BOOM! Studios presents: POE...

Coming this month from BOOM! Studios is POE, a new series in which Edgar Allan Poe himself delves into worlds of the supernatural he helped create. The comic was created by J. Barton Mitchell and Dean Kotz...

About the comic: Everyone knows that Poe created the detective genre, but did you know he was a detective himself? Finally the secret can be revealed for the first time! Enter the world of POE and follow the famous author of darkness as he tracks the killer of his brother's friend...

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

- Edgar Allan Poe


(Thanks to www.bloody-disgusting.com)

Planet Lovecraft #4 review...

From The Tomb, a site dedicated to reviewing horror, crime and science fiction comics from around the world, reviews the latest issue of Planet Lovecraft here. Issue #4 contains a Witch Hunter/Knightgaunt crossover, The Thing in the Box by J.M. Desantis, Tim Sparvero's Hypnos, the latest Cadaverizer installment by Lee Davis, Rob Corless's Awakener and more...

All four issues of Planet Lovecraft are available through the official site...

image from Abraham Martinez and Carlos de Anda's The Vessel

(Thanks to Kelly Young)

Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft #3 previewed...

Bloody-disgusting.com's Graphic Content previews the latest issue of Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft here. Issue #3 will be released on July 9th...

About the comic: Innocents are dying gruesome deaths. The police are closing in fast. And H.P. Lovecraft has forever lost the faith of the woman he adores. Is all hope lost? That's how it looks to our poor, young writer who now believes his nightmares are coming true, springing from his head into the real world ­ with deadly results! Afraid he might be unleashing hell on earth, Lovecraft fights against sleep with all his might. But it's a battle he can't win. So he turns to the only person he believes he can trust. Is it a mistake? And will Lovecraft solve the mystery of his curse before his nightmares kill again?


(Thanks to www.bloody-disgusting.com)

Fallow trailer online...

The trailer for a new Lovecraft inspired short film titled Fallow has appeared over on YouTube (watch it below), and according to the information provided, the film will debut at the 2009 Fantasia International Film Festival. Look for more information once the film's official website fleshes out later this month...

About the film: In a remote pocket of the prairie, members of a secretive farm community make a grisly discovery: stillborn calves with barbed wire impossibly threaded through their bodies. It's a sign that a generations-old pact between the community and a powerful presence in the very soil itself is about to be broken by an outsider, and the consequences will be horrifying. Drawing upon elements of H.P. Lovecraft and prairie gothic fiction, Fallow is a new mythology born in the land, in the flesh, and in the blood...



(Thanks to Grim Reviews)

Elder Sign at Dragon*Con...

Joseph Nanni's Elder Sign will screen at the 2009 Dragon*Con to be held Labor Day weekend (September 4 - September 7) in Atlanta, GA. Screening dates and times are forthcoming...

(Thanks to Joseph Nanni)

Lovecraft finds a distributor...

Frank H. Woodward's Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown has found a distributor in Cinevolve Studios! The documentary, completed in 2008, has screened at several festivals worldwide including Tromadance, the San Diego Comic-Con and the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Look for an official release date soon...

About the documentary: H.P. Lovecraft was the forefather of modern horror fiction, having inspired such writers as Stephen King, influencing films such as Alien and Hellboy, and in music, Metallica and Iron Maiden.

What led an Old World, xenophobic gentleman to create one of literature's most far-reaching mythologies? What attracts even the minds of the 21st century to these stories of unspeakable abominations and cosmic gods? Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown is a chronicle of the life, work and mind that created these weird tales as told by many of today's luminaries of dark fantasy including John Carpenter (The Thing), Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), Neil Gaiman (Coraline), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator), Caitlin Kiernan (Daughter of Hounds) and Peter Straub (Ghost Story)...


(Thanks to www.myspace.com/wyrdlovecraft)

The Whisperer in the South Pacific...

The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has updated their Whisperer in Darkness production blog with images and information from a recent trip to Easter Island! Chick here for an interesting account of Sean Branney's trip...

(Thanks to www.cthulhulives.org)

SOTA's latest Nightmare: Nyarlathotep...

SOTA Toys are currently accepting pre-orders for their San Diego Comic Con exclusive, the Black Nyarlathotep Resin Statue. Limited to 150 numbered statues, Nyarlathotep retails for $230...

SOTA Toys introduces the latest addition to the "SOTA Nightmares" product line, H. P. Lovecraft's Nyarlethotep. This 12-inch tall statue features incredible detail in its horrific presentation of the messenger of the Great Old Ones, Nyarlethotep. Made of high quality resin and special "flex-resin" in key parts, this limited edition collectible will be a prized addition to any collection highlighting H. P. Lovecraft, monsters, and, as Lovecraft stated, "gigantic, tenebrous, ultimate gods."

The 2009 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive sees Nyarlathotep with a slimy black coating, like a poorly-preserved beast pulled from the depths of peat bog...

- SOTA Toys

Details can be found here...

(Thanks to www.sotatoysonline.com)

Fango looks back at The Mist...

Fangoria.com takes a look back at Frank Darabont's The Mist, his amazing adaptation of the Stephen King novella that originally appeared in the Skeleton Crew collection. Check it out here...


The Mist is a story which focuses on a small town suddenly engulfed in an obnoxiously thick mist, which just so happens, to bring some nasty creatures along with it. Those creatures, in truth are only a small piece of this story. They may be big, foreign and scary to the average human being, but the fact is - a lot of the real scares come not from the monsters, but the humans and the terrifying effects these occurrences can have on the human psyche...

- Matt Molgaard (fangoria.com)


The images that accompany this post are courtesy of and © Pete Von Sholly, and come from his original storyboards...

(Thanks to www.fangoria.com)

Updated: Creature musical premieres...

Creature from the Black Lagoon: A Raging Rockin' Show opened at Universal Studios yesterday and Dread Central was there, as you can see from the various videos and images they've captured from the event...

In other Creature news, Julie Adams (star of the original 1954 film) shares her thoughts with shocktillyoudrop.com on the musical and possible remake...

Update: Check out fangoria.com's coverage here (w/images)...

(Thanks to Dread Central, www.shocktillyoudrop.com and www.fangoria.com)