Lovecraft Mythos - Cosmic Horror

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?”

Reviews

goodreads | bookjockeyalex.com | efsunland.com

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://www.michaelsheaauthor.com/news/demiurge-the-complete-cthulhu-mythos-tales/

https://darkregions.com/pages/press-release-demiurge-the-complete-cthulhu-mythos-tales-of-michael-shea

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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15683813

link: https://youtu.be/U_PhPzSTdxU

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!

https://beforewegoblog.com/ten-recommended-new-cthulhu-mythos-novels/

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/

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Literary who channel has made a series of well-researched and quite fun videos analyzing the power levels of the Lovecraftian Gods according to the lore.

Playlist

Including works by members of the original Lovecraft Circle: Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, and Clark Ashton Smith.

Introduction

• THE CALL OF THE OLD ONES

• ROBERT BLOCH

• The Shambler from the Stars

• The Haunter of the Dark (LOVECRAFT)

• The Shadow from the Steeple

• ROBERT BLOCH (contd)

• The Secret in the Tomb

• The Creeper in the Crypt

• Fane of the Black Pharaoh

• Notebook Found in a Deserted House

• ROBERT E. HOWARD

• The Black Stone

• The Thing on the Roof

• The Haunter of the Ring

• The Fire of Asshurbanipal

• Dig Me No Grave

THE CALL OF THE OLD ONES

• FRANK BELKNAP LONG

• The Space-Eaters

• The Hounds of Tindalos

• CLARK ASHTON SMITH

• The Return of the Sorcerer

• The Tale of Satampra Zeiros

• The Nameless Offspring

• Ubbo-Sathla

• The Seven Geases

• The Treader of the Dust

• HENRY KUTTNER

• The Secret of Kralitz

• The Salem Horror

• The Invaders

• Bells of Horror

• Hydra

THE CALL OF THE OLD ONES

• ROBERT LOWNDES

• The Abyss

• Settler's Wall

• AMBROSE BIERCE

• An Inhabitant of Carcosa

• Haita the Shepherd

• MISC. AUTHORS

• The Death Watch (Hugh B. Cave)

• The Guardian of the Book (Henry Hasse)

• The House of the Worm (Mearle Prout)

• Music of the Stars (Duane W. Rimel)

• The Haunter of the Graveyard (J. Vernon Shea)

• Spawn of the Green Abyss (1/8--C. Hall Thompson)

• Spawn of the Green Abyss (2/8)

• Spawn of the Green Abyss (3/8)

• Spawn of the Green Abyss (4/8)

• Spawn of the Green Abyss (5/8)

• Spawn of the Green Abyss (6/8)

• Spawn of the Green Abyss (7/8)

• Spawn of the Green Abyss (8/8)

There are certain things human beings don't even have the capacity to imagine, let alone render artistically. And yet... they still try. This is our attempt at trying to understand why.

Turns out, you don't have to look much further than H.P. Lovecraft to find a reasonable answer.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/11105632

We've been checking out the latest games and we think we've come across a game that will not only suit those of you who love horror, but also for fans of the famed horror writer H.P Lovecraft. Titled as 'Innsmouth', this latest game by Bitfans, is a brand new ZX Spectrum 48k and 128k Adventure! An English and Spanish Lovecraft game in which you are to delve into the dark tale of a coastal town plagued by hidden secrets and indescribable horrors. To coincide with this news, we've got a bit more about the story as well as a new trailer.

The Dreams in the Witch House is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in January/February 1932, it was first published in the July 1933 issue of Weird Tales. The story was probably inspired by the lecture The Size of the Universe given by Willem de Sitter which Lovecraft attended three months prior to writing the story. Several prominent motifs—including the geometry and curvature of space, and a deeper understanding of the nature of the universe through pure mathematics—are covered in de Sitter's lecture. The idea of using higher dimensions of non-Euclidean space as short cuts through normal space can be traced to A. S. Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World which Lovecraft alludes to having read in his letters.

(Source here)

The Dreams in the Witch House By H. P. Lovecraft

Synopsis

Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, takes an attic room in "the Witch House", a house in Arkham thought to be cursed. The first part of the story is an account of the history of the house, which once harboured Keziah Mason, an accused witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Gilman discovers that for the better part of two centuries many of its occupants have died prematurely.

The dimensions of Gilman's attic room are unusual, and seem to conform to a kind of unearthly geometry. Gilman theorizes that the structure can enable travel from one plane or dimension to another.

Shortly after moving into the attic Gilman begins experiencing bizarre dreams, in which he seems to float without physical form through an otherworldly space of unearthly geometry and indescribable colors and sounds. Several times in his dreams he has nightly experiences involving Keziah Mason and her rat-bodied, human-faced familiar, Brown Jenkin, which he believes might not be dreams at all. In other dreams Gilman is taken to a city of the "Elder Things"

On May Eve (Walpurgis Night), Gilman dreams that Keziah and Brown Jenkin are sacrificing the kidnapped child in a bizarre ritual. He thwarts Keziah by strangling her, but the cursed rat manage to complete the ritual, then escapes into a triangular abyss.

Awakening, Gilman hears an unearthly sound that leaves him deaf. He tells fellow boarder Frank Elwood his horrific story. At night he starts screaming. Elwood running in Gilman's room witnesses his horrible death.

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"The Dreams in the Witch House" was made into a short segment for Showtime cable television's Masters of Horror series, directed by Stuart Gordon, under the title H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House.

A much looser adaptation inspired by the tale was the the 2022 episode of Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities directed by Catherine Hardwicke with Rupert Grint as Walter Gilman

The Dreams in the Witch House (DART production) - As is standard with DART productions, The Dreams in the Witch House is presented as a 1930s-style radio broadcast. Running to a total of 74 minutes

Point-and-click and RPG-adventure videogame based on The Dreams in the Witch House from Atom Brain Games

Richard Luong is a concept artist and illustrator, known for his work in movies and games. He also works as a full-time Illustrator, Designer, and Art Director for Sideshow, where he has contributed significantly to DC Comics art, particularly Batman artwork. Additionally, Richard Luong is the artist for the board game Cthulhu Wars and has created the cover for the Pirates of the Old World

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Cthulhu the dreaded sleeper of R'lyeh has been showcased in quite a few movies, games and series as well as animated flicks. He is a moster that has a head with tentacles in his mouth, with dragon like wings and massive legs and arms. This Lovecraft creation is the epitome of cosmic horror and he can induce madness on people just by his appearance. He also sleeps underwater, only to awaken in the future to destroy the planet.

Mert Genccinar is a turkish freelance concept artist and illustrator. He is known for his work in the science fiction and fantasy genres, creating concept art and illustrations for various projects.

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Cosmic Horror Monthly is a magazine specialing in cosmic horror and weird fiction. It is edited by Charles Tyra and Carson Winter.

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About Cosmic Horror Monthly… CHM is a small press headquartered in Oklahoma city. We want to drive cosmic horror and weird fiction into the future while paying homage to the golden age of pulp literature. We offer our publication primarily in paperback form and also digitally as classic styled PDF files and easy to read EPUB files. We offer a free version of the magazine so you can see if it is the right thing for you before subscribing. Through our custom-built unique mobile app, you get immediate access to all back issues!

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Guang Yang was Born in Shiyan City of China in 1981, and used to study oil painting in Capital Normal University. After graduation in 2004, I became a concept artist and illustrator.

> In 2007, I began to work in Tokyo for the next three years. Now I work and live in Beijing and have my own studio. I am good at using oil painting, acrylic and digital tools to create artwork. I have created many personal works, some of which are very huge and often displayed in some exhibitions. In 2009, my artwork became the cover of INHERIT DISEASE. Since then, I have created covers for many metal bands around the world, including Nunslaughter，Infant Annihilator, Putridity, Black Dahlia Murder,Zuriaake, Equilibrium. Meanwhile, I worked as art director in a game company, and I used to produce illustrations and conceptual design for some famous game projects.

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Beneath the waves stirs a malevolent, giant kraken-like monster - the terrifying creation of master of horror H.P. Lovecraft. First brought to life as part of his short story 'The Call of Cthulhu', published in the magazine Weird Tales, and later featuring in several of Lovecraft's works, Cthulhu is an iconic figure that has inspired imagination and terrified generations. It's name has come to define the whole mythos built up around Lovecraft's strange worlds and pantheon of monsters that inspire many writers to this day. In this exciting new book, punchy text describes how fantasy art, literature, movies and even games have been influenced by the terrifying Cthulhu, accompanied by powerfully atmospheric artworks

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Every Lovecraftian movie adaptation