On the Occasion of Lovecraft’s Birthday
Tomorrow, August 20th, marks the 132nd birthday of the biggest name in cosmic horror, the man who made tentacles fashionable and non-Euclidian geometry scary, H.P. Lovecraft. And, by some wild twist of metaphysical synchronicity, it’s also our buddy Fletcher’s birthday, so naturally, he has a few things to say about Lovecraft. On the Occasion of Lovecraft’s Birthday by Fletcher Vredenburgh I can remember the exact day I...
Real Life Adventures: Lovecraft’s Providence
Real Life Adventures: Lovecraft’s Providence by Michael Curtis and Brendan LaSalle Halloween is the perfect time to celebrate one Howard Phillips Lovecraft. To that end, we re-present this Real Life Adventure that took two of our own to his birthplace. Goodman Games uses a number of methods to inspire the creativity behind our adventures. What we call “real life adventures” is one such method. This is where we travel to inspirational...
Classic Covers: H.P. Lovecraft
Few writers have had quite the literary afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft, a man whose name has become a byword for all things tentacled and mind-destroying. With millions of books in print in thousands of editions, the originator of works with a trend-setting aesthetic in writhingly dark cosmic horror, Lovecraft’s stories have proven an irresistible lure to artists of the macabre since the pulp era. Here is just a small sampling of...
Appendix N Mini-Comics by Stefan Poag!
Yes we’re a gaming company, but we’re heavily inspired by the works of Appendix N and great art—and sometimes our interests stray a bit toward those inspirations. Can you blame us? Today we’ve got two new additions to the online store. We’re happy to announce two mini-comics by Stefan Poag! Many of you will know Stefan’s name from the pages of Dungeon Crawl Classics, where his illustrations regularly appear. You may...