Lovecraft Game Comp Winners

TIGSource has just, well 5 days ago, announced the top games from its Commonplace Book Competition. All games in the competition must somehow relate to the notes in Lovecraft's commonplace book, and TIGSource received an impressive 35 entries.

The games, or at least all the ones I tried, are fairly straightforward typical arcade/platform games, which is odd in itself -- most Lovecraft-inspired games are heavy on narrative and tend to be adventure games of some sort. But they're all fun, and they collectively demonstrate the myriad ways that Lovecraft's works -- even if they're ideas scribbled into a book -- can leak out into the world.

Here's a short list of the top ten (full results here):

1. Verge, by Kyle Pulver
2. From Primordial Egg, by Fifth
3. Eversion, by Zaratustra
4. This Cursed Rock, by deadeye
5. Lost in Eldritch, by Bob le Moche
6. My Entry, by cactus
7. Herbert West in ‘Carrion Re-animating!’, by captainbinky
8. The Clatter of the Keys, by Pishtaco
9. The Lake, by agj
10. Doorror, by Pencerkoff

For mine, I'd say Carrion Re-animating is the best of the bunch, but the mob has spoken.

Grab the official torrent of all games here, or you can pick and choose here.

And if you want more games relating to HPL's commonplace book, the Illuminated Lantern has been running a similar project for a while.

Nyarlathotep Comic

Artist Chuck BB's Nyarlathotep comic is out now. Chuck is adept at combining the weird with a pop surrealist style, so be sure to check it out. If that's enough to get you moving, maybe his own exuberant pitch will sell it:

"My Nyarlathotep Book written by H.P. Mutha-effin Lovecraft dropped in comic shops today! That's Christmas eve! So if you need a last minute stocking stuffer maybe you can go out and grab it. I recieved a copy and It's real swell looking. My first Hardcover, yay! Have a Happy Holiday(s) and I'll see ya in the new year!"

Link.

A Mouldy and Shadowy Christmas

Merry Christmas and happy new year everyone. (Castro's first new year's resolution for 2009: increase the post count.)

Image via Laughing Squid.

Cyaegha Number 2 Out Now

Graeme Phillips's Lovecraft journal, Cyaegha, has hit number 2. For a handful of pounds, you get the following:

Front Cover: Toren Atkinson - 'Rampage'.
[Reprinted from The 1997 Cyber Cthulhu Calendar]
1. Contents.
2. Introduction.
3. Eddy C. Bertin - 'The Creation of Eyurid' (Essay).
5. Tais Teng - 'Eyurid: A Lovecraftian Portfolio' (Art Portfolio).
[Reprinted from Eyurid: A Lovecraftian Portfolio, Dunwich House 1980]
18. Tais Teng and Eddy C. Bertin - 'Eyurid' (Fiction).
[Reprinted from Eyurid: A Lovecraftian Portfolio, Dunwich House 1980]
26. An Interview with Toren Atkinson.
31. A Discography of The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets.
33. Zine Guide - The Pnakotic Series.
41. Wade German - 'Surviving Cyäegha' (Poem).

Link (via The Cimmerian).

Reading Cthulhu Together

BookGlutton is a kind of collaborative online reading site with a simple idea: you select a book to read, and on either side of the page are a chat room and an annotation notepad that let leave messages, ask questions, or interact with people reading the book. Presumably, BookGlutton will support e-readers in the future (if not, then it probably doesn't have much of a future), but in the meantime, it's mostly suited for notebooks and desktops.

I just uploaded the Call of Cthulhu -- check it out for yourself here.

Expedition to the Mountains of Madness

The BBC reports that researchers are preparing for what could be the 'last great' antarctic expedition. The journey will take team to the heart of continent, where they will survey a vast buried moutain range. Dr Ferraccioli from the British Antarctic Survey says:

"This region is a complete enigma. It's in the middle of the continent. Most mountain ranges are on the edges of continents, and we really can't understand what these mountains are doing in the centre."

Such naivety.

"...but at this time and place, with those dark, unknown mountain peaks soaring stupendously ahead, that anomalous elder-world discovery in our minds, and the pall of probable disaster enveloping the greater part of our expedition, we all seemed to find in it a taint of latent malignity and infinitely evil portent." - At the Mountains of Madness