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In the summer of 1997, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration picked up a sound from deep beneath the Pacific. The sound seemed to come from an animal far larger than any we've ever seen. This was the Bloop. More »
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Boy howdy, this is one of the strangest comic previews we've ever run. Courtesy of IDW Publishing, here's an exclusive preview of the first issue of Infestation 2: Transformers. More »
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Who wouldn't want a looming Cthulu guarding their living room? Artist Kirill Rozhkov illustrated a collection of Lovecraftian monsters for the Danish carpet company EGE. The line is called "Dark Water" — check out the monsters in both illustration and rug form! More »
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We can't wait to see the feature film that sprouts like an eldritch horror from this short by Joseph Nanni, based loosely on a myth first mentioned the H.P. Lovecraft tale "The Last Test." The movie features a creature from the Cthulhu mythos called Shub Niggurath, a "Great Old One" or possibly an Elder God mentioned often in Cthulhian incantations as "the black goat in the woods with a thousand young." Lovecraft himself didn't say much about old Shub, but other Cthulhu mythos writers like August Derleth latched onto the Old One and wrote more about it. So this flick is in the fine tradition of the Cthulhu Mythos, which is to say that Nanni is taking something Lovecraft mentioned a few times and giving it a full story. More »
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Sanity-destroying cosmic horror can be hard to wrap your head around, so Deviant Artist DrFaustusAu has begun rejiggering H.P. Lovecraft's classic short story as Dr. Seuss book. Now, children of all ages can learn about he who slumbers in his house at R'lyeh. More »
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H.P. Lovecraft died at age 46, partly due to poverty and malnutrition. So Ross E. Lockhart, editor of The Book of Cthulhu, is encouraging you to donate to local food banks and food charities this Thanksgiving holiday. If you tweet that you've fed Cthulhu, including the amount you donated and the name of the food charity you donated to, you can be one of 24 randomly selected people to win an e-book of The Book of Cthulhu. Just make sure to include the hashtag #FeedCthulhu and @LossRockhart. [Book of Cthulhu] More »
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It's not hard to dress up as he who slumbers in R'lyeh. All you need to do is shove a bunch of wriggling snakes up your nostrils like 53-year-old serpent master Liu Fei of Mianiang, China. Sure, this tactic may require nerves of steel and a lifetime of practice, but once you perfect it, you can pull it out for picnics and birthday parties and board meetings and piano recitals and croquet tournaments. More »
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David Clayton James Gassaway has created some of the most incredibly haunting Cthulhu Mythos images I've seen in a long time. These are showcased in his 2012 Cthulhu Mythos calendar, and you can see a few in the gallery here. More »
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We've seen Lovecraft meet Seuss, here's the author versus Schulz. And now artist Julien Bazinet has sent the Peanuts gang over the precipice of madness. There's also a Cthsnoopy t-shirt available. More »
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We've all heard of The Klingon Hamlet, a real book that contains a Klingon translation of the text side-by-side with the English version. Some of us have even been . . . let's say 'lucky' enough to see it performed. But what other famous works would be better rendered in science fictional languages? We've got some suggestions. More »
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What if your boss was one of the greatest fictional monsters in the universe? It could be a terrifying experience, one your career might never recover from. More »
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This nifty cartoon by a group of Italian filmmakers distills H.P. Lovecraft's Antarctic misadventure novella into a 30-minute film. The film's subtitled and the animation's not super-complex, but it zips through the story, and some of the visuals are squirm-inducing. More »
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Behold Pikathulhu, the cuddly alien monster that the world has been waiting for. This delightful beast was created by Cthulhu Chick, whose cute eldrich horrors are yours for the taking via Etsy. I'm having a hard time picturing how the Deep One got it on with the Zingy Tiny One, but let's not worry about that. Find out more about Pikathulhu on the Cthulhu Chick's blog. More »
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Jackie Lewis' Sad Baby Monsters is what it says on the tin: adorable drawings of woeful and downtrodden mythical beasts. These monsters probably still want to eat you, but first they could use a hug. More »
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Guillermo del Toro's journey into the heart of H.P. Lovecraft's eldritch horror is really happening, a producer tells io9. At the Mountains of Madness begins filming in June? Could this be the Lovecraftian film that actually destroys your mind? More »
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Chances are you've seen Jack Chick's loathsome Chick Tracts, those vile little comics about how everyone's going to Hell simply for respiring. Artist Howard Hallis has reimagined Chick Tracts as a means to draw fools to the glory of Cthulhu. More »
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Looking to spice up your drawing room with some Lovecraftian flair? Look no further than Maximo Riera's Octopus Chair. This chair's fetching in both the parlor and the briny depths of R'lyeh. It's also perfect for the discerning Yog fan. More »
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The Reverend Ichabod Wiswall (1637-1700) is a historical footnote. When he's remembered, it's for giving the first funeral sermon in America, in Duxbury, Massachusetts. So why is there a Lovecraftian cephalopod on his gravestone? More »
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Even Cthulhu has an inner child. And, apparently, a love of tummy tats. This is one of many dark, weird, and downright silly illustrations by concept artist Shreya Shetty. More »
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Tintin is known for visiting exotic locales, and artist Murray Groat has plopped the boy adventurer in such fantastical destinations as Innsmouth and R'lyeh. Watch Hergé's hero run afoul of the Reanimator and Cthulhu. Seventy-seven shuffling shambling shifty-eyed shoggoths! More »
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On South Park this week, one of the unexpected environmental catastrophes caused by the Deepwater oil disaster was the rise of Cthulhu. I love this matter-of-fact TV news report about Cthulhu's reign. More »
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Heads up to West Coast io9ers — a Lovecraft-themed gathering will be going down in Portland this weekend. The list of events includes screenings of eldritch cinema and literature, an appearance from Stuart Gordon, and other sundry mind-bending activities. More »
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Sleeping in R'lyeh under the sea for millennia is no excuse for smelling like mackerel and elements that don't exist in our star system. Allow the ever-debonair Cthulhu to shill you some shower goop that will leave you smelling Shoggoth-fresh. More »
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In H.P. Lovecraft's mythos, the Mi-go are tentacled crustacean aliens who dwell deep in our planetary history - and deep in the oceans. Looks like some Japanese divers may have found the real-life inspiration for the creature. More »
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When horror author HP Lovecraft shows up in a story, it's a sure sign that things are about to turn toward the sinister. In Lovecraft is Missing, the only thing scarier than a Lovecraft cameo is his sudden disappearance. More »
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In a series of doctored photographs called Metronomicon, artist Alexey Andreev recreates the world of H.P. Lovecraft in the Russian subways. It's the perfect place for Cthulhu and his spawn. Check out our gallery. More »
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The Brothers Grim and Grimy have translated H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale of mind-bending cosmic horror into two minutes' worth of 21st century layman's terms, replete with OMGs and allusions to Lost. [Spotted on Neatorama] More »
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Nyarlathotep a.k.a. "the Crawling Chaos" a.k.a. the shapeshifting horror of Lovecraftian lore is assuming his weirdest form yet. He'll be starring in the Japanese anime show Haiyore! Nyaruko-San as a super-cute girl who helps a high-schooler fight aliens. Hail Kawaiithu? More »
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Alan Moore's H.P. Lovecraft-inspired comic series Neonomicon is set to debut later this year, but series artist Jacen Burrows recently dropped some knowledge on the cyclopean horror that readers can expect. More »
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We love both H.P. Lovecraft and fun art openings. So when Dylan Thuras of Atlas Obscura told us he was curating a Cthulhu-centric art show in Brooklyn, we bellowed a hearty "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!" More »
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30 Days of Night artist Ben Templesmith is developing what he's calling an "illustrated film" that'll combine his twin loves of human drama and all things tentacular. More »
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Once in a while you just want a really awesome monster movie with lots of tentacles and snot. That's why I'm excited to see indie flick Bio-Slime. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5518258&view=rss&microfeed=true Years ago, Tony Richardson found a strange skull on the sea floor. After 15 years of silence (and keeping the skull in his garage), he's demanding answers. Luckily, reporter Bill Green's on the case! Can you help solve the mystery? More »
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Last summer, archaeologists unearthed this 1,000-pound lead coffin buried on the outskirts of Rome. Researchers don't want to crack open the sarcophagus, lest they harm whomever's inside. But shouldn't we be more concerned about its mysterious tenant harming us? More »
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Though one rarely associates Lovecraft with slapstick humor, that's what you'll get in a new horror-comedy about the last living relative of the pulp writer who invented Cthulhu. The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu is coming to theaters this year. More »
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Being a kid is tough. Being a kid with an extra-dimensional shambling gibbering drooling non-Euclidean monster for a pet? That's something else entirely. Welcome to Monsters and Other Childish Things. More »
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Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos has left its slimy mark on Japanese manga, anime, pinball, and dating sim games. It always comes back to those infamous tentacles, as seen in adult horror anime such as Toshio Maeda's Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend. More »
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Rarely does the Great Old One Cthulhu get to speak on his own behalf, but in Neil Gaiman's story I, Cthulhu, the cosmic horror gives us a unusual peek into his life, straight from his own tentacled mouth. [Tor] More »
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If you live in one of the snowy parts of the world, you could make a boring snowman out of three round balls. Or, you could take your cue from these folks and make snowy robots, aliens, superheroes, and monsters. More »
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Halloween may be over, but you can still enjoy some child-friendly terrors with the animated short Lil Cthulhu. After all, it's never too early to introduce a child to Dagon, Nyarlathotep, and the rest of Cthulhu's friends. More »
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