would having six wings, thousands of eyes all over my body and a halo so bright it burns out the retinas of anyone who looks at it directly help me to make friends? no. would it enhance my job prospects? probably not. would it improve my quality of life significantly? that’s debatable. but it would make me very happy.
i love lovecraftian horror, but not lovecraft the author. aside from being a massive racist, literally everyone who handles his mythos in games and stories have done so far better than he ever could, and his mediocre writings and stories were given far more credit simply from from piggy backing on his ideas, when really the only thing he shouldve been praised for was laying down the bare-bones minimum concept for everyone else to work with who did it 100x better. its a pretty funny phenomenon. anyway im glad hes dead
Feeling pretty validated by this post.
So glad someone else said it. His writing is … not great. Mostly it makes me laugh, which is just not a good sign in what is considered horror. But it’s been a fantastic framework for other authors to work with.
(If you want good creepy literature from the early 20th century, look for Algernon Blackwood.)
It doesn’t matter how terrifying or monstrous or deadly you make your eldritch monster, there’s gonna be a person who hauls themselves out of the sewers to tell you that they will personally fuck it.
This post has so many notes and it’s mostly people calling out their friends for being sewer-dwelling awful cryptid fuckers and I love it. Expose them.
The Cry of Cthulhu never got to shoot. This film obtained a budget in 1979 and was going to see the light in 1981, but never did. The film was about a couple moved to a house that they inherited in the German Black Forest to discover that there had been unmentionable horrors there during the Second World War, they will also discover that a former inhabitant of the house was a sorcerer who populated the area with indescribable creatures and a dream trip to Kadath will contact an old primal race that will confess their intention to awaken Cthulhu.
Hi friends!
Ehud and Yael here with a new comics. This story concludes our Shadow Lake trilogy that began with SHHH… and continued with THE NINTENDO. We really hope you like this one.
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