By G.W. Thomas

Unless you’ve read L. Sprague de Camp’s biography of H.P. Lovecraft or Sam Moskowitz’s Under the Moons of Mars (1970), you might not know that HPL had his start as a fanboy. Well, that’s what we call them today. In the letter columns of The Argosy and All-Story, they were known as “beloved readers”.

In HPL’s youth, he was one of those beloved readers, looking fondly for the next installment of an Edgar Rice Burroughs serial and then commenting in letters. (We all know that was something HPL loved to do, having written over 100,000 of …

TV Spoilers & Speculation Corner: 05/16/12

This week, we have spoilers for Once Upon a Time and Supernatural:

Once Upon a Time (Sunday nights, 8pm, ABC)
By Heather S. Vina

Well, the big finale has aired and they weren’t lying when they said it would change the face of the show next season! Now that magic is back, everyone has their memories, and they are still in Storybrooke, what will happen? Who will return, who will stay, who will leave? Since the show is on hiatus and Comic Con is still a couple of months away, I expect spoilers …

By Maria Mitchell

Following the success of The King in Yellow and I in the spring of 2010, the Innsmouth Philoneiros Ensemble is preparing to debut a new musical, The Clock is Broken, after receiving some much-needed sponsorship from Tasty Encounters and Garden of Azathoth.

This surreal play is the result of a collaborative triad between Errol Crump, composer of the instrumental score to Ian Hastings’s The King in Yellow and I; Ian Hastings himself, composer and lyricist of the sung numbers in The King in Yellow and I; and, oddly enough, Neville Tillinghast, the nephew of maverick …

By Nathaniel Katz

Pierce, Cameron. Cthulhu Comes to the Vampire Kingdom. Eraserhead Press, 2011. ISBN-10: 1-936383-95-0. ISBN-13: 978-1936383955.

We open with the vampires Franz and Lola, and the death of their child. From there, we zoom out with brusque chapters and myriad perspective shifts to see the vampire world’s growing crisis. The vampires, you see, are running out of blood. Numerous, desperate solutions have been proposed, and the idea of fleeing to the underground grows more and more tempting. Those looking to save the planet, though, have one last idea: They want to summon Cthulhu. From that, you can …

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Guillermo Del Toro says his adaptation of Lovecraft’s “At The Mountains of Madness” may be dead in the water and the culprit is Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.

In a recent online post, Del Toro said Ridley’s original Alien was already heavily influenced by Lovecraft (See our review of the movie for that) and Prometheus likely alludes “to the creation aspects of the HPL book.” The result, says Del Toro, would be two movies with the “same premise. Scenes that would be almost identical.”

Though some fans might say that Hollywood costantly launches vehicles with a similar premise, …

By Paula R. Stiles

[spoilers ahoy for several seasons]

Tagline: The brothers embark on a quest to find three blood-related items to complete a weapon that can kill the Leviathans.

Recap: Recap of the Alphas, the Leviathans, and Kevin the Prophet. Moving on to an incredibly dull interview for a business show between some nitwit and Dick Roman. It lasts over a minute and feels more like five. In it, we find out that Dick has bought out Sucrocorps (We already knew this, show. Move on). Amid all the juvenile “Dick” cracks and Dick’s snide reference to Americans tasting better …