H.P. Lovecraft

Virgil Finlay (July 23, 1914 – January 18, 1971) was an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. He has been called "part of the pulp magazine history ... one of the foremost contributors of original and imaginative art work for the most memorable science fiction and fantasy publications of our time.

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The Outsider and Others. Original art for the dust wrapper of the book by H.P. Lovecraft (Sauk City: Arkham House, 1939)

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1941 | Lovecraft art, Color out of space, Horror art

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Virgil Finlay – The Shunned House

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1939 Virgil Finlay - HP Lovecraft The Horror in the Burying-Ground Call

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> Annotation Index - This page accesses all the annotations of Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows H.P. Lovecraft comics issue by issue, including covers – as well other Moore/Lovecraftian works in collaboration with other artists, and related items.

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Dream Cycle Book Club. This week we will be discussing the short story The Dreams in the Witch House.

Our final story in this book club is Through the Gates of the Silver Key, which Lovecraft co-wrote with E. Hoffmann Price in 1932-33. I should note here that Lovecraft uses racist slurs in the final chapter of this short story. The Arkham Archivist didn't include any stories cowritten with other authors in their collection of stories, thus a PDF of the story is available here (sorry about the dodgy looking site. I've ensured that the PDF is legit). A LibriVox audio recording is available here

image credit this week goes to Yuki Sato

H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival

A festival of cosmic horror, Weird tales, uncanny, and other Lovecraftian horror films, plus authors, art, music, and more. Since 1995, the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival has been the vanguard of independent Weird filmmaking.

list of Lovecraftian short and feature films

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Welcome back to our Dream Cycle Book Club, where we explore the dream based stories and dream-adjacent tales written by H.P. Lovecraft. In this week's thread we shall discuss the final half of At the Mountains of Madness.

This week we will be reading our penultimate story: The Dreams in the Witch House. The Arkham Archivist provides us with a collated collection of stories here. A LibriVox audio recording is not available and so I direct you to a recording by the YouTuber HorrorBabble here

This week image credit goes to Joseph Diaz.

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From "H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories" manga illustrated by Gou Tanabe

Story by H.P. Lovecraft

Hello everyone and welcome to the thirteenth week of our book club exploring H.P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.

In this week's thread we discuss the first 5 chapters of At the Mountains of Madness, written in 1931. Our reading assignment for this week is the second half of At the Mountains of Madness, from Chapter VI onwards.

A PDF of the short story is found in the collected works curated by the Arkham Archivist here. A LibriVox audio recording is available here.

Very sorry for the late submission this week. My department is hosting an algebra conference and I'm spending my evenings "networking" (read: getting drunk while ranting about the Representation Theory of algebraic groups). Unfortunately, pleasure has to be sidelined by business until Wednesday evening. I'll post comments on the first five chapters as soon as possible but expect significant delays for this week.

On the off-chance that the set of British Lemmy Users interested in Lovecraft and Representation theory of algebraic groups isn't a one-member set, I'm the guy with the beard in a purple mushroom shirt.

Image Credit goes to Deviantartist Zhekan.

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Dream Cycle Book Club. Today we will discuss the final two parts of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

Our reading for this week is the first five chapters of At the Mountains of Madness, written in 1931. The first five chapters should put us at around the halfway point of this novella.

I'd call this one Dream Cycle-adjacent, as it features and mentions locations such as Leng and Kadath. It's also an important story in Lovecraft's Bibliography, but we'll cover that during the relevant discussion.

A PDF of the short story is found in the collected works curated by the Arkham Archivist here. A LibriVox audio recording is available here.

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Because the night is dark and full of jokes...

Not enough? Here more:

https://upjoke.com/lovecraft-jokes

http://thedodologist.blogspot.com/2009/12/lovecraftian-jokes.html?m=1

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This video is an adaptation of H P Lovecraft's famous sci-fi story. This is a collaboration between Richard Svensson (The Lone Animator), Daniel Lennéer and Christopher Johansson. Åke Rosén stars, and John Hutch narrates.

Daniel's project page: http://millroad.lenneer.se

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Dream Cycle Book Club. This week we will be discussing the first three parts of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

Our reading for this week will be parts IV and V of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, thus finishing the story. The text, collated as part of a collection by The Arkham Archivist, is found here. An audio recording by the talented HorrorBabble can be found here.

The image is a portrait of Vincent Price who played the role of Charles Dexter Ward/Joseph Curwen in the 1963 film The Haunted Palace. Art credit goes to Shayu Dan

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>I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. Do not think from my slavery to morphine that I am a weakling or a degenerate. When you have read these hastily scrawled pages you may guess, though never fully realise, why it is that I must have forgetfulness or death.

Original short story

Hello everyone and welcome to the tenth week of our Dream Cycle Book Club. In this thread we'll be discussing Lovecraft's epic novella The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath.

This week's reading is The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Written in 1927. This is another novella of Lovecraft, weighing in at 104 pages in my copy of his fiction. I'm aware that 100 pages of Lovecraft's often verbose prose can be trying. Thankfully, Lovecraft actually separated this story into parts, which allows for easy splitting up of the reading. Our reading for this week is parts I-III, with parts IV and V covered next week. The text is available in PDF format courtesy of the Arkham Archivist here. Audio is provided by the talented HorrorBabble here

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The Lone Animator create Stop-motion fantasy and monster movies based on author works, myth and folklore

HERE - You can find a Playlist of his Lovecraft Stories.

I suggest you to also watch the other videos of the channel, he's a true artist who put a lot of love into his works.

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Hello everyone and welcome to Week Nine of our Dream Cycle Book Club. This week's thread is for the discussion of the three stories from last week: The Outsider, The Silver Key, and The Strange High House in the Mist.

Our reading for this week is a single story, The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. It is Lovecraft's first novella-length Dreamlands story and ties together many of the disconnected stories that we've read in previous weeks. The PDF is available via the Arkham Archivist here. Audio is provided once again by the talented HorrorBabble here.

The Silver Key used in the OP was created by the Rhode Island based sculptor Gage Prentiss

TENTACLII is a weblog on the literary works and life of H.P. Lovecraft, with an emphasis on the scholarly work on Lovecraft and his circle. With occasional forays into book reviews, notable audio, documentaries, visual art and similar. But avoiding the tidal-waves of “Lovecraft inspired” dross, except for the sake of an occasional chuckle here and there.

You can find some funny stuff as:

An annotated “The History of the Necronomicon”.

A Study of Ecosystemic Configurations and the Ocean in Stories by H. P. Lovecraft

and more...

Hello everyone and welcome back to our Dream Cycle Book Club. This week we will be discussing What the Moon Brings and The Hound.

There are only three more short stories until we reach the first novella length dreamlands story. If I'd had a bit more forethought, I'd have loaded one of the last two weeks with a third story, as both featured very short stories. Hopefully this week's reading doesn't prove too much. We have three stories for this week: The Outsider, The Silver Key, and The Strange High House in the Mist.

Our First story, The Outsider, was written in 1921 but is listed on Wikipedia as 1926; this led to me missing it a couple weeks ago. It is available in PDF format via the Arkham Archivist here, and a LibriVox audio recording is available here.

The Silver Key is our second story this week, written in 1926. It is available in PDF format via the same link above, and a LibriVox audio recording is available here

Our third story for this week is The Strange High House in the Mist, written in November 1926. It is available in PDF format via the same link above. I cannot find a LibriVox recording, so I rely once again on HorrorBabble who has narrated the story here.

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Welcome back everyone, to the seventh meeting of our Dream Cycle Book Club. This week we will be discussing Hypnos and Azathoth.

Our reading for this week is two more short stories: What the Moon Brings and The Hound.

What the Moon Brings was written in June 1922. It is available in PDF format via the Arkham Archivist here. An audiobook version is available via LibriVox here

The Hound was written in September 1922 and is the last dream related story written by Lovecraft in 1922. It is available in PDF format via the same link given above. I cannot find a LibriVox recording so I once again link to a reading by the talented HorrorBabble here.

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www.hplovecraft.com

Archive online edicated to Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the 20th century master of weird fiction, who died in 1937. You can explore his numerous facets through the many pages outlined.

Welcome back to our adventure into the Dreamlands as described by H.P. Lovecraft. In this week's thread we will be discussing the reading of last week, The Quest of Iranon and The Other Gods.

This week we reach the "midway point" in terms of stories read in the Dream Cycle, though the stories in the latter half tend to be weightier volumes. We will be reading two more tales: Hypnos and Azathoth.

Our first story, Hypnos was written in March 1922. It is found in PDF format via our friend the Arkham Archivist here and in audio format via LibriVox here.

Our second story, Azathoth is the shortest of our tales thus far and is reportedly the beginning to an incomplete novel of Lovecraft. It can be found in PDF format via the same link above. I failed to find a LibriVox audio recording, thus I rely once again on the talented YouTuber HorrorBabble. A link via piped is available here.

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Sorry for a couple of late submissions. The previous one was due to my brother's stag, and this week I'm visiting the in-laws.

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Welcome once again to our investigation into the world of Dream as defined by our favourite horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft. In this thread we will be discussing the reading assignment for the past week: Ex Oblivione and The Nameless City.

Our reading assignment for this week is two more short stories: The Quest of Iranon and The Other Gods.

The Quest of Iranon is another of Lovecraft's tales explicitly inspired by Lord Dunsany. The story, written in February 1921, is available in PDF format via the Arkham Archivist here. Unfortunately, LibriVox does not have an audio version of this story available, thus our audio recording for this week is via the YouTuber HorrorBabble. The video, filtered through Piped (a privacy friendly alternative YouTube Frontend) is available here

The Other Gods is also heavily inspired by Dunsany's Work. Written in August 1921, the text of the story is available via the same link above, and a LibriVox recording is available here

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One more great movie adaptation from The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society

Trailer: https://youtu.be/wQkos7WTHjg

Hello Everyone and welcome back to the Dream Cycle Book Club! In this thread we will be discussing the reading assignment for the past week: Celephaïs and Nyarlathotep.

For this week we have two more short stories to read: Ex Oblivione and The Nameless City.

I can't find much information on when Ex Oblivione was written, though considering it's publication in the March 1921 edition of The United Amateur, it has been given a writing date in the range of late 1920 to early 1921. It can be found via the Arkham Archivist's trusty PDF here and in audiobook format here.

The second story for this week, The Nameless City was written in January 1921. Though it is only tangentially related to the Dreamlands, it is fantastic Mythos reading. It can be read in PDF format via the same link above, and can be found as an audiobook here

On a side note: it's great to see that the community is becoming active.

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A chronicle of the life, work and mind that created the Cthulhu Mythos.

I also posted this in c/music.

I‘m looking for some eerie background music while playing Arkham Horror.

I imagine it to be sad, slow, creepy, eerie. I‘d prefer no singing. Maybe a small trio, bass, piano, drums?

Although I‘m playing a horror game, the music shouldn‘t distract me by sudden loud sounds, or disturbing noises, effects or sth like that.

Do you know albums/playlists on Apple Music that offer this kind of experience?

Thanks a lot!

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How can you describe something indescribable?

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I have two, the Knickerbocker Classics & Barnes & Noble Collectible Edition. Both are good. But I like the B&N one better for the annotations by S.T. Joshi and it's a more complete collection then Knickerbocker one.

EDIT: If you're going to get the B&N get the 2011 edition (purple ribbon bookmark one). Because the 2008 version (gold bookmark) haves a ton of typos and spelling errors.

Independent silent film adaptation of the H. P. Lovecraft short story “The Call of Cthulhu”, produced by Sean Branney and Andrew Leman and distributed by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society

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HERE you can find one of the best animation of one of the greatest novel of the master of Providence

All credits to MSA Channel

From the comics of Gou Tanabe

Welcome back, fellow Lovercaftian scholars. This is the third week of our book club exploring Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. This week's thread is open for discussion of last week's reading: The Doom that Came to Sarnath and The Cats of Ulthar.

For this week's assignment we have two more short stories: Celephaïs and Nyarlathotep.

Celephais and Nyarlathotep were both written in 1920, the same year as The Cats of Ulthar and one of our future reading assignments, Ex Oblivione; evidently this was a very productive year for the Dream Cycle. While 1920 is the year in which Lovecraft wrote the most Dream Cycle stories, in 1927 he wrote two novella-length stories in the cycle: The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

Reading for this week can be found in the trusty PDF here, and individual links for LibriVox recordings follow: Celephaïs and Nyarlathotep.

Hello Everyone. This is the second week of our Dream Cycle book club. In this thread we will be discussing the stories read last week: Polaris and The White Ship.

Our reading assignment for this week are two more short stories: The Doom that Came to Sarnath and The Cats of Ulthar.

Our first story, The Doom that Came to Sarnath was written in 1919, the same year as The White Ship. It is available via the Internet Archive here and can be found in audio format via LibriVox here

Our second story, The Cats of Ulthar was written in 1920. It is available via the same link provided above, and in audio format it can be found via LibriVox here

Greetings fellow seekers of the Unknown and Unnameable. To help kick off this community I propose the formation of a casual book club exploring the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

The Dream Cycle

I have chosen the Dream Cycle as the body of work which we will study. This collection consists of 22 short stories and novellas (discounting the posthumous "The Thing in the Moonlight" based on a letter of Lovecraft). In the Dream Cycle we are introduced to many notable characters in Lovecraft's mythos, Including Nyarlathotep, Yog-Sothoth, Azathoth, and Randolph Carter.

Through the Dream Cycle we will explore the bizarre warped spacetime of the Dreamlands, and its intersections with our own waking world.

Goals of the Book Club

The main goal of the book club is to encourage Lovecraft fans, whether neophytes or seasoned veterans, to read and enjoy the work of H.P. Lovecraft. Our primary method of encouraging engagement with the literature will be by weekly assignment of modest reading goals, followed by a discussion of the material the following week.

While united in our love for Lovecraft, we as readers come from a diverse set of lifestyles and thus have differing amounts of time available for reading. I will begin with the provisional goal of no more than 50 pages per week or 2 short stories, whichever proves shorter. This should provide a manageable goal for someone with only a brief period to read before bed, and allow an avid reader to supplement their regular reading with a sojourn into the Dreamlands.

Reading will be done in writing order, rather than any chronological order devised by Lovecraft scholars.

Reading Lovecraft

The majority of Lovecraft's work is now in the public domain (with the exception of his collaborations with C.M. Eddy). Therefore, the majority of his work can be found via public archives. The Arkham Archivist has done a wonderful job of collating Lovecraft's works and providing them in a variety of formats. Notably, this collection excludes collaborative works and thus does not include the final story in the Cycle, Through the Gates of the Silver Key which can be found via the e-books directory.

For audiobook listeners a variety of options are available. Most works can be found in audio format via the lovely volunteers at LibriVox. Many horror fiction YouTubers provide high quality audio recordings, sometimes including foley, and are a simple search away.

Many iterations of Lovecraft's work have been published in physical and audiobook format under various companies and while I offer no endorsement of individual products, I advise buyers to look for products which contain the complete works of Lovecraft. This will usually be advertised in the title or description of the book.

Reading for this Week

This week we begin our adventure in to the world of dreams with two short stories.

Our first short story is Polaris, written in 1918. The full text is available on the Internet Archive here, and a LibriVox recording is available here.

Our second short story is The White Ship, written in 1919. The full text is available via the same link above, and a librivox recording is available here.