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The Ward – H.P. Lovecraft inspired sitcom

| 10. April 2011

Good job I regularly check out what my good friend Captain Serenus is doing over at Clockworker (see sidebar for link). Otherwise I would have probably failed to mention this excellent sitcom The Ward on my blog. Since the Cthulhu Mythos is the second main theme of this blog, it would have been quite disgraceful [...]

Great Language Learning Challenge – Steampunk Multiculturalism

| 10. März 2011

In January, the Multiculturalism for Steampunk Blog challenged us all to learn a new language. In order to enter, you had to prepare a video, here is mine, I tried to tackle Japanese: People who looked at this item also looked at… Deep Ones and The Clockwork Man Teslapunk Steampunk Gear for daily use Post-Apocalypse [...]

Crossovers

| 27. Februar 2011

It has been a while now since I posted something Cthulhu Mythos related. This is an almost unbearable situation. Fortunately, this post concerns the Mythos, this makes the situation more bearable. Back in the early 1990′s when I read H.P. Lovecraft for the first time (I was in my late teens then) I also came [...]

Happy Birthday Mr. Lovecraft

| 20. August 2010

If he would still be with us today, H.P. Lovecraft, Master of the Macabre, Pulp-Icon, my favourite author and responsible for part of my son’s name, would celebrate his 120th birthday today. So, let’s take a moment to skip through the pages of the many versions of the Necronomicon available today, take out one of [...]

Neil Gaiman’s I, Cthulhu

| 13. Juni 2010

When I first read I, Cthulhu, I did not get the joke. Looking back now, I am at a loss to explain how I managed that. This short piece of fiction is so obviously tongue-in-cheek, with so many weird references that make no sense within the classic Cthulhu Mythos, I really do not know why [...]