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May 7, 2026May 7, 2026

Innsmouth Book club Episode 124 – Mike T Lyddon

From the Room 101 Substack, here is a transcript of the Innsmouth Book club Episode 124 conducted by Rob Poyton featuring guest, Mike T Lyddon.

Contents of part one of the interview include but are not limited to:
1)Introduction 2)Lovecraft film adaptations 3)Low Budget Filmmaking 4)Hiring Theater Actors for Movies 5)The Night Gallery TV Series 6)Discovering Lovecraft 7)Weird Tales 8)Lovecraft’s Letters 9)Robert E. Howard 10)Fiend Without A Face 11)Poe and Lovecraft

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About Mike T. Lyddon
Mike T. Lyddon has been making no-budget indie genre films for more than 30 years.
His last feature film, “Witch Tales” aka Cuentos de la Bruja (2020) is a horror anthology movie. It is based upon lesser known 1950s pre-code horror comic books in the vein of Tales from the Crypt. Witch Tales landed in 13 festivals and garnered 6 awards over the 2019-2020 seasons.
In 2022 he released a documentary on 1950s pre-code horror comic books called HAUNTED THRILLS. It won six awards for best short documentary during its 2022 film festival run.
His new documentary “Lovecraft in Florida” is a two part doc focusing on writer H.P. Lovecraft’s time in Florida. It is currently on the 2026 film festival circuit and has garnered an early BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY award from the prestigious A NIGHT OF HORROR FILM FESTIVAL.

Mike has an Amazon Authors page that includes his short stories as well as several issues of Monster! magazine he wrote articles for.
He has since sold several stories to a variety of publishers and a number of illustrations to magazines such as Cosmic Horror Monthly and Lovecraftiana: The Magazine of Eldritch Horror. In the latest issue of Lovecraftiana, Lyddon has contributed the cover art and a few interior illustrations.

Listen to the entire show on youtube.

March 29, 2026March 29, 2026

Lovecraft Doc Wins – Haunted Thrills Set For Blu-Ray Release

Mike Lyddon’s new documentary “Lovecraft In Florida: DeLand and the Barlow House” won Best Short Documentary at A Night of Horror Film Festival.

LOVECRAFT IN FLORIDA

Lovecraft in Florida takes us on a trip to the remains of the famed Barlow residence where H.P. Lovecraft spent several months over the last years of his life visiting his friend and fellow weird fiction enthusiast, Robert H. Barlow. Barlow would become a key figure after Lovecraft’s death as a preservationist and archivist for some of Lovecraft’s most important stories. These original manuscripts in Barlow’s possession were eventually passed on to August Derleth at Arkham House Publishing and the rest is glorious horror history.

BLU-RAY COMING AUTUMN 2026

Lyddon plans on releasing a blu-ray of the Lovecraft in Florida documentaries along with a short doc on The Creature from the Black Lagoon filming locations in Florida and his 2022 doc HAUNTED THRILLS. Haunted Thrills had tremendous success on the film festival circuit being an official selection in 19 film festivals worldwide and winning six awards for best documentary. The film explores the pre-code science fiction and horror comic book era of the late 1940’s to mid 1950’s. It features commentary by three living pre-code comic book artists – Joe Sinnott, Everett Raymond Kinstler, and Victor Carrabotta, all of whom have sadly passed away.
The Blu-Ray will be a special signed and numbered limited edition release so please bookmark this website as we near the release date, probably in October of 2026.

For additional info, please visit the Horror Anthology Movies website.

February 28, 2024February 28, 2024

Bare Bones Magazine 2021-Web Terror Tales Spicy Caroline Munro

Bare Bones Magazine 2021 Featuring Web Terror Tales And Spicy Caroline Munro Ads

Today we are looking at Bare Bones quarterly issue number six spring of 2021 published by Cimarron Street books.
Click here to watch the original Bare Bones Magazine Video.

Bare Bones Magazine Content

On the cover it states “Bare Bones magazine: unearthing vintage forgotten and overlooked horror, mystery, sci-fi, Western, and weird in film, paperbacks, Comics, Pulp Fiction, and video.”
In the table of contents we have “The overlooked Library” by Don Diamassa and Moon of the Wolf by Matthew Bradley. The annotated guide to Web Terror stories by Peter Infantino and a British horror Anthology Series by David a Sutton. Then get ready for the spicy Caroline Munro Lamb’s Navy rum campaign by John Scolari and digging into crime digests by Richard Krauss.
S. Craig Zahler rounds things out with 10 quick takes including a look at Lovecraft fiction.
On page 75 we have the Outer Limits on home video by Craig Beam and on page 91 “Sleaze Alley” followed by R and D by David Xiao.

Web Terror Stories Pulp Digest

A great article by Peter Infantino called “Mistress of the putrefying Lash: the complete and unedited look at the sleazy world of web Terror stories.” Not only does Infantino go issue by issue but he breaks down the issues with all of the stories Within which is fantastic. Web Terror Stories was a 1960’s pulp digest and men’s adventure magazine published by Candar Publishing company, featuring many scantilly clad damsels in distress. The pulp digest began as Saturn, a science-fiction magazine, became Web Detective Stories, then upped the ante with stories tinged with bondage and S&M in Web Terror Stories.
Next up we have the “Pipes of pan and its dark voices” horror Anthology Series in Britain by David a Sutton.

Spicy Caroline Munro Ads

Caroline Munro joins the Lamb’s Navy! An in-depth report on Caroline Munro’s various spicy ads for Lamb’s rum written by John Scolari very well done very in-depth with a ton of photos of course they are in black and white but for the most part they’re well reproduced.

Lovecraft and The Outer Limits

Craig Zahler contributes to this issue with 10 quick takes reviews of various books including the Doom that came to Sarnath and Other Stories by H.P Lovecraft.
“I am controlling transmission.” Collecting the Outer Limits on home video by Craig Beam. There is a nice ad for The Outer Limits on VHS for only 19.95. This is a very in-depth article covering the outer limits home video VHS offerings. They also present some color images from the outer limits Home Video Collection.

Classic Sleaze Alley Paperback Covers

Sleaze Alley reviews by Peter Infantino and great great covers here which are appropriately sleazy including the illustration for “Sin Cult” by Bruno Descasari.
On page 99 we have David Schow with a very interesting article about the Twilight Zone magazine which ran for 60 issues from 1981 to 1989.
In the back of the book we have the Bios page for all of the contributors in this issue.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this look at Bare Bones issue number six for spring of 2021. I highly recommend Bare Bones magazine, it is very well done. If you’re interested in the subject of unearthing vintage forgotten and overlooked horror, mystery, sci-fi, Western, and weird film paperbacks, Comics, Pulp Fiction, and video, you should really check out Bare Bones Magazine.
Watch the original Bare Bones Magazine Video.

November 14, 2021November 14, 2021

LOVECRAFT Cosmic HORROR Halloween Issue of Lovecraftiana

London based Rogue Planet Press, an imprint of Horrified Press, has recently released Lovecraftiana Halloween 2021 magazine to delight Lovecraft cosmic horror fans everywhere.
Featuring fiction by JL Royce, Brittany Groves, Lee Clark Zumpe, Danny Nicholas, Chris Sebastian, Greg Fewer, Gavin Chappell, Carlton Herzog, and exclusive art by Mike T. Lyddon, the Lovecraftiana Halloween issue is available in print and on Kindle through Amazon.
The print edition is highly recommend for the amazing job they did on the illustration reproductions including Lyddon’s almost three dimensional cover piece based upon Lovecraft’s “Dreams in the Witch House.” The deep gloss black finish makes Lovecraft’s Brown Jenkin character based upon the Bryan Moore sculpture come to life and jump off the page!
134 pages of cosmic horror madness awaits you with the new edition of Lovecraftiana. Surrender to the madness!
Click here for this specially priced issue.

March 18, 2021

Mike Lyddon Interviewed on Wicked Horror Show

Filmmaker Mike T. Lyddon is a guest on the WICKED HORROR SHOW podcastwith hosts Tony and Kevin. They discuss Lyddon’s latest feature length horror anthology movie WITCH TALES, his last film FIRST MAN ON MARS, and his latest project, a pre-code comics documentary called HAUNTED THRILLS covering all the lesser known publishers of sci-fi, horror and crimes comics of the early 1950s.
Also, we talk about THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON and the surging popularity of COSMIC HORROR in both print and movies. Fans of H.P. Lovecraft will find this of particular interest.
Was THE BLOB the first film made about Cosmic Horror?
Lyddon is an award-winning writer, producer, director and special makeup effects artist known for the films Cut Up (1994), Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras (1999), Horror Anthology Movie Vol. 1 (2013) and Vol. 2 (2014) and First Man on Mars (2016). Short films include The Cordyceps Principle (2013), Thing in the Shed (2013), Footage Found Arabi (2013) and By the Hair of the Head (2014). He also filmed over 100 live indigenous and traditional music videos in South America for HowlingEarth.Com.
Witch Tales: On Halloween night, the enchanting girl next door wants to invite you in for a treat….or a TRICK. Witch Tales is a horror anthology movie featuring three gruesome tales of terror presented by a seductive witch while she concocts a very special brew during Halloween eve. The English version trailer is presented in the show.
First Man in Mars: The countdown to terror has begun. Astronaut Eli Cologne became the first man on Mars, but something went horribly wrong. Infected by an alien organism, he returned to Earth a savage monster with an unquenchable thirst for human flesh. The original trailer is presented in the show.
Click here to watch the show.