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Miskatonic School for Girls is a deck building card game currently seeking development funding through Kickstarter. It looks quite cool: They’re taking pledges through December 5, 11:21 am EST. A $45 pledge will get you a copy of the game with custom insert. (For those of you who don’t know how Kickstarter works, it’s a “funding [...]
Mon, November 21 2011 » Cthulhu Mythos, Gaming » No Comments
Other than Valentine’s Day and Lovecraft’s Birthday, what better day to celebrate all things Cthulhu than Halloween? Here at Machina Memorialis, we’re celebrating the day by downloading and reading the free Complete Works of Lovecraft eBook put together by Cthulhu Chick. Cthulhu Chick offers the eBook in PDF, ePUB and MOBI formats. I’ve downloaded it [...]
Mon, October 31 2011 » Cthulhu Mythos » 2 Comments
It’s Christmas time and for those of us at Machina Memorialis, this end of year and the coming of winter turns our minds to one thing: Cthulhu. To celebrate, we’ll be bringing you a number of our favorite holiday songs, most of them courtesy of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. The Cultist Song You need [...]
Tue, December 14 2010 » Coolness, Cthulhu Mythos » No Comments
Since we all know that the proper time to celebrate Cthulhu is Valentine’s Day week,1 ,I offer you a suitable option to turn your hum-drum Halloween party into a kick-ass esoteric nerd fest: Incubus, staring William Shatner.2 You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Well, okay, Lovecraft’s birthday might be [...]
Sat, October 23 2010 » Coolness, Cthulhu Mythos » 1 Comment
In our ongoing service to bring you all things Mythos: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Thu, September 2 2010 » Coolness, Cthulhu Mythos » No Comments
One of my favorite passages from Lovecraft is the first paragraph of his short story “The Call of Cthulhu“: The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of [...]
Tue, July 13 2010 » Charles Stross, Cthulhu Mythos, Reading, Science Fiction/Fantasy » No Comments
The Fuller Memorandum is the third novel in Charles Stross’ Laundry series best described as Lovecraftian spy thrillers, and “Overtime” is the most recent Laundry short story (available for free from Tor). Playing with Lovecraft’s conceit that magic is applied mathematics and the horror of the Mythos are aliens and beings from other dimensions, the [...]
Tue, July 13 2010 » Charles Stross, Cthulhu Mythos, Reading, Science Fiction/Fantasy » 2 Comments
In our never-ending quest to highlight Cthulhuiana in all its forms,1 we offer here Norm Sherman’s “Heartache Over Innsmouth.” I think my favorite line is “I told her one night, ‘Baby, I’m sorry, it’s either Dagon or me.’” You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Special thanks to Brendan for [...]
Sun, July 4 2010 » Cthulhu Mythos » No Comments
From Charles Stross’ blog: Cubicle 7 Entertainment is producing a roleplaying game based on the award-winning Laundry series (The Atrocity Archives, The Jennifer Morgue, and the forthcoming The Fuller Memorandum) by the even-more-award-winning Charles Stross, and uses the also-award-winning Basic Roleplaying System (Call Of Cthulhu) by Chaosium Inc. “We love the Laundry Files novels, so [...]
Wed, March 10 2010 » Charles Stross, Coolness, Cthulhu Mythos, Gaming » 1 Comment
As regular readers know, if it’s Cthulhuiana, it gets posted here. The latest Mythos offering is “I Had a Shoggoth.” You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video One wonders if this is how I want to start the year off, but it seems it shall be. Thanks to Dennis at [...]
Thu, January 8 2009 » Cthulhu Mythos » No Comments
