Litquake: Feel the words tremble in SF this weekend

If one of Litquake's goals is to bring literature off the page, it's logical that Metallica's Lars Ulrich will be part of the opening festivities Friday at San Francisco's nine-day celebration of the written word. No fewer than four Metallica songs have been inspired by books -- two of them from the dark early 20th-century science fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft, whose dystopic tales are way, way metal.