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A few months ago, as detailed here, I appeared on WCSB Cleveland College Radio. A listener was kind enough to record it, and sent it to me. So, special thanks to Chryos.

 

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In episode 8, I had a need for a rising tension music, so I turned to our good friends the Brothers Burn. They provided me with several good candidates, and I picked the best one for the episode. However, one of the others was so good I thought it would be a waste for no one to hear it. So I got their permission to release the Cthulhu Chant here.

Here is the Link.

In addition to having a great rising tension music, he has a chorus saying “Cthulh Fhtagn”. Might make a nice ringtone . . .

So, I’m at the H.P. Lovecraft film festival in Portland Oregon this weekend. I’ve gotta say, it’s been a blast so far. They have a lot of famous Lovecraft-inspired stuff (John Carpenter’s “In the Mouth of Madness” and “The Thing”), and they have lots of short films (most of them tense and very well executed), and we even had a chance to see the new movie “Cthulhu” which should be released to theaters soon.

Now, this isn’t a full report on the festival (I hope to do that later, with pix and everything), but I wanted to share a great moment with you guys.

Now, I’ve been very surprised by the reaction I’ve received from people at the fest. Several people have asked for my autograph, and a couple wanted to take a picture of me with the puppet.

There’s a film producer (Edward Martin III, he makes real films, not just hand-puppets) who was really excited to meet me. Turns out he’s a fan of the show. I gave him a DVD, and he put it on his DVD player in the merchant section (which was really kind of him). After a few hours, he asked me if I had any other DVDs, because passersby were asking him where they could buy it. I had brought about ten with me, and he was kind enough to make a place on the table to display them.

A couple of hours later, I walked past the table, and saw that my DVDs weren’t there any more. I figured he moved them to make space for something else, but then he caught my eye and said, “Hey, you sold out! Way to go!”

He started counting out money for me while I just shook my head in disbelief. Then he smiled at me and said, “You really don’t get how popular this show is, do you?”

That was a really cool feeling. Right up there with the girl in the full-body Cthulhu suit saying, “Hey, you’re the Calls For Cthulhu guy? I love that show!”

Don’t worry, I’ll have pix of her as well as a full report as soon as the fest is done and I pull all the images off my camera.

I’m obviously a big fan of horror, so I’ve read quite a lot of it. Recently, I’ve started looking for new writers, because their indy-film mentality tends to be a bit more invasive, visceral, and vicious.

Well, a few days ago, someone handed me a copy of “The Book of Legion” by Victor Heck.

I know my way around Biblical angels and demons, so the idea of the demon Legion didn’t really surprise me. In fact, just thinking of the character, you can imagine a demon which is slowly amassing souls to the point where he can destroy all of creation. The story practically writes itself.

That’s what I love about this book. The writer isn’t going in that direction at all. I don’t want to give too much away, but in this story, Legion is gathering minions and taking over Earth just as a stepping stone for bringing about an all-out assault on Hell. Just the idea that you could take that character, and use his innate power not as an end, but as a means to something larger, is pretty impressive to me.

Also, the writing itself is very good. Not exactly buckets-of-blood stuff, nor is it all psychological torture (although both elements are in there). The characterization is good, the story is powerful, and I like the pacing.

Anyway, I went looking for it online, and found it here: The Book of Legion. At fifteen bucks for a signed copy, it’s well worth the money.

There’s a very well researched article on the Grim Reviews blog, detailing a new wave of humor based on the horror writing of H.P. Lovecraft. Apparently, some people are even using the plush Cthulhu doll to parody Lovecraft’s character! Can this be true?!

A viewer just pointed this website out to me. Badali Jewelry. They have a whole line of jewelry that features our favorite ancient evil cephelopod. There are rings, earrings, necklaces, and even cufflinks with the Great Old One’s face on them. They seem to all be available in sterling silver and gold.

Here’s the part I thought was really cool. On the back of one of these pendants, they write “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn”. Now that’s classy.

We just received word that “Calls For Cthulhu” will be featured in this years H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. So, if you go out to Portland, Oregon from October 5-7, you’ll be able to see C4C on the big screen, with lots of other quality Lovecraftian films.

Here’s a link to the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Hope to see you there!

Recently, a fan wrote in to ask if we could make ringtones from the show. So, always eager to please, we set aside our subtitles and videos for a little while, and put together a series of clips from the show (the intro, a few rants, the Rapid Fire Round, the Cult of Cthulhu message, etc.) and made them all available through this website.

Click here to listen to or download the ringtones. They are all free for download, although I would ask that, if you really like one, you make a donation to the squid-headed lord.

By the way, all of these files are rendered as MP3s. If you need a different file format, just tell me and I’ll try to convert to that format.

Also, if there’s a sound you were looking for, but didn’t see, tell me and I’ll be glad to put it up there for you.

Those who are fans of the “Wingin’ It” Podcast will have noticed that they mentioned “Calls for Cthulhu” and gave us high praise as a kind of Dr. Tran video, and even admonish all their listeners to come view the show.

In other news, It’s been almost two months since the last C4C episode, and I apologize for that. I lost an entire week to this weird debilitating flu, and I’ve spent a lot of time on rendering the head of a new trapped God who will be a guest on the show. However, I think all the renders are in place, the audio has been recorded, I just need to do a whole lot of mixing. Hopefully, we’ll have Episode 6 ready by the end of this week.

Okay, the first few disks have been burned, the cases are filled, and the DVD is ready to ship. We are now taking orders for this forty minute DVD, featuring all of the first four episodes, including the Halloween episode and the “hidden” video that was previously only available to people who cracked the ‘Cult of Cthulhu’ code.

This is only the English version, but we hope to have an international version available later this month.

The link to order is here.