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Lovecraftian webzine by the

N UEVA
L OGIA DEL
T ENTCULO

e c ia l I s s u e
Sp o n -
s h E d iti
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May/07
 Cthulhu rupestre
INDEX by Ebenezer Holt...................................................1
The Doom that Came to Sarnath
by H. P. Lovecraft..................................................3
Its Howards World
by Sean Branney & Andrew Leman .......................7
Interview to S. Branney y A. Leman
by Joseph Curwen ................................................9
The Doom That Came To Sarnath
Comic by Ebenezer Holt ......................................14
Lovecrafts Portait
by Cyrus Llanfer .................................................20
Pin-Up II
by Miquel Rof......................................................21
Lupo Valpurgis
by ngel Svoboda................................................22
Monster
by Tyndalos ........................................................23
Walking in Red Hook
by Ebenezer Holt.................................................24

s. XVI

La Estela de Luveh-Kerapt Special Issue English Edition. May 2007.

Lovecraftian webzine by the Nueva Logia del Tentculo (NLdT).
Director: Henry Armitage (Eulogio Ga. Recalde). Collaborators: Sean Branney, Andrew Leman, Joseph Curwen (Jos Mara Prsper),
Cyrus Llanfer (Miguel ngel Morales), Miquel Rof, ngel Svoboda, Tyndalos (Carlos Blanco) and Ebenezer Holt (Antonio Blzquez).
Editor: Ebenezer Holt.

web: dreamers.com/logia - foro: gritos.com/logia - e-mail: nuevalogia_lovecraft@hotmail.com

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 Doom That Came to Sarnath
LOVECRAFT
The
H. P. Lovecraft
Written on December 3, 1919
Published June 1920 in The Scot

papyrus of Ilarnek, that they one day discovered fire, and thereafter

T here is in the land of Mnar a vast still lake that is fed by

stream, and out of which no stream flows. Ten thousand years
kindled flames on many ceremonial occasions. But not much is writ-
ten of these beings, because they lived in very ancient times, and
no man is young, and knows but little of the very ancient living things.
ago there stood by its shore the mighty city of Sarnath, but Sarnath
After many eons men came to the land of Mnar, dark shepherd
stands there no more.
folk with their fleecy flocks, who built Thraa, Ilarnek, and
It is told that in the immemorial years when the world was young, Kadatheron on the winding river Ai. And certain tribes, more hardy
before ever the men of Sarnath came to the land of Mnar, another than the rest, pushed on to the border of the lake and built Sarnath at
city stood beside the lake; the gray stone city of Ib, which was old as a spot where precious metals were found in the earth.
the lake itself, and peopled with beings not pleasing to behold. Very
Not far from the gray city of lb did the wandering tribes lay the
odd and ugly were these beings, as indeed are most beings of a world
first stones of Sarnath, and at the beings of lb they marveled greatly.
yet inchoate and rudely fashioned. It is written on the brick cylinders
But with their marveling was mixed hate, for they thought it not
of Kadatheron that the beings of lb were in hue as green as the lake
meet that beings of such aspect should walk about the world of men
and the mists that rise above it; that they had bulging eyes, pouting,
at dusk. Nor did they like the strange sculptures upon the gray mono-
flabby lips, and curious ears, and were without voice. It is also writ-
liths of Ib, for why those sculptures lingered so late in the world,
ten that they descended one night from the moon in a mist; they and
even until the coming men, none can tell; unless it was because the
the vast still lake and gray stone city lb. However this may be, it is
land of Mnar is very still, and remote from most other lands, both of
certain that they worshipped a sea-green stone idol chiseled in the
waking and of dream.
likeness of Bokrug, the great water-lizard; before which they danced
horribly when the moon was gibbous. And it is written in the As the men of Sarnath beheld more of the beings of lb their hate

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 grew, and it was not less because they found the beings weak, and in height three hundred cubits and in breadth seventy-five, so that
soft as jelly to the touch of stones and arrows. So one day the chariots might pass each other as men drove them along the top. For
young warriors, the slingers and the spearmen and the bowmen, full five hundred stadia did they run, being open only on the side
marched against lb and slew all the inhabitants thereof, pushing toward the lake where a green stone sea-wall kept back the waves
the queer bodies into the lake with long spears, because they did that rose oddly once a year at the festival of the destroying of Ib. In
not wish to touch them. And because they did not like the gray Sarnath were fifty streets from the lake to the gates of the caravans,
sculptured monoliths of lb they cast these also into the lake; won- and fifty more intersecting them. With onyx were they paved, save
dering from the greatness of the labor how ever the stones were those whereon the horses and camels and elephants trod, which were
brought from afar, as they must have been, since there is naught paved with granite. And the gates of Sarnath were as many as the
like them in the land of Mnar or in the lands adjacent. landward ends of the streets, each of bronze, and flanked by the fig-
ures of lions and elephants carven from some stone no longer known
Thus of the very ancient city of lb was nothing spared, save the
among men. The houses of Sarnath were of glazed brick and chal-
sea-green stone idol chiseled in the likeness of Bokrug, the water-
cedony, each having its walled garden and crystal lakelet. With
lizard. This the young warriors took back with them as a symbol of
strange art were they builded, for no other city had houses like them;
conquest over the old gods and beings of Th, and as a sign of lead-
and travelers from Thraa and Ilarnek and Kadatheron marveled at
ership in Mnar. But on the night after it was set up in the temple, a
the shining domes wherewith they were surmounted.
terrible thing must have happened, for weird lights were seen over
the lake, and in the morning the people found the idol gone and the But more marvelous still were the palaces and the temples, and
high-priest Taran-Ish lying dead, as from some fear unspeakable. the gardens made by Zokkar the olden king. There were many
And before he died, Taran-Ish had scrawled upon the altar of chryso- palaces, the last of which were mightier than any in Thraa or
lite with coarse shaky strokes the sign of DOOM. Ilarnek or Kadatheron. So high were they that one within might
sometimes fancy himself beneath only the sky; yet when lighted
After Taran-Ish there were many high-priests in Sarnath but never
with torches dipt in the oil of Dother their walls showed vast paint-
was the sea-green stone idol found. And many centuries came and
ings of kings and armies, of a splendor at once inspiring and stupe-
went, wherein Sarnath prospered exceedingly, so that only priests
fying to the beholder. Many were the pillars of the palaces, all of
and old women remembered what Taran-Ish had scrawled upon the
tinted marble, and carven into designs of surpassing beauty. And in
altar of chrysolite. Betwixt Sarnath and the city of Ilarnek arose a
most of the palaces the floors were mosaics of beryl and lapis
caravan route, and the precious metals from the earth were
lazuli and sardonyx and carbuncle and other choice materials, so
exchanged for other metals and rare cloths and jewels and books and
disposed that the beholder might fancy himself walking over beds
tools for artificers and all things of luxury that are known to the peo-
of the rarest flowers. And there were likewise fountains, which cast
ple who dwell along the winding river Ai and beyond. So Sarnath
scented waters about in pleasing jets arranged with cunning art.
waxed mighty and learned and beautiful, and sent forth conquering
Outshining all others was the palace of the kings of Mnar and of
armies to subdue the neighboring cities; and in time there sate upon
the lands adjacent. On a pair of golden crouching lions rested the
a throne in Sarnath the kings of all the land of Mnar and of many
throne, many steps above the gleaming floor. And it was wrought
lands adjacent.
of one piece of ivory, though no man lives who knows whence so
The wonder of the world and the pride of all mankind was Sarnath vast a piece could have come. In that palace there were also many
the magnificent. Of polished desert-quarried marble were its walls, galleries, and many amphitheaters where lions and men and ele-

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 phants battled at the pleasure of the kings. Sometimes the whilst the music of rare birds chimed in with the melody of the
amphitheaters were flooded with water conveyed from the lake in waters. In ordered terraces rose the green banks, adorned here and
mighty aqueducts, and then were enacted stirring sea-fights, or there with bowers of vines and sweet blossoms, and seats and bench-
combats betwixt swimmers and deadly marine things. es of marble and porphyry. And there were many small shrines and
temples where one might rest or pray to small gods.
Lofty and amazing were the seventeen tower-like temples of
Sarnath, fashioned of a bright multi-colored stone not known else- Each year there was celebrated in Sarnath the feast of the destroy-
where. A full thousand cubits high stood the greatest among them, ing of lb, at which time wine, song, dancing, and merriment of every
wherein the high-priests dwelt with a magnificence scarce less than kind abounded. Great honors were then paid to the shades of those
that of the kings. On the ground were halls as vast and splendid as who had annihilated the odd ancient beings, and the memory of
those of the palaces; where gathered throngs in worship of Zo-Kalar those beings and of their elder gods was derided by dancers and
and Tamash and Lobon, the chief gods of Sarnath, whose incense- lutanists crowned with roses from the gardens of Zokkar. And the
enveloped shrines were as the thrones of monarchs. Not like the kings would look out over the lake and curse the bones of the dead
eikons of other gods were those of Zo-Kalar and Tamash and that lay beneath it.
Lobon. For so close to life were they that one might swear the
At first the high-priests liked not these festivals, for there had
graceful bearded gods themselves sate on the ivory thrones. And up
descended amongst them queer tales of how the sea-green eikon had
unending steps of zircon was the tower-chamber, wherefrom the
vanished, and how Taran-Ish had died from fear and left a warning.
high-priests looked out over the city and the plains and the lake by
And they said that from their high tower they sometimes saw lights
day; and at the cryptic moon and significant stars and planets, and
beneath the waters of the lake. But as many years passed without
their reflections in the lake, at night. Here was done the very secret
calamity even the priests laughed and cursed and joined in the orgies
and ancient rite in detestation of Bokrug, the water-lizard, and here
of the feasters. Indeed, had they not themselves, in their high tower,
rested the altar of chrysolite which bore the Doom-scrawl of Taran-
often performed the very ancient and secret rite in detestation of
Ish.
Bokrug, the water-lizard? And a thousand years of riches and delight
Wonderful likewise were the gardens made by Zokkar the olden passed over Sarnath, wonder of the world.
king. In the center of Sarnath they lay, covering a great space and
Gorgeous beyond thought was the feast of the thousandth year of
encircled by a high wall. And they were surmounted by a mighty
the destroying of lb. For a decade had it been talked of in the land of
dome of glass, through which shone the sun and moon and planets
Mnar, and as it drew nigh there came to Sarnath on horses and
when it was clear, and from which were hung fulgent images of the
camels and elephants men from Thraa, Ilarnek, and Kadetheron, and
sun and moon and stars and planets when it was not clear. In sum-
all the cities of Mnar and the lands beyond. Before the marble walls
mer the gardens were cooled with fresh odorous breezes skilfully
on the appointed night were pitched the pavilions of princes and the
wafted by fans, and in winter they were heated with concealed fires,
tents of travelers. Within his banquet-hall reclined Nargis-Hei, the
so that in those gardens it was always spring. There ran little streams
king, drunken with ancient wine from the vaults of conquered Pnoth,
over bright pebbles, dividing meads of green and gardens of many
and surrounded by feasting nobles and hurrying slaves. There were
hues, and spanned by a multitude of bridges. Many were the water-
eaten many strange delicacies at that feast; peacocks from the distant
falls in their courses, and many were the hued lakelets into which
hills of Linplan, heels of camels from the Bnazic desert, nuts and
they expanded. Over the streams and lakelets rode white swans,
spices from Sydathrian groves, and pearls from wave-washed Mtal

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 dissolved in the vinegar of Thraa. Of sauces there were an untold and his nobles and slaves, but a horde of indescribable green voice-
number, prepared by the subtlest cooks in all Mnar, and suited to the less things with bulging eyes, pouting, flabby lips, and curious ears;
palate of every feaster. But most prized of all the viands were the things which danced horribly, bearing in their paws golden platters
great fishes from the lake, each of vast size, and served upon golden set with rubies and diamonds and containing uncouth flames. And
platters set with rubies and diamonds. the princes and travelers, as they fled from the doomed city of
Sarnath on horses and camels and elephants, looked again upon the
Whilst the king and his nobles feasted within the palace, and
mist-begetting lake and saw the gray rock Akurion was quite sub-
viewed the crowning dish as it awaited them on golden platters, oth-
merged. Through all the land of Mnar and the land adjacent spread
ers feasted elsewhere. In the tower of the great temple the priests
the tales of those who had fled from Sarnath, and caravans sought
held revels, and in pavilions without the walls the princes of neigh-
that accursed city and its precious metals no more. It was long ere
boring lands made merry. And it was the high-priest Gnai-Kah who
any travelers went thither, and even then only the brave and adven-
first saw the shadows that descended from the gibbous moon into the
turous young men of yellow hair and blue eyes, who are no kin to
lake, and the damnable green mists that arose from the lake to meet
the men of Mnar. These men indeed went to the lake to view
the moon and to shroud in a sinister haze the towers and the domes
Sarnath; but though they found the vast still lake itself, and the gray
of fated Sarnath. Thereafter those in the towers and without the walls
rock Akurion which rears high above it near the shore, they beheld
beheld strange lights on the water, and saw that the gray rock
not the wonder of the world and pride of all mankind. Where once
Akurion, which was wont to rear high above it near the shore, was
had risen walls of three hundred cubits and towers yet higher, now
almost submerged. And fear grew vaguely yet swiftly, so that the
stretched only the marshy shore, and where once had dwelt fifty mil-
princes of Ilarnek and of far Rokol took down and folded their tents
lion of men now crawled the detestable water-lizard. Not even the
and pavilions and departed, though they scarce knew the reason for
mines of precious metal remained. DOOM had come to Sarnath.
their departing.
But half buried in the rushes was spied a curious green idol; an
Then, close to the hour of midnight, all the bronze gates of
exceedingly ancient idol chiseled in the likeness of Bokrug, the
Sarnath burst open and emptied forth a frenzied throng that black-
great water-lizard. That idol, enshrined in the high temple at
ened the plain, so that all the visiting princes and travelers fled away
Ilarnek, was subsequently worshipped beneath the gibbous moon
in fright. For on the faces of this throng was writ a madness born of
throughout the land of Mnar.
horror unendurable, and on their tongues were words so terrible that
no hearer paused for proof. Men whose eyes were wild with fear
shrieked aloud of the sight within the kings banquet-hall, where
through the windows were seen no longer the forms of Nargis-Hei
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 World
BRANNEY/LEMAN
Its Howards
By The HP Lovecraft Historical Society forging alternate universes since 1984]
Sean Branney & Andrew Leman
of the HP Lovecraft Historical Society

Henry,
Were glad you
approve of our Call
of Cthulhu. Ive been
sitting here today
working on the scre-
enplay for our pro-
duction of The W eve been Cthulhu
Whisperer in the guys for a long time.
Darkness that well Since we first started pla-
be shooting later ying Chaosiums The Call
of Cthulhu back in the
this year. We early 80s, the Lovecraf-
should be able to tian universe has been
write a small piece something weve shared
for you guys. with our friends. As weve
Likewise, if you grown older and the HP
want to do an Lovecraft Historical Society
interview and has grown larger, weve
come to understand what
send us questions, an international phenome-
either Leman or I non the Cthulhu Mythos is.

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 When we were planning the DVD of our film, The Call of New England. His writing is dense and (as many translators
Cthulhu, we wanted to share it with as wide an audience as have let us know) often not easily rendered into other tongues.
we could. We had friends that would help us with translations But what makes the Cthulhu Mythos powerful and what cap-
into the most common western languages. We started getting tures our collective imagination is the cosmic scale of his
offers for less common languages and thought it would be fun works. Its a mythology vaster than any culture, region, spe-
to see how many languages we could get for our DVD. In the cies, or even the earth itself.
end, we had the movie translated into 23 languages besides
English, and, with great regret, we turned down offers for
Perhaps it is the camaraderie that comes
Russian, Hebrew, Greek, Japanese, Arabic, Korean and
from our shared sense of despair at
Mandarin, as we didnt feel ready to produce title
the futility of humanity that draws
cards in languages with non-roman alphabets. But
Lovecraft fans together. Weve
deep down, we were amazed to see that there
seen gatherings of HPL fans
were Lovecraft fans throughout much of the
from Stockholm to Buenos
world.
Aires, and regardless of
where they are, they are
Once we released the movie we started generally a crowd of
hearing from people everywhere who intelligent, creative,
were delighted to be able to see a new thoughtful and
(old?) movie and enjoy it in their nati- friendly people.
ve language. In some places, such as Were delighted to
Scandinavia, we found audiences continue reaching
preferred to watch the film in out to our new-
English, but in many others the film found friends as
found a multilingual audience of together we swirl
Lovecraft fans. through a dark
universe.
Its a curious phenomenon, as
Lovecrafts atmosphere and writing
style are so anchored to his beloved
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 Interview to

Sean Branney &

CURWEN/BRANNEY/LEMAN
By
Joseph Curwen
from the Nueva Logia

Andrew Leman
del Tentculo (NLdT)

GREAT SCHOLARS OF H.P. LOVECRAFT AND HIS WORKS, DEFINITIVE MAKERS OF THE AVANT-GARDE LOVECRAFTIAN CINEMA
Sean Branney (1966; Englewood Colorado- USA) and Andrew Leman (1966; Denver Colorado-, USA) are great scholars of
H.P. Lovecraft and his Works. They, who are definitive makers of the avant-garde lovecraftian cinema, speak in an exclusive inter-
view for the Nueva Logia del Tentculo (New Lodge of Tentacles). They both are always present in the best-known Film-Festivals
devoted to H.P. Lovecraft and they have awarded prizes in the most important Festivals.

NLdT: I would like to start this interview asking how and when your
interest in the American writer H.P. Lovecraft began.
Sean: For me, my weirdest friend in high school gave me a book and said,
Theres the is really weird story by this really weird writer. I read it, and he was
right: it was really weird. I went and bought a collection and read more HPL sto-
ries.
Andrew: I was introduced to the works of HPL through Sean Branney, when he
invited me to join him and some other friends in playing the Chaosium role-playing
game Call of Cthulhu. I dont recall ever having heard of Lovecraft before that, but
I thought the game was so much fun that I began reading his stories to improve my
Sean Branney ability to play. Andrew Leman

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 NLdT: How did you come up with the website documenting over 20 years of the American writer?
idea of founding the H.P. Lovecraft Lovecraftian activity, with vast amounts of Sean: The clearly seem to be. Lovecraft
Historical Society? content of all kinds. Weve produced musi- is more popular now than he has ever been
Sean: We were playing a lot of our live cal, motion-picture, and radio drama adap- and his fame and popularity seem to be
role playing game, Cthulhu Lives, and tations of HPLs stories which have brought increasing. Many people are now aware of
found that many people were interested in his tales to new and wider audiences. Cthulhu through popular culture without
what we were doing. The HPLHS has ever having heard of or read HP Lovecrafts
brought the Lovecraft community: the game NLdT: Your Society represents a works.
of Cthulhu Lives, A Shoggoth on the Roof, broad range of activities: films, theatre, Andrew: Judging by the reaction we get
lots of fun Lovecraftian Solstice carols, the radio, games of role, merchandising, from our various projects and products, it
film of The Call of Cthulhu and a bunch of etc. How can you cover so many things? seems there are. Lovecrafts fame continues
strange and fun Lovecraftian products.
Sean: We never sleep. to grow and spread, and more and more peo-
Hopefully weve brought some fun and
Andrew: By working all the time. ple are coming to appreciate him all the time.
enjoyment too.
Andrew: We developed our own style of
live-action role playing game based on NLdT: Among all these things could NLdT: Why do you think Lovecraft,
Lovecrafts works when we were in college. you choose something in which you are who is a writer from the beginning of
The group of people who played naturally most vitally interested? the 20th century and considered a con-
formed into a sort of an organization. servative man, somewhat obscure, is
Sean: We like to tell stories. Whether its
Calling it the H. P. Lovecraft Historical nowadays so prominent?
told through a live game, or a play,
Society was a title that college officials and Sean: I think that in spite of his compli-
local police could understand and not be or a movie or a radio drama or even a
cated writing style, what hes writing about
alarmed by, and made it easier for us to song, for me its about telling
rings true to people: a dark, cold universe in
play our games on campus. It also allowed stories. which mankind is an irrelevant newcomer
us to broaden our scope beyond just role- Andrew: I find it difficult to choose just among forces far greater and more dange-
playing games by beginning to publish a one thing. In general. rous than we can comprehend. Mankind is
monthly newsletter and find new members humbled in a Lovecraftian universe.
all over the world.
NLdT: What is the most important Andrew: Perhaps the world in general is
thing in your own lives? slowly catching up to Lovecrafts cosmic
NLdT: What is its contribution to the and pessimistic world-view.
Sean: My wife and son and friends.
Lovecraftian World?
Andrew: My relationships with my
Andrew: We published a monthly news-
family, friends and collaborators. NLdT: Sean, were you the scriptwriter
letter for over two years, which brought arti-
of the excellent Lovecraftian produc-
cles of interest to readers all over the world.
tion [The Call of Cthulhu]?
We have created over 60 original live-action NLdT: Do you actually think that
games based on or inspired by Lovecrafts people are so much interested in so Sean: Yes.
work. We now maintain an extremely large many matters more or less related to

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 NLdT: Was it hard to summarize in 45 script is convincing, well, thats up to you. NLdT: Are you going to produce a new
minutes the so-called Lovecrafts Lovecraftian film, this time acinema
World? adaptation of The Whisperer in the
NLdT: Do you both consider that
Sean: I did not try to summarize Darkness?
cinema has suitably adapted the works
Lovecrafts world. My goal was to tell the of H.P. Lovecraft? In your opinion, Sean: Yes, we are. Whisperer has not
story that Lovecraft wrote in a manner that which is the best of all the adaptations yet been adapted to film and its an exce-
would be visually and dramatically exciting. (leaving your own film aside, of course)? llent story.
Which film has been able to recreate the
NLdT: What did you emphasize in this Lovecraftian atmosphere, his so-called NLdT: Why have you chosen this
script? HPL Universe (your film aside, please!)? tale?
Sean: To me the scary part of the story is Do you think your cinema works can be
Sean: Were using Lovecrafts story as
how we fail to piece together the horrors considered as a commercial product? the basis for the film but then were conti-
that surround us. If I emphasized anything Or else is your intention to make films nuing with what happens after HPLs story
it was the process of putting the pieces of that you and the fans of the writer of ends.
the story together for the main character. Providence are interested in?
Andrew: We chose this tale because it
Sean: I cant speak for Andrew, but I interests us, and because it hasnt been
think most filmmakers would agree that done on film before. In many ways it is
NLdT: Andrew, how was the experien-
Lovecraft is tricky source material. Many much smaller in scope than The Call of
ce as a director of this film by using the
films are either so true to the source that Cthulhu, and yet making it into a movie
cinema format a mute, black and
they seem very dull, or they abandon the offers many great challenges.
white film - that the very American wri-
source to create a story that is only
ter can see in his time?
Lovecraftian in its title. We made The Call of
Andrew: It was enormously challenging Cthulhu mostly for ourselves. We had no NLdT: Will it be directed by Andrew
and extremely rewarding. Using the silent, idea so many people would be interested in and the script by Sean?
black and white format limited us in many it, so yes, I guess it has become a commer- Sean: Andrew and I are writing it toge-
ways, but it also opened up creative possi-
cial product. We just try to tell ther and I will direct.
bilities that we would otherwise never have
considered. It made us focus on telling the these stories on film as best we can and Andrew: This time Sean will direct, and
story primarily with images. hope other people enjoy them. Andrew and Sean will write the screenplay
together.

NLdT: Do you think the film describes NLdT: Imagine that we could flash
the philosophy of The Master of back to the time when Lovecraft lived, NLdT: Will you have the same techni-
Providence in a convincing way for the how would the opinion of Lovecraft be cal and artistic crew?
audience? about [The Call of Cthulhu] ? Sean: Several members of the Call of
Sean: I think the story of The Call of Andrew: I can only hope that he would Cthulhu team have expressed an interest in
Cthulhu is an excellent example of have found it satisfactory. working on Whisperer.
Lovecrafts philosophy. Whether or not the Andrew: We certainly hope to bring back

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 the same talented team that worked so impact worldwide obtained by the film see the point.
hard on The Call of Cthulhu, as well as in the difficult world of the 7th Art? Andrew: So far it has seemed very out of
adding some new people to the group. Andrew: Weve been absolutely deligh- place.
ted, even astonished, by the warm recep-
NLdT: When and where will the pre- tion the film has received all over the world. NLdT: If you could travel in time as
mier take place? Will it have the same It has vastly outpaced our most optimistic in the story The Time Machine by
technical means that the excellent film hopes and expectations. H.G. Well and you could meet H.P.
[The Call of Cthulhu]? Could you offer Lovecraft in person, what would you
us some scoop about the film for the NLdT: Which actors would you like like to ask him about his private life?
Nueva Logia del Tentculo (New Lodge to have for this new production? Are What about his work as a writer? Do you
of Tentacles)? you going to take part as actors in the think you could change his mind about
Sean: We do not yet know when it will new film just like it ocurred in [The Call his negative vision concerning the pos-
premiere, but we hope to be shooting this of Cthulhu]? Vincent Price, Jeffrey sible adaptations of his works?
summer. Our Director of Photography, Combs or Ezra Godden? Sean: I would like ask him to tell me a
David Robertson, has expressed an interest Sean: Because we are a couple of guys joke. His writing is often dry, but many of
in shooting on an HD DV camera. We are working out of a warehouse, we cannot his correspondents describe him as affable
hoping to shoot some of the film on location afford to pay the salaries of famous celebri- and humorous. I think his private life can
in Vermont, in the region (and the actual ties. But we know many excellent actors stay his private life. I would love to tell him
house) where Lovecraft stayed when he got here in Los Angeles and Im sure we can how famous he has become and how many
the idea for the story. assemble a great cast. Perhaps Andrew people still enjoy his works today. I think
Andrew: That has yet to be determined, and I will appear in small roles; youll have hed be very pleasantly surprised. It would
but I would say that the H. P. Lovecraft Film to wait and see. be fun to show him some of the adaptations
Festival in Portland, Oregon is an excellent of his works and see what his reaction
Andrew: Were too early in the develop-
candidate. would be.
ment phase to have any specific ideas
about casting, but I can very confidently Andrew: What a cool question. I would
NLdT: Will it have the same technical predict that Vincent Price will not be appea- like to observe HPLs private life to learn if
means that the excellent film [The Call ring in the film. he really felt as strongly antisemitic, xeno-
of Cthulhu]? phobic, homophobic, etc. as his letters lead
us to believe. I dont know that its some-
Andrew: This film will also be black and NLdT: What is your opinion about thing I could learn by asking him directly,
white, shot in Mythoscope, but it will have that erotic touch in some Lovecraftian but by hanging out with him it would pro-
dialogue. We are aiming to give it the feel of films? bably become pretty clear. As a writer, I
the classic Universal monster movies of the
Sean: It doesnt offend me or anything, would like to discuss with him the merits of
early 1930s (Dracula, Frankenstein, The
but its not a theme that is present in adding human relationships and drama to
Mummy).
Lovecrafts writing. If it makes a story bet- his stories. That might lead to a discussion
ter, thats fine, but if its just there to show of adaptations, since dramatic adaptations
NLdT: Are you satisfied about the the audience a pair of boobs, then I dont of his work need to include much more of

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 the human element than his originals do. Sean: I think it is great to see an interna- impressed by La Nueva Logia del
NLdT: Finally I would like to ask your tional congregation of Spanish-language Tentculo, and I look forward to following it
opinion about La Nueva Logia del Lovecraft fans. I regret that yo escribo y leo in the future. I regret my command of
Tentculo (New Lodge of Tentacles) as a en espaol como un mono borracho. But we Spanish is very very small, and I cant
Lovecraftian Society, devoted to study have made many friends in the Lovecraft enjoy it as much as Im sure I would other-
H.P. Lovecraft, the man without myths community from Argentina to Spain and we wise. I have occasionally been a little frus-
and our interest for the study and look forward to sharing our creations with trated by the frequent use of Mythos pen-
analysis of his works, influences on them and seeing what great things La names for your authors. It would be good to
Culture in a wide sense: cinema, Nueva Logia del Tentculo will create next. have a better idea of the real people behind
comics, music and so on. Andrew: Ive been quite favorably La Nueva Logia. ***

Now its time to thank you for your help and contribution in this 2nd issue of the webzine La Estela
de Luveh-Kerapt. It is a real honour to have your collaboration by means of this interview and your self-
evident interest in our International Lovecraftian Society, La Nueva Logia del Tentculo (New Lodge of
Tentacles)
From everybody and each one of us we want to thank to you both for this interview you have granted.
Likewise, we want to send our warmest greetings and best wishes for you and for your H.P. Lovecraft
Historical Society and for all those excellent projects of yours and especially for your new production
[The Whisperer in the Darkness] in which you are working this time.

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Electronic webzine by the NLdT

2007

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