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Lovecraft's Creatures Would Have Made Excellent Opponents For Europe's Crusaders
What if H.P. Lovecraft had been around in the Middle Ages? It’s likely that the crusades would have turned out very differently, as seen by these fantastic illustrations from Austrian illustrator, Robert Altbauer.
Altbauer runs a website called Fantasy Map, where most of his art is in the form of fantastic alternate maps, some of which end up in gaming books. He noted that these illustrations were a side project: “When I finally had the time and leisure to do so, I wanted to give them an special twist and Lovecraft came into mind. I have read most of his work and he was a master of his genre. I think the creatures of Lovecraft make excellent opponents for fearless crusaders.” ...
http://io9.gizmodo.com/lovecrafts-creatures-would-have-made-excellent-opponent-1768666924
that guy at the the front has got to be Kurt Russell
There's this one:I'm surprised no-one's made a low budget short of The Picture in the House. All you'd really need are a couple of actors, a bicycle, a country cottage, and some miniatures for when the house collapses. (Or you could slightly change the ending and ditch the special effects all together.)
The Music of Erich Zahn and Cool Air would also make great shorts. You could film them both with a tiny cast and mostly using interiors, with minimal special effects.
Put all three together and you could have a classic old style portmanteau horror flick.
I think my problem when I first worked through Lovecraft was I quickly got the an idea where he was going in his stories. Also it's difficult as a modern reader with all our access to literature and film to see his works as anything more than dark fantasy that doesn't evoke the intended horror. Although a couple of scenes have stuck in my mind as being pretty disturbing. What Lovecraft did quite well was make humanity insignificant in a hostile universe, as well as making aliens really 'alien', something rarely seen in modern culture, including in many eyewitness reports of alien encounters.Well, in my intermittent reading of Lovecraft's works on my Kindle, I've got to the end of the short stories. The last 2 were "The Picture in the House" and "The music of Erich Zann", which I confess I quite enjoyed, certainly more than some of the other tales. I'm still feeling more "meh" than "wow" about them, for reasons I can't quite put my finger on. There are some great themes in there, and I particularly liked the house impossibly high up a cliff face, with the door opening on to thin air (I forget the story's name, sorry), but I haven't "felt" the tales as I thought I might, apart from a slight sense of unease at some of the weirdness.
Anyhow, the way my Kindle edition is laid out, I find myself at the start of the novellas, so my next chunk of reading will be "At the mountains of Madness". I'm expecting great things...
There's a double glazing company by that name near me.Candlelight rather than Kindlelight, then?
I haven't read the story, so maybe I'm missing some context here, but the sun does approach and disappear below the southern horizon of Antarctica as the Southern winter sets in. How else could it disappear for months on end? (This applies everywhere but at the South Pole itself - from there the horizon is north in all directions! )...the only irritating things about "At the Mountains of Madness" were the odd howler (eg the sun on the Southern horizon!).
Yes, you are correct. If you can see the sun near the horizon, it must be the northern horizon. Seems my befuddlement was greater than yours - I was confusing myself with thoughts of the path of the midnight sun. Must remember KISS - keep it simple, stupid!I'm not feeling too clever today, so maybe my befuddled brain isn't thinking straight, but surely if the Sun is near the horizon in the Southern hemisphere, it must be the Northern horizon? After all, the Sun is always directly above the tropics, isn't it?
That's a good idea. Seconded.Mod! We need a thread for "popular things I just don't get and believe me I've tried." Like Lovecraft and Doctor Who
Mod! We need a thread for "popular things I just don't get and believe me I've tried." Like Lovecraft and Doctor Who
We've got this one.Mod! We need a thread for "popular things I just don't get and believe me I've tried." Like Lovecraft and Doctor Who
Close, but that's more about ability and action and real life. My thoughts are more about taste in pop culture/media being out of sync.We've got this one.
Cthulhu's evil overlord: the monstrous world of HP Lovecraft
By Ed Power 30 October 2016 • 7:00am
HP Lovecraft wrote some of the most bizarre, imaginative and influential horror stories in the English language. But he was also a dangerous bigot. Is that why Hollywood still fears him?