Cthulhu Mythos (and the works of H. P. Lovecraft)

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12 Jan 2011, 5:46 pm

A new trailer for The Whisperer in Darkness movie by the HP Lovecraft Society is now up. The movie will come out any day now.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ee9K9hXtw&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]
The company handles the film adaptations so well. I'd imagine that if Lovecraft were alive, he would be happy with this movie.



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12 Jan 2011, 6:26 pm

ShenLong wrote:
A new trailer for The Whisperer in Darkness movie by the HP Lovecraft Society is now up. The movie will come out any day now.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ee9K9hXtw&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]
The company handles the film adaptations so well. I'd imagine that if Lovecraft were alive, he would be happy with this movie.


You can't know how long I've waited for this movie! Even though my wife's already ordered my Valentine's Day present, perhaps I can convince her to get me this, too. :)

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer



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12 Jan 2011, 10:42 pm

I'm not sure when it comes out. The German film Die Farbe, based on The Colour Out of Space, has been released and it has english subs. I want to get that, but it has to be imported. This movie looks spectacular aside from the Mi-Go. I don't really like the Mi-Go models. They should be more in the dark. Lovecraft's stories worked great especially when you were unsure of what lurked in the darkness. The reveals made the creatures a lot less horrifying. These just look like 50's stop-motion mantid things.



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13 Jan 2011, 6:56 am

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp3303161.html#3303161

I just read, finished and reviewed, an HP Lovecraft story collection. I felt that many of the stories were an improvement on the first story I had read, At the Mountains of Madness, but seriously, Lovecraft was a pretty big racist. Look at The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, and The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Sheesh...


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13 Jan 2011, 3:02 pm

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http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp3303161.html#3303161

I just read, finished and reviewed, an HP Lovecraft story collection. I felt that many of the stories were an improvement on the first story I had read, At the Mountains of Madness, but seriously, Lovecraft was a pretty big racist. Look at The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, and The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Sheesh...


Yes, indeed he was by modern definition a racist. But it should be remembered he was writing in a time when such beliefs were common - not only for Lovecraft, but also for most of his readers. That doesn't make it right, but it was a fact of life in the first half of the twentieth century.
Still, it doesn't negate his influence on modern horror fiction, anymore than T.S. Elliot's Anti-Antisemitism in his poetry should downgrade him in his place in the literary world.

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13 Jan 2011, 4:32 pm

It was more the latter two that are racist. But again, although it's been said a million times, Lovecraft began to change in his last years. He gradually stopped liking the Anglo's more than all other ethnicities. He married a Jew and expressed disapproval towards Nazi Germany's treatment of the Jews.



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14 Mar 2012, 6:16 pm

Hey. I made this rp on the site forums. It is pretty cool. The main characters are Armitage, Wilmarth, and Rice, so yeah. Its cool.



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16 Mar 2012, 7:54 am

H.P. Lovecraft is truly my favorite author. At The Mountains of Madness or the Shadow over Innsmouth are his best works



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17 Mar 2012, 12:46 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
ShenLong wrote:
A new trailer for The Whisperer in Darkness movie by the HP Lovecraft Society is now up. The movie will come out any day now.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ee9K9hXtw&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]
The company handles the film adaptations so well. I'd imagine that if Lovecraft were alive, he would be happy with this movie.


You can't know how long I've waited for this movie! Even though my wife's already ordered my Valentine's Day present, perhaps I can convince her to get me this, too. :)

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


As an update, my wife had gotten me The Whisperer In Darkness, and I'm sorry to say, I consider it to be a letdown.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer



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17 Mar 2012, 4:18 pm

Do you know about the H.P Lovecraft Literary Podcast? I listen to it. Andrew Leman is, at least to me, a good reader. He directed the last adaptation made by H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.



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19 Mar 2012, 12:58 pm

big fan.
there's a Library of America edition now, so i guess he's no longer outside the pale.
Thomas Ligotti carries on the flame, i think, honorably.


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19 Mar 2012, 3:13 pm

graywyvern wrote:
big fan.
there's a Library of America edition now, so i guess he's no longer outside the pale.
Thomas Ligotti carries on the flame, i think, honorably.


Penguin has also published his collected works. HPL has come into his own. To bad he never got to live to see it.

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19 Mar 2012, 4:36 pm

I am a Lovecraft fan, Should read all his writtings, but still read only some of them.


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06 Jun 2012, 2:26 pm

Hey, I made a Cthulhu Mythos Composite story thread. Add on to it if you want to.


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23 Jun 2012, 12:09 pm

Also, I think a Batman/Cthulhu Mythos crossover would be kinda cool, seeing both have Arkham.


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27 Jun 2012, 6:24 pm

What, no one besides me thinks that would be awesome? Imagine Wayne Manor getting chewed upon by cthulhu, or Nyrolathotep calmly walking through the Wayne building followed by insane cultists who are tearing up the place, or... well, you get the picture. Cool?


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