r/Lovecraft

Mine has to be Colour Out of Space. It’s the perfect cosmic horror. A meteor falls out of space and for some unimaginable reason changes everything around it for the worse(in our eyes.) it also has my favorite line from any Lovecraft story:

“It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes”

I see it is said Nyarlathotep is a servant and messenger of Azathoth. I just wonder, does Azathoth know that he has a servant? or does he really have messages that he would like to send out by a messenger? Does Nyarlathotep actively obey and follow a master, or he just does anything he wants and call it Azathoth's will?

A friend told me that considering cosmic horror a subgenre of horror is selling it short given how incredible and vast it is.

For me, it's a combination of 1) atmosphere; 2) a sense of the liminal; 3) eldritch creatures and infinite possibilities; 4) eldritch and anachronistic vocabulary describing the mundane.

Atmosphere in these stores is simply incredible. I've never been to many of the places that HPL described in these tales, but there is something about a fog-strewn New England village overlooking a colonial graveyard, or odd chantings from an ancient church, that I find absolutely irresistable.

This is coupled with a sense of the liminal - a space between worlds. Lovecraft described a very thin layer between a bus stop in Innsmouth and cosmic horror, making us realize how absurd and strange reality itself can be. Naturally, his monsters make the bizarre nature of the "true" nature of reality all the more palpable, and he couches everything wonderfully in strange, highfalutin language that is otherworldly.

I also like that you can visit a lot of the places he wrote about! I hope to, one day.

How about you? What do you like most about his fiction? Thanks for sharing.

With Widow’s Bay and the upcoming show Below, eldritch horror may finally enter the main fray. I’ve always thought a tv show loosely based on the Arkham Horror tabletop characters would do well or a Far Cry game oriented around a New England island setting with cultists and Lovecraftian creatures. What would you guys like to see?

I was up in Newburyport, shooting footage for my youtube series and the line between Newburyport and Innsmouth sections has become even more blurred. The section of Route One from Market Square to Newbury, the decrepit clam shacks that inspired Innsmouth, are long gone and are now nondescript pseudo-federal duplexes. The Joppa clam flats are now landscaped Joppy Park that is the entrance to a shoreline parallel Rail Trail. It's a lovely stroll but the only thing eldritch is the dubious choices in statuary.

Hey Cultists!

Hopefully it’s okay to share here, as I know quite a few of you have supported the comic in the past!

Abyssal Albion #5 is now LIVE on Kickstarter.

This issue brings the first story arc of my eldritch horror survival comic to a close. If you’ve been following along so, now’s the time to see how it all comes together.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tjcampbell/abyssal-albion-1-5-apocthulhulyptic-survival-horror-comic

Hello everybody, I'm getting into this mythos for the first time, and was wondering, out of all of the ones floating around, which of the irl Necronomicons, the ones that someone like you or I can buy and read, are the most 'faithful' to the madness-inducing tome Lovecraft wrote about?

Was excited for this as soon as I saw the kickstarter, and it looks like it's actually pretty good!

I am currently running a Starfinder one shot (sci-fi DND essentially). I have Carcosa as the end game. The party investigates a research space station that has gone silent. They’ll find Carcosa bleeding through reality, and that’s how they will get to the city. My question is what are the inhabitants of the city like? I can’t find any concrete info on it. I am gonna read the short story soon to see if I can glean any info from that. If anyone has anything to add I’ll be more than interested to hear about it. Thanks!!

I want to buy the H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) but the Barnes & Noble website does not ship to my country, is this one on amazon legit?

https://www.amazon.it/H-P-Lovecraft-Complete-Fiction-HP/dp/1435122968/ref=sr_1_4?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.av8eC8Gan0hHl2AGEeaioG_eUNIoEZXGVTJyr-ONZ4kmSD7tpJoqeTedAB0nWV0Trdc_Jsp4w1gtOfgw1muIt0smyHW8gGyC7juGKrSDZ9ezTSOQFnoTGWE2PoLPTjJqoqV-fJXBYl3qwT9w6q3PDV1L7vVyNUxIMO0dSWTBBFzWtlOwMAIMNSvla9AJBNmY2Fr7UzyWR0Ypbm3-76R_1vJCZPGt4u8Edv6-H8-ftAw045CFHA_XxjKkjmAhMIfgOY13g7r-nlkEPxHthsjyLbVZwV-9KUQrJNEa6AXOQ0o.zuGnEoxuCWK3jNbEBXyls8zwSdllpzG8VNMS7Iyua-g&dib_tag=se&keywords=barnes+and+noble&qid=1787041525&sr=8-4

If any of you knows another place from which i can buy it in my country please let my know, i've already tried the big distributors like Feltrinelli but they couldn't find it :(

okey soo ı recently learn that h.p lovecraft himself created the lovecraftian gods family tree picture and azathoth is above yog'sogoth and ı am confuse now becase that implys azathoth is sronger than yog'sogoth which is very weird becase yog'sogoth farest ı understand is the living copy-paste of the lovecraft universe that exist sepratly. ı later look at old reddit posts from this sup about the picture and people say lovecraft was joking or something while he made that and ı am want to know that was he joking while he made that or he was serius?

Hi y’all
Has anyone else watched “The Bone Keeper”? Definitely cosmic horror. An Asteroid
Hits prehistoric Scotland. And infects a cave system. Switch to modern times and explorers have gone missing exploring the cave. A group of young explorers decide to investigate the caves. That’s a very brief synopsis. It’s not bad. The creatures are cool though and Lovecraftian I felt. It’s not going to win many Oscar’s. But it’s worth a watch. It’s currently on Amazon Prime free

They're calling it a megawad, but it looks more like a total conversion to me! Still really fun from what I've played!

Cthulhu mythos has many beings that are powerful beyond comprehension and lovecaft makes them so interesting in a way that still holds up today and forever will. it doesn't end there, ALL of his characters are well written. whether its a mighty magician, a cosmic horror, a normal human, or whatever else, they are all masterfully crafted. the fictional reality itself is also fittingly dark and depressing and terrifying. he was ahead of his time and is the foundation for a lot of the fiction we have nowadays (and will have in the future) Thank you hp lovecraft.

For me? Terraria's Moon Lord(which yes, is confirmed to be the man himself). The lighter skin tone is really different and the luminescent parts add a lot of flair. A shame we never see him in full in game since he's heavily wounded from a battle ages ago, but there's fanart of his 'completed' form out there that looks genuinely fantastic and I'd love to see a completed cthulhu fight in the game someday.

Spoiler —
Was the real Charles ever in the asylum? was Curwen in the asylum twice?
I’m confused because the story starts off saying that Charles disappeared from his cell and it’s really dusty and I know the story ends with the doctor reducing joseph down to dust so I’m wondering if Charles was ever even really there or did Joseph rake his identity and pretend to be him the whole time???

my confusion is because we know that joseph ends up in the asylum because he’s acting really anachronistically. We also know earlier that Charles had ended up in the asylum because his family was concerned about how weird he was acting and everything so I guess my question is was Charles ever in the asylum or was it always joseph?

EDIT TO ADD: what is the whole timeline of the dr investigating charles / killing joseph / ?????