Written in 1926, just before the advent of "talking" pictures, The Call of Cthulhu is one of the most famous and influential tales of H.P. Lovecraft, the father of gothic horror. Now the story is brought richly to life in the style of a classic 1920s silent movie, with a haunting original symphonic score. Using the "Mythoscope" process - a mix of modern and vintage techniques, the HPLHS has worked to create the most authentic and faithful screen adaptation of a Lovecraft story yet attempted.
From the cultists of the Louisana bayous to the man-eating non-euclidean geometry of R'lyeh, the HPLHS brings Cthulhu to the screen as it was meant to be seen. Eighteen months of production and a cast of more than 50 actors went into making this film a period spectacle that must seen to be believed.
The DVD includes The Call of Cthulhu (47 minutes, black and white), the high-fidelity and "Mythophonic" soundtracks, a 25 minute "making-of" documentary featurette, two slide shows, deleted footage, a prop PDF of the Sydney Bulletin and more.
To appeal to Lovecraft fans throughout across the globe, this DVD provides intertitles in 24 languages including: Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Euskera, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Lithuanian, Luxmbourgish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh. These aren't just subtitles either - they are the real title cards rendered tastefully in each language. If you thought the story was scary before, wait until you see it in Welsh!
Because silent movies aren't silent...
The Call of Cthulhu Soundtrack brings you all the haunting orchestral score from the HPLHS film The Call of Cthulhu on CD. Compositions by Troy Sterling Nies, Ben Holbrook and Nicholas Pavkovic capture the feeling of the 1920s pit orchestra and the dark suspense of Lovecraft's story.
The CD features the music as originally written by the composers. The music is performed by the seldom-recorded Arkham Philharmonic Orchestra. If you enjoy the music in the movie, you will want to have this recording on CD.
At last, your favorite poster artwork from your favorite faux 1920s silent film rendered in a wearable form. The Call of Cthulhu Poster is silk screened in four colors to create a fashion statement worthy of the Great Old Ones.
We don't always take requests, but you guys asked for this so we made it: the authentically-styled 1920s movie poster for The Call of Cthulhu. Celebrated Lovecraftian artist Lee Moyer adapted the DVD cover artwork into a bold movie poster.
The poster is "insert size", printed on high-quality poster stock paper and is fully suitable for framing.
Dimensions: 12x24 inches (30.5cm x 61cm).
According to The Lurker in the Lobby, this is one of the oldest known amateur adaptations of a Lovecraft story. This faithful adaptation of "The Statement of Randolph Carter" tells the strange story of the demise of occultist Harley Warren. It was shot in the summer of 1987 with a home VHS tape deck. What it lacks in image and audio quality it makes up in sheer sanity-blasting length. It features Darryl Tyler and Sean Branney and was directed by Andrew Leman.
The Testimony of Randolph Carter a student film; it's NOT The Call of Cthulhu. But if you're a collector of anything Lovecraftian you may still like it.
Format: NTSC, Region 0, color, running time approx. 50 minutes. Note that image and sound quality are diminished due to age an quality of original footage. The disc feature no special features of any kind.
"An expedition to the ends of the earth resulting in death and madness..."
Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: At the Mountains of Madness brings Lovecraft's tale to life as it might have been adapted for radio during his lifetime. In the style of The War of the Worlds and The Shadow, Dark Adventure Radio Theatre dramatizes HPL's story with a cast of professional actors, exciting sound effects and original music by Troy Sterling Nies (composer for The Call of Cthulhu). Relive the excitement of 1930s radio with one of HP Lovecraft's most exciting and fascinating stories: At the Mountains of Madness.
In addition to the full 75 minute radio drama, the CD packaging includes clippings from a 1930s newspaper chronicling the expedition's progress in the Antarctic and reproductions of photographs of the ancient city taken by Danforth and Dyer which corroborate their findings. There's even a reproduction from Danforth's sketchbook, depicting the Elder Things and their fantastical murals. And of course it's beautifully produced and packaged with the same deranged attention to detail that you'll find in other HPLHS products.
Lovecraft's tale of horrors beneath the Antarctic ice blends with the world of 1930s pulps in this great poster. Illustrator of the weird and Cthulhu Lives co-creator Darrell Tutchton created this artwork to accompany the HPLHS' Dark Adventure Radio Theatre production of At the Mountains of Madness
This collectable poster is printed on heavy grade poster-stock and will add a touch of adventure and mystery (not to mention sanity loss) to any room.
There are some things man was not meant to adapt to musical theatre.
The HPLHS Shoggoth on the Roof Cast Album has been whispered of in dark alleys off Off-Broadway. Lawyers have bent paper clips into strange shapes at the very mention of its name. The CD features an ensemble of professional singers (and a few zombies) singing eleven tentacle tapping musical numbers in a grand and fully-orchestrated production.
Huh? You can read the full story here, but in brief, the stories of HP Lovecraft collide with the cherished Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. The result is an improbable, delightful and disturbing full-length Broadway-style musical featuring Lovecraftian horrors set to familiar tunes. For nearly 30 years, theatre companies have met their doom in attempting to stage this strange and terrible tale of love, family and tentacles. Here, for your enjoyment is a recording of all the numbers from the show.
The CD is, well, you know, just a normal CD, but features a fold out booklet with strange and terrible facts about the show. It features 11 songs and 41 minutes of music.
The Shoggoth on the Roof Super Combo Pack delivers it all. In one convenient package you get: the HPLHS Cast Album CD, the full libretto of the show, and a free DVD of the Shoggoth on the Roof documentary, featuring Chris Sarandon and Stuart Gordon.
If you have no idea what any of this is about, you can read the full story here, but in brief, the stories of HP Lovecraft collide with the cherished Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. The result is an improbable, delightful and disturbing full-length Broadway-style musical featuring Lovecraftian horrors set to familiar tunes. For nearly 30 years, theatre companies have met their doom in attempting to stage this strange and terrible tale of love, family and tentacles. Here, for your enjoyment is a recording of all the numbers from the show.
The CD is, well, you know, just a normal CD with a pretty booklet, the libretto is a 76 page side-stapled book with glossy color cover, and the documentary is a non-regional, NTSC format, roughly 21 minutes long.
Purchasing the A Shoggoth on the Roof Libretto has signalled a descent into madness for many of our customers. They start by reading the script, soon they're singing along with all the songs, and next thing you know they are planning auditions with their local theatre troupe.
The libretto features the full script to the show and the lyrics to all of the musical numbers. It's artfully laid out with the quality you've come to expect from the HPLHS.
The libretto is 76 8.5 x 11 inch pages, side stapled, with a glossy color cover and glossy back.
A Very Scary Solstice
It's the most horrible time of the year!
A Very Scary Solstice finally merges the wonderful tradition of merry holiday carolling with the cosmic horror of the Cthulhu Mythos. The result is a CD and sing-along songbook that features twenty five holiday favorites infused with a liberal dose of madness, horror and otherworldly blasphemies.
The CD features a cast of professional singers with each number beautifully arranged and fully orchestrated. Styles range from the classical to contemporary to nostaligic and just plain weird.
The sing-along songbook features a handy pronunciation guide, an introduction by celebrated Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, and the fully lyrics to all of the carols, complete with ample footnotes teeming with bizarre trivia about the carols and their underlying mythos connections!
We wish you a scary solstice!
An Even Scarier Solstice is a sequel to the strangely popular A Very Scary Solstice. This year HPLHS have assembled better musicians, more singers, and 23 new songs of holiday horror.
The CD features a cast of more than 30 professional singers with each number beautifully arranged and fully orchestrated by Troy Sterling Nies (composer for the HPLHS film The Call of Cthulhu). Styles range from rockabilly to middle-eastern to grandly gothic and just plain weird. We've even set Lovecraft's poem, "A Brumalian Wish" to music to create (we think) the world's first original Lovecraftian Christmas carol.
The sing-along songbook features a handy pronunciation guide, an introduction by celebrated mythos author Ramsey Campbell, and the fully lyrics to all of the carols, complete with ample footnotes teeming with bizarre trivia about the carols and their underlying mythos connections
HPLHS Certifications of Insanity - When you care enough to have them locked up
Arkham Asylum Certificate of Insanity
Sure, we all know people who are "certifiably insane" but isn't it about time we were actually able to certify these loonies?
The HPLHS is pleased to present our Certificates of Insanity beautifully printed on a high quality frame-worthy document.
Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches
The UK's celebrated Lovecraftian artist Dave Carson teamed up with the HPLHS to offer up this lovely portrait of that eldritch bibliophile, great Cthulhu, doing some light reading. This exclusive illustration is very weird and only available here. Wear it and frighten your librarian.
At last, the HPLHS celebrates the old gent from Providence himself. This shirt features a quote from HPL, an original portrait by HPLHS illustrator Darrell Tutchton and Lovecraft's signature. The quote comes from a letter HPL wrote to Frank Belknap Long in 1931.
Artwork is silk screened in black and white by our own specially trained shoggoths. Shirt is 100% cotton, made by American Apparel.
(The Cthulhoid Tupilak - weird clamp in photo not included)
Cthulhu Tupilak Idol
In the 1870s, Professor Webb recovered this unholy fetish from a band of devil-worshipping Esquimaux in an incident which cost him his eye. This Cthulhoid tupilak (a Greenlandic figurine depicting mythical creatures) is a replica of the prop used in the HPLHS film The Call of Cthulhu.
The Cthulhu tupilak was sculpted by Chris Lackey for the movie. Each piece is cast in polyeurethane resin and hand-finished to resemble aged walrus tusk ivory. Collectors have acquired the tupilak as an unusual piece of Lovecraftian art, some have put it to use in magick rituals and others have noted its shape is suited for personal activities best left to your imagination.
Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Dunwich Horror brings Lovecraft's tale to life as it might have been adapted for radio during his lifetime. In the style of The War of the Worlds, The Shadow and our own At the Mountains of Madness, Dark Adventure Radio Theatre dramatizes HPL's story with a huge cast of professional actors, exciting sound effects and thrilling original music by Troy Sterling Nies (composer for The Call of Cthulhu). Relive the excitement of 1930s radio with one of the most popular tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: The Dunwich Horror.
The eerie Whateley farmhouse and dread Sentinel Hill set the scene for The Dunwich Horror. We commissioned illustrator of the weird Darrell Tutchton to create this artwork to accompany our Dark Adventure Radio Theatre production of The Dunwich Horror.
This collectable poster is printed on heavy grade poster-stock and will bring a sense of brooding malevolence (not to mention sanity loss) to any room.
Dark Adventure Radio Theatre's retro logotype for "The Dunwich Horror" is boldly emblazoned over a page of Wilbur Whateley's bizarre occult cypher.
The garment itself is an acid-washed brown and black shirt*; it's incredibly soft and looks like a 100% cotton version of an old leather book. It's the nicest t-shirt we sell.
The shirt is silkscreened in-house by our specially trained shoggoth on shirts made by American Apparel in sweat shop-free conditions here in sunny Los Angeles.
Omen Antiquitatum - John Dee's Elder Sign
John Dee Elder Sign - Collector's Edition
John Dee completed the first English translation of the Necronomicon from the Latin in the early 1600s. His manuscript describes the magical Omen Antiquitatum - the Elder Sign. We have followed his instruction precisely, using acid to etch Dee's Elder Sign onto a plate of genuine copper. The result is a striking recreation of a magical artifact used to keep the forces of the Mythos at bay.
The Collector's Edition of the Omen Antiquitatum features an etched copper version of the symbol, carefully aged with verdigris. The copper plate is then affixed with antiqued nails to a hand-finished plaque of solid red oak (with convenient hanger on the back).
The fabled symbol of magical protection from occult forces, John Dee's Elder Sign just barely fits on this remarkably small garment. Keep things out; keep things in - the Elder Sign is right where you need it. Light, aerodynamic, and breathable, this is the mystical symbol that will keep the evil Things of the Mythos at bay without leaving panty lines on your clothes.
The fabled symbol of magical protection from occult forces, John Dee's Elder Sign is boldly emblazoned where it can really make a difference. Keep things out; keep things in - it's up to you. But you're sure to make an impression when your panties carry 16th century occult symbols, and hey, it's a wonderful conversation starter.
Straight out of John Dee's Necronomicon comes the Omen Antiquitatum - the Elder Sign - a protective sigil against the dark forces of the Mythos.
The shirt features a detailed replica of the Omen Antiquitatum silk-screened in white over the title page of Dee's A Right Rendering of the Booke of the Arab, Al Hazred, at the Hand of Dr. John Dee (A Scholar of Great Repute): A Learned Discourse on Ancient Sorcerie and Spirits Daemoniacal, which is screened in black ink on a black shirt for a subtle and eerie effect.
The year after the discovery of the Mayan ruins of El Caracol in British Honduras in 1938, a team from Miskatonic University visited the site. In addition to excavating a number of interesting artifacts, the team made a casting from a stela with a carving of a very unusual figure referred to by the local guide as "El Profundo" accompanied by Mayan hieroglyphics.
Our replica of El Profundo is cast in durable hydrocal and hand-finished to capture the look and feel of the original limestone of the Chiquibul Forest Reserve in Belize where the El Caracol site is located. El Profundo can be a prop in a LARP game or a cool piece of Lovecraftiana for your home, office or tomb. The back side has a hook to make it easy to hang on your wall and it comes with HPLHS's own Profund-O-Matic display apparatus to allow it to stand upright on your desk or table. And of course El Profundo comes in the kind of interesting packaging you've come to expect from the HPLHS.
Approximate Dimensions
Height: 5.5" - 2.5 cm
Width: 5.5" - 13.9 cm
Depth: 1" -13.9 cm
Weight: 1lb. 9oz. - 708 g
Show people what a deep one you are with our El Profundo T-Shirt. This cool garment embodies the epitome of mesoamerican archeological Lovecraftian fashion. The illustration by Jorge Roberto Ogdon Aquino is a 2D compliment to our El Profundo Mayan Carving.
After a brisk swim out to Devil Reef, dry off and warm up with our Deluxe Esoteric Order of Dagon Hoodie. This stylish cultist garment is emblazoned with the E.O.D. logo on the back (Pelagic Knights of Y'ha-Nthlei), and the front features the text "E.O.D. - Innsmouth Chapter". It's warm, comfy and fully sanctioned by the Esoteric Order of Dagon worldwide.
Our Deluxe E.O.D. hoodie is black zip-up sweatshirt with a gray lining, and the logos are in white ink. The sweatshirt is high-quality, with double stitched cuffs and waistband, dual pockets, and a drawstring hood, made here in Los Angeles in sweatshop-free conditions, then silk-screened by our specially trained shoggoth. It's really a very nice sweatshirt - we're not just saying that.
Innsmouth's most popular cult, celebrated on a light blue oval sticker with the mystical emblem of the Esoteric Order of Dagon and the Pelagic Knights of Y'ha-Nthlei. Stick it anywhere watch as the Innsmouth Look slowly overtakes you...
Dimensions: 4.5 inches (11.4 cm) tall. Note: not intended for underwater use.
On the endless and insane quest for authenticity, we have created more than 50 custom fonts to use in props. Typographical fashions change, and since the digital age overtook typesetting and graphic design, many of the fonts common in the time of Lovecraft have fallen into disuse. We've revived many of them from vintage sources, including the 1923 American Type Founder's specimen book and the Mergenthaler Linotype catalog from the mid-1930s. Many of these fonts have slightly rough edges or irregular shapes, to capture the feel of old lead type and bygone printing technologies.
More than 50 custom historical fonts. More than 80 beautifully rendered digital props, yours to print and build (using Adobe's free Acrobat Reader). All collected on one awe-inspiring piece of plastic. The full contents of the HPLHS Font and Prop collections are available on one great CD.
CD includes both Postscript and TrueType fonts, suitable for use on Macs or PCs. Props work great with either type of compuer. Buy this incredible collection and you'll also save $5.00 off the price of the Font and Prop CDs if purchased individually.
