[Jenga]

Those covers are pretty badass but if you do your research it's only considered entry-level compilations to their work. For Conan there's another anthology of released books that are supposed to be more accurate and unedited. Name escapes me, although I do think Penguin publishing was behind it.

[Jakabok]

Don't think there is a novel. Sorry :p

It was published in 'Just After Sunset', one of King's short story collections. And it's awesome.

[DodgerSan]

So does anyone have any more recommendations for books and comics that are lovecraftian in style?

Has this been mentioned yet?



Genuinely creepy. The Sequel Neonomicon is also decent but more physical than psychological.

[Da DreadLord]

It was published in 'Just After Sunset', one of King's short story collections. And it's awesome.

So true! I forgot that that story was titled N >.> I'm getting old yeah

Awesome story indeed!

[Melchiah]

It was published in 'Just After Sunset', one of King's short story collections. And it's awesome.

Thanks for clearing that up. I think this calls for a trip to library.

[ohhthegore]

Even though I already posted my tatt in the tattoo thread i figured it belongs in here as well

[Volimar]

Even though I already posted my tatt in the tattoo thread i figured it belongs in here as well

Excellent. You will be spared....briefly.

[Da DreadLord]

Excellent. You will be spared....briefly.

Nah, only his arm will be..

[Melchiah]

The Old Ones Return, by David Palumbo.

[Dead Man]

The Old Ones Return, by David Palumbo.

That is amazing. I love it.

Cuttlefish are always awesome, they look so dismissive of everything.

[Melchiah]

[Hex]

Rwarr

[KingGondo]

Rwarr

I must have this.

[Dead Man]

Cthulhu stuff on DeviantArt





More at the link.

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

Just picked this up for 15 bucks. BBC Radio 7 production of At The Mountains of Madness.
http://store.ladbrokeradio.com/album...ins-of-madness

Sadly the free version read by Wayne June in the OP is now down. I think it's just the company setting up a new site transition, but I wish I wish I had saved it somewhere...and it is, but most likely on my broken computer.

EDIT: I found the first part. I like the Wayne June version as he kind of sounds like Lance Henriskon, which seems fitting.

EDIT EDIT: I think I found it all. WOOT!

[mantidor]

I started reading chronologically all of its work, I finished Call of Cthulhu some weeks ago. So far I love it, although the racism is kind of off-putting. Ok, to be honest is not racism, is actually xenophobia in general, but I guess that is the root of his unsettling stories, the fear people have of the unknown and the apprehension that causes.

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

I started reading chronologically all of its work, I finished Call of Cthulhu some weeks ago. So far I love it, although the racism is kind of off-putting. Ok, to be honest is not racism, is actually xenophobia in general, but I guess that is the root of his unsettling stories, the fear people have of the unknown and the apprehension that causes.

Sometimes I'm bothered more by Lovecraft making you need a copy of the OED to understand half of the descriptive language used. I have to imagine that kindle dictionary feature is really useful with Lovecraft.

[mantidor]

Sometimes I'm bothered more by Lovecraft making you need a copy of the OED to understand half of the descriptive language used. I have to imagine that kindle dictionary feature is really useful with Lovecraft.

For sure! sometimes I feel my english must not be very good (its not my native language), but many times when I use the Kindle dictionary feature it has written in big bold letters "ARCHAIC" while describing the word, which makes me feel better.

I can see people don't liking it because it might feel somewhat pretentious or unnecessary verbose, but I like it, specially when it talks so much about stuff like gods and ancient cults, is very fitting and I guess it was not that strange back then when it was written.

[Deified Data]

I started reading chronologically all of its work, I finished Call of Cthulhu some weeks ago. So far I love it, although the racism is kind of off-putting. Ok, to be honest is not racism, is actually xenophobia in general, but I guess that is the root of his unsettling stories, the fear people have of the unknown and the apprehension that causes.

Oh, it's definitely racism. Granted, he reserves his outright hatred for foreigners, but if you're a minority he'll never fail to point out your apish and slovenly features.

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

For sure! sometimes I feel my english must not be very good (its not my native language), but many times when I use the Kindle dictionary feature it has written in big bold letters "ARCHAIC" while describing the word, which makes me feel better. I can see people don't liking it because it might feel somewhat pretentious or unnecessary verbose, but I like it, specially when it talks so much about stuff like gods and ancient cults, is very fitting and I guess it was not that strange back then when it was written.

English is my native language and it does the same thing to me. Hell my wife is a BA and MA in English and with special work on the development of dictionaries in the 19th century and even she can find it fairly obtuse.

[Oveja Negra]

several amazing pics

The first one, very nice. Kinda reminiscent of The Mist.

Holy crap, that is fabulantastic!!!!!!!!

[Diseased Yak]

Man, how did I miss THIS thread?!

Been a H.P. Lovecraft fan since my early teens. Love the mythology, love the art posted here. Might as well post my ink:

[KO Traveling Hobo]

If someone told me they had a Lovecraft-inspired tattoo I'd expect to burst out laughing, but that actually looks really awesome. Kudos.

[Edmond Dantès]

I'd wholeheartedly recommend this graphic novel of The Mountains of Madness.

[Secret Fawful]

Just so people know, this piece of art is by Junji Ito, a modern master of horror. His artwork has made me cringe far easily than many other artists out there. This is by far the surprisingly tamest thing he could have done with Lovecraft.

[Melchiah]

I'd wholeheartedly recommend this graphic novel of The Mountains of Madness.

What he said.

Just so people know, this piece of art is by Junji Ito, a modern master of horror. His artwork has made me cringe far easily than many other artists out there. This is by far the surprisingly tamest thing he could have done with Lovecraft.

Googled him, and I was surprised it was that guy.

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

I'd wholeheartedly recommend this graphic novel of The Mountains of Madness.

Hmm its my birthday and I just got cash. :)

[XiaNaphryz]

Speaking of Mountains of Madness, I posted this in the Pacific Rim thread:

Deadline interview with Del Toro:

MoM related bits:

DEL TORO: I don’t regret it. Look at Prometheus. There’s an R rated horror movie that doesn’t have big name stars. We had Tom Cruise, and Jim Cameron producing. But I completely understand why they did it and I can’t argue, I can’t say they were wrong and I was right to take that position. I could never have their job because I would approve Mountains and many others, but I understand. I’ve been here 20 years and I don’t go for the altar reference because I never go into these things feeling it’s unthinkable they might not happen. But it still hurt like a motherfucker. You’ve got hundreds of drawings, dozens of paintings, storyboarded sequences, animatics, ILM did a test that was phenomenal and proved to me that everything we wanted to do was actually possible. It hurts always for the director because there is a movie you see in your head, and you want people to see it.

DEADLINE: At Disney’s Comic-Con panel, early The Lone Ranger footage was stylish and impressive, but the first connotation of that film is budget struggles. Unless you’re making a sequel, it seems very hard to create new tent poles. How much has pressure increased when you are creating something completely new? DEL TORO: When you are producer and director, you are basically making a vow to be able to whistle and keep the tune. I’m aware of how much each extra costs, that I have to give up two cars to get four extras for five days. I have to pre-plan so if I say a sequence will take three days, it takes three days. I had the partnership of guys who believed in creating something new. They were not asking for a re-launch or a sequel. Finding a partner like this who shares not only in the financials but fully in the creative dream is a blessing that doesn’t happen often. But as to your question, I don’t believe any experience is bad and I’m not trying to sound wide-eyed or naïve. I don’t know if I could have done Pacific Rim without having prepped The Hobbit and especially Mountains because we got so close. It was a warm up for prepping movies that size, fiscally and technically. My contact with ILM started on Mountains, all the creative heads that came into Pacific Rim were guys who wanted to do Mountains. They knew what I wanted to try, that it was a new way of trying effects. The core of my creative team of designers moved from Mountains on a Friday to Pacific Rim on Monday. That tough experience allowed me to do this. To me, it’s harder to recuperate from success than failure. You can get a little lost in analyzing your success too much. Our culture prepares you on how to overcome failure. Look down, soldier on, figure it out. No one tells you how to avoid the trappings of success. That you figure out by brutally going through experiences. You learn much more about who you are going through difficulty.

[Messofanego]

Cthulhu in music videos:

DyE - Fantasy (NSFW)

Cthulhu in film:


The Mist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCfYu4WBPKE

[krypt0nian]

Just getting into the Cthulhu myths and the amount of material available is almost overwhelming. Just finished Call of Cthulhu and I'm thinking of finishing all of Lovecraft's materials then branching out to the best of the extended universe stuff by other authors.

Any definitive collections to grab?


Oh and I listened to an amazing audiobook version of CoC on YouTube last night after finishing the book, and O M G I loved it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqIxCqayQok

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

This is awesome.
http://invisiblekingdoms.wordpress.c...ns-of-madness/

[Hex]

On this day was born one of the fathers of the Weird and unknown.
The world would be a much more blah and boring place without Howard Phillip Lovecraft.
ia ia HP Lovecraft.

[Edmond Dantès]

On this day was born one of the fathers of the Weird and unknown. The world would be a much more blah and boring place without Howard Phillip Lovecraft. ia ia HP Lovecraft.

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

[Melchiah]

Young Lovecraft.

[Aske]

Once again, the H. P. Lovecraft OT rises from its eldritch slumber...

This is renowned sculptor Bryan Moore's H. P. Lovecraft Bronze Bust Project on Kickstarter.

The project launched on May 1st, and I'm happy to report that it reached its $30,000 goal in under 48 hrs: to install a life-sized bronze bust of Lovecraft in the historic Providence Athenaeum Library. So preparations are under way, and the unveiling will take place on August 22nd during this year's NecronomiCon.



The Kickstarter has now been updated to a $35,000 stretch goal, which will allow Moore to create an even more spectacular monument; and there are still plenty of rewards to claim should anyone else wish to contribute: signed books and Blu-rays, t-shirts, posters; numbered limited-edition sculptures, dinner with Stuart Gordon (director of Re-Animator, Dagon, From Beyond etc.), and for $5,000 you can even own one of two full-size replicas of the bust itself. That's just a tiny sampling of the rewards available, so be sure to check out the page and have a look.

A huge number of people have contributed their goods and services to ensure something on the list appeals to every Lovecraft fan. For example, this Brown Jenkin statue, sculpted by Moore:

[Anticitizen One]

I bought a volume of his works and honestly I found them a little underwhelming and not scary but I do mean to go back and re-read them and finish reading the other stories. I remember reading the rats in the wall and thinking it was really racist.

This however was really good:

[Purkake4]

Read The Colour Out of Space and check out Thomas Ligotti.

[Hilbert]

I bought a volume of his works and honestly I found them a little underwhelming and not scary but I do mean to go back and re-read them and finish reading the other stories. I remember reading the rats in the wall and thinking it was really racist. This however was really good:

I love Lovecraft, but I would never think of his stuff as "scary". Except maybe The Shadow over innsmouth, and color out of space. A lot of time the most disturbing stuff comes from the implication of things that you have to ponder a bit.

Lovecraft was very racist, even by the standards of the time, but Rats in the Walls isn't really the critical evidence of it. That cat's name was actually not that uncommon.

[jond76]

Big fan. I always liked that he would refer to his other stories within his narrative. Made everything a little more connected.

[Dead Man]

Big fan. I always liked that he would refer to his other stories within his narrative. Made everything a little more connected.

Yeah, the way some of the stories form a connected universe is pretty cool. Earliest writer I know of that did it in that way. There were probably earlier ones, don't know them though.

[Renagade]

I read The Dunwich Horror last year for the first time, it was one of the best short stories I've ever read. Had me shaking to the bone, Lovecraft's use of the grotesque is genius.

[SpartanForce]

Lovecraft is so freakin good. I think my fav tales are Under the Pyramids and In the Walls of Eryx

[Melchiah]

I love Lovecraft, but I would never think of his stuff as "scary". Except maybe The Shadow over innsmouth, and color out of space. A lot of time the most disturbing stuff comes from the implication of things that you have to ponder a bit. Lovecraft was very racist, even by the standards of the time, but Rats in the Walls isn't really the critical evidence of it. That cat's name was actually not that uncommon.

The Horror at Red Hook is considered one of his most racist works. It's IMO one of his worst novels as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horror_at_Red_Hook

Lovecraft spelled out his inspiration for "The Horror at Red Hook" in a letter written to fellow writer Clark Ashton Smith: The idea that black magic exists in secret today, or that hellish antique rites still exist in obscurity, is one that I have used and shall use again. When you see my new tale "The Horror at Red Hook", you will see what use I make of the idea in connexion with the gangs of young loafers & herds of evil-looking foreigners that one sees everywhere in New York. Lovecraft had moved to New York to marry Sonia Greene a year earlier, in 1924; his initial infatuation with New York soon soured (an experience fictionalized in his short story "He"), in large part due to Lovecraft's xenophobic attitudes. "Whenever we found ourselves in the racially mixed crowds which characterize New York, Howard would become livid with rage," Greene later wrote. "He seemed almost to lose his mind."

[Forkball]

Just so people know, this piece of art is by Junji Ito, a modern master of horror. His artwork has made me cringe far easily than many other artists out there. This is by far the surprisingly tamest thing he could have done with Lovecraft.

Wow did Ito really draw that? I thought it looked like his art.

If you love Lovercraft, you all should definitely check out Junji Ito's works. They share a lot of similar themes (unknown horrors, people put in unexplainable situations etc.)

[Hilbert]

The Horror at Red Hook is considered one of his most racist works. It's IMO one of his worst novels as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horror_at_Red_Hook

Medusa's coil might be the worst.

[Melchiah]

Medusa's coil might be the worst.

I think I haven't read that one, at least the name is unfamiliar to me. I thought I had read all of his works.

[Secret Fawful]

Also, Alan Moore's LXG graphic novel Nemo: Heart of Ice basically mixes Jules Verne with the Mountains of Madness, and the artwork of the creatures is GORGEOUS.

[Aske]

I think I haven't read that one, at least the name is unfamiliar to me. I thought I had read all of his works.

It's one of his collaborations; I forget with whom, or how much each author is supposed to have contributed. It's certainly not typical of Lovecraft in terms of content, and people don't tend to lump this paid revision work in with his own material.

You can find it in The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions, which collects all the work Lovecraft did for other writers. The quality is understandably inconsistent, but the book contains some real gems; including The Mound, which is up there with Lovecraft's best.

[Melchiah]

It's one of his collaborations; I forget with whom, or how much each author is supposed to have contributed. It's certainly not typical of Lovecraft in terms of content, and people don't tend to lump this paid revision work in with his own material. You can find it in The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions, which collects all the work Lovecraft did for other writers. The quality is understandably inconsistent, but the book contains some real gems; including The Mound, which is up there with Lovecraft's best.

Well, that explains it. The only novel, that's not solely written by Lovecraft, that I've read is the one with August Derleth, The Lurker at the Treshold. And I didn't really like it as much as Lovecraft's own (IIRC, Derleth had added some religious ideas there, that undermined Lovecraft's idea of man's smallness in the grand scheme of things), which is why I'll probably skip Medusa's Coil.

Thanks for the info. I'm going to check out if that collection, or The Mound, has been translated to Finnish, as I've found Lovecraft's works to be too tasking to read in English; constantly looking at dictionary due to the archaic words he uses. Kinda ruins the atmosphere, if you have to pause reading every once in a while.

BTW, eventhough I just spoke negatively about others' works, I could recommend some of these novels, which were influenced by Lovecraft. It's been ages since I've read them, so I don't remember which were good, and which were not. They all were very much readable though. I have a faint recollection, that there was a rather excellent story influenced by The Colour Out of Space, and another that was located in a cabin in the woods, or were they the same? I think I should read them again.

[Hilbert]

It's one of his collaborations; I forget with whom, or how much each author is supposed to have contributed. It's certainly not typical of Lovecraft in terms of content, and people don't tend to lump this paid revision work in with his own material. You can find it in The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions, which collects all the work Lovecraft did for other writers. The quality is understandably inconsistent, but the book contains some real gems; including The Mound, which is up there with Lovecraft's best.

Zeilia Bishop I think. it may be the first mention of Shub Niggorath(sp?). Either that or The Last Test, also a collaboration. It is worth reading his collaborations because they still contain a LOT of his mythos building.