Sex on the Doorstep

Another one for the What-Would-Lovecraft-Say files: Stuart Gordon's upcoming Thing on the Doorstep has a female protagonist that can take control of bodies by having sex with them. Women? Sex? It's just not right.

Jeffrey Combs isn't having a bar of it either. Despite working alongside Gordon in the racy Re-Animator, the "wall-to-wall" sex in the Thing on the Doorstep, was just too much for him:

"It's not part of my world. It was just too much, it was like, 'And then they're writhing, and then they're humping some more, and then they build to a climax, and then they climax, and sweat...' I wish [Gordon] all the best with that one, but not every project's right for me."

A project that is right for Combs is Leigh Scott's upcoming adaptation of The Dunwich Horror, which is due for a limited theatrical run in October before heading straight to DVD.

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Lovecraft Markets Chocolate

Timothy McSweeney has posted handful of chocolate advertising blurbs penned by Lovecraft:

Caramel Chew

There is a dimension ruled by a blind caramel God-King who sits on a vast, cyclopean milk-chocolate throne while his mindless, gooey followers dance to the piping of crazed flutes. It is said that there are gateways in our world that lead to this caramel hell-planet. The delectable Caramel Chew may be one such portal.

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Pinhead Does Lovecraft

Actor Doug Bradley, famous for playing Pinhead in the Hellraiser series, has voiced a reading of one of Lovecraft's early stories, The Outsider.

A video accompanies the 16-minute reading, which is unfortunately hit and miss. The rolling artwork in the background is great, but the frequent jarring cuts to Bradley while he stands in awkward poses and reads from an autocue seems a little unnecessary. Now, if Bradley was kicking back in an armchair by a fireplace, smoking a pipe, and reading from a big ol' book, then we'd have a winner. Bonus points if he dons the Pinhead garb.

Link to the preview. A couple of pounds gets you the whole thing.

Another Lovecraft Gallery: Les Edwards

I just bumped into an excellent album of Lovecraft- (and Robert E. Howard-) related sketches. Les Edwards, who supplied a bunch of illustrations for Gollancz's Necronomicon: The Best Weird Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, has kindly uploaded them to his online portfolio.

The Innsmouth Chief of Police (right) is the clear winner.