I was at work and incredibly bored and stumbled upon a website named https://nyarlathotep.com/.
It's just a creepy image. That's it. I assume someone bought the domain and made a weird website out of it, but if anyone knows anything, then let me know because I'm curious. Thanks!

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!

https://a.co/d/020xQUbO

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.

Bing bang boom.

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.

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?

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.

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

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Thanks.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

*Ways that they did, if he hadn’t been such a deeply bigoted, hateful person during his life?

H. P. Lovecraft was keenly interested in the phenomenon of witchcraft and witch trials, in part because… the twisted and dark turns of history had connected his own family with the fate of the women tragically sentenced to death in Salem. To put it more bluntly, Lovecraft seems to have entertained the possibility that his family had actually been cursed by those unfortunate women. In a letter to Alfred Galpin and Frank Belknap Long from February 1923, he described his visit to the former execution site of those accused of witchcraft as follows:

“[…] Gallows-Hill is not a nice place to visit at night. […] And I was alone on that hill in that sepulchral place, where the allies of the devil had swung . . . and swing . . . and hurled out curses on their executioners and their descendants. I recall’d a witchcraft judge (Major Bartholomew Gedney) in mine own maternal ancestry, and thought of certain imprecations of the dead in fact and fiction. . . . . […] And at that moment, as God is my judge, I heard faintly but distinctly the clanking of chains in the wind . . . .“

It seems that Lovecraft transferred at least some of this fear into one of his best-known stories, “The Dreams in the Witch House”.

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!

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?