Richard Svensson is a dedicated amateur filmmaker who specializes in hand-animated fantasy. Over the years he's produced dozens of short films, including a number of Mythos-inspired works. He created this puppet to appear as the creature at the climax of his adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's "Dagon". It's a fantastic sculpt, built using techniques that Ray Harryhausen would be familiar with. Click through the link for a detailed look at the film, and the puppet's construction.
Sculptor Luke Welch brings us his take on the traditional Cthulhu idol, heavily influenced by Lovecraft's own sketch.
These beautiful Aragorn-inspired leather bracers come to us from Outcast Props. What makes them unusual, other than the level of craftsmanship, is that a gambeson-style bracer nests inside the ornate outer armor. Click through to see a full gallery, including some cool color variants.
McCormick Wands returns to our pages with this wonderful tableau featuring one of their ebonized master wand designs.
Spooky Jack returns to our pages with a pair of prop skulls bearing the distinctive signs of trepanation. The practice is surprisingly ancient, with skulls dating back almost ten thousand years showing signs of the procedure. Even more amazing, we have hundreds of examples with new bone growth around the excised area. The patient not only survived the operation, but lived long enough for the years-long process of healing.
The talented Patrick Magee returns to our pages with this delightfully awful death maggot. Click through to see the full video posted on Instagram.
Letterlocking Videos brings us this recreation of the pentagonal folding technique Ludwig van Beethoven used in as 1814 letter to Johann Rupprecht. If you're not familiar with letterlocking, it was the technique used to keep correspondence private before the widespread adoption of postal envelopes. It's a great way to kick up the immersiveness of any pre-modern era written messages.
