Earlier this week, Weird Tales and oft adored Ectomo favorite Steven Archer began a year long art project that is certain to end in non-euclidean tragedy. Each day, Weird Tales will reveal a new Lovecraftian piece created by Steven — all of which are for sale at obscenely low rates — ending the project once the Earth has completed its annual drunken wobble ’round the Sun.
While I’d love to see this project completed it seems unrealistic not to expect some kind of massive psychological break resultant from spending each day rendering the various visages of creatures that inhabit the noplace between worlds. On day 360 I’m blowing town for the arctic. A five day head start should be just enough time to get out of the path of the octo-godlet that, even now, grows inside poor Steven’s head.
In 1945 the Nazis fled to the moon. In 2018 they are coming back.
Two sentences was all it took to get me more interested in a film than I’ve been in years. Hopefully this — in concert with Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow — is the beginning of a new golden age in the pulp scifi of yesteryear being brought to the theater.
In 2238 the first fully human-passable android was developed by the AI Underground in what historians would come to call “Genesis 2.0″. The poor confused half-breed slipped into this world from the comfort of a cozy lab-grown womb with the full weight of the world on his shoulders and a legacy of terrible, unavoidable, blood-soaked horrors he had yet to fulfill.
Arkham in Autumn is more colorful than anything I could have imagined, the rich vibrance of the leaves as they make their last hurrah nearly makes up for the brusque manner of the township’s denizens. While not outwardly rude or disrespectful in their manner, everyone here seems very private, one might almost say to a fault. Still, the unnatural beauty of Arkham’s seasonal metamorphosis can not compare to your own. I long for the hastened (and hopefully uneventful) passing of the semester so that we might be reunited. I hope all is well, please give my love to the children.
In sheer defiance of the World Wide Web Consortium's will, Ectomo was designed using a non-web-standard font. Luckily, it is included in the excellent font pack released by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, which can be freely downloaded in Mac and PC formats here. Ectomo should still look fine without it, though.
