Hey, everyone!

As the title says, does anyone know any non-english writers with works in the Cthulhu mythos or at least with significant similarities? (Cosmic horror, ancient gods, madness etc.)

Thanks!

Can't wait till I have time to watch them.

I was catching up on some warhammer lore for my army the Leagues of Votann (space dwarves). While a lot of aspects of the 40k universe are described as lovecraftian I was wondering if their home would also be considered lovecraftian as well. They live in the core of the galaxy amungst large clusters of stars and blackholes but then its also described as having sentient nebula, as well as enigmatic and terrifying "grey stars". What so you think?

Edit: mostly asking because im writing stories for my minitures 😅

I’ve only just started reading lovecraft’s works and I’m already in love! I’m working my way through the necronomicon (best weird tales of hp lovecraft). Something about the the type of horror he brings up is so interesting and terrifying, I have only read night gaunts and Dagon, and something about the concept of just the sight of something instantly breaking your mind is so intriguing to me! Like the Dagon is just a big fish man, but because it’s so old and powerful, to a human brain it’s incomprehensible, and I love the idea of it!!!

i’m getting back into reading, and by that I mean reading works from famous authors, such as plato, homer, rick riordan, frank herbert and such. I know the most basic thing about lovecraft: he’s a well known horror author and associated with cthulhu. so, if I were to pick up my first lovecraft book, what would you guys recommend?

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Another try: Lovecraftian horror has to do with existentialism. They can be called two sides of the same coin, although this has its inaccuracies. From Lovecraft's point of view, existential horror. It shows how pathetic humanity is. The philosophy of existentialism deals with the absurdity of human existence and the meaning of life. There is no direct connection, but Lovecraftian horror can raise questions similar to existential ones. Continuing the philosophy of existentialism - "rebellion against the absurd", can be considered an optimistic (though partly rationalistic), while Lovecraftian horror goes the other way, and existential questions (which this genre can raise), can be called a "pessimistic" approach to the topic of philosophy existentialism. I'm not saying that they are directly related, I'm drawing parallels and seeing that the questions that arise in these two areas relate to a common theme.

This author is mixing cosmic horror/Lovecraftian themes with judeochristian mythology/theology - which is something I personally like (I know that HPL disdained Christianity as some feel-good religion, but I think that original one, as preached by Bible and old saints, is even more horryfying than his inventions). i am currently reading anthology "To Rouse Leviathan".

Can recommend the Spaceman movie, has that rare cosmic horror vibe a lot of movies lack, but with a calm and a soothing touch, like a lovecraftian entity guiding you instead of driving you mad 👍

This is a problem with public domain literature as a whole, but the problem seems to be particularly bad with The King in Yellow. I looked all over Amazon, and every decently-sized review section had something along the lines of "Auto-scanner misread words, printed on 8.5x11 paper, missing stories, annoying overly-verbose annotations (likely from an underpaid ghost writer), etc, etc." One review was very telling: Amazon tends to clump together different prints of the same book, so the trash is getting mixed in with quality and has become nearly impossible to separate. I wouldn't even be surprised if some of these "publishers" were artificially boosting their ratings with bots or penny-laborers.

Barnes & Noble doesn't seem to carry the book in their stores, and I can't find any prints from major publisher websites either. Does anyone know of a trustworthy source that won't give me a PDF printed out on office paper?

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I believe that Hypnos's death was caused by Nyarlathotep or some unspecified Outer God and not Azathoth. As Hypnos was written when Lovecraft was just getting back into writing and when he didn't have a solid idea of what Azathoth should be. So during this era, Nyarlathotep was described to be the mad god in the center while flutes pipe around him, as described in The Rats in the Walls. Regardless, I just think this is a fun thing to think about.

Hey folks,

I'm teaching a summer school (enrichment) course called The Science of Monsters in a STEAM-focused program. I was thinking about spending some time learning about how fear works in the brain and immediately thought about using Lovecraft and maybe Cthulhu or some similar monster.

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Here's the rub, these are rising 7th and 8th graders. Do yall have any short stories, or passages that you think are pretty easily accessible for middle school readers?

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A sweet spot between Lovecraftian fanaticism and gaming, Cthulhu Hack has been around since 2016, has been nominated for an Ennie at Gen Con, and received a range of awards, voted by the public and judging panels alike.

I wrote Cthulhu Hack because of my love of the source material but a limit on time to spend with complex game systems and lengthy character generation. I wanted simplicity and accessibility with game mechanics that played up the flavour of Lovecraft's tales.

Resource-based skills, for example, represent expertise tied to the dehumanising influence of exposure to the Mythos and the dark revelations that come from understanding the unknowable.

Baking themes of Lovecraft's stories into the mechanics seemed an ideal way to drive games in the right sort of direction.

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So i remember Watching a video on YouTube about the call of chtulhu, the youtuber was an african-american with a "Ball of light" sidekick. He did a few scene as the nephew of the uncle in the Story. I cant find him anywhere and i want to see more content by him. Also if you have any suggestions of content Creator around either the stories or the ttrpg ill take it.

Just the other day I was talking to some friends about various types of mythology like Greek and Norse, then we eventually delved into some more scary and cryptic things in movies or books like Hereditary, and IT by Stephen King, soon narrowing down to only Lovecraft. At the time, Cthulhu was basically the only god we knew of, obviously because he's so famous. But then we look at the other incomprehensibly terrifying gods related or parents or Cthulhu and we realize that Cthulhu looks sort of... normal? Is there a reason why Cthulhu has such a let's say, "familiar" look as opposed to say Azathoth, Cthugha, or Ghatanothoa? Also I'm not sure if this is where I'm supposed to be asking this question so let me know.

Hello guys. So im working on Lovecraftian themed Boardgame from around 18-19 century where up to 4 players are Witchhunters working together with their own small mercenary force and they are playing against 1 player that is cultist and trying to summon Yog Sothoth.

There should be 42 events scathered around the map that Hunters can participate to boost themselves for better gear cards etc. To have a shot against cultists, but they must also be quick as
when cultist manage to finnish the ritual its game over for them.

I have allready like 25-30 events allready finished and looking for other some inspiration. So I was wondering if someone here would be willing to share some idea of their own. i will write few events I have just to get a gist of it.

- Women will ask for help to find her child.

- Man was experimenting with potion to transport consciousness into higher plane with gods. And now his wife is stuck there.

- Few village folks fight with monsters so you can help and if anyone survive they will join you.

- You will find cultist doing ritual and you can interrupt and kill them.

- You will find a weird statue that after examining is a key into the secret room

Thanks a lot for anyone willing to help.

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I don’t know if it’s in the promotional material (I like to watch the first trailer then media blackout until a game/movie comes out) but this game straight up has a well known Lovecraftian entity as the primary antagonist. You get heavy lovecraftian vibes through the game but then 4 hours in (where I’m at currently) they drop the name and lore. I’d definitely recommend it for horror and Lovecraft fans. So far I’m enjoying it more than the Call of Cthulhu and the Sinking City. We’ll see if it tops Dark Corners of the Earth. It’s a slower paced game but I’m enjoying it so far. Check it out!

Aside from two episodes of Night Gallery are there any adaptations of Lovecraft's works that are straight horror?

Got to love it when an author does a funny reference.

Hey, I have question. There was a short story by Lovecraft which i loved but unfortunately i completely forgot title and i can't find it anywhere. Plot was that a dude was riding a bike, and suddenly storm has started, he found a strange looking shack so he used it as shelter and he found inside mysterious book . If you could tell me title i would be grateful. Im almost sure that it exists but I'm not even sure anymore. At the end shack is striked by lightning but im not sure about that

Vernor Vinge was a science fiction author who died a few days ago and originally coined the term "The Singularity." Has anyone read his book A Fire Upon the Deep? It's mostly scifi adventure, but he considered superintelligent AI to be a likely development in the future, and assumed a setting with such AI would be unimaginable to normal humans. He dealt with the writing challenge of this in the book by having the laws of physics vary from the matter dense centre of the galaxy to the sparse outer reaches of intergalactic space, from the "Unthinking Depths" in the centre where intelligence is impossible, to the "Slow Zone" in the mid spiral arms (where the Sun is) in which FTL travel is impossible and human-level intelligence is as smart as anything can get, to the "Beyond" in the outer edge where FTL travel, antigravity and enhanced artificial intelligence are possible, to the "Transcend" in intergalactic space where godlike superintelligence is possible and self-arising in any sufficiently advanced computer system.

The end result is a space opera setting in which a galactic civilization exists in the Beyond but essentially Lovecraftian superintelligences live in the Transcend and occasionally meddle with civilizations in the lower levels. Scientists will attempt missions to the high Beyond on the edge of the Transcend to do advanced research or find/steal high-tech artifacts, but always run the risk of getting assimilated by a science project that was too successful/stolen artifact that woke up/Transcend entity that noticed them.

More generally, I was wondering what people thought of stories that use AI as a source of cosmic horror. This idea goes back all the way to I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream at least, and is present in a lot of Singularity discourse and stories. Most recently, some commentators working in or near AI research have used the shoggoth as a metaphor for large language models, since under their interfaces, they are inhumanly vast and (as yet) incomprehensible in their workings (a more skeptical take on that metaphor is https://crookedtimber.org/2023/07/03/shoggoths-amongst-us/, but it includes one of the LLM shoggoth memes as the header image). What does everybody think of stories that use this idea, or about how Lovecraftian real-life AI might turn out to be?

Hello everyone, I am looking to see if there is a compilation of the characters, forbidden books, arcane texts, gods, locations... etc., where each element of Lovecraft's works is exhaustively detailed. I found https://hplovecraft.fandom.com/es/wiki/ but I think it's mixed with information from role-playing games and other sources. If I am mistaken, please correct me. Does anyone know of a work that has compiled this information from the original sources of the Lovecraft circle? If possible, in epub, pdf, or similar format would be much better.