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"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
His name was Howard Phillips Lovecraft. During his writing career he gave us some of the darkest, most grotesque, most unsettling, and just plain weirdest horror and science fiction that the world would ever see. Largely unappreciated during his lifetime, since his death he has come to be regarded as one of the masters of his art, and his influence is felt in such modern writers as Stephen King and Neil Gaiman.
From the tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, such as "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Dunwich Horror," and the cult classic (and his most famous work) "The Call of Cthulhu," to the trippy landscapes of the Dream Cycle stories, to the zombie horror of "Herbert West - Reanimator," Lovecraft's stories have one overarching theme: that mankind is better off not knowing, and that we run a great risk by delving into the secrets of the universe and the world that lies behind the one we know.
Adaptations of his work have had mixed success: a few Call of Cthulhu movies have been made, but most of them turn out to be Shadow Over Innsmouth adaptations, though the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has done a really solid version of Call and an upcoming production based on The Whisperer in Darkness, which was one of Lovecraft's best stories in my opinion. Then, of course, there was:
...and a popular thing in literature is to create pastiches of Lovecraftian horror and other genres (one of the most famous being the Sherlock Holmes pastiches collected in Shadows Over Baker Street, but they also have pirate-Lovecraft, pioneer-Lovecraft, and hard-boiled detective-Lovecraft collections too, apparently).
Oh yeah, and then there's a big Call of Cthulhu role-playing game which is cool if you're into that sort of thing.
So what are your favorite Lovecraft stories, SE++? What keeps you up late at night as you wonder what lurks just beyond the reality you think you know?
His name was Howard Phillips Lovecraft. During his writing career he gave us some of the darkest, most grotesque, most unsettling, and just plain weirdest horror and science fiction that the world would ever see. Largely unappreciated during his lifetime, since his death he has come to be regarded as one of the masters of his art, and his influence is felt in such modern writers as Stephen King and Neil Gaiman.
From the tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, such as "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Dunwich Horror," and the cult classic (and his most famous work) "The Call of Cthulhu," to the trippy landscapes of the Dream Cycle stories, to the zombie horror of "Herbert West - Reanimator," Lovecraft's stories have one overarching theme: that mankind is better off not knowing, and that we run a great risk by delving into the secrets of the universe and the world that lies behind the one we know.
Adaptations of his work have had mixed success: a few Call of Cthulhu movies have been made, but most of them turn out to be Shadow Over Innsmouth adaptations, though the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has done a really solid version of Call and an upcoming production based on The Whisperer in Darkness, which was one of Lovecraft's best stories in my opinion. Then, of course, there was:
...and a popular thing in literature is to create pastiches of Lovecraftian horror and other genres (one of the most famous being the Sherlock Holmes pastiches collected in Shadows Over Baker Street, but they also have pirate-Lovecraft, pioneer-Lovecraft, and hard-boiled detective-Lovecraft collections too, apparently).
Oh yeah, and then there's a big Call of Cthulhu role-playing game which is cool if you're into that sort of thing.
So what are your favorite Lovecraft stories, SE++? What keeps you up late at night as you wonder what lurks just beyond the reality you think you know?
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That shit was scary
Not a bad thing just pointing it out
Those retro silent movies are great though
I know man
the whole second half made me hella physically uncomfortable too
Since we're inevitably going to tread this ground, Lovecraft wasn't an especially gifted writer, he just had great ideas.
Fall of Cthulhu is great, more of his fans should read it
I also really liked the Haunt of Horror mini that Marvel did with his stories
That one with the guy whose family has been cursed by a tribal witch was creepy as fuck
fuck that story
When he describes that black figure in the dark, cramped, nasty house
I was squirming around and I was actually anxious
he painted such a good picture that I still remember all of the scenes he described
I KNOW
and when he's talking about what their bodies were like after the Colour had been draining them for a while I was just like fuuuuuuuuuck my stomach and my skin feel all weird now
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:^: Rats is my favorite as well though I still have yet to read a few of his stories. I should get on that.
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I get it
But man, when he gets into the groove, that shit gets deep down in your soul.
Making my way through all his major works for the second time right now.
come one come all over to the lets play call of cthulu
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But damn it picked up toward the end. Then right at the end it was perfect
so that by the end you're like holy shit that's fucked up
also I kinda want to see an alternate version of Resident Evil 4 where they send Leon to Innsmouth instead
Prime example
The only thing preventing him from doing it is Hollywood
Yes, I was pleasantly surprised by that.
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Del Toro was practically made for Lovecraft-inspired creature designs. I have no doubt he could do it, it's just the rest of the IP you might need to worry about. Creative control and all that.
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all the good stuff anyway
Doubt it, that one put me to sleep
Dunwich Horror and Charles Dexter Ward are probably my favorites
i think i'll pick up the library of america edition tomorrow as well.
woot for Tom Waits
"Shit is not going well we saw some weird shit we're going out tomorrow"
And it numbed my fucking brain
Oh my god yes
the one on SA got dropped and it was a screenshot LP
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