HUGE Birthday shout-out!

Happy Birthday to the one & only H.P. Lovecraft! (August 20, 1890) Your work continues to slither and creep into the psyche of those in this realm and inspires many beyond even what your wild imagination can dream up.

Sadly, from what I know, there is no proper translation for Happy Birthday in R'lyehian. I feel that if I even tried to piece one together, I'd be stating something like "I invite you to meet in a shared space to eat the dreams of the worthless people of the Earth realm"... Either that or I'd wind up opening a gateway to another dimension.

Tentacle Dress!

Be the most fashionable person slowly losing her mind....Tentacle dress at Thinkgeek.com

Um... What?

A propos of absolutely nothing...



You had me at "... the last vestiges of your sanity."

Use a Lovecraftian line in your pitch for an Army of Darknessian knick-knack, and I just might buy the damned thing.

WildClaw's Greeting Card in 10/20 Packs

We've gotten a great response to our new WildClaw Greeting Card design by Charlie Athanas, but folks would like it a little cheaper and in bulk. Well, don't say we didn't listen. The Ctholiday card is now available in packs of 10 ($15.99, plus S&P) and 20 ($25.99, plus S&P) at our CafePress store.

TOR: A Lovecraft Art Meme

© Matt Black

Over at TOR.com, Art Director extraordinaire, Irene Gallo has started a blog entry featuring art related to Lovecraft. Definitely worth checking out. We contributed our "The Dreams in the Witch House" poster and our new Ctholiday greeting card graphic.

BTW, TOR has decided that December belongs to Cthulhu on Tor.com.

WildClaw's First Greeting Card

Help support horror theatre by purchasing these exclusive WildClaw Greeting Cards with artwork created by our poster artist, Charlie Athanas. They're blank inside, so you can use them for many occasions.

Just pop over to our home at RedBubble.com to get them.

The Shadow Over Innsmouth - The Musical

Via the lovely Warren Ellis

And don't forget Zombie Bowling with WildClaw at Timber Lanes on March 14th!!

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."

The Dreams in the Witch House

The Dreams in the Witch House opened last night. Blood flowed, heads cracked, babies were stolen, and dimensions shifted. A fun time had by all! Come see the show. If you are a reader of this blog, you know it is time to buy those tickets and get on down to the Athenaeum for a taste of WildClaw Theatre madness.

If you live in New York, you should check out "The Call of Cthulhu" exhibition of sequential narratives from the School of Visual Arts.


© 2008 Lisel Ashcock

The Call of Cthulhu
November 21 - December 13, 2008
Reception: Tuesday, November 25, 6-8pm
601 West 26 Street, 15th floor, NY, NY