Undertheradar: Interview with sludge/doom metal band Cough about Lovecraft, among other things. Their latest album, Still They Pray, has excerpts from Lovecraft’s texts.

From the interview, here’s Brandon Marcey’s favourite Lovecraft story:

‘The Colour Out Of Space’ for sure…. it’s unique in it’s Horror, believable in its context, and is essentially the foundation for any horror based on an indescribable substance. Think about when Prometheus came out years back and people we’re all up at arms about the “black goo”, its fiction, its horror, something indescribable like mankind has never seen can come and fuck you up. What is there to get? And Ridley Scott had that on a planet in space… Lovecraft made you believe it was at your back door here on earth. As for other Lovecraft stories ‘At the Mountains of Madness’, the ‘Rats in the Walls’, oh and check out Clark Ashton Smith, Lovecraft’s penpal. He was an amazing horror/sci fi writer and Lovecraft’s best friend.

Smith wasn’t Lovecraft’s best friend (that would probably have been Frank Belknap Long) and they never met face to face, but they carried on an extensive correspondence that will be published in a mammoth volume by Hippocampus Press later this year.

Revolver: Twelve metal songs inspired by Lovecraft.

Metal Underground: Necronomicon is crowdfunding new album “Unleashed” on Indiegogo.

Cadabra Records: “The Yellow Sign” by Robert W. Chambers, read by Anthony D. P. Mann, score by Maurizio Guarini.

Den of Geek: Ridley Scott is planning up to four more Alien prequels.

BoardGameGeek designer diary: Mads L. Brynnum on Madness at Midnight.

IGN: Eleven sci-fi influences that made Mass Effect.

Pickman’s Press is looking for stories to their Corporate Cthulhu anthology, and Martian Migraine Press has opened submissions to their sixth anthology, CHTHONIC: Weird Tales of Inner Earth. (Both via DarkMarkets.com.)

Sandy Petersen talks about his career, here.

SD Toys: The Mirror of Cthulhu (via Propnomicon).

Facts in the Case of Alan Moore’s Providence: Speculations on the end of an era.

Entertainment Weekly: Zombies coming to Riverdale? And… Lovecraftian horrors…? According to showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa:

In my mind, the mythology is this: Riverdale is a non-magical grounded town with weird stuff happening. Then there’s Sweetwater River, where Jason died, and on the other side of that river is Greendale, where Sabrina and the witches traditionally live. On one side of the river, there’s no magic, there’s no supernatural — that’s where Riverdale is. And on the other side of the mythic river, which is sort of like the River Styx, there’s magic and witches and dark Lovecraftian horrors.

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There are even things in the pilot and episode 2, like after Betty invites Cheryl over and Alice is sage-ing Betty’s room, Alice says, “You know, I bet you the Blossoms are up there worshiping some dark pagan god.” It’s an allusion to Lovecraft and those old gods that are in Afterlife with Archie.

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There are a lot of zombie shows, so if we did go there, I think we’d more lean into the Lovecraftian horrors or it would be more like the Evil Dead zombies rather than the Night of the Living Dead zombies, if that makes sense.

Of course Evil Dead has very little to do with Lovecraft other than the use of the Necronomicon, but still. And here I thought this show was crap. But it remains to be seen if anything interesting will happen.

Fantasy Flight: Developer Grace Holdinghaus talks Mansions of Madness as accessible horror.

Locus Online: Paul Di Filippo reviews Caitlín R. Kiernan, and finds some “mild Lovecraftian tinges.”

ComiConverse reviews Darkest Dungeon.

Game Boy Geek previews Call of Cthulhu metal dice, now on Kickstarter.

Issue #3 of Speak No Evil is on Kickstarter, this is “a fun Lovecraftian tale about two teenage brothers facing off against demons from another dimension.” (Via Horror Geek Life.)

Also on Kickstarter – 5ive: King’s Court, which is a set-building card game with several themes, one of which is, of course, Cthulhu.

Ars Technica looks at Mythos Tales.

Cold Warning is a Call of Cthulhu RPG scenario by Scott David Aniolowski, now on Kickstarter for a short time, interview with Aniolowski here, and some additional details here.