of the suggestions that came back. Can you think of others? Continue reading →

Today’s installment has been brought to you by the letter D for Dagon. Continue reading →