Lovecraft Mythos - Cosmic Horror

"Something of a collector’s item for multiple reasons, this BFI blu-ray restoration of Daniel Haller’s 1965 chiller has a number of selling points to recommend it. It’s a late work from icon Boris Karloff, it features cult actor Nick Adams, and it’s a rare modern-day, British set outing of American International Pictures. The latter is surprising in itself, because this is an adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s The Color Out of Space, which dates back to 1927. Modernising a story from 1927 to 1965, then viewing it in 2024 offers a weird telescoping of baroque styles, and Die, Monster, Die! mixes genre elements in this strange cocktail of tropes..."

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"Titan Comics and Hard Case Crime have announced that Cynthia von Buhler’s private detective Minky Woodcock is set to return for an all-new case with an occult horror twist this October with the launch of the new four-issue comic book series Minky Woodcock: The Girl Called Cthulhu.

Sensational artist, author, and playwright, CYNTHIA VON BUHLER melds her glorious illustrations with the eldritch elements of HP LOVECRAFT and ALEISTER CROWLEY..."

The Whisperer in Darkness is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. Written February-September 1930, it was first published in Weird Tales, August 1931. Similar to "The Colour Out of Space" (1927), it is a blend of horror and science fiction.

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Novel by H. P. Lovecraft

The story follows Albert Wilmarth, a professor at Arkham University, who becomes embroiled in a mystery involving strange occurrences in rural Vermont. He is contacted by Henry Akeley, a farmer who claims to have discovered evidence of extraterrestrial beings, known as the Mi-Go, who inhabit the hills and are involved in bizarre activities, including mining a mysterious metal.

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Akeley claims to have evidence of extraterrestrial beings and their human allies. As the correspondence unfolds, Wilmarth's skepticism transforms into a mix of panic and enthusiasm, leading him to visit Akeley, who appears to be hiding critical information.

Akeley's increasingly erratic behavior and unsettling revelations about these beings lead Wilmarth to confront terrifying truths about the universe and humanity's place within it

2011 movie

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The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) - Independent horror film directed by Sean Branney, produced by Andrew Leman and David Robertson, and distributed by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.

THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS I Short Film I Festival selections: Kosice International Film Festival 2023, Prague International Film Awards 2023 Cast: Gabriela Topolewska- Annabelle Wilmarth Jakub Jakubczak- Henry Wentworth Akeley Music by Furda Band

"Lovecraft built a terrifying mythos through his works that have inspired stories and art for nearly a century. Video games, being the most substantial form of modern expression, are not immune to the influence of Lovecraftian cosmic horror. The Cthulhu / Lovecraft mythos lends itself to many genres of gaming, whether mystery, action, horror, or even slice of life, and game developers have not been slacking when it comes to creating great games with atmospheres of cosmic horror and mystery.

While the Nintendo Switch is usually known for its family-friendly games and light-hearted mainline titles, there are plenty of games on the Nintendo Shop that scratch the itch for players who want to experience something more existentially terrifying..."

"You've read HP Lovecraft books, watched adaptations of his work on the big screen, and even played a few games featuring his creepy creations. But have you ever read an HP Lovecraft manga? Back in 2016, manga creator Gou Tanabe adapted Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, one of the most infamous stories by the author. This has been available in two volumes for a while, but for a better option, you can pick up a new hardcover deluxe edition of the manga published by Dark Horse on July 9. Plus, it's on sale for a steep discount..."

"Dredge, developed by Black Salt Games and published by Team17, turned out to be one of the best games of 2023. The indie fishing-horror game landed to superb critic and player reviews, sold over one million copies in the first handful of months after its release, and the revenue was even put back into the game to create some expansions.

When the many awards ceremonies came around, Dredge was a regular nominee, even being put up for four accolades at the BAFTA awards, including for its narrative and game design. So, with Hollywood constantly on the hunt for known IPs to reboot or adapt for the big screen, it only makes sense that Dredge would get a film.

Dredge looks to have the makings of a possibly intense horror movie on the water. Importantly, the production company bringing Dredge to live-action, Salt Kitchen, will be bringing in developer Black Salt Games to further adapt the story and world for the big screen.

In the recent past, Story Kitchen’s co-founder has helped to appease gaming and movie fans with the Sonic the Hedgehog movies. Notably, after a poor response to Sonic’s initial design, the team pushed back the film and adjusted Sonic’s eyes to better fit the iconic character’s in-game design.

The co-founder, Dmitri M. Johnson, has been on a streak of video game adaptations which also includes the upcoming Tomb Raider animated series, Streets of Rage, Sifu, and Vampire Survivors. In theory, this means that Story Kitchen knows how to adapt video games in a way that creates a coherent movie and sticks to the rules and established lore of the IP.

While a window for the release of the Dredge movie hasn’t been announced, a mini synopsis has been revealed. As relayed in this IGN report, it’ll be along the lines of “The Sixth Sense on the water,” utilising the blend of influences from Ernest Hemingway and HP Lovecraft to create a grounded, atmospheric cosmic horror story..."

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of puppets.”

I’m pretty sure H. P. Lovecraft said that, or something very like it. And if he didn’t say exactly that, maybe it’s because he hadn’t seen Cthulhu: The Musical! by Puppeteers for Fears.

Of course, that’s a joke. Because while Cthulhu: The Musical! is many things, “scary” isn’t one of them, nor is it ever trying to be. [One of the jokes in this R-rated puppet show is about how one character’s suicide from the story might be “too dark” because they don’t want to get “demonetized.”]

Cthulhu: The Musical! is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a musical, performed entirely by Muppet-like puppets, adapting H. P. Lovecraft’s 1928 short story “The Call of Cthulhu.” Early on, the show’s narrator, Bert the Shoggoth, chastises the crowd for being “lazy Americans” who aren’t familiar enough with the source material.

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The jokes in Cthulhu: The Musical! mostly follow one particular vein: what you might call “Deadpool humor.” Lots of breaking of the 4th wall to address the audience directly, lots of meta jokes, lots of anachronistic references to modern pop culture, and lots and lots of sexual innuendo. A partial list of joke subjects includes Tinder, Japanese tentacle porn, Justin Timberlake’s DUI, Duolingo, and an extensive gag about Sonic the Hedgehog.

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Whether you liked the jokes or songs, the puppeteering is probably always going to be the biggest draw for a puppet show, and the crew at Puppeteers for Fears really gave it their all, despite being shackled with the unenviable task of crawling around, often on their knees, to work the puppets.

In fact, some of the show’s best gags involved the inventiveness of the puppeteers, such as a scene in which the Inspector Legrasse puppet answers the telephone, achieved by one puppeteer simply sticking their arm up above the stage partition and making the “banana phone” gesture.

Puppeteers for Fears (top marks for the name) are touring the show around the States and some venues appear to still have tickets available. Report back if you go.

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I never thought of it before, but, how exactly the Outer gods would see us? Are we repelling for them? Was Cthulhu actually trying to get rid of pests infesting his house?

I mean Yog-Sothoth doesn't exactly count as a god, it is actually far beyond that, more like the multiverse in one being (like Eternity from Marvel). Regarding the deep one, they are basically horny fishmen not too far beyond human. What i'm talking about is, how the Outer Gods actually see us?

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"It seemed to be a living, creeping color, pulsating with a malevolent energy..."

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Cosmic horror, as shaped through Lovecraft’s perspective, has inspired numerous artists, from writers to visual artists and musicians. Below are only a few creators who have drawn inspiration from the author’s fantastical universe.

• Raulo Caceres

• Paul Lehr

• Suguru Tanaka

• H.R. Giger

• Zdzislaw Beksinski

Today, we’ll be plunging into the dark and enigmatic philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft's Cosmicism.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 0:23 - What is Cosmicism?
• 2:31 - How Cosmicism differs from existential philosophies
• 3:46 - Key Works Illustrating Cosmicism (The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror)
• 9:04 - WHo was HP Lovecraft?
• 11:25 - Lovecraftian Horror and its influence

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Brom is an acclaimed fantasy and horror artist known for his dark, imaginative paintings and illustrations. After starting out as a commercial illustrator in Atlanta, Brom broke into the fantasy art scene in the 1980s, working extensively for TSR on their popular role-playing game worlds like Dark Sun.

From the Depthsb- OIL 2016

JUDGEMENT - OIL 2016

The Plucker, 2004, oil

RED GHOST - OIL 2017

There was an author before lovecraft, I believe he was an ambulance driver in ww 1, or something. I know he was on ww 1 and one of the stories talked about how much that shit sucked. I think he's died young, like 20s. Had a few published stories.

Ring any bells for anyone?

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Bluworm aka The Lone Animator create Stop-motion fantasy and monster movies based on author works, myth and folklore.

I'm a Swedish stop-motion puppet builder and animator who aims to enterain you with my homemade fantasy and monster movies. The subject matter of my films is a mixed bag, from Ray Harryhausen-inspired monsterfights, to the poetry of H P Lovecraft.

Creating Cthulhu model

The Shadow Out of Time on YT | Link on invidious

Dagon YT | Link on Invidious

Strange Aeons YT | Link on invidious

Star-Winds YT | Link on Invidious

Memory YT | Link on Invidious

More Lovecraft shorts

I suggest you to also watch the other videos of the channel, he's a true artist who put a lot of love into his works.

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ARTICLE>> https://screenrant.com/lovecraft-stories-movie-adaptations-need-modern/

H.P. Lovecraft was known for his fantastical novels, whose influence has bled into the cultural perception of horror, making them perfect for modern movie adaptations. Lovecraft is undoubtedly a flawed and prejudiced figure in literature, and any undertaking to adapt his stories should acknowledge the issues of racism, xenophobia, and homophobia in his work. Bringing Lovecraft into the modern era means doing his work justice, as well as exploring how they can be made more reflective of the present day.

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle is a novella that reimagines H.P. Lovecraft's "The Horror at Red Hook" from the perspective of an African-American protagonist, Charles Thomas Tester, in 1920s Harlem. The story follows Tommy, a street hustler who navigates the city's racial tensions and occult circles while dealing with his own struggles and the looming threat of a catastrophic event.

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn’t there.

Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father’s head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left sleeping.

A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break?”

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Interview with Victor LaValle - article

The Ballad of Black Tom: A Love Letter to Eldritch Horror - video review

Weird Tales is widely accepted by cultural historians as “the first pulp magazine to specialize in supernatural and occult fiction,” points out The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (though, as we noted before, an obscure German title, Der Orchideengarten, technically got there earlier). And while the magazine may not have been widely popular, as the Velvet Underground was to the rapid spread of various subgenera of rock in the seventies, so was Weird Tales to horror and fantasy fandom. Everyone who read it either started their own magazine or fanclub, or began writing their own “weird fiction”—Lovecraft’s term for the kind of supernatural horror he churned out for several decades.

Fans of Lovecraft can read and download scans of his stories and letters to the editor published in Weird Tales at the links below, brought to us by The Lovecraft eZine (via SFFaudio).

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Fans of early pulp horror and fantasy—–or grad students writing their thesis on the evolution of genre fiction—can view and download dozens of issues of Weird Tales, from the 20s to the 50s, at the links below:

The Internet Archive has digitized copies from the 1920s and 1930s.

The Pulp Magazine Project hosts HTML, FlipBook, and PDF versions of Weird Tales issues from 1936 to 1939

This site has PDF scans of individual Weird Tales stories from the 40s and 50s, including work by Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, Dorothy Quick, Robert Bloch, and Theodor Sturgeon.

And to learn much more about the history of the magazine, you may wish to beg, borrow, or steal a copy of the pricy collection of essays, The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror.

Michael Shea was an American author known for his work in the genres of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. He was a World Fantasy Award winner and a prominent figure in the Cthulhu Mythos, a shared universe of horror fiction created by H.P. Lovecraft.

Demiurge is a collection of 13 stories that explore the Cthulhu Mythos, a shared universe of horror fiction created by H.P. Lovecraft. The anthology contains the following 13 stories:

• "Fat Face"
• "Nemo Me Impune Lacessit"
• "The Presentation"
• "The Pool"
• "The Recruiter"
• "The Battery"
• "Copping Squid"
• "Dagoniad"
• "Tsathoggua"
• "Beneath the Beardmore"
• "Momma Durtt"
• "Under the Shelf"
• "Demiurge"

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https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Demiurge:_The_Complete_Cthulhu_Mythos_Tales_of_Michael_Shea

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Hey H.P. fans! We've been doing this audiodrama thing, but a little differently. We put tons of effort into our audio, sfx, and music, but then we add another layer with what we call and "infovision" window, where we display background info, historical tidbits, explanations of complex back story, and lots of fun imagery, and we also have a little window on the side, where we run definitions of all the rare words authors like to use (especially Lovecraft, he's why we started it! LOL). We find it to be lots of fun, maybe you will too. Hope you can check it out, and enjoy it, it really is an homage to all our favorite authors and stories. Thanks!

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The Cthulhu Mythos, a realm of cosmic horror and eldritch terrors, continues to captivate readers with its dark and foreboding tales. From historical fiction to urban fantasy, these novels delve into the world of cosmic horror.

• The Wrath of N’Kai by Josh Reynolds

• Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw

• Miskatonic University: Elder Gods 101 by Matthew Davenport and Michael Davenport

• The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross

• 14 by Peter Clines

• The Elder Ice by David Hambling

• The Burrowers Beneath by Brian Lumley

• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

• Dark Adventure Theatre: Masks of Nyarlathotep by The HP Lovecraft Historical Society

• The Litany of Earth by Ruthanna Emrys

https://screenrant.com/james-wan-call-of-cthulhu-movie-lovecraft-mountains-madness-development/

Summary

• James Wan faces challenges in adapting Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu due to its complex cosmic horrors and limited commercial potential.

• Lovecraft's stories, including Cthulhu, have not been fully realized on screen due to their unimaginable cosmic entities and non-traditional storytelling.

• Wan's blockbuster success with Aquaman and trendsetting in horror may give his Lovecraft adaptation a better chance than Del Toro's failed attempt.

More Info - https://www.small-screen.co.uk/james-wan-hp-lovecraft-iconic-horror-movie/