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the jewels of apator

Tentacles and Cosmic SF: The Art of Lovecraft

Welcome back to The Jewels of Apator, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer's column on the intersection of art and the fantastic. Tentacular horrors, unnamable evils, and quests to the edges of alien-landscapes-on-earth like Antarctica were just some of the beautifully bizarre features of H.P. Lovecraft’s weird fiction. Creator of the Cthulhu Mythos, Lovecraft has had an enormous influence on readers and writers. But what about art? Ever since the first pulp covers showcasing Lovecraft’s fiction, visual creators have been interpreting his tentacular horrors, unnamable evils, and odd quests. Now, Centipede Press has issued one of the most audacious hardcover art books we have ever seen: The Art of Lovecraft: Artists Inspired by Lovecraft. More »

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9:00 AM on Fri Jun 27 2008
By Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
5,871 views, 28 comments

Latest by Schizohedron: "John Picacio also believes the best Lovecraftian art doesn't try to show everything." Much like the best erotica. more »

weird tales

Celebrate the 85th Anniversary of Weird Tales

85 years old this month, Weird Tales is the magazine of the "bizarre and unusual" that sustained the career of H.P. Lovecraft and his scifi-horror pals back in the 1920s when it first launched. In its early days, Weird Tales set itself apart from other pulps by always going one step deeper into the freak zone. Stories dealt with aliens, witches, and mutants. Covers often featured devils making love to ladies, monsters menacing beleaguered ingenues, and (my personal favorite, above) devilish monster ladies making love to scantily clad lovelies. Now the venerable, perverted, brilliant magazine is celebrating its 85th birthday in style. More »

7:00 AM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Annalee Newitz
2,158 views, 12 comments

Latest by Miranda Kali: @Lars: No. Most women lose the ability to look alluring in a two piece after eighty or so. more »

entropist

On the Trail of Grotesque Gods from Space

It's another installment of Entropist, a scifi culture column by futurist design maven Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDG BLOG. In his 1936 short story "The Shadow Out of Time," classic weird fiction author H.P. Lovecraft describes a man who takes "long visits to remote and desolate places." These places include the "vast limestone cavern systems of western Virginia - black labyrinths so complex that no retracing of my steps could even be considered," and the "unknown deserts of Arabia," wherever those may be. But he visits them looking for evidence of a long-lost religious cult - a cult which, like "the horror" it once worshiped, had something to do with grotesque gods from "out of time," ancient germ lines that preceded the origins of human biology, astrophysical space, and the subterranean Earth. And, should all of that raise your eyebrows, let me add that it's actually a good story. More »

9:00 AM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By Geoff Manaugh
3,272 views, 21 comments

Latest by n/a: Good article. Altered States of conciousness is the stuff of many stories. Jesus took 40 days in the desert, Moses walked the hard mountains of Sinai. Native Americans have their Visions Quests. I think if you're attracted to the dark more »

call of cthulhu

In Which Cthulhu Kicks Cloverfield's Ass Without Ever Showing Its Face

All this talk of the Cloverfield monster has made you forget the original monster from the sea — the monster whose aspect imparts such eldrich horror that to look upon it is to GO INSANE. Luckily some have kept the true faith, and in 2005 released one of the greatest monster movies in the past decade: The Call of Cthulhu, a pitch-perfect recreation of H.P. Lovecraft's original short story, complete with the melodramatic fear-awe. The best part? It's a silent film. More »

5:30 PM on Mon Jan 28 2008
By Annalee Newitz
5,316 views, 57 comments

Latest by jinchoung: yeeesh... that was awful. just awful. what the heck. seriously. who wrote that recommendation? yeck. more »