Fantasy Flight Games: A preview of the Blood on the Altar expansion for Arkham Horror: The Card Game.
In Blood on the Altar, as you and your fellow investigators explore the connections between Dunwich and recent events, you’ll find the town’s missing people chief among your concerns. You may even find it somewhat unnerving that they’ve gone missing just before you arrived—and that they might have been taken at the same time you were confronting terrifying, otherworldly creatures on a train, in a museum, or in the private underground corridors of an Arkham speakeasy.
Darkest Dungeon now has Steam Workshop support (for people who like mods).
Collider: Interview with Guillermo del Toro for Collider Nightmares on the hard lesson learned when he tried to make At the Mountains of Madness. I guess this sums it up best: “I’m too much of a Boy Scout, I should have lied, but I didn’t.”
Death at the Flea Circus: An H. P. Lovecraft style breakfast.
The Wyrd is “a speculative short fiction market for authors and artists who have a fondness for weird and slipstream themes,” and they are looking for “works that cross, combine or redefine traditional genre boundaries.” (Via DarkMarkets.com.)
CBR lists the 15 weirdest monsters from the pages of Hellboy.
And ComicsVerse lists the top five influences in early Hellboy comics.
Flavorwire lists ten Lovecraftian films of unspeakable Horror.
Facts in the Case of Alan Moore’s Providence: Annotations for #12 posted, and Providence at last.
University of Rhode Island professor Derek Nikitas has collaborated with James Patterson on an e-book novella with a supernatural theme, but I found this to be a bit more interesting:
He’s written a novelette for Cover Stories, a forthcoming anthology from Volt Books in which contemporary writers re-imagine classic short stories. Nikitas’ contribution is a fresh take on H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu.”
PRWeb: Monria‘s annual St. Patrick’s Day event a mind blower.
Bloody Disgusting: We were so close to getting an Aliens cartoon.
Splice Today looks at Night in the Woods:
The antagonists are also worth noting. The game reveals that citizens of Possum Springs have been abducted by a cult that sacrifices them to a Lovecraftian being of cosmic horror known as the Black Goat. Their motives for this blood ritual emphasize returning to a better time, an idealized fantasy that the cultists desperately cling to. While they assert that they have no ill intentions, they don’t stop to question their actions, or if Possum Springs is even worth saving.
PlayingBoardGames: Curse of the Rougarou #2 and Carnevale of Horrors #2 (they are playing Arkham Horror: The Card Game).
Ars Cardboard also takes a look at Arkham Horror: The Card Game (also here).
There’s been a whole bunch of reviews for The Void, here’s Bloody Disgusting, Collider, Den of Geek, and Film Journal, and here are co-directors Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski, explaining how Suicide Squad and Guillermo del Toro helped create the film.
Also, here’s a collection of posters that “promise something worse than hell.”
Shoggoth.net: Art from Jim Baldessari Sr.
And finally some Kickstarter projects:
First some Cthulhu art prints, with a modest funding goal of £500.
A Forest is a Lovecraft-inspired “interactive horror novel that develops differently based on your decisions.” Funding goal is £7,000.
Artist Dominic Qwek is close to reaching his funding goal of $20,000 for a painted Cthulhu bust, with a little more than a week left:
The individual price for one of these is $230.
Then there’s Ascensum, which is an “innovative card game that senses the cards you play, set in H. P. Lovecraft‘s dark universe and illustrated by Daniele Serra.”
Funding goal is €55,000, so we’ll have to wait and see how that goes.
And lastly this, which is not gonna happen…
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