Lovecraft's Dark Discoveries...

The latest issue of Dark Discoveries, a 64 page, full-color, slick quarterly publication, is available, and fans of HPL are in for a treat! The issue, a Lovecraft Special, contains articles and interviews showcasing Brian Lumley, H.R. Giger's Museum (with some great images of Giger's amazing artwork), excerpts from Dan O'Bannon's translation of the Necronomicon, Weird fiction expert S.T. Joshi, Lovecraft comics (one of my favorite features in the issue), artist Kris Kuksi, and the H.P. Lovecraft film festival. There's also some great fiction by H.P. Lovecraft & Brian Lumley (The Thing in the Moonlight), Wilum Pugmire, Cody Goodfellow, David A. Riley and Glen Singer, and amazing artwork by J.K. Potter, Allen Koszowski, Alan M. Clark, Kris Kuski and Jason V Brock...


A little about Dark Discoveries:

Dark Discoveries magazine caters to the best in dark fantasy, science fiction and horror in fiction, film, comics and other media. The premiere issue debuted in March, 2004 with the current issue, the afore mentioned Lovecraft Special, being issue #15...

The magazine is currently available in over 600 stores throughout the U.S.,Canada, Germany, and the U.K., with a national and overseas subscriber base of close to 200...

To celebrate their fifth anniversary, Dark Discoveries completely revamped their official website and the magazine itself, adding color, deepercontent, redesigning the layout and broadening their focus with a spotlight on movies, TV and comics - featuring great articles, outstanding fiction, exclusive interviews and beautiful artwork...

The creative minds behind Dark Discoveries are also involved in publishing books, and recently brought out The Bleeding Edge: Dark Barriers, Dark Frontiers, featuring unpublished work from Ray Bradbury, John Shirley, William F. Nolan, Jason V Brock, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Matheson and others. The cover and art (artwork is available in the Deluxe edition only) is by Kris Kuksi. Another book is scheduled for mid-2010 entitled The Devil's Coattails...

The Bleeding Edge: Dark Barriers, Dark Frontiers is available here...

The Lovecraft Special is available here...

view from the doorway of the Giger Bar (image © Jason V Brock)

(Thanks to Jason V Brock)