What should we rename Lovecraftian Horror

I needed anime to post.

hp lovecraft has been dead for 81 years and frankly we're overdue to rename the genre. i have selected the top runners here for you

jgeis

the real cosmic horror is capitalism

Derlethcore


Also isn't Eldritch Horror the most common alt title?

CorporateLogo

Boatmurdered

jgeis

the real cosmic horror is capitalism

Everyone Wants to Fuck the Fishmen

Moriveth

Oops! All racism!

Daypigeon

proto-creepypastaism

recently found out what story Red Hook, the studio that made Darkest Dungeon, was named for

and boy am i upset i ever gave them the benefit of the doubt, and also money

Virgil_Leads_You

god i wish cthulhu would step on me

Relativism

maybe? Borrow from M. C. Escher.

Grey Ghost

the real cosmic horror is capitalism

They're actually named for the story? Yeesh

jgeis

the real cosmic horror is capitalism

I always imagine Lovecraft as Reducto from Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law but instead of being terrified/obsessed with size, it's, you know, people of color.

IronKnuckle's Ghost

i can't even describe the name of the genre to you, it's too horrible, it's really bad

Grey Ghost wrote: »

They're actually named for the story? Yeesh

How angry am I gonna be if I google this?

Grey Ghost

the real cosmic horror is capitalism

IronKnuckle's Ghost wrote: »

Grey Ghost wrote: »

They're actually named for the story? Yeesh

How angry am I gonna be if I google this?

It's a boring and rambling story that also basically boils down to "the real evil in this neighborhood is a bunch of non-white people living there, and the villainous madman is a white dude who hangs out with them"

It's bad

Kaplar

uh-oh, tentacles!

Uh-oh tentacles reminds me of uh-oh spaghettios which is what a lot of the lovecraftian monsters look like anyway.

Doobh

i think about hp lovecraft's cat a lot

'Cosmic Horror' seems to be the serious answer

OnTheLastCastle

look at that big squid boy

Daypigeon wrote: »

recently found out what story Red Hook, the studio that made Darkest Dungeon, was named for

and boy am i upset i ever gave them the benefit of the doubt, and also money

????

You regret giving them money because their studio, which created a Lovecraftian game, is named after a Lovecraft story...?

Okay... but... why would you buy a Lovecraft inspired game if you hate Lovecraft that much?

never die

uh-oh, tentacles!

Doobh wrote: »

'Cosmic Horror' seems to be the serious answer

That or Eldritch Horror

PLA

"Its number is so big. It's so big."
- H. P. Lovecraft, probably.

Weaver

the real cosmic horror is capitalism

The one time I ever did a hallucinogen I tripped dark and saw the things that live in the shifting spaces between our reality and other, different places.

Good tines.

It was not good times.

Grey Ghost

the real cosmic horror is capitalism

OnTheLastCastle wrote: »

Daypigeon wrote: »

recently found out what story Red Hook, the studio that made Darkest Dungeon, was named for

and boy am i upset i ever gave them the benefit of the doubt, and also money

????

You regret giving them money because their studio, which created a Lovecraftian game, is named after a Lovecraft story...?

Okay... but... why would you buy a Lovecraft inspired game if you hate Lovecraft that much?

See above
It's a super racist story even by HP's standards

Bizzaro Stormy

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Doobh

i think about hp lovecraft's cat a lot

it makes me pretty uncomfortable too!

I'm just glad they didn't name themselves after his cat

I DO actually think about that cat a lot

Daypigeon

proto-creepypastaism

OnTheLastCastle wrote: »

Daypigeon wrote: »

recently found out what story Red Hook, the studio that made Darkest Dungeon, was named for

and boy am i upset i ever gave them the benefit of the doubt, and also money

????

You regret giving them money because their studio, which created a Lovecraftian game, is named after a Lovecraft story...?

Okay... but... why would you buy a Lovecraft inspired game if you hate Lovecraft that much?

arright, so

first of all i'm not really into cosmic horror or whatever, so much as I like dark fantasy styled stuff (which Darkest Dungeon resembles a lot more at first glance, with the knights and skeletons running around, and, well, whoops)

but that genre doesn't really end with Lovecraft, either. Even in games spaces there are works like Bloodborne that have more interesting takes on the genre than a lot of what that dude produced.

and below that, you've got people who maybe use the aesthetic and trappings of the genre without really understanding the underpinnings of lovecraft's work. Folks who maybe don't get the themes or whatever. This is kind of where I thought Darkest Dungeon sat, ultimately? The parts of that game that made me frown the most (the cultist class and etc.) felt more like maybe the devs just hadn't really critically examined the works they were drawing from, and that they were just unintentionally reproducing the shitty bits to some extent

but the fact that they named themselves after one of his stories that is notoriously bad, and notable only for being especially racist? That reads like a dog whistle to me, honestly, and makes me 1000% less willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on the shitty bits

Thetheroo

the real cosmic horror is capitalism

Doobh wrote: »

it makes me pretty uncomfortable too!

I'm just glad they didn't name themselves after his cat

I DO actually think about that cat a lot

holy shit I knew he was a racist dirtbag but I did not know about that cat

I needed anime to post.

i told my mom about his cat for the first time earlier and she almost cried because of how mean she thought it was to the poor cat

OmnipotentBagel

proto-creepypastaism

I needed a gnome to post. wrote: »

i told my mom about his cat for the first time earlier and she almost cried because of how mean she thought it was to the poor cat

Your mom sounds nice

jgeis

the real cosmic horror is capitalism

I never knew about Lovecraft's cat before today.

Wowzers

Tynnan

the real cosmic horror is capitalism

Yeah, holy shit. I didn't know about his cat either.

I needed anime to post.

you're like oh how bad could it be

and then you look it up and you're like wow it's the worst it could possibly have been

Moriveth

jgeis wrote: »

I never knew about Lovecraft's cat before today.

Wowzers

It’s my ‘favorite’ Lovecraft fact by far

Donnicton

the grandness of the cosmos is no longer frightening but an understood fact taught to me in elementary school

I needed a gnome to post. wrote: »

i told my mom about his cat for the first time earlier and she almost cried because of how mean she thought it was to the poor cat

https://twitter.com/LovecraftCat/status/109123062787612672

Xaquin

CHAR'GAR'GOTCHA'KHAN THE BEAST THAT HATH NO NAME.

Pinfeldorf

look at that big squid boy

I would like to thank Bizzaro Stormy for breaking Chrome into wanting to translate this page.

Phillishere

I think Lovecraft gets a bit of a pass because the image of an uptight, mentally ill Yankee who was so terrified of minorities and immigrants that he rarely left the house and spent his days writing stories about monsters who are obviously thinly veiled minorities and immigrants does the full loop from disturbing to sad to kinda funny, actually.

OmnipotentBagel

proto-creepypastaism

Hmm, not sure I buy that premise

Tynnan

the real cosmic horror is capitalism

Phillishere wrote: »

I think Lovecraft gets a bit of a pass because the image of an uptight, mentally ill Yankee who was so terrified of minorities and immigrants that he rarely left the house and spent his days writing stories about monsters who are obviously thinly veiled minorities and immigrants does the full loop from disturbing to sad to kinda funny, actually.

Nah

SCREECH OF THE FARG

i think about hp lovecraft's cat a lot

I'm thinking about those cat

Phillishere

Tynnan wrote: »

Phillishere wrote: »

I think Lovecraft gets a bit of a pass because the image of an uptight, mentally ill Yankee who was so terrified of minorities and immigrants that he rarely left the house and spent his days writing stories about monsters who are obviously thinly veiled minorities and immigrants does the full loop from disturbing to sad to kinda funny, actually.

Nah

I'll buy that. I just find Lovecraft too ridiculous to hate and too nasty to pity.

I did like when American Vampire did Robert E. Howard's death as the world's most pathetic ghost story.

Sleep

I enjoy lovecraft's writing and the atmosphere he builds. I also realize he was astoundingly racist. I realized that when I was reading one of his stories and had to look up a word that I didn't know that turned out to be a racial epithet I had literally never even heardof before. It's the big content warning I give to anyone reading it. Lovecraft is an engaging read, and he's good at making normally innocuos things spooky, but hoo boy, that motherfucker was super racist.

Coinage

look at that big squid boy

I needed a gnome to post. wrote: »

i told my mom about his cat for the first time earlier and she almost cried because of how mean she thought it was to the poor cat

He loved that cat though! Don't cry for the cat. Well also because the cat has been dead for like a hundred years

MalReynolds

Xaquin wrote: »

CHAR'GAR'GOTCHA'KHAN THE BEAST THAT HATH NO NAME.

it felt good to be out of the rain

Solar

Existential Horror?

Kind of what it is right?

OmnipotentBagel

proto-creepypastaism

Coinage wrote: »

I needed a gnome to post. wrote: »

i told my mom about his cat for the first time earlier and she almost cried because of how mean she thought it was to the poor cat

He loved that cat though! Don't cry for the cat. Well also because the cat has been dead for like a hundred years

Being loved by terrible people is an incredible burden