A significant chunk of this is about At the Mountains of Madness. And yes, it contains spoilers :')

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/07/110207fa_fact_zalewski?currentPage=all

Haven't read it yet, so I'm not going to that link then.

I'll get to reading it when I get to reading it. Right now I've started The Dunwich Horror again.

By the way—today is Wilbur Whateley's birthday!

He's 98 today!

Tibs said:

Just make sure the candles on the cake are CANDLES. You never can tell with the Whateley boys.

Tibs said:

We should hold an eldritch birthday party for him.

Ill bring the goat cheese

It's a really impressive article; took me more than an hour to read and by the end of it, i felt an anxiety like if i was back to childhood and it was chrismas eve...if Del Toro can't create a Lovecraft adaptation on film, i don't know who could.

satanito said:

I'll say two things... If he doesn't do it, I'll be disappointed, and if he does it but screws it up, I'll be even more disappointed :'/ I haven't been exactly crazy about all of his work, although he hasn't done anything visually that I haven't enjoyed... I have a gnawing worry that he'll keep the plot and imagery and dump almost everything else... Sure... It'll still be a horror movie, but I want it to be as faithful to Lovecraft as possible (which includes retaining as much Lovecraftian language as would be possible without alienating a movie audience)... I've been nervous about him since Hellboy 2... Although I did love that scene with the elemental :'D

Well, he did smack the corporate writers when they said there had to be a love story in it somewhere...So that's something, at least!

Anyone notice the date on this article is Feb 7 2011? I'm reading the future!

Nah, that's just the New Yorkers style. So up-tight, we're from the FUTURE! Or...something...