28/02/2026
It’s been a month of HPL and closing the HPL-related gestalts. Firstly, I finished “Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness”, a quite awful adventure game. It was one of the first two CD-ROMs I bought in my life, the second being “Clive Barker’s Undying”. While I finished Barker’s game with pleasure, “Necronomicon” was the real cenobite of the two as it made me suffer quite a lot. I approached it a couple of times but never got past a puzzle in the middle of the game. I even attempted to decipher a message written in code, but then chalked it up to a glitch and abandoned it. A friend started playing it, rekindling my resolve to finish the beast and turned out the solution to the puzzle was one of those impossible, uncrackable nuts you should look up in a guide. Having learned this, I shamelessly breezes through it with a walkthrough. If a game says “spin on this” I’m replying with “nope, it’s you who’s spinning”.
In the end, it’s a weird, broken game with cool imagery and atmosphere and an HPL fan would get a kick out of it all the same. The talking brain alone is worth the price of admission imho, but one has to really be into this kind of jank.
Secondly, my friend .staege sent me a lovely package that, among other things, included this cool print of his work. Check his stuff out, he’s good!
Thirdly, I received my contributor’s copy of HPL’s oeuvre in Ukrainian… 10 years late! It’s the 1st standalone volume of Lovecraft published in Ukraine by , so I’m quite proud of having a hand in it. The tardiness of its arrival is completely my fault as I’ve been an a-hole at one point leading up to publication. Thankfully, it’s in the past and chances are we’ll still collaborate on some times of eldritch horror in the not too cosmically distant future.
