Lovecraft: Fear Of The Unknown has a composer and his name is Mars of Dead House Music…
If there’s one quality of H.P. Lovecraft’s writing that deserves reverence, it is the way he would conjure atmosphere.
“For yards about the steps extended an insane tangle of human bones… Like a foamy sea they stretched, some fallen apart, but others wholly or partly articulated as skeletons; these latter invariably in postures of daemoniac frenzy, either fighting off some menace or clutching other forms with cannibal intent. – THE RATS IN THE WALLS
In film, one has more dimensions than words to achieve this sort of thing. Lighting, set design, sound FX… music. Since atmosphere is essential to any discussion of Lovecraft, we wanted to make sure our documentary’s music is up to the task.
That’s why Wyrd is happy to have Mars set to compose the score for Lovecraft.
I met Mars at the 2007 Fangoria Weekend of Horrors in Burbank. He embodied one of the characteristics that has impressed me most since undertaking this project. The cosmic passion that many feel for the old gentleman from Providence and his work.
This passion is what drew our esteemed interview subjects to the piece. It’s what compels some talented Lovecraftian artists to lend us their tentacled creations.
Mars has the same passion in spades. The man is a self described “horror fanatic”. This means he (like many of us) feels horror has deeper artistic merit than those who traffic in what Guillermo Del Toro calls “straight stuff”. Perhaps that’s why Mars strives to avoid the tropes of canned horror music. He’s proven his metal through his work for Dread Central, Lurker Films, and many independent fright films (such as Rise Of The Ghosts, Prison Of The Psychotic Damned, and Shadow Of Time).
Here are a few tracks for your consideration…
Whispering Sands
Fall From Grace
Playing With Spiders
Lovecraft: Fear Of The Unknown is a chronicle of the life, work, and mind that created the Cthulhu mythos… that fathered modern horror and dark fantasy. The documentary features interviews with Ramsey Campbell, John Carpenter, Guillermo Del Toro, Neil Gaiman, Stuart Gordon, S.T. Joshi, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Andrew Migliore, Robert M. Price, and Peter Straub.
