Going to a Stupid baby Shower? The perfect gift: Ken Hite's Mini Mythos

Babies...stupid adorable disgusting babies....

...we at WildClaw are getting to the age were all of our friends are having little squirmers of their own.  So you have to go to a billion baby showers and eat chicken salad and drink mimosas.  Yum.  But what to buy?  I prefer to give the gift of Horror whenever possible.  So try this as an option...Kenneth Hite's Mini Mythos series of children's stories retold with a Lovecraftian bent.  Adorable little elder gods abound.

-Where the Deep Ones Are...
-The Antarctic Express
-Cliffoord the Big Red God

H.P. Lovecraft Memorial Ice Cream Social - This Saturday!

The stars are right for the return of the H.P. Lovecraft Memorial Ice Cream Social at 57th Street Books! Hear tales of unspeakable horror, see (and possibly win) forbidden tomes and strange artefacts, and partake of frozen confections colder than the howling void!

We are also pleased to welcome Lovecraft scholar and Hyde Park resident Kenneth Hite who will be speaking about his book, Tour de Lovecraft: The Tales.


Saturday, August 22nd at 2pm:

57th Street Books
1301 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
773-684-1300
fiftysev@semcoop.com

Come - and TEST THE LIMITS OF YOUR SANITY!

Episode #004 A Lovecraft Holiday

In this episode: A Scene from The Dreams in the Witchhouse, Horrorific Holiday Gifts, Interview with Kenneth Hite, News from the Witchhouse and more!

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*Note this podcast is in the mp4a format in order to have some photo fanciness...you can convert it in itunes to the mp3 format in order to enjoy it on non-apple mp3 players.

The Dreams in the Witchhouse: Dumbroski played by Brian Amidei and Gilman played by Thomas Whittingham.

Give the Gift of Horror this Christmas...

Search Etsy for Lovecraft.
Get your honey a Santa Cthulhu, a tentacle pendant, or a zombie attack lampshade, or perhaps a festive Vampire Teddy bear?

Shop at Horrorbles in Berwyn!
Get a swell t-shirt at The Devil's Candy Store!
Send your sweetie back to school with Horror 101!

Interview with Kenneth Hite from Weird Tales Magazine
Trail of Cthulhu Role Playing Game


The Call of Cthulhu...best roleplaying game ever.

Support Wildclaw Theatre in 2009 and thanks for all your help in 2008!

WildClaw Kenneth Hite Interview

Kenneth Hite

We have a brand new, exclusive interview with Weird Tales Magazine Lovecraft columnist, Kenneth Hite. Ken is also an award-winning Role Playing Game designer with his recently released Trail of Cthulhu from Pelgrane Press.

Some excerpts from the Kenneth Hite interview:
"(Charley Sherman's) decisions sort of build out the city of Arkham and what’s going on, with the witch cult and the disappearing babies every May Eve and the whole rest of it. Giving it that sort of… what I told Charley - invert noir. Where you’ve got this dark secret that encompasses the whole town and the people who find out about it are literally the two least powerful characters in the entire play – Gilman and the girl. So, I thought that was structurally really interesting and obviously anything with blood and monsters and hyperspace is great fun to watch and they did a great job with that part too."

"Some people come to Lovecraft for the sense of mounting dread and personal annihilation that Lovecraft does in his stories as well. Something like Gilman in Dreams in the Witch House and the play carries that off terrifically."