When it comes to bizarre hobbies, merging two animals together in the name of art has got to be among the strangest. Student Arne Fredriksen uses photo manipulation to create the out of these world hybrids which have become a hit online. The Weird …See all stories on this topic »[...]
Playing right now on the festival circuit is H.P. Lovecraft's The Shunned House, a short film (roughly ten minutes long, not including credits) adapted for the …www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/?p=21253 Click Here to Read Google Alerts – H. P. Lovecraft by Tweet
The Horror Writers Association is proud to announce Glenn Chadbourne as the Artist Guest of Honor for the World Horror Convention (WHC) 2013. In 2013 the HWA is hosting WHC as part of the Bram Stoker Awards™ Weekend in New Orleans from 13-16 June. Glenn Chadbourne is a freelance artist specialising in the horror/dark fantasy[...]
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is proud to announce Bruce Boston as Poet Guest of Honor for the Bram Stoker Awards™ Weekend 2013, to be held in New Orleans from 13-16 June 2013. Bruce Boston is the author of fifty books and chapbooks, including the novels The Guardener’s Tale and Stained Glass Rain. His poetry[...]
Kevin Kidney and Jody Daily designed this beautiful Polynesian Wau Bowl for an upcoming Walt Disney World special event. It’ll sell for $ 35, but the on-sale date isn’t announced yet. Summer’s coming… Click Here to Read Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Tweet
At Harvard, researchers absorb the lessons of the natural world, from the human immune system to an insect-trapping plant, then tweak them to create bold, new technologies for health. Click Here to Read Living World by Tweet
Asked to describe the five senses, most of us can rattle them off without hesitation: sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. But what do those words mean, and do they mean the same thing to every person? Take sound, for example. Randall Poster, who has worked as a music supervisor on movies ranging from School[...]
Check back for more programming updates as we get closer to the World Horror Convention/Bram Stoker Awards® Weekend in New Orleans! Programming Report #1 (PDF) Click Here to Read Horror Writers Association Blog by admin Tweet
The crew of the International Space Station would like to wish you very happy holidays this year, and it comes in the form of this pretty timelapse video. On their wishlist? World peace. They’d like to see a little more cooperation on the beautiful blue marble they orbit. Click Here to Read 80beats by Breanna[...]
A pretty good short BBC radio documentary on fan fiction: When Harry Potter met Frodo: The Strange World of Fan Fiction. Available online. Despite the cow-catching title, copyright means it doesn’t dwell for more than a few seconds on Potter or LoTR. Lovecraft’s mythos sadly doesn’t get a namecheck as the ur-site of fan fiction[...]
Bizarre requests for Britain's foreign office. The writer has posted comments on this article Kounteya SinhaKounteya Sinha, TNN | May 18, 2013, 05.37 AM IST. Tweet. Share on Linkedin. Comments. More …See all stories on this topic » Click Here to Read Google Alerts – bizarre by Tweet
Featuring Guest Host Andrew Leman & the Vocal Stylings of Sean Branney Selected music by The Spider Translator In the spirit of our story, Mr. Fifer chose to host via portable phone from deep below the earth. Let’s all watch Out of Mind And don’t forget to check out… The Whisperer in Darkness! Next up:[...]
To an arachnophobe they may seem universally creepy, but spiders can actually be nice. One strange species of spider, Anelosimus studiosus, consists of individuals of two distinct personalities: docile and aggressive. And new research finds that, in this species at least, nice guys finish last. A. studiosus is found in both North and South America, where[...]
This week we explore what it’s like to deal with the elderly in The Terrible Old Man. Extra thanks to our reader – Mr. Douglas Sarine of Ask a Ninja! Note: I forgot to mention a cool animation that adapts this story! Check it out! -Chris. Next week: The Tree & The Cats of Ulthar! http://www.hppodcraft.com/podcasts/09_09_10_hppodcraft_ep010.mp3[...]
Watching a butterfly emerge from its chrysalis is enough to evoke wonder even from the most world-weary of souls. But rarely do we get to see behind the scenes of the pupa’s transformation. Current methods rely on dissection of the chrysalis, or at best, staining the critter (thereby killing it) and using X-rays to look[...]
The fish detect magnetic fields and use them to orient themselves along a North-South axis. Click Here to Read Living World by Tweet
H.P. Lovecraft is all of those things, but a master of his craft is not necessarily an easy man to live with, and genius often goes unrecognized in it's time, or at least unrewarded financially. How does one love the man like Lovecraft? A man who …See all stories on this topic » Click Here[...]
Activity in a particular part of our brains while listening to new music reveals whether we enjoy the tune, and even how much we’d be willing to pay to hear it again. Neural activity in the nucleus accumbens (NAcc), part of the brain’s ventral striatum, can predict how much a listener likes a particular piece[...]
Lately, a lot of folks have asked me to post on the blog. I do this as a service, and it does not mean I personally support the process. The blog is about Lovecraft and his legacy, and part of the second decade of the 21st century is about social networking and how Lovecraft’s legacy[...]
Most of us would agree that harming others on purpose and for no reason is immoral. Social scientists have long assumed that marketplaces are to blame for many a compromised moral. There’s no shortage of historical examples: take the slave trade, or buying indulgences from the church, for instance. Now science has weighed in to confirm[...]
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