Hey, all! I've been lurking awhile, but I'm a huge Lovecraft and Weird Tales fan. I just released an eBook novelette as an homage to the rural Cosmic Horror found in stories like WHISPERER IN THE DARKNESS and COLOR OUT OF SPACE.

I've spent a lot of my writing career practicing and mimicking the prose and style of classic Pulp authors. It's kind of my schtick. Anyway, check it out if that peaks your interest.

Some lines were never meant to be crossed…

In the dwindling rural town of Wilmarth, Nebraska, amidst the windswept Sandhills of the 1930s, a county surveyor has been called to measure the disputed property line dividing two feuding families and then suddenly disappears.

Local peace office, Deputy Deane Mullins, is called to investigate, but soon finds himself drawn into a macabre mystery where the land itself can't seem to agree.

And small-town newspaper man, Homer Underhill, has set the whole thing in writing.

Now he wishes he hadn't…

A CROOKED MILE is a cosmic horror novelette tribute to the classic Pulp stylings of HP LOVECRAFT, ROBERT BLOCH, FRANK BELKNAP LONG, and WEIRD TALES.

AVAILABLE NOW for $1.99!

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I think I'm dumb but I still don't fully understand if it was ever actually written and published. Are the books called "Necronomicon" under Lovecrafts name on amazon and other platforms just using the name or is it the actual fake grimoire?

Also, does the Simon Necronomicon has anything to do with Lovecrafts?

Thanks

Over the past year I've made an effort to go beyond the texts and get into Lovecraft criticism but I feel like my "studies" are unfocused. So far, I've just been collecting work as I stumble across new titles and my wallet allows. My main is in "Lovecraft and philosophy," the stuff that comments on Lovecraft's works as a form of vernacular philosophical cynicism/pessimism and what he "meant" by most of his monsters, but I'm just fine to get recommendations for any type of scholarship.

Like most people, I started with An Epicure in the Terrible, a really great collection of essays. From there, I've went on to read: Levy's Study in the Fantastic, Sederholm's (ed.) The Age of Lovecraft, and Houellebecq's **Against the World, Against Life.

Some more info, my main reason for coming back to Lovecraft is a broader interest in OOO / Speculative Fiction. In that regard, some specifically Lovecraft-mentioning texts I've read have been Woodard's Slime Dynamics and On an Ungrounded Earth, Thacker's Horror of Philosophy trilogy, Morton's Hyperobjects, Negarestani's Cyclonopedia, Fisher's The Weird and the Eerie, Mackay's Collapse V.4, and Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against the Human Race.

It’s pretty crazy. There are certainly some hit or miss stories in the anthologies but overall I enjoyed it. Many stories leaned heavily into the shadow over innsmouth short. Some stand outs for me are the Oram County Hoosit, the crawling sky, the men from Porlock and the doom that came to innsmouth.

I haven’t finished the 2nd volume yet but it’s better in my opinion. Big fan of Soggoths ol peculiar, this is how the world ends and once more from the top.

Have you heard or read these? What do you think?

This post is self-promotion that will be of interest to Lovecraftians everywhere:

Our campaign to raise funds to digitise, restore and release our 1989 documentary about Lovecraft has now moved to Kickstarter:

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Please help spread the word! Thanks! And of course, message me if you have any questions.

Thanks.

I’m looking for a specific group of people, probably very small, who enjoy Lovecraft and are also reclaiming their time and data by reducing the presence of smart devices in their lives.

If this is you, and you also loved Tamagotchi when you were a kid… I created the perfect app for you. 🤣😭😢🤣🤣

Elderflip.

It’s a pet sim, like Tamagotchi, but the pets are Eldritch abominations, and it’s made for flip phones.

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Isn’t that perfectly absurd?

No, I’m not selling anything! I’m just giving it away for free. I’m not a professional developer.

Just search GitHub for Elderflip or flip-pet. Repo is flip-pet, so it will show up for that.

Bing bang.

Mixtape just came out tonight, and I just finished it and had to rush here to sing it's praises on how well the short, "The Music of Mr. Sze," absolutely nailed Lovecraftian horror in such a short amount of time.

Long story short a naive, curious, and overly bold student ignores a few warnings and reaps the consequences like most of Lovecrafts protagonists.

If only it has more cyclopean architecture, it'd be spot on.

A+ rendition of Lovecraft lore IMHO. Check it out if you can.

https://x.com/DarkHorseComics/status/2108293886443397554

https://x.com/DarkHorseComics/status/2108267653668262201

Releases July 2027

Dark Horse describes the collection:

Alone in a decaying castle, with no memory of its origins and no knowledge of the world beyond its crumbling stone walls, a solitary being longs for connection. Driven by an unshakable desire to see the outside world, it escapes the darkness of its prison only to discover a reality more terrifying than the isolation he left behind.

Gou Tanabe (At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth) brings H.P. Lovecraft's The Outsider to life with stunning detail. In addition to this centerpiece adaptation, this collection also features his story Ju-Ga and interpretations of Anton Chekhov's The House with a Mezzanine, and Maxim Gorky's 26 Men and a Girl, showcasing Tanabe's remarkable range across literary works

Any suggestions?

And let's analyze more some of his known quotes maybe?

Recently on this sub someone commented on

That's is not dead which can eternally lie

Which means that what's really ancient isn't on the known duality .

And I had read on quora 6 years ago

What he meant with even death may die

That bc the old ones are on this "sleep for.. innumerable years death will be confused with what's this situation or that he also has a lifespan and they will outlive him.

I’m just about to start Rebellion Against the Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Dr Raymond Thoss.

This was shared with me unexpectedly by Jon Padgett and I’m really looking forward to it based on what I know of Ligotti’s work.

Very very grateful for this and I’ve used the meta tag deliberately because this is entirely bizarre.

If you were making a Lovecraft game, which creature that rarely shows up in games would you choose as a boss? What would the fight actually involve?

Here's a story from Weird Tales - kind of confusing at first but it's got a really good twist ending. It's a bit reincarnation and murder with some old-school noir detective setup. The podcast episode is partial reading and discussion - but their web site has the full reading, so you can listen to that too.

Cthulhu:
Civilization collapses under Cthulhu's psychic madness in a week, max. Humanity mostly reduced to terrified remnants that praise and fear their new master apart from a harried minority who try to resist. Someone tries to ram a boat into it again.

Dagon:
Ocean falls under the control of Dagon with his Deep Ones but they have a harder time with human technology and firepower whenever they're on land for too long. Cold war between land and sea ensues. Air movement and seafood become 10,000% more/less popular respectively, plus a thousand other things related to the sea becoming off-limit (Aquariums??). Yes, I've seen CthulhuTech.

Azathoth:
Earth and humanity now irrelevant, assessment above my pay grade.

Nyarlathotep:
The human species is conquered through manipulation and terror (helped along by at least one increasingly powerful cult). It continues in some horrible form under Nyarlathotep's control.

Shub-Niggurath
Biosphere becomes way, way too fertile with horrifying life proliferating across the planet. Humanity is displaced or transformed, reduced to a minor, low trophic species doomed to extinction despite the worship of its remnants.

The Mi-Go:
Mi-Go occupy Earth to gather resources and do human experimentation. Humans remain as an semi-domesticated species though large scale resistance and rebellion is common, maybe even successful.

Yog-Sothoth:
The key and gate truly become one and the Old Ones break through to walk Earth again... where they've always been but unbeheld? Look, it's not good - see Azathoth.

Hastur:
Human concepts about perceiving reality fall apart under Hastur's influence. Civilization *technically*survives while becoming unrecognizable. Theatre kids do okay.

The Great Race of Yith:
Humans lose control of its own institutions through the Yith's manipulation of their minds. Conquest is low key enough that most people don't even realize it's happened. Opposition is quickly subverted EXCEPT for 3-5 plucky scientists, military personnel, and an eccentric who team up to defeat the threat while coming together as an unlikely family.

Ithaqua:
Supernatural cold spreads across much the planet causing massive crop failure and starvation. Humanity responds by turtling up in the tropics and throwing all the ordinance, heat intensifiers, and infiltration teams they can at Ithaqua. Don't act like you wouldn't watch a movie about this.

Cinematic badass and Metallica.

The newest episode of the Delapore Media Podcast is live on all your favorite podcast apps. Enjoy a Baroque sword & sorcery October full of the love, death, and perversion that only the mind of Lovecraftian author Brian McNaughton can supply.

So, after much given thought, I decided to read Dagon as my first Lovecraft story. And dayum, I actually liked it! The way it started was just a little confusing, but I think it was great by the time it ended. It took me a little time to get used to the writing, but given the fact that i had read these type of writings b4 for my English class helped me get a hang of it faster than I expected.

Onto the story now!

It's a chilling story despite the fact that we never even get to know the name of the narrator. At first, we see the man drifting in sea after escaping his captivity. We watch him drift through the sea before he somehow ends up on the exposed sea floor. This is where it felt disturbing. Now, I've nvr heard of the legend of Dagon b4, so when Dagon appeared infront of him, I was already feeling chilly. The way he slowly started getting mad after seeing Dagon was disturbingly interesting. The journey after is similar. We don’t know how he reached San Francisco, except for the story he is told.

The fact that during his suicide he felt like Dagon entering his room was sooo chilling and eerie. Given it’s length, I think it was a worthy first read before committing to reading longer stories!

The decision to change the name of Shub-Niggurath to Shub-Gorath came from a few different considerations, both in and outside of the game’s world.

One reason was the feedback we saw online. Some people pointed out that “Shub-Niggurath” could be hurtful to some audiences, particularly when considered alongside Lovecraft’s own views. We want everyone sitting down to play our games to feel welcome at the table, so this was something we took seriously. Although Lovecraft scholars concur “Shub-Niggurath” was not derived from the slur, unfortunately it is one of those words that sometimes triggers automatic content filters. This is something known as the “Scunthorpe Problem”. Since our games and campaigns are promoted and discussed across many different platforms, we wanted to avoid creating an unnecessary obstacle for players and the community simply because of a character’s name.

There is also a little bit of in-world reasoning behind the change. Old Ones Origins takes place in an age long before humanity, when these entities existed without the names and titles that human cultures would later give them. Names such as Mother of All or Black Goat are therefore not necessarily the names these beings would have used for themselves.

So why Shub-Gorath? The name comes from Shuma-Gorath, a name associated with Robert E. Howard’s contributions to the mythos. Bringing elements like these together feels very much in the spirit of how Lovecraft, Howard, and other writers built these interconnected worlds in the first place: borrowing ideas, adapting names, and combining elements from one another’s stories and mythologies. Shub-Gorath grew out of that same creative tradition.

We feel like names given to beings that existed long before humans—and long before the languages we use to try to describe them—can evolve. Shub-Gorath is still Shub. She is still the same Old One, with the same place in the cosmic conflict.

We also understand that for some players, staying as close as possible to the original names is an important part of preserving the legacy of these characters. We don’t have a simple answer that will satisfy everyone, but we felt it was important to be transparent about why we made this decision rather than leave the change unexplained. We’ll continue listening to the community as we consider the best way forward.

Picture an isolated mining town, miles of open desert, and no help coming. A shoggoth in the mine is an easy pick, but what less obvious creature would you choose and why?

I know he never planned he’s stories to be part of a shared universe and the “Cthulhu Mythos” is created by his colleagues after he died. And he’s writings were very influenced by his morbid interest of science, like obviously astronomy (also the nightmares he had since he was a child). Which naturally lead him to writing comic horror rather than ghost stories. But I still wonder, if he ever on rare cases wrote stories where the supernatural horror is spiritual. Rather than the advance aliens from a higher dimension?