This was very good
Its funny but I found out about this music video from the thread about Sony first party studios and what they're working on as an idea for another Bloodborne style game. Its an animated music video I hadn't even known about till yesterday but I think once everyone watches it they'll know exactly why I linked it.
DyE - Fantasy
Heads up, this video is definitely NSFW. Lol.
Yeah only one story had a good conclusion but the drawings were entertaining.She's a nice artist but her stories are pretty flimsy. Not much of a writer.
Got this in the system. I'll put a request on it and check it out next week.Fear of the unknown?
This is AMAZING. It may have already been mentioned in this thread but if not, READ THIS NOW.
Anybody got any recommendations for good complete anthologies of Lovecraft's work? I really want something I can go through from cover and cover.
The best compendiums of Lovecraft's works are the Penguin Classics branded collections, they also have a lot of appendice stuff by ST Joshi who is considered a Lovecraft Scholar.
Anyway, "The Colour out of Space" is probably one of my favorite stories ever followed by "The Dunwich Horror" if I had to pick my favorites out of the Lovecraft I've read. They affect me far more than "Call of Cthulhu".
Cool Air though, that story unsettled me for a couple months when I first read it.
This is literally the only thing to watch for when picking up a Lovecraft book: was the text edited by S. T. Joshi? Only buy it if the answer is yes. Many archived Lovecraft stories were copied from Weird Tales, and those texts contained numerous editing errors. One story is even missing a whole page in some non-Joshi collections.
Joshi has spent decades researching Lovecraft's original handwritten manuscripts. He painstakingly compiled Lovecraft's definitive versions of his texts, and fixed all publisher errors that were frustratingly preserved in various stories that had been floating around for decades.
He also gave permission for anyone to use his edits in any and all future Lovecraft collections published since he finished his work, and the only reason new books are still being released with pre-Joshi errors is due to the laziness of publishers. Annoyingly, there have been some beautiful books released over the last couple of decades that dropped the ball on using Joshi's definitive edits, so it pays to be mindful, and be aware that not all Lovecraft texts are the same.
I have the Arkham House editions, but the Penguin Classics, Library of America, and plenty of other collections also use Joshi's remastered Lovecraft stories.
Cool Air is a great short story, everybody whom I have given a copy of it have become fascinated after reading it.
I think my two favorite obscure Lovecraft Stories are probably Cool Air and Beyond the Wall of Sleep.
You're so right about The Whisperer in Darkness. As for more obscure favorites, I especially love He and The Festival. Is The Music of Erich Zann obscure? It's one of Lovecraft's very best, and deserves to be discussed in the same breath as Innsmouth, Colour, etc. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kaddath is another one I feel doesn't get the appreciation it deserves, but few people read Lovecraft for his dreamier work.
By far my favourite obscure Lovecraft tale is The Mound. It's a novella that was commissioned by another author who essentially asked Lovecraft to write a story about the ghost of an Indigenous American man, and Lovecraft just went nuts and created an insane story about a bizarre ancient civilisation of decadent nightmare people living underground and worshopping Tsathoggua. Up there with my all time favourite stories.
Hope it's okay to post this here, felt like it was the best place to show it off, this was some ink that I recently had done, designed by a very talented friend of mine and then tattooed by an artist in Brighton. I know Cthulhu has become almost cliche in recent years, but the story means a lot to me and what it represents to me personally was something I felt so strongly about as to want this work done.
Its funny but I found out about this music video from the thread about Sony first party studios and what they're working on as an idea for another Bloodborne style game. Its an animated music video I hadn't even known about till yesterday but I think once everyone watches it they'll know exactly why I linked it.
NSFL:DyE - Fantasy
So who watched the short movie Laokoon I posted on page 2? It is definitely one of the best Space Horrors ever made.
I watched it, had to use your translations. That shit was bat shit crazy, like Monty Pythons meets Science Fiction.
Also, I would like to thank this thread for introducing me to SCP Foundation.
It is always nice to see aliens who actually look alien
Did you like any of the SCP stuff you read so far? I really couldn't find any legit good ones expect for the joke ones like the killer ice cream truck, which is amazing, but no scary ones.
The news here is not completelt confirmed, but damn if it isn't the perfect prompt/starting point for a good lovecraftian/cosmic horror story
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m-million-dollar-home/?utm_term=.904792ca5c3a
So who watched the short movie Laokoon I posted on page 2? It is definitely one of the best Space Horrors ever made.
My favorite audio drama podcast, The Magnus Archives, is excellent at this. These stories are often from a limited perspective, so there isn't really an explanation for why things happen or what the happenings are. We're not trying to solve what's going like in some other horror podcasts. The people telling the stories aren't figuring what happened through ancient texts or folklore. These eerie things just happen and we're left in the dark just like those people. Because of that, the story in Magnus Archives have such a great sense of creepy unknown.
So who watched the short movie Laokoon I posted on page 2? It is definitely one of the best Space Horrors ever made.
Hope it's okay to post this here, felt like it was the best place to show it off, this was some ink that I recently had done, designed by a very talented friend of mine and then tattooed by an artist in Brighton. I know Cthulhu has become almost cliche in recent years, but the story means a lot to me and what it represents to me personally was something I felt so strongly about as to want this work done.
i'm two episodes into this and it's exactly what i've been looking for. like Welcome to Nightvale but played completely straight. spooky as hell.
I think my two favorite obscure Lovecraft Stories are probably Cool Air and Beyond the Wall of Sleep.
The Colour out of Space is wonderful too, probably one of my favorites too.
The Hound is fantastic, as is The Dunwich Horror, The White Ship is a haunting story as is The Music of Erich Zahn.
The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow Out of Time are also incredible The Whisperer In Darkness's ending is fucking incredible.
Cool Air though, that story unsettled me for a couple months when I first read it.
In comparison the first time I read IT, I was only disturbed for a day or two.
Madness rides the star-wind . . . claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses . . . dripping death astride a Bacchanale of bats from night-black ruins of buried temples of Belial. . . . Now, as the baying of that dead, fleshless monstrosity grows louder and louder, and the stealthy whirring and flapping of those accursed web-wings circles closer and closer, I shall seek with my revolver the oblivion which is my only refuge from the unnamed and unnamable.
Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach trilogy.
It's not so much cosmic horror, but very similar.
The news here is not completely confirmed, but damn if it isn't the perfect prompt/starting point for a good lovecraftian/cosmic horror story
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m-million-dollar-home/?utm_term=.904792ca5c3a
Anyway, I've read a bunch of Lovecraft this weekend due to this thread, and last night had some really, really weird dreams.
Write them down, maybe you'll be the next LovecraftAnyway, I've read a bunch of Lovecraft this weekend due to this thread, and last night had some really, really weird dreams.
If anybody is into Black or Death metal and maybe if your not I'd highly recommend a band called Portal. One of the few bands that totally captures cosmic horror and Lovecraftian vibes purely through musical dissonance.
You're in for a treat. I haven't listened in a while, but it was consistently good to where I last listened (which was 35 I think?)
Question to the others - where the hell do I start with SCP stuff?