Author: B.A. Campbell

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H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival: San Pedro 2011: Part 2

  • September 25, 2011

By B.A. Campbell

The themes of time displacement and immortality – always pertinent in discussions of Lovecraft’s work – continued into the second day of the festival with Cast A Deadly Spell, a 20-year-old movie shot in the style of 50s noir; La Sombra Prohibida, a heavily Mythos-inspired film concerning a 150-year-old warlock; and the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society’s brand new adaptation of “The Whisperer in Darkness”, filmed as it might have been, had it been shown in …

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H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival: San Pedro 2011: Part 1

  • September 24, 2011

By B.A. Campbell

Though one of his best stories (“The Shadow out of Time”) hinges on time travel, Lovecraft was never much concerned with the future. He was uncomfortable enough in his own time. So, if he had been given a guest pass and a time machine to visit the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, held September 16th and 17th this year in San Pedro, California, there’s a good chance he would have declined. Nevertheless, he was with us in spirit, …

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Games · Reviews

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Column: A Pistol and a Flashlight: Gregory Weir

  • September 9, 2011

By B.A. Campbell

 (I Fell In Love With) The Majesty of Colors (2008). Company: Kongregate. Developer: Gregory Weir. Platform: Web.

Silent Conversation (2009). Company: Armor Games. Developer: Gregory Weir. Platform: Web.

Babies Dream of Dead Worlds (2010). Company: Newgrounds. Developer: Gregory Weir. Platform: Web.

Looming (2010). Company: Newgrounds. Developer: Gregory Weir. Platform: Web.

Organising the half-shattered china dolls in the attic of my ancestral home, I came upon yet another antiquated handbill, identical in nearly all particulars to the …

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Print · Reviews

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Review: One Weird Idea

  • September 1, 2011

By B.A. Campbell

Mathieu, Roscoe, ed. One Weird Idea, May 2011. Glorious Dawn Press (2011). 69 pp. ISBN: 0983453209.

One Weird Idea is “the first e-format periodical”. No, wait. It’s “the world’s first anthozine” – a hybrid organism marrying the best traits of a magazine with those of an anthology.

I’ll tell you what it is: It’s damn good SF at a damn reasonable value. Its credo – “Take an idea, and write a story around it” – may …

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Column: A Pistol and a Flashlight: Siren

  • July 26, 2011

By B.A. Campbell

Siren (2004). Company: Sony Computer Entertainment. Developer: SCE Japan Studio. Platform: Playstation 2. Rating: Mature.

“The Japanese village of Hanuda teeters between two worlds – the world of the living, and a nightmarish world where the buildings have been ruined, the land has been distorted, and the mountains have been replaced by an unending sea.”

In XX prefecture, there are tales of a village lost in time. A village buried by a landslide 27 years ago, yet …

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