I keep running late with these updates, but never fear, I do get them posted eventually! Also, it might motivate me to get my ass in gear if I see that people actually find these posts useful and/or maybe even entertaining…

Anyway, last week saw the usual stuff happening, plus some other stuff, so let’s get going:

Semi Co-op is a weekly board game webcomic that I had somehow missed, here’s a post from back in March that seems quite relevant.

HPLHS: Dark Adventure Radio Theatre – The Haunter of the Dark is available for pre-order and is anticipated to ship in late June 2017.

ScreenAnarchy looks at what happened to an Italian film called The King in Yellow: Interludes (a trailer for which was released almost a decade ago).

Blastr: Why At the Mountains of Madness should give you fathomless nightmares.

Marvel.com asks Jason Aaron whether cosmic Horror and the weird fiction of H.P. Lovecraft was an influence on his take on Doctor Strange:

Sure. I’ve read a lot of Lovecraft and love it. I think, again, that Doctor Strange is very different from all the other heroes in the Marvel Universe and that he’s the guy who walks a very different sort of beat and has to deal with threats that most of the other heroes may not even know exist. We wanted to drive that home and Chris [Bachalo] has been a huge part of that. Right out of the gate in issue #1 we did the bit where we kind of see the world through Doctor Strange’s eyes; we call it “Strange Vision” where we see the normal world kind of go into black and white and we see all the things that only someone like Stephen Strange can see in pop and color. Chris is the perfect artist to do stuff like that. He really took it to another level on this. All along the way, once he was on board, he’s been filled with all sorts of crazy ideas with stuff to put in this book, visually, and has taken it to some really wild, imaginative places.

The A.V. Club: Hulu is making a Locke & Key pilot.

Dark Waters director Mariano Baino talks Lovecraftian horror in an interview for ComingSoon.net:

Once again, it’s a feeling of dread, that this work gave me. It just came out that way because he was the first writer that really gave me that feeling of dread on the page. He was the first horror writer I read. I got to there through reading adventure, Tarzan, science fiction, and then at 14 years old I discovered Lovecraft. The moment I discovered Lovecraft was like a whole universe opened up to me. I discovered this world, this world that can grip. It’s not an easy read. It’s not audience friendly, but if you get gripped, that’s it. You can not escape. In a way, at that point, once again, there is no conscious effort to actually make this a Lovecraftian anything. It wasn’t directly based on any Lovecraft story. So whatever Lovecraft is in there, it’s because obviously Lovecraft had influenced me and also my cowriter, who’s a big fan of Lovecraft. So in a way, he was there. He just came out everywhere, because also the setting, the moment you have the remote island. In fact, there was some Lovecraftian elements, which in the original script, were more prominent. There’s little snippets that are left from when the island was populated by mutants, and now it’s not there anymore.

Bustle: Cthulhu in season 3 of Fargo?

Much like Fargo Season 2 dipped its toes in the world of extraterrestrial phenomena early on before re-visiting it in a major way, the novels in the grandfather’s box hint that Season 3 may be taking a much different approach to the paranormal.

The two books, credited to fictional author Thaddeus Mobley, are both science-fiction novels. One depicts a man on an alien planet being confronted by a robot, and the other depicts a massive creature that bears a striking resemblance to the incomprehensible monster Cthulhu. Season 2 deals with UFOs, but could Season 3 be taking a stab at the cosmic, haunting horror of H.P. Lovecraft?

Cthulhu for America: Cthulhu a frequent visitor in the White House.

Sean Eaton continues to look at the creative interaction between H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.

HorrorBabble: Ian Gordon narrates “The Nameless City.”

And Nathan Kloske reads “Pickman’s Model” and “The Music of Erich Zann.”

Reviews from R’lyeh looks at issue 1 of The Arkham Gazette.

Team Covenant presents their new Mythos Tokens for Arkham Horror: The Card Game, while also doing a run through of the first scenario of The Dunwich Legacy.

Bryan Drake reviews Feed the Shoggoth on the Dice Tower network.

Dark Regions Press: Cover concept sketch by Richard Luong for the upcoming Cthulhu Mythos anthology (which will be on Kickstarter instead of Indiegogo, as was previously announced – launch date is May 2).

Also on Kickstarter: Wooden cases for dice storage, including (of course) a Cthulhu variant as a stretch goal.

And that’s that for the week that was.