Meg Turville-Heitz, WFC Board co-chair, announced today, “The Board of the World Fantasy Convention has instructed the World Fantasy Award Administration to retire the Gahan Wilson HPL design including the nomination pins.”
Everyone’s raving about Vincent Villafranca’s winning design for the World Fantasy Award. However, World Fantasy’s statement in the same press release that nominee pins will still feature the supposedly retired Lovecraft image is being widely criticized. This is genuinely lovely. But then Vincent … Continue reading
The 7th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival’s eldritch offerings will blaze forth upon the Warner Grand Theatre screen from April 29-May 1. The event takes place in San Pedro, CA where the Festival’s featured guests will be — Joseph S. … Continue reading
Two-time World Fantasy Award winner S. T. Joshi, author of numerous books on H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos, and the editor of many more critical works about them, publicly announced he is returning his awards in protest against the World … Continue reading
David Hartwell announced at the World Fantasy Award ceremony on November 8 that this will be the last year that the award trophy will be in the form of the traditional — and controversial — H.P. Lovecraft bust designed by … Continue reading
If dead men tell no tales, why is Ask Lovecraft taking a crack at explaining “Sad Puppies”? Lovecraft demurely claims, “We are happy not being at the center of the controversy for once.” I’m sorry, my laughter is keeping me from pressing the … Continue reading
Narragansett Beer has released Innsmouth Olde Ale, the second in a planned series of four fermented tributes to the work of H.P. Lovecraft. Chapter 2 in the Lovecraft Series draws its inspiration from “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” one of our … Continue reading
Naragansett Beer will release its Lovecraft Honey Ale on January 19 — birthday of that other genius of horror, Edgar Allan Poe. The Lovecraft Honey Ale was inspired by the Space Mead consumed by winged Byakhee as protection from “interstellar … Continue reading
The John Hay Library at Brown University is taking applications through January 31 for the S.T. Joshi Endowed Research Fellowship, an annual fellowship for research relating to H. P. Lovecraft, his associates, and literary heirs. The Fellowship, which provides a … Continue reading
There is no army so powerful as an idea whose time has come, and apparently the idea of making H.P. Lovecraft the protagonist of his own comic is that idea. A week ago, while I was writing about the late … Continue reading