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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50596004

Kim Bo-young relocates The Shadow Over Innsmouth to a quarantined Korean fishing village, and Sophie Bowman’s translation makes the dread rise like a tide.

Review - A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-young: The Korean Lovecraft Retelling That Grieves

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/240019934-a-plagued-sea

Kim Bo-young is one of Korea’s most important speculative writers, and A Plagued Sea is her first horror novella in English, translated by Sophie Bowman and published by Tor Nightfire on 11 August 2026. It reworks Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth, moving the story to Haewon, a Korean fishing village sealed off three years into a plague quarantine. Part cosmic horror, part pandemic elegy, it follows a grieving security officer enforcing an isolation she cannot escape as the villagers begin to change. This A Plagued Sea review looks at why a hundred-page Korean Lovecraft retelling hits harder than novels five times its length.

Kim Bo-young relocates The Shadow Over Innsmouth to a quarantined Korean fishing village, and Sophie Bowman’s translation makes the dread rise like a tide.

Review - A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-young: The Korean Lovecraft Retelling That Grieves

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/240019934-a-plagued-sea

Kim Bo-young is one of Korea’s most important speculative writers, and A Plagued Sea is her first horror novella in English, translated by Sophie Bowman and published by Tor Nightfire on 11 August 2026. It reworks Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth, moving the story to Haewon, a Korean fishing village sealed off three years into a plague quarantine. Part cosmic horror, part pandemic elegy, it follows a grieving security officer enforcing an isolation she cannot escape as the villagers begin to change. This A Plagued Sea review looks at why a hundred-page Korean Lovecraft retelling hits harder than novels five times its length.

A contemporary reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Herbert West: Reanimator is on the way, and Deadline has unveiled the first look at the new Herbert West and the pathologist drawn to his orbit.

The original screenplay and storyline come from Jade Sandberg Wallis.

Michael Grossman (“The Originals”, “Pretty Little Liars”) directs.

The new images introduce star Joseph Morgan (“Vampire Diaries“), who plays “brilliant surgeon and scientist Herbert West, who is obsessed with creating a serum to reanimate the dead.” Katie Cassidy (Speed Demon) stars opposite as the pathologist with a troubled past who joins his efforts.

Together, they prove that conquering death may be the ultimate sin against life itself. (...)

Theatre troupe La Fenice’s improvised drama creates new perspectives on eldritch terrors

The show at the Tavern is the latest in physical theatre experts La Fenice’s Speak No More series. These were inspired by the New York smash Sleep No More, which turned an entire building into a massive, wordless adaptation of Macbeth. “Seeing this immersive show that was performed silently,” Meehan said, “we went, ‘Oh, this is what we do.’”

The first production was a Shakespearean homage with improv troupe Golden at Hideout Studios, but this evolved into site-specific creations starting with murder-mystery Golden Age at the Neill-Cochran House. A cinematic influence insinuated itself with VVitch at the Haskell House and Contagion at Independence Brewery, which drew heavily on interstellar horrors like The Thing and Alien. However, Lovecraft diverges from those earlier iterations because their physical violence is replaced by internalized horrors. Speak No More veteran cast member Tatiana Jitkoff said, “It’s much less murdery and much more about madness.” (...)

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/NiceMemes@sopuli.xyz/p/1651211/dogs-and-cosmic-horror

For those who don't like the poor quality of the image, as well as the blind:

A Twitter post:

@sarah_michelson 2023-01-02

cosmic horror protagonists are WEAK my dog experiences at least 3 Horrors Beyond His Comprehension PER DAY (ex. a thunderstorm, seeing a car) and he's Literally Fine

That post was reposted on tumblr, and people reblogged with the following additions:

@lekosis
Jan 11

The dog has one of the Great Old Ones reassuring him with pats and treats tho. If the King in Yellow had played with u and fed u for ur entire life and let you sleep in his berth of unspeakable blackness at night, and then hugged you reassuringly when Cthulhu rose from the depths, you might be able to handle it better too
@talestobetold
Feb 28
oh that's a prompt
@roach-works
Mar 5
those fish guys at innsmoth were domesticated

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/cornthulu-4a7a7ae16d5542ca9e8a0dfb8796c692

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50018043

Datlow notes in her introduction that these stories more about cosmic dread than the trappings of Lovecraft mythos, which makes Lovecraft’s Brood very accessible if Lovecraft isn’t your thing.

https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Lovecraft's_Brood

Contents

• Introduction by Ellen Datlow
• "Once Seen" by Conrad Williams
• "Mr. Ainsley" by Steve Rasnic Tem
• "Sideways" by Ray Cluley
• "Empty Shells on a Cold Shore" by Jacob Steven Mohr
• "The Keep Quiet" by Aaron Dries
• "Agent of Chaos" by T. Kingfisher
• "The Beholder's Share" by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• "Backbite" by Norman Partridge
• "Eat the Wyrm" by Elizabeth Hand
• "The Note" by Paul Tremblay
• "a strange form of life" by Laird Barron
• "Call of the Void—L'appel du Vide" by Carol Gyzander
• "Hypnopompia" by L. Marie Wood
• "Volcano" by Livia Llewellyn
• "Halogen Sky" by Wendy N. Wagner
• "Wind Come Down the Mountain" by A. C. Wise
• "Infantum" by Ian Rogers
• "Deep Diving" by Gary McMahon
• "One Possible Shape of Things to Come" by Brian Hodge
• About the Authors
• About the Editor

Datlow notes in her introduction that these stories more about cosmic dread than the trappings of Lovecraft mythos, which makes Lovecraft’s Brood very accessible if Lovecraft isn’t your thing.

https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Lovecraft's_Brood

Contents

• Introduction by Ellen Datlow
• "Once Seen" by Conrad Williams
• "Mr. Ainsley" by Steve Rasnic Tem
• "Sideways" by Ray Cluley
• "Empty Shells on a Cold Shore" by Jacob Steven Mohr
• "The Keep Quiet" by Aaron Dries
• "Agent of Chaos" by T. Kingfisher
• "The Beholder's Share" by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• "Backbite" by Norman Partridge
• "Eat the Wyrm" by Elizabeth Hand
• "The Note" by Paul Tremblay
• "a strange form of life" by Laird Barron
• "Call of the Void—L'appel du Vide" by Carol Gyzander
• "Hypnopompia" by L. Marie Wood
• "Volcano" by Livia Llewellyn
• "Halogen Sky" by Wendy N. Wagner
• "Wind Come Down the Mountain" by A. C. Wise
• "Infantum" by Ian Rogers
• "Deep Diving" by Gary McMahon
• "One Possible Shape of Things to Come" by Brian Hodge
• About the Authors
• About the Editor

Frank Darabont’s The Mist is, quite simply, a five-out-of-five adaptation of Stephen King‘s story that follows a town swallowed by a mist filled with monsters. The shocking creature feature is jam-packed with creepy crawlies of all types, features a good handful of knockout performances, and features one of the most devastating endings of the last few decades. It’s basically perfect.

Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep) knows this. He was ready for the confusion from fans when his feature adaptation of The Mist was announced. He knew many would declare that The Mist didn’t need a new take. He was ready for that.

Flanagan told the outlet that, with Gerald’s Game it was about, “How do we take this impossible book and get it onto a screen?” Doctor Sleep was about taking Kubrick’s version of The Shining and making it “harmonize” with the world of King’s novels. And with The Life of Chuck, “It was very much, how do I just do the book?”

Adds Flanagan, “With Carrie and with The Mist, they’ve both been done spectacularly well already as feature films. So with Carrie, it was very much about finding a new path, trying to find something new to build. The Mist is the same.”

Continues Flanagan, “It’s [The Mist] one of the most brutal movies I’ve ever seen. That ending is jaw-dropping. My way into the story, through the story, and out of that story is very different. When I presented that to Steve [King] — that was also important because he loves Frank’s movie — it’s like, Why are we doing this? What are we gonna do that justifies itself? So it’s a different type of adaptation for me.”

(...)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49529465

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50098911