The Lovecraft Thread

[Nightmare Asylum]

So I'm currently two stories in (read The Beast in the Cave and The Alchemist). I quite liked the style, and am very excited to get to some of his more well known works from later in his life.

[Cvalda]

I wish I had a dollar for every time ol' Howard described a moon as "gibbous"...
Or a city as "cyclopian."
Or a creature as "squamous."
Or anything as "terrible."

[AvatarIII]

I smell a drinking game!

[Cvalda]

That sounds pretty dangerous, actually. You'd be hammered by the first paragraph.

[DoomRulz]

Easy way to alcohol-induced coma, this idea

As much I love Lovecraft's material, I find it hard to read the Cthulhu stuff without having pre-ordained images fill my head. It's irritating because I wonder what it would be like to hvae not seen all the artists' renderings of Cthulhu prior to reading.

[Cvalda]

Latest batch of chronological Lovecraft ratings:

The Doom That Came to Sarnath 6/10
The Statement of Randolph Carter 6.5/10 (Lovecraft at both his best [story] and worst [horrid purple prose])
The Terrible Old Man 3/10
The Tree 6/10
The Cats of Ulthar 6/10
The Temple 7/10

[Ryu]

Good Night.
Ladies and Gentlemen, prepare for bleeding from the eyes, nose and intestines.
Prepare to adapt the short story by HP Lovecraft, from Japan, a tale of horror for something like a romantic comedy.
No, it's a joke in April 1, is real.
If you have the courage to see the trailer from beginning to end, do not blame it destroy your vision of HP Lovecraft. Or commit suicide.
My vision of HPLovecraft, in Japan, is about something like the manga horror Junji Ito, this sleeve has a lot of influences from Lovecraft.

Not this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xpv54rrNKI#ws

Spoiler

Nyarlathotep make this...
for this.

[close]

As the demon Astaroth say in Hellboy comics:
"Truly this is our Blackest Hour."

[KiramidHead]

I found a nifty little flash game based on The Outsider.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/572817

[OmegaZilla]

Ryu, I shall not speak about what you posted. I'm tempted to murder someone though.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1RTgznup5c#ws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XyEZEXjq6U#

Cliff Burton, that man. These songs pure greatness (try to read some stories with them as background, I did, so good).
The lyrics of The Thing that should not Be are genius, too. Love them.

[DoomRulz]

Call of Ktulu is awesome. I always picture the city of R'yleh whenever I listen to, with random flashes of Lovecraftian imagery up until the last drum roll when I see Great Cthulhu rising from the depths.

[Ryu]

They are calm, Omegazilla. Are not you state in serial killer, OK
Not all Japanese, the idea is sad, to take up literary character of terror, making them a romantic comedy type WTFJapan.
For example the artist Junji Ito, in its sleeve even has an Influence of respect for Lovecraft.

For example, In the town of Siren, has a huge tribute to Lovecraft, in which Young returns to a native village, after several bizarre accidents, only to discover that the village is owned and semis transformed winged creature, under control of a foreign mad who wants to release a demonic creature. As well as other works HELLSTAR REMINA and Uzumaki, is a quality I respect.



And there are other artists who take up elements of Lovecraft, even if they are cute or really creepy.

Cthulhu

Nightgaunts

Shoggoth

The Elder Things
Now some serious.


Yog-Sothoth ... is key.


Do not like, good for you, because nobody is perfect. Ever seen that shit would be the world if we all liked the same thing?
At least they can agree it is better to use in educational fin than in Euro-porn manga WTFjapan.
Ante Ir have two questions:
The Ogdru Jahad of Hellboy, appears in some tale of HPLovecraft.?
What would rank him with his relatives in the Cthulhu Mythos?


Last question, that is Cthulhu?

It is well bro. peace

[Nightmare Asylum]

Just throwing this out there. Listening to the soundtrack to Alien while reading Lovecraft is pretty awesome!

I can't wait until I get to some of Lovecraft's big stories. I'm currently on Beyond the Wall of Sleep. My favorites so far were probably The Beast in the Cave, The Tomb, and Dagon.

[SpaceMarines]

Haven't read the ones you just mentioned, but just wait until "The Shadow Over Innsmouth." Probably my favourite of his stories, apart from AtMoM.

[RagingDragon]

Ryu, that is just... I don't even know.  Cthulhu needs to show up Godzilla-style and lay the smack down.

Just throwing this out there. Listening to the soundtrack to Alien while reading Lovecraft is pretty awesome!

I can't wait until I get to some of Lovecraft's big stories. I'm currently on Beyond the Wall of Sleep. My favorites so far were probably The Beast in the Cave, The Tomb, and Dagon.

So awesome, you liked Beast in the Cave?  I like that one too, though it's one of Lovecraft's oldest.   But I also just like caves and creepy darkness.

[Nightmare Asylum]

If the book that I'm reading is in fact Lovecraft's complete fiction, then The Beast in the cave was his first story written (it is first in the book). Yeah, I liked the creepiness of it. Made for an interesting introduction to the author.

Haven't read the ones you just mentioned, but just wait until "The Shadow Over Innsmouth." Probably my favourite of his stories, apart from AtMoM.

Of the ones I mentioned, I think only Dagon is in a similar vein to the Cthulhu stories he wrote later in is life. It was kind of a precursor to them, if I have my facts straight.