This portion of the alt.horror.cthulhu FAQ was brought to you by Donovan K. Loucks
(webmaster@hplovecraft.com).
- Q: What internet Usenet groups might be of interest to
Lovecraft fans?
A: The newsgroups of primary interest are:
Those of secondary interest include (in alphabetical order):
Those of tertiary interest include (in alphabetical order):
- Q: What Lovecraft info/stuff is available via ftp?
A: In terms of textual information, the World-Wide Web has, for the
most part, replaced ftp. However, there are still many ftp sites where
Lovecraft-related programs and files can be found.
- Alt.Horror.Cthulhu FAQ
- Maintained by Donovan K.
Loucks (dloucks@primenet.com)
- address: ftp.primenet.com/users/d/dloucks/ahc
- “Chaosium
Digest” archive at Berkeley
- The “Chaosium Digest” includes articles on all of Chaosium’s games,
including “Call of Cthulhu.”
- Available in ASCII or Windows Help File formats, although there are
more issues in ASCII format.
- address: ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/chaosium/archive
- Chaosium’s
“Call of Cthulhu” archive at Berkeley
- Anonymous ftp site for the “Call of Cthulhu” role-playing game.
- Maintained by Shannon Appel
(sappel@netcom.com).
- Materials available includes character sheets, character generation
programs, the “Mythos-Delvers” archive, photographs, a “Cthulhu Mythos”
bibliography, and “The Shadow Over Usenet” archive.
- address: ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/chaosium/cthulhu
- Cthulhu
Gif at Wuarchive
- This image is a scan of Raymond Bayless’ cover to Arkham House’s
The Dunwich Horror and Others.
- directory: wuarchive.wustl.edu/multimedia/images/gif/c
- file: cthulhu.gif
- Necronomicon
directory at LIU in Sweden
- This directory contains:
- The entry for the Necronomicon in the Encyclopedia of
Occultism and Parapsychology, 2nd Ed.,
- Colin Low’s Necronomicon “Anti-FAQ,”
- and a brief article by Tyagi Mordred Nagasiva regarding the nature of
the “Simon” Necronomicon.
- address: ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/magick/Necronomicon
- Necronomicon FAQ
- Necronomicon Press
archive at Berkeley
- Materials available includes a catalog, a checklist of publications,
and an issue of The New Lovecraft Collector.
- address: ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cthulhu/necropress
- Pagan Publishing
archive at Berkeley
- Materials available includes a catalog, a transcript of a “Delta
Green” session, and issues 1 through 4 of The Unspeakable Oath.
- address: ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/chaosium/paganpub
- Q: What Lovecraft information is available at World Wide Web
sites?
A: There are dozens of Lovecraft-related pages dotting the web.
Many of them consist of nothing but collections of links, but those in the
list below provide their own unique information.
- “The H.P. Lovecraft Archive”
(Donovan Loucks)
- The URL is: https://www.hplovecraft.com
- Maintained by Donovan K.
Loucks (webmaster@hplovecraft.com), the keeper of this FAQ.
- Includes over 30 photographs of Lovecraftian locations in New
England!
- “Beyond Books” (Andrew
Migliore)
- The URL is: http://www.teleport.com/~beyond
- “Arkham House Price Guide” page.
- “H.P. Lovecraft in the Movies” page.
- Chaosium’s Page
- The URL is: http://www.chaosium.com
- The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
page
- The URL is: http://www.holycow.com/thickets
- Maintained by Joe Fulgham
(puck@holycow.com)
- The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets is a band from Chilliwack,
British Columbia, Canada, that plays “punky surf tunes.”
- “De Web
Mysteriis” (Laurent Alquier)
- The URL is: http://www.eerie.fr/~alquier/cthulhu.html.
- “Dossier Howard Phillips
Lovecraft” (Carles Bellver)
- The URL is http://nti.uji.es/CPE/ed/0.0/hpl.
- “H.P. Lovecraft Image
Gallery” (Jack Graham)
- The URL is: http://crow.acns.nwu.edu:8082/hpl.
- “Ia,
Shub-Niggurath!” page (Peter Vorobieff)
- The URL is: http://www.rt66.com/~kalmoth/hpl.html
- I-Motion’s Page
- The URL is: http://www.imotion.com
- I-Motion (with Infogrames) is the maker of a line of Lovecraftian
computer games, including “Alone in the Dark,” “Shadow of the Comet,” and
“Prisoner of Ice.”
- Infogrames Entertainment page
- The URL is: http://www.infogrames.fr
- Infogrames (with I-Motion) is the maker of a line of Lovecraftian
computer games, including “Alone in the Dark,” “Shadow of the Comet,” and
“Prisoner of Ice.”
- Necronomicon Press Page
- The URL is: http://www.necropress.com.
- Maintained by Marc Michaud
(necropress@ids.net)
- The NetherReal
- A very thorough site devoted to the fiction and art of H.P. Lovecraft
and the “Cthulhu Mythos.”
- The URL is http://www.netherreal.de
- Maintained by Jim Hawley
(editor@netherreal.de)
- Reader’s Guide to the Cthulhu
Mythos
- A great reference to the fiction and poetry of the “Cthulhu Mythos,”
using Berglund’s A Reader’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos (1969) as
a starting point.
- The URL is http://www.toddalan.com/~berglund
- Maintained by Edward P.
Berglund (berglund@feemsb.toddalan.com), editor of The Disciples of
Cthulhu, the first Cthulhu Mythos anthology of original fiction.
- Q: What mailing lists exist that contain Lovecraftian
information?
A: Mailing lists function like a newsgroup, although messages are
received via e-mail rather than news. The following mailing lists are
devoted to Lovecraft or the “mythos.”
- The Chaosium Digest - This weekly digest is about all Chaosium games,
primarily “Call of Cthulhu,” “Elric!,” “Nephilim” and “Pendragon.” To
subscribe, write Shannon Appel at
appel@erzo.org and request to be added to the list. Note that
subscription and unsubscription is not automated. Archives of The Chaosium
Digest may be found at
ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/chaosium.
- Strange Aeons - This mailing list is specifically about “Call of
Cthulhu” and may be subscribed to by e-mailing strange-aeons-l@lists.consensus.com
and including the word “SUBSCRIBE” in the subject of the
message.
- Dark Designs - This is a newer mailing list just about “Call of
Cthulhu” which can be subscribed to by e-mailing dark-designs-requests@iastate.edu.
Like The Chaosium Digest, subscription is not automated.
- Q: What IRC channels are devoted to Lovecraft and the
Mythos?
A: Marv
Boyes (mlboyes@orion.branch-co.lib.mi.us) has established the #cthulhu
channel on DALnet for the express discussion of H.P. Lovecraft and the
Cthulhu Mythos. Marv is working on a robot, named Brown_Jenkin, which
will answer simple questions about Lovecraft in the absence of anyone
else. A number of people from the alt.horror.cthulhu newsgroup meet there
Wednesday evenings from 6 to 8 PST (9 to 11 EST). For more information on
how to connect to DALnet, check http://www.dalnet.com or http://www.dal.net.
- Q: What other sources are available on the Internet?
A: Although not strictly on the Internet, the following service may
be accessed through an Online Service Provider.
- Chaosium Online
- A service of America Online
- “provides game descriptions, press releases, answers to questions,
etc.”
- Contributed by: Keith Ivey
(kcivey@cpcug.org)
- Q: Are any Call of Cthulhu games available via the internet
(PBEM, MUDs, MOOs, MUSHes, etc.)?
A: First, there is always the possibility of someone running an
informal Play-By-E-Mail (PBEM) game. These come and go, and will not be
listed here.
End of Part 7 of the alt.horror.cthulhu FAQ, “Internet.”
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