Online Card Game: The Necronomicon

And yet another free game from (or of) the Mythos has hit the wires. The Necronomicon, by Games of Cthulhu, is a straightforward dueling card game, based around the seemingly standard gameplay tropes you'd expect in a Lovecraftian game (e.g., spells, insanity, taints, and so on). Check it out on Kongregate, or download it direct from Games of Cthulhu.

Link (via the Cthulhu Room.)

New Lovecraft MMO: Cthulhu Returns

There's a new MMO on the block going by the name Cthulhu Returns. Apparently, it's wall-to-wall Lovecraft -- the game boasts that you'll find every location mentioned in the Lovecraft canon somewhere in the game -- and completely free.

It's not the first Cthulhu MMO, what with CthulhuMud and Cthulhu Nation having been around for some time, but it seems to hit all the right notes, despite the cutesy J-RPG graphics:

Cultists are not for the faint of heart, and have some notable differences from regular professions. They can be attacked by anyone, are treated as criminals by police, and are ignored by some shopkeepers. Keep searching, or ask a Cultist player...if they aren't busy trying to kill you. The Cultist profession master is hidden, and cultists can be very secretive.

More information here, and you can download the open beta here.

Lovecraft on the BBC

A short radio documentary that aired on the BBC a couple of years ago has found its way onto YouTube. It's a punchy introduction to Lovecraft's significance, featuring snippets from the usual suspects, such as S.T. Joshi and Neil Gaiman.

 

Thanks, Weird Tales.

Free Lovecraft Audio Books

Incredibly, people will actually work for fun, send their product to a website at no charge, which will then offer said products to an audience as free downloads. In this case, the people are volunteer Lovecraft fans, the site is LibriVox, the product is over seven hours of Lovecraft audio (24 short stories), and you can get it all here. 

New Comic: Lovecraft is Missing

I'm a few weeks late on this, but Lovecraft is Missing, a new online comic serial, is finally up. It's something of a labour of love for creator Larry Latham, who originally planned to make a CD-ROM game in the nineties, then an adult-targeted TV series. And it's pretty good, too. Comics are released semi-regularly every few days, and the first one popped up on October 1.

Link. Check out the trailer here.