H.P. Lovecraft

[Aragoni]

So I'm sitting and reading 'Call Of Cthulhu' atm and it's awesome as usual.
Who here except me reads his stories?

Edit: http://se.youtube.com/watch?v=wQkos7WTHjg <--- Movies on the Cthulhu mythos ftw!

[Capricious]

Just you.

[Haeso]

No, why on earth would anyone have read books by this guy, total nobody.

[Jargo]

I'm a big fan. My favorite story of his is probably the Dunwitch Horror, but there's so many good ones it's hard to choose. Lovecraft did the whole “forgotten horrors waiting to be rediscovered and unleashed” thing better than anyone.

[Carl Ragadamn]

Just you.

I hope not, Lovecraft is amazing to read. Best back cover quote I have ever read is on one of my compilation books, "Lovecraft is what I read when I want to be scared" Steven King.

If you can find the Call of Cthulhu game for xbox, it is pretty scary. The game is based on "The Shadow Over Insmouth".

[Atnas]

Overrated.

[Red Morgan]

Call of Cthulhu is pretty awesome. Out of all his stories, for some reason I re-read "Rats in the Walls" constantly. It's just a perfectly structured short story and the twist is so fucking crazy. "Pickman's Model" is probably my second favorite.

[Aragoni]

If you can find the Call of Cthulhu game for xbox, it is pretty scary. The game is based on "The Shadow Over Insmouth".

"pretty scary"? It's the most scary game (except one part in Theif: Deadly Shadows) that has hit the gaming-market.

[Red Morgan]

Anyone play Sherlock Holmes: Awakened? I love Sherlock Holmes and I love the Cthulhu mythos, so I figured I'd give it spin. It's a pretty interesting combination of themes, and not a bad "adventure" game. Though, the ending seemed really weak and hurried.

[Capricious]

It's the most scary game (except one part in Theif: Deadly Shadows) that has hit the gaming-market.

Thief is a good game, and I don't have an xbox.

[Carl Ragadamn]

Lovecrafts genius is to allow your brain to fill in the gaps with whatever terrifies you the most. If you are a super vanilla or completely uncreative person, you will most likely not enjoy his work. The other thing that makes his stories scarrier is to have visited some places similar to what he describes, hence I find his stories based on Appalachian communities scarier, because there are not alot of east coast insular/inbred towns left to visit.

[Aragoni]

Anyone play Sherlock Holmes: Awakened? I love Sherlock Holmes and I love the Cthulhu mythos, so I figured I'd give it spin. It's a pretty interesting combination of themes, and not a bad "adventure" game. Though, the ending seemed really weak and hurried.

Nope. From what I've seen though the new Tomb Raider has Cthulhu in it. I saw a commercial about it and there's a very short scene where she stands in front of him. Must get it! :D

[iza]

I just bought a big compilation of most of his works - haven't gotten very far yet, but enjoying them so far.
ps, for those who don't mind bleeding their eyes reading from a computer screen: http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/

[Red Morgan]

Lovecrafts genius is to allow your brain to fill in the gaps with whatever terrifies you the most. If you are a super vanilla or completely uncreative person, you will most likely not enjoy his work. The other thing that makes his stories scarrier is to have visited some places similar to what he describes, hence I find his stories based on Appalachian communities scarier, because there are not alot of east coast insular/inbred towns left to visit.

He did have a talent for the unknown. I think the scariest part is that he plainly presents the fact that the universe and the knowledge contained within in it is too huge and vast for anything we care about to matter. It isn't terrible monsters that drive people insane, but knowledge of the incomprehensible. Just thinking about the possibilities of an infinite multidimensional universe kinda makes me sick to my stomach.

[Jackhowitzer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzXtrRybOnU&feature=related

Oh c'thulu you giant squid monster demon thing!

[Aragoni]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzXtrRybOnU&feature=related

Oh c'thulu you giant squid monster demon thing!

Looks like a bad, bad movie.
http://se.youtube.com/watch?v=jCDrODiYsPw <---- More true to the Cthulhu universe.

[iza]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ftld7Ohojg

[Gotrex]

Big fan here of both the books and the P&P RPG

Favourite stories are

The Whisperer In Darkness
At The Mountains Of Madness
The Colour Out Of Space

[Haeso]

Looks like a bad, bad movie.
http://se.youtube.com/watch?v=jCDrODiYsPw <---- More true to the Cthulhu universe.

Hated dagon.

[Floyd]

I played the game on PC it was fucking great. Does that count?

[Chankeen]

At the mountain of madness was my favourite.

The pnp rpg was pretty nice, if you don't mind that most likely your character will end up insane in the end.

[Drakhan]

Big fan of the Chaosium P&P game. I used to play it when I was younger.

Have not tried any of the games. Still worth a try or?

Pickman's Model was my favorite book.

[darknessedge]

No, why on earth would anyone have read books by this guy, total nobody.

yes but he has the most kick ass pimp name ever you have to give him that.


ps. hail lord Cthulhu


Cthulhu > satan

[Fall]

Usually there are lots of Lovecraft fans around the OT, we discussed this topic years back.

Waiting for the Whisperer in Darkness film for years, the CoC film by the HPLHS is pretty atmospheric, though it's a silent film.

Played CoC P&P for a while and now from time to time the Arkham Horror boardgame with some friends, good stuff.

Read most of his stories and have several audio books. So yeah, I'm a big fan
:ninja:

[cosimo84]

Lovecraft is prolific. If you don't like him then it's because you're too stupid or have too small a vocabulary.

Last one I read of his was Reanimator. I recreated the barn in that story for my modeling final :D

[Marrik]

the scariest book of all time is not a Lovecraft book.


its called Lets Go Play At The Adam's


anybody heard of it? i read it when i was 9, my mom got it for me not knowing what it was about. that book fucking traumatized me for years :eek:

really disturbing. and it made me feel bad about myself and people in general after i was done.

[LordTenacious]

Out of all his stories, for some reason I re-read "Rats in the Walls" constantly. It's just a perfectly structured short story and the twist is so fucking crazy.

Is that the story with the cat called "n-bomb"-man? Because that story is fucking awesome.

[Mo0rbid]

I've read Call of Cthulu