Another Cthulhu novel being brought to the big screen.

[dennilfloss]

http://www.latinoreview.com/news.php?id=2982

At The Mountain Of Madness. Excellent!

 

[AnitaPeterson]

This is indeed excellent news!

I doubt there is another director more suitable to transpose Lovecraftian nightmares to the big screen!
This film could be the Holy Grail for Lovecraft afficionados!

 

[jandrews]

huh, this is very good and it just so happens at the mountain of madness is my favorite of all his short stories.

 

[djheater]

oooo.. I didn't know they were making a Hellboy 2!

Good stuff, will definately see both, alone with my lcd and headphones... in the dark... scared crapless....

 

[cthulhu]

Hell yea! I can't wait for this.

 

[pontifex]

Its a short story, not a novel. I don't think any of the Cthulhu stories are long enough to be considered a novel (although it is one of the longer Cthulhu stories).

 

[jandrews]

I am not sure why you call this a cthulu story, its hp lovecraft and I am not even sure this story mentions cthulhu to tell the truth but it definately has to do with aliens and other ancient life forms.

 

[alrocky]

I see: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

at Amazon.com. If I were to get 1 or 2 books by him would anyone recommend this or another collection of his stories?

 

[loup garou]

Guillermo Del Toro FTW!

Can't wait for Hellboy 2 and now this!

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: jandrews
I am not sure why you call this a cthulu story, its hp lovecraft and I am not even sure this story mentions cthulhu to tell the truth but it definately has to do with aliens and other ancient life forms.

Those ancient life forms are the old ones, and are certainly a part of the chthulu mythos. Whan I read it, I took it as an expansion on the rest of the stories...as though the city was built before chthulu came....

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: alrocky
I see: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

at Amazon.com. If I were to get 1 or 2 books by him would anyone recommend this or another collection of his stories?

Get the ones published by Penguin books. They are all compilations and as far as i know, cover most of his stories. There are 3 books.

 

[Shadowknight]

Do... you read Sutter Cane?

 

[PliotronX]

If anyone can convey the gory insanity of Lovecrafts incredible writing on the silver screen, it'd be Guillermo. Can't wait.

 

[JasonCoder]

I always wanted to like Lovecraft's work but I never really got into it. It's so drawn out and expressive, the man can spend page after page detailing a mind bending scene that it's no longer mind bending. I have to go back and re-read that something was actually going on in a paragraph. What I guess I'm saying I guess is that I find H.P. Lovecrafts works to definitely be hard reads. But then plenty of people dig Ulysses and it sure ain't no easy read.

What's very cool is that Lovecraft compiled a mythos of creatures of ancient bygone eras. The P&P game by Sandy Peterson et. al. was pretty good too. San roll anyone?