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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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Diary Friday 27th October 2017 My Love Of Horror

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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Eastercon Diary Sunday 16th April 2017 - Keeping It Weird

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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TV Characters We Hear But Never See - The Thing Upstairs – The Trap Door

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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Horror Story Review: "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" by H. P. Lovecraft

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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Cosmic Horror and H.P Lovecraft

Li-anne . Assobar @Dramista (542) 3 Jun 16

I have red some of Lovecrafts books such, The Call of Cthulhu ,The Necronomicon and Nyarlatoteph. It explores the idea that we humans are but insignificant compared to these beings that are beyond our comprehension. We are no the...

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Short Story Review: "A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" by H. P. Lovecraft

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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Horror Story Review: "Dagon" by H. P. Lovecraft

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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Horror Story Review: "The Tomb" by H. P. Lovecraft

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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Horror Story Review: "The Doom That Came to Sarnath" by H. P. Lovecraft

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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Horror Story Review: "The Transition of Juan Romero" by H. P. Lovecraft

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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Horror Story Review: "The Strange High House in the Mist" by H. P. Lovecraft

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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Horror Story Review: "Rats in the Walls" by H. P. Lovecraft

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 13 Dec 15

After restoring his ancestral estate of the fictional Exham Priory, the narrator moves in. The estate has foundations going back to Roman times. Some claim even earlier. The narrator himself is the descendent of the eleventh...

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Review: "Azathoth" by H. P. Lovecraft

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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Horror Novella Review – Algernon Blackwood – The Wendigo

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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Short horror story review - Guy de Maupassant – The Horla

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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Any HP Lovecraft fans out there?

JKLlewthor @JKLlewthor (39) 30 Jul 10

Anyone here on mylot into the horror fiction of HP Lovecraft? He was a big, big influence upon Stephen King, and has written some absolutely fantastic stuff - he was writing in the early to late 1920s, really pessismistc and...

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H. P. Lovecraft, need suggestions

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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HP Lovecraft?

omastar444 @omastar444 (4) • United States 25 Jun 09

Just wondering who else has read HP Lovecraft's stories? If so, what did you think? Also which ones? I have only read "The call of Cthulu" and "At the Mountains of Madness" but loved every minute of them.

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What kind of horror do you like?

galczu @galczu (33) • Poland 27 Jan 09

I mean there are different kinds of horror. Realistic with psycho killers and freaks lurking for his victims or supernatural with all those monsters, vampires and so on. Don't you think that horror books or movies are too often...

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