The Drama Desk-nominated, New York Innovative Theatre Award-winning RadioTheatre will present HPL classics REANIMATOR and THE CALL OF CTHULHU live and onstage for the first time complete with award winning sound design and original orchestral scores, as part of their second THE H.P. LOVECRAFT FESTIVAL, July 7-31 at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Ave and Ave A).

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Artist Michael Bukowski– creator of HIDEOUS UNUTTERABLE BLASPHEMIES– is blogging creatures ffirst imagined by H.P. Lovecraft. See his Yog-Blogsoth. He includes appropriate quotations. Here is Rhan-Tegoth:

“Wza-y’ei! Wza-y’ei!” howled the madman. “Y’kaa haa bho—ii, Rhan-Tegoth— Cthulhu fhtagn—Ei! Ei! Ei! Ei!—Rhan-Tegoth, Rhan-Tegoth, Rhan-Tegoth!”’

“There was an almost globular torso, with six long, sinuous limbs terminating in crab-like claws. From the upper end a subsidiary globe bulged forward bubble-like; its triangle of three staring, fishy eyes, its foot-long and evidently flexible proboscis, and a distended lateral system analogous to gills, suggesting that it was a head. Most of the body was covered with what at first appeared to be fur, but which on closer examination proved to be a dense growth of dark, slender tentacles or sucking filaments, each tipped with a mouth suggesting the head of an asp. On the head and below the proboscis the tentacles tended to be longer and thicker, and marked with spiral stripes—suggesting the traditional serpent-locks of Medusa. To say that such a thing could have an expression seems paradoxical; yet Jones felt that that triangle of bulging fish-eyes and that obliquely poised proboscis all bespoke a blend of hate, greed, and sheer cruelty incomprehensible to mankind because mixed with other emotions not of the world or this solar system.”

“‘Rhan-Tegoth, infinite and invincible, I am your slave and high-priest. You are hungry, and I provide. I read the sign and have led you forth. I shall feed you with blood, and you shall feed me with power. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat with a Thousand Young!”’
H.P. Lovecraft & Hazel Heald, The Horror In the Museum

Red Wasp Design is bringing Cthulhu’s tentacles to your mobile devices. The indie developer has just announced Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land, a forthcoming 3D turn-based strategy RPG for the iPod Touch, iPhone, and Android. (Chaosium, the paper RPG maker of the now-30-year-old Call of Cthulhu licensed the new game, according to Touch Arcade and it is “related to” the older paper game.

Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land during WWI and pits a team of investigators and soldiers against a force older than humanity itself. This eldritch enemy (guess who?) is using the carnage of the Great War to build an undead army amidst the battlefields of Europe. The game will initially launch on iPhone and Android with more platforms to follow. As the game is still in development, release dates and price points are to be announced after the summer.

Thanks to the ever-weird Don Webb for this one:

“Late Bloomer” a 13-minute film by Craig Macneill presents a middle school sex ed class in a Lovecraftian style. Scary hilarious. Evidently an official selection of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, it won the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the Lake Placid Film Festival, and was named Best Short Film at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.