a crooked house

Just makes me think of various topographic and simulated reality horror scenarios.  Situations where world doesn't work at all like you think it does.

• Mage - Paradox realms and Digital Web.
• Call of Cthulhu - Carcosa manifesting via AR & VR games.
• Unknown Armies - A new otherspace.

Chthonians in Guatemala

Cement Surroundings are no defense.

Via Boing Boing, via the Guatemalan government's Flicker feed.

Hoxton Street Monster Supplies

Quality products for the discerning monstrosity.

A sampling of their wares includes Fang Floss, The Collywobbles, Escalating Panic, and Impacted Ear Wax.

In Praise of Great Worms

There seems to be a small trend in worm-based flash games these days. Cases in point:

• Worm Food - Pointed out on the Delta Green list as an example of a Cthonian-themed game.

• Effing Worms - An evolving worm trying to devour the area's technologically advancing inhabitants.

• Wormland - More along the lines of space slugs or Duneish Makers.

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Gone to Sleep

Moby and Kelli Scarr make a song based on this picture by artist Phil Toledano.


The video about their creation process (and the song itself) gives a great vibe of eerie desolation.




Author's note: the first night I watched this it inspired a fascinating nightmare about Changeling: the Lost's "Gentry", so I'm considering it prime fodder for that game at least.

Everlong (Foo Fighters)

An oldie but a goody.

Great portrayal of marauding tulpa, free-ranging nightmarish archetypes preying on the dreams of others. Also a neat example of dream shaping combat.


Via Daily Motion.

Metatron

I'm not a huge fan of the idea that the Gentry of Changeling: the Lost must be completely inimical to humanity. But there is a certain appeal to a portrayal of the fae as juxtaposing concepts in a way which does not make sense to the human mind:

A realm of darkness and cold metal populated with horrifying mechanical creatures and devices. Yet strangely the existence of this nightmare relies on the fact that a lone woman peacefully knits at the heart of the machine.

Print by Ray Caesar.

Please Don't Worry

Please don’t worry.
When I wake up I'll be something new.

Painting by Daniel Danger.

Decemberists Poster 3

Hedge Assignation.

Via I Have a Yellow Hat (though who knows where she got it).

Reiko

A little too overtly bloody to prefectly fit the Slaugh archetype, but subtler than the stereotypical Redcap. Still seems like she'd fit in pretty well with the Unseelie Kithain crowd though.

Many flash animations available at the artist's site here.


Via Newgrounds.

Crescent

by Phil Rossi

On the old, massive, half-completed space station Crescent something forgotten is stirring again. This in spite of the influence of the community's ancient crone and the ruthless efforts of it's corrupt mayor.

It's a story old as time: A thing or things want to exist which would better not. Toward this end locations, people and events are being manipulated into the horrific arcane conjunctions necessary to hasten it's arrival.

It could be argued that the story is unevenly paced, plodding over some events while sweeping right past others. Or that it dwells too heavily on scenes of carnage and sexual depravity in an attempt to set the tone of seediness and horror. But in spite of these flaws I found Crescent to be an interesting take on the idea of a Lovecraftian "Great Old One" style incursion in a non-standard setting.


Warning: Heavy adult content.

Here's a direct link to the first episode.

The rest of the series can be found at Podiobooks.com or at the official Crescent Station website.

Crypto Taxidermy

Blood Rat

Iris Tongued Snapper

From Mascara.

Via Dirty Russia.

Bottled Curios

Unknown Specimen

RECOVERED FROM CHEST CAVITY OF DECAYED ANIMATED CORPSE. ANIMATION OF CORPSE CEASED UPON REMOVAL. SPECIMEN BEGAN TO DISSOLVE WITHIN MOMENTS OF REMOVAL FROM HOST. DISSOLUTION CEASED WITH FORMALDEHYDE AND ACETONE. HAITI, 1894

A handy how-to guide on preparing your own spell components, containing unruly familiars, and formalin-preserving other oddities.


Link.

Writhing Brood Clusters

They're in our sewers now.

More info.


Via ialdaloboth on the Delta Green Mailing List.

The Shadows of St. Petersburg

The hungry ghosts crowd in great overlapping mobs, swarming unseen through the places they haunted in life. They search wearily and in vain for something, anything to give their prolongation meaning, to feed the emptiness inside.


Of Alexey Titarenko:

Major photo series include "City of Shadows" (1992-1994), "Black and White Magic of St. Petersburg" (1995-1997), and "Time Standing Still" (1998-1999). In those series Titarenko paints a bitter picture of a Russia (seen through the lens of St. Petersburg), where people live in a world of unrealized hopes and where time seems to have stopped.

More here.

The Dyatlov Pass Accident

Of the event Wikipedia has this to say:

The mysterious circumstances and subsequent investigations of the hikers' deaths have inspired much speculation. Investigations of the deaths suggest that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot in heavy snow; while the corpses show no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue. According to sources, the victims' clothing contained high levels of radiation . . . Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths, barring entry to the area for years thereafter. The causes of the accident remain unclear.

Article here.


Via the Delta Green mailing list.

Gristle for the Mill

Mark Powell sculpts morbid and realistic tableaux. His dioramas depict the aftermath of terrible events, the sort of things investigators pray never to come across.

Link.
Warning: this stuff is not for the squeamish.