Proppingupthemythos

"Do you read Sutter Cane?"

When I saw the new Sutter Cane novel was out I just had to grab a copy...

I'm not the world's biggest fan of John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness, but I certainly am a sucker for a fictio...

Celebrating thirty years of Lovecraftian filmmaking

What a joy to return to the Hollywood Theater in Portland Oregon for the HPLFF. My filmmaking buddy Jon joined me for the weekend and we ate entirely too much fried chicken. The weather was perfec...

The Festival...

After something like seventeen years away, I am making the trek once more out to Portland Oregon for the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. I will have some goodies with me in case anyone from here is ...

A Guide to the Thirteenth Quire

This Guide is long overdue as we are actually nearing the end of the Fourteenth Quire as I write this, but I hope it will still be of use for keeping the leaves of the book in order. If you have a...

The work continues!

Sorry for the long silence everyone! Between the monthly installments, backorders, and life, I have been neglecting my duties here. I am plotting and planning away, always looking for connections I...

Ye Fearsome Gvg

Hello fiends,

For fun I decided to make stickers of the Gug who bit Abdel's hand off back in Quire 2. This was a pivotal moment for Abdel, and a real gift to me as an illustrator as it makes ...

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

My wife snapped this photo of me in what has accidentally become our Frankenstein corner of the living room. I had Bernie Wrightson sign these two Frankenstein prints for her at the Lovecraft Film ...

A Look Back at 2024

Hello!

With the start of the new year I wanted to do a grab bag of updates and notes on how things are going. In a the Fall I picked up a part time job at a local independent toy store, and h...

Holiday greetings from your kindly hermit!

Hello folks! This year for our family card we decided to invoke some of our favorite early eighties electronic/synth-pop. My wife and I each picked a band, and we recreated an iconic album cover. 2024-12-25 02:16:25 +0000 UTC View Post

A Tome of Interest

Hey folks!

So I have been asked over the years what I would do after the Necronomicon, and I will admit Tobin's Spirit Guide was on my short list. But this version looks absolutely fantastic...

A Halloween Interview Treat!

Hey everyone, long time patron Bill Barbato asked me to guest on his podcast, and I jumped at the opportunity. This should help make up for not successfully taping my NecronomiCon panel, while also...

A Guide to the Twelfth Quire

We have once again reached the conclusion of a Quire, and so the full account of Abdel's encounters in the desert and his entry into the court of Akili has been revealed.

This Quire contains...

NecronomiCon 2024

Thank you to everyone who reached out at the convention, or attended my talk. Public speaking does not come naturally to me, but in the end I trusted that my enthusiasm would carry me through. Whil...

Next Saturday at 3pm!

My NecronomiCon panel is scheduled for next Saturday. I will do my best to make a recording to share so that folks who can't attend don't miss out!

I will also be on the John Carpenter Apocal...

Propping Up the Mythos at NecronomiCon

I have good news! I will be giving a lecture on the creation of my Necronomicon project at NecronomiCon on August 17th at 3:30. It hasn't shown up on the event schedule yet, but I am hopeful it wil...

Happy Summer Solstice!

This is unrelated, but has brought me so much joy: please go over to Google and search "Polish word for tentacle" and then listen to the pronunciation.

Thanks again everyone for supporting t...

A Necronomicon spotted at the Fleur-de-lys Studio

Chad Anctil, a longtime Patron of this project (and a friend for even longer) had the opportunity to participate in a photo shoot at the Fleur-de-lys Studio in Providence Rhode Island. This buildi...

Alien: Absolution

Hey gang, I am absolutely horrible at self promotion. Beyond my fondness for Lovecraft, I also have an abiding love for the Alien films starring Sigourney Weaver. To that end, my wife and I made a...

A Guide to the Eleventh Quire

Walpurgisnacht got away from me, so happy May Day, and I hope Brown Jenkin didn't disturb your sleep last night.

Here is the latest guide to the Quire we just completed. We are nearly through...

I new clue on the Mad Poet's name...

While researching for the book today I stumbled across Ibn Al-Haitham, an author and scientist born in 965 in Basra, Iraq. His primary work Kitab al-Manazir was translated into Latin in the 12th ce...

Remembering Howard

Today is the anniversary of Mr. Lovecraft's passing, and also the year I surpass him in age. I turned 47 on March 11th. He always spoke of himself as far older, even referring to himself as Grandpa...

What is Cthulhu doing in the Necronomicon??

If you read Lovecraft's foundational short story The Call of Cthulhu, you will come away with the impression that the Great Old One and his cult are not mentioned in the Necronomicon at all. The te...

NecronomiCon 2024 booked!

I hope to see many of you in Providence this August! I actually took a couple photos with Patrons last time, but I didn't get around to posting them. I'll let the guilty parties identify themselves...

Nyarlathotep in the desert...

As a full foot of snow blankets my home, I thought a throwback to warmer weather would be fun. I shot my first short film (Nyarlathotep) between '98 and '01, so there are easily 25 years between th...

2023 in Review

Congratulations everyone on another successful journey around the sun. I Have so much to be thankful for as I look back on 2023.  This was the year I made this book project my full time job, w...

Darkness falls...

Here in Maine the days are getting shorter, and the time of Yule draws closer. We have had our first snow, and Krampus has come and gone. This is the perfect time to dig into Al Ridenour's book on ...

Happy Halloween!

The soup is bubbling on the stove and the leaves are blowing in the wind outside. October is my favorite month by far.  Maine has been through a lot in the last week, but Halloween is here and...

A Guide to the Tenth Quire

Hey everyone, as last month's Leaves marked the end of the Tenth Quire, it is time to put up another Guide to help keep things sorted. If you look on the main page of my Patreon, you will see a tab...

He is our Hiro

Hello fiends,

Since I had shared the sad news of Renfield passing, I wanted to share the happy news of Hiro arriving! 

This Siberian Forest Cat has made himself very comfortable in...

Backorders, anyone?

Hey fiends,

I am looking for six patrons interested in getting caught up on backorders. Send me a message!

[Update: this is just the beginning of the  process, and I will contact f...