Stormhammer
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i like world of warcraft's old god stuff
Such as? I haven't read any of the books
wut? Is this serious? Interest piqued.
I only recently played through Bloodborne and never realised before how much the game was inspired by Lovecraft, I absolutely loved it and it's become one of my favorite games of all time. I must have made almost 100 gifs during my playthrough, I fell in love with the game and the creature designs.
If bloodborne is inspired by Lovecraft then doesn't that mean Dark Souls is also a little inspired by Lovecraft?
I don't remember much cosmic horror in Dark Souls.
Bloodborne. End of thread.
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Bloodborne
Demon's Souls is more appropriate
The Necronomican, Spawn of Cthulhu*, a Shoggoth and Cthulhu* itself all appear in this episode.
The writer with arcane knowledge who helps the team is named 'Alice Derleth' - a reference to the Mythos writer and the first publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft.
Professeur Clark Ashton is named after Clark Ashton Smith, a friend and fellow writer of Lovecraft.
At the end of the episode the Necronomican is returned to the Miskatonic University in Arkham.
Ray gets help from an old friend called Howard - again a reference to another Mythos writer and correspondent of Lovecraft, Robert E.Howard.
The Ghostbusters get a clue how to kill Cthulhu* from an old copy of 'Weird Tales' - a publication that Lovecraft regularly wrote for.
The episodes writer, Michael Reaves, has written some Mythos short stories: 'Red Clay' (which was part of the 'Children Of Cthulhu' collection) and 'The Adventure Of The Arab's Manuscript' (which appeared in 'Shadows Over Baker Street').
*Cthulhu is spelt/called 'Cathulhu' in the episode presumably for copyright reasons.
Delta Green easily
It all makes sense know.
This one is mine as well. Fantastic novel.I really enjoyed Stephen King's Revival.
The King in Yellow
Still working through it. Great read.
Pretty sure that influence is the other way around...
Just want to point out that The Thing is not based on a Lovecraft story. Its based on "Who Goes There?" by Joseph Campbell. Though obviously by the time John Carpenter made The Thing Lovecraft's influence had been diffusing through pop culture for nearly 50 years so to say that Lovecraft didn't have some kind of influence on the movie by that point probably doesn't hold true.
I love Stuart Gordon's works, Demon's Souls and anything by Mike Mignola. Warren Ellis also channels Lovecraft (and mocks him pretty ruthlessly) quite often in some of his books. Eternal Darkness was fun as well.
The HP Lovecraft Historical Society has done some great productions. Their Call of Cthulhu silent film is really a treasure, same with their radio plays.
Now all we need is Del Toro's Mountains of Madness.
Wait what? Was it leaked?After reading the script I think we may have dodged a bullet on Del Toro's Mountains.
After reading the script I think we may have dodged a bullet on Del Toro's Mountains.
Wasn't H.R Giger influenced by Lovecraft? If so, then all of his work (Alien being the most popular) can fall into that category.
Also, massive spoilers for a book that ended up being Lovecraftian without my knowing it until the end:
The book is called "14" by Clines. Decent book. Lovecraftian twist ending.
Bloodborne for sure. I also think Junji Ito was influenced by him, as he did a portrait of H.P. Lovecraft.
Good one. Also "The Thing That Should Not Be" also by Metallica I think is pretty Lovecraftian.
Eternal Darkness takes a lot of inspiration from Lovecraft's work, so I am counting it.
I really enjoyed Stephen King's Revival.
Bloodborne. End of thread.
I really loved the original Alone In The Dark. It hasn't aged so well but it's still manages to be quite creepy.
Demon's Souls is more appropriate