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The first collection of five vintage existential horror Science Fiction, aka Cosmic Horror, short stories that were written by other authors than H. P. Lovecraft. With a special exception for «The Curse of Yig» that was ghost written by Lovecraft. To what extent is unknown, but probably a lot.

Each story with its own take.

The stories presented here are:

0:00 Introduction

1:04 The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long

40:54 Dig Me No Grave by Robert E. Howard

1:17:46 The Curse of Yig by Zealia Brown Reed

2:04:33 The Secret of Kralitz bu Henry Kuttner

2:27:06 The Tree of Life by C. L. Moore

Selected and read by myself, Tom Trussel.

Which of these stories is your favorite? Share your thoughts below!

Stories of Futures Past presents a set of vintage Science Fiction short stories, narrated by myself, Tom Trussel.

After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.

Starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, THE END OF OAK STREET also stars Maisy Stella and Christian Convery. The film is written and directed by David Robert Mitchell and produced by J.J. Abrams, Hannah Minghella, Jon Cohen, David Robert Mitchell, Matt Jackson, and Tommy Harper.

Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oB9AxspVow

The game is set in Antarctica in 1939. Two human factions—the Nazis and a guardian group known as the Kaitiaki—are heading deep into the Antarctic, each with their own agenda. The Nazis seek to harness the power of an ancient, unimaginable entity for destructive purposes, while the Kaitiaki aim to put that power back to sleep, as they have been tasked to do for generations. The player takes on the role of a local penguin drawn to strange sights and sounds, witnessing the human characters as they encounter ancient ruins and slowly descend into madness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Wj_AwWRmM

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47372299

A handful of anonymous bots have taken over fact-checking on X.

This isn’t hyperbole. In the first three weeks of May, just eight AI contributors wrote 50.3% of all visible Community Notes on the platform.

When the program launched five years ago, X positioned it as a way to harness the knowledge of users to add context and corrections to tweets. It described Community Notes as a way to “broaden the range of voices” fighting misinformation.

Then, in July 2025, X started allowing people to use automation to mass-generate and submit AI notes. That new feature made it inevitable that human writers would eventually be overtaken by bots. But it happened faster than I predicted.

We will probably never know who was the first Black creator to adapt Lovecraft to the medium of comics. Pre-Code Lovecraftian Horror Comics rarely credited their writers and artists; it is not impossible that one or more uncredited toiler in a small horror comic shop was Black. So too, there may be some obscure comic that hasn’t come to light yet where an early artist or writer applied their talents to a Lovecraft adaptation that has so far escaped notice. Such things happen, and when they come to light push back “first” a little further.

That being said, the first Lovecraft comic adaptation by a Black creator that I’m aware of is “H. P. Lovecraft’s The Ter’ble Old Man” in the underground comix Laugh in the Dark (1971, Last Gasp), by Larry Fuller.

https://bsky.app/profile/quicoarts.bsky.social/post/3mm7camd7zk2w

https://existentialcomics.com/

https://mastodon.social/@existentialcomics

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/37961584

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According to The Telegraph, cousins Roger Lewis and Jeff Lewis are set to begin filming the horror feature this June via their newly launched production banner Woodlake Entertainment.

https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3951766/malcolm-mcdowell-to-star-in-h-p-lovecrafts-herbert-west-reanimator-from-haunting-in-connecticut-writers/

A developer going by "EVVIE" managed to combine the worlds of Linux and Minecraft, to enable you to pull up all sorts of Linux desktop windows directly inside Minecraft. Sure does look cool, a bit like running a desktop inside a VR headset like the draft code for the full VR mode for KDE Plasma written about here before on GamingOnLinux.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTkEM7b0IQw

Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw. Art by Tjeerd Royaards

source mastodon - https://newsie.social/@royaards/116594142035336090