What if H.P. Lovecraft Wrote Young Adult Fiction, Then Made an RPG Out of It?

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 »

The Thing With A Thousand Young Is Not Amused

Many moviemakers have tried to recreate the weirdness of HP Lovecraft's horror stories on film, but few have succeeded. Steve Daniels tried a novel approach in his short Dirt Dauber, using paper cutouts and half-seen imagery. Behold Shub-Niggurath! More »

Introduce Your Child to Lovecraft's Horrors with Lil Cthulhu

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 »

Lovecraft 101: Get To Know The Master of Scifi-Horror

You've heard about Cthulhu, and you've probably heard about the man who created this tentacled horror, H.P. Lovecraft. Now you want to try delving into the world of Lovecraft, but where to start? Let us help you. More »

12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read

Of all the alternate worlds we're dying to visit, the greatest is that mythical room containing every book that was never written. Here are the dozen unfinished novels by science fiction's greatest authors, that we wish we could read. More »

Terrifying Souvenirs from the Mountains of Madness

In HP Lovecraft's novella "At the Mountains of Madness" an expedition from the fictional Miskatonic University uncovers the unspeakable horrors waiting in Antarctica. One Lovecraft fan is crafting and assembling souvenirs from the ill-fated mission. More »

10 Reasons Not to Bring Someone Back from the Dead

When you've got amazing technologies or strong magical powers, death doesn't have to have the final word. But is bringing the dead back to life always a good idea? We look the reasons it's better to say no to resurrection. More »

Documentary Celebrates the Long Reach of Lovecraft's Tentacles

Coming in two weeks, the documentary Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown explores what inspired H.P. Lovecraft to invent the tentacular Cthulhu mythos - and why his work continues to inspire horror and science fiction creators today. More »

Cthulhu Blanket Gives Your Baby Sweet Nightmares

Start your infant off worshiping the Old Ones early, with this handcrafted Cthulhu baby blanket — complete with Velcro tentacles, to keep other terror-inducing toys from slipping away. [Craftster via Neatorama]

Howard Knows Screwing Up The Fake Life Of Lovecraft Could Unleash Fan Wrath

Mega-producer Ron Howard sounds like he's realizing just how important the father of all eldritch awesomeness H.P. Lovecraft really is. But we're still suspicious of this Van Helsing-crossed-with-Shakespeare In Love film, in which Lovecraft unleashes and fights monsters. More »

It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!

Monsters and supervillains come from a lot of places, but a perennial favorite is the frozen depths. Defrosted Big Bads have been rampaging through books and movies for almost a century, and here are fifteen of the freezingest. More »

Monster Models Look Ready for Face-Eating Mayhem

Naturalist and modelmaker Andrew Scott creates sculptures of Lovecraftian horrors, alien embryos, and brain-sucking critters so eerily plausible that you half expect to find them on your next space mission — or simply rooting through your garbage. More »

From The Terrifying Wastes Of The Cosmos Come Scary Old People

Writer Laird Barron plunges his razor-sharp rostrum deep into a Lovecraftian vein, with nine stories of brain-melting cosmic horror in The Imago Sequence. More »

Unprotected Sex With A Witch Is More Dangerous Than You Think [NSFW]

Stuart Gordon has spent most of his cinematic career turning H.P. Lovecraft tales into perverse, creepy, and silly movies. And his "Dreams in the Witch House" episode of Masters of Horror is epic Lovecraft madness that crosses string theory with witch sex. More »

The Yellow Peril, Fu Manchu, and the Ethnic Future

Welcome back to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. Back in the 1920s and 30s, when Asian immigration to the US and Europe was picking up steam, prominent science fiction writers like Philip Nowlan and H.P. Lovecraft created speculative scenarios starring massive hordes of horrible, slanty-eyed, intelligent Asians who were either taking over or destroying the world. Yellow peril science fiction was never large enough to be a genre in and of itself, but I decided it was worth traveling back in time to revisit the trend in its historical context. To kick off this topic, let me introduce you to a character you may already know. Fu Manchu, the Chinese master criminal with the infamous long sinister mustache, was created by British author Sax Rohmer around 1912. More »