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more about #lovecraft more comments → Perhaps Not: Terrific illos, one and all. Can't wait for his Alan Moore collaboration "The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic." more » Pegritz: Coulthart is a genius. His depiction of R'lyeh is probably the most alienating, bizarre version I've ever seen--therefore, the most true to Lovecraft'... more » gorehound: awesome stuff.now if only we could get hollywood to make a real HPL film. more » burlybax: Art like this, and many thousands of great artists' work as well, might really be humanity's greatest talent and greatest legacy. more » taffy: It goes without saying that this work is so way beyond that lousy He-Man hipster shit with the crappy fore-shortening. This takes true skill & vision. more » Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: He just gave black metal about 50 years worth of album covers. more » Blair Leggett: Stunning. Just stunning. He has the minute detail of Dore, and the dark fantasmagoria of H.R. Giger. The latter of whom I thought was the only artist... more » crashedpc - Haifisch: Shit on a shingle, I have new favorite illustrations! Although #15 looks like a vagina ball. more » AEchinoderm: My Italian grandma would get a kick out of a book titled "Son of Retro Pulp Tales" with an octopus on the cover. more » zenpoet: Epic Win of "Mythic Proportions" more » SpammerOvTheGods: put your tentacles up in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care #@! more » Boas_MC: Young Cthulhu always wondered why he could never win at hide and seek... more » disatess: Go out and find "monstrous" it`s a horror collection, make sure you read about the 65 foot Vampire !!! more » LittleDragon: This reminds me of a store in San Francisco that has two legs sticking out of the windows above the door. That store had great wigs. more » Kpibca: If you're not causing property damage can you honestly say you're having fun? more » -
#conceptart
The Cosmic Horror of John Coulthart's Lovecraftian Illustrations
Illustrator John Coulthart has delved deep into HP Lovecraft's tales of New England monsters and cosmic horrors and pulled out strange and detailed images of the terrifying gods and cities that haunted Lovecraft's mind. -
#conceptart
Giant Green Tentacles Attack Buildings from the Inside
In artist FilthyLuker's street installations, giant inflatable tentacles emerge from buildings and vehicles, creating the sense that a monstrous kraken or Lovecraftian horror is trapped inside. More » -
#bookreview
"Son of Retro Pulp Tales" Delights In Cheap Thrills
Joe R. and Keith Lansdale present another collection of stories recalling those hard-boiled cheap thrills from the first half of the last century. Hearken back with us now to yesteryear in Son of Retro Pulp Tales! (Subterranean Press).
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#geophysicalporn
Ancient Mountains Discovered Deep Beneath Antarctic Ice
Today scientists announced they had discovered mountains and valleys buried deep beneath antarctic ice, which is now rapidly melting away (pictured). The land revealed has remained untouched for 14,000,000 years. You know what that means. More » -
#bookreview
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.
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#stealthispitch
Cthulhu Needs a Perky Blond Sidekick
Sure, a talking dog movie is money in the bank, but what about a talking Great Old One movie? Cthulhu is all the rage these days - there are freaking Cthulhu bunny slippers, for Yog-Sothoth's sake! And since Lovecraft's creations are all public domain, a studio could pen the script without having to license any rights. The time is ripe for Cthulhu to rise again...with a perky blond sidekick. More » -
#scienceisawesome
2008 Science Visualization Challenge Reveals the Teeth in a Squid's Suckers
What you see above are actually the suckers on the arm of a squid, captured with an electron microscope. The color was added for the obvious effect. The National Science Foundation and the journal Science have announced the winners of the 6th annual International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. Incredibly talented scientist/artists wielding electron microscopes and more esoteric methods created a bunch of exceptionally cool images, such as this shot of Yog-Sothoth gibbering madly as he tries to force his way into our dimension. More » -
#cthulhutech
Cthulhu + Mechas = CthulhuTech
You take a shambling horror from a Lovecraft story, pop a couple of shoulder cannons on it and a replace a few tentacles with laser beams, and you've got yourself a whole new kind of horror: CthulhuTech. More »
