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Alex Ledante
@ledante (1086)
• Taipei, Taiwan
1 Dec 18
I've been a huge Lovecraft fan since High School, his work and mythos related stories have influenced my work ever since. My favorite thing about Cthulhu is that I never have to draw him the same way twice
Do we have any other...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
28 Oct 17
A day dominated by horror without being scary or horrifying in itself.
As my short script for a five minute horror movie has been picked up by the Preston Movie Makers for Thursday I went out shopping for a few basic props for...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
7 May 17
The second event I attended in a very busy convention day was a panel discussion on the weirdest of weird science fiction. I went along knowing it would draw reference to the work of my favourite author, H P Lovecraft.
Ren...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
19 Jan 17
Voiced by Willie Rushdon, The Trap Door was a wonderful Claymation cartoon series for children from 1984, bizarrely influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos horror stories of H P Lovecraft. It centred on a Gothic Castle inhabited by...
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Siduri
@msiduri (5687)
• United States
29 Jun 16
This tale, often attributed to Harry Houdini, was ghostwritten for him by H. P. Lovecraft. It is told in the first person from Houdini’s perspective. While travelling between international gigs, Houdini stops in Egypt for some...
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Siduri
@msiduri (5687)
• United States
31 May 16
Originally published under unlikely pseudonym of Humphrey Littlewit, Esq., this is unlike most of Lovecraft’s writing in that is there is no horror. Littlewit begins by claiming that he really wasn’t born in 1890 (Lovecraft’s year...
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Siduri
@msiduri (5687)
• United States
25 May 16
The unnamed narrator of this story tells the reader that life has become unbearable. He is penniless and has run out of morphine, the drug that alone has made his life endurable. His intention is to commit suicide by the end of...
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Siduri
@msiduri (5687)
• United States
9 May 16
Jervas Dudley, dreamer and visionary, writes from his “confinement within this refuge for the demented,” or what others might call an insane asylum. He understands this revelation might cause the reader to doubt what he has to...
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Siduri
@msiduri (5687)
• United States
6 May 16
Ten thousand years ago, the story goes, in the land of Mnar, the mighty city of Sarnath stood by the shores of a vast lake that was fed by no stream and out of which no stream flowed. Sarnath stands no more. From time immemorial...
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Siduri
@msiduri (5687)
• United States
10 Apr 16
Only now that he’s getting on in years does the narrator of this story he feel an obligation to make a record of the extraordinary events that occurred at the Norton Mine October 18th and 19th, 1894.
Of himself, he wishes to say...
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Siduri
@msiduri (5687)
• United States
19 Mar 16
This short story is set in Kingsport, a village Lovecraft used before, most notably for his story, “The Terrible Old Man.” This time, the focus is on a house so high in the cliffs by the sea no one has ever visited it, nor can...
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Siduri
@msiduri (5687)
• United States
27 Nov 15
This is not so much a short story but a fragment, a beginning of a novel Lovecraft never finished. The title, “Azathoth” refers to one of the “Outer Gods” in the Cthulhu Mythos, and an extremely nasty fellow. The fragment was...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
22 Nov 15
1910 – Spoiler alerts
My favourite literary monster is The Wendigo, which features in much of my own horror writing. I can no more claim to have invented it than Anne Rice could claim she invented the vampire. Wendigos have...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
7 Nov 15
1887 – spoiler alerts
A famous French horror story about madness, and demonic, possibly even alien possession.
A young un-named man of letters keeps a diary of his descent into insanity. It begins innocently enough as he lazes...
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Bionicman
@Bionicman (3958)
• Czech Republic
4 Dec 09
I want to start reading Lovecraft. Where do I start? Your recommendations? Possibly something with Cthulhu...
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