Friday 29 June 2007

Lovecraft Stories Interactive Multimedia CD-ROM


Hyperlinked Fantasy, Horror & Science Fiction Anthology

I have just published the following which I hope will be of interest:

The Lovecraft Cosmos Collection™ I

Welcome to the worlds of Howard Phillips Lovecraft!

The dreams and the drugs; the witchcraft and the wormholes; the aliens and their alarming deities; the mundane world where the anomalistic occurs quite normally – this, and much more, oozed from the pen of one of the most influential fantasy, horror and science fiction writers of the 20th century. Stephen King has said of him, “He struck with the most force, and I still think, for all his shortcomings, he is the best writer of horror fiction that America has yet produced.”

Creator of Arkham and Cthulhu, Lovecraft was the quintessential outsider who believed that, “…common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large” and that, “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”

The digital equivalent of The Daily Prophet, and even more so of The Quibbler, in the Harry Potter books and films, each story is an experience that helps to tell itself though links. The format of this experience is neotext – a totally new multimedia/ hypermedia interactive version of each story – fully illustrated, and with hyperlinks to websites featuring word definitions, background material, sound effects and music, and, videos. Every link has been chosen to enrich the reading of the story and each story has additional ‘Links and Resources’ pages where the themes of the story and further background can be explored via the net. It has also been extensively annotated with footnotes and endnotes providing additional information and links.

This collection comprises five Lovecraft stories – Azathoth, Dagon, The Call of Cthulhu, The Other Gods and The Thing on the Doorstep – as well as two ‘Editor’s Extras’ – Yog-Sothoth and Azathoth and Lovecraftian Labyrinthine Linkages (a list of additional links to all things Lovecraftian.

Each Lovecraft Cosmos Collection™ is normally supplied via CD in the form of PDFs (open with free Adobe Acrobat Reader) with payment processing via PayPal.

You do not have to have an account with PayPal.


The payment of £4.99 ($9.99) plus postage and packing will be processed through PayPal who will invoice you. When you have made the payment, you will be sent a CD of Adobe Acrobat PDF files of the collection you ordered. If you do not have the latest version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader you can download the free version at
http://www.download.com/Adobe-Reader/3000-2378_4-10000062.html
Order your copy at:
rogermartintudor@btinternet.com
Or you can request a digital version and thereby save the postage costs.


Or have a look at eBay (UK and USA) - search for 'Lovecraft CD'.

By all means have a look at my MySpace as well:

myspace.com/lovecrafter

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