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Daguerreotype Cthulhu

| 13. Mai 2011

I’ve had this image in my collection for quite a while now. My speculation is it was Cthulhu’s dreams he sent that kept me from publishing it. Perhaps he is simply not quite comfortable in his new found role as a gentleman of leissure, yet. I guess that’s undertsandable. After being a cosmic horror for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Deep Ones and The Clockwork Man

| 17. Oktober 2010

While actually not looking for fashion, I came across a company by the name of The Affair which trades in t-shirts. But to say they trade in t-shirts  and leave it at that would be like saying Terry Pratchett writes nice books or H.P. Lovecraft was a horror writer of some note. In other words, [...]

Mythos Musical Equipment

| 4. August 2010

The following photo appeared on the Ætherweb quite a while ago. Rumor has i it was first twittered by Neil Gaiman. Could be… I guess he has ways to access the darker corners of the cosmos. In any case, I guess this, errh.. Cthulele? proves that the dancers and players at Azathoth’s court have actually [...]

Recommended Blog: The Miskatonic Archive

| 13. Juli 2010

Today I want to point your inquisitive eyes on another fine blog. It shares many common themes with mine, only the focus is shifted. On The Traveler’s Steampunk Blog you find Steampunk and Dieselpunk with a side-dish of Cthulhu Mythos Goodness, at The Miskatonic Archive, you find great resources about Lovecraft , the Cthulhu Mythos [...]

How in Dagon’s name could I miss that?

| 26. Juni 2010

A Cthulhu Steampunk crossover by Chaosium! And it has been out for quite some time now and I missed it up until five minutes ago! How could this have happened? I guess it could only have been because Great Cthulhu dominates my dreams and interferes with my perception. Hang on, but this does not make [...]

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 [...]

Steampunk and Cthulhu – another Example

| 21. Mai 2010

So.. there’s this very nicely done Steampunk graphic novel around. “The Five Fists of Science”, although I was aware of it for quite a while, I only recently had the pleasure of reading it. Beautiful artwork, (un-)believable characters and a truely and fittingly weird plot. I found it a most charming touch Tesla being one [...]

Myke Amend Strikes Again

| 28. April 2010

I have mentioned Myke Amend before. He’s one of the finest artists around who have ties to steampunk in their work. This time I am especially pleased and honoured to present a work of his, since it touches both my enthusiasm for Steampunk and for Cthulhu: People who looked at this item also looked at… [...]