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[Faenwulf]

Haha, just found this on good ol' 9GAG.

[George Ledoux]

I'm a huge Lovecraft fan as well. I was actually an extra in the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Societies version of The Whisperer In Darkness".

[Wolf Hreda]

Doctor Darren, on 30 May 2012 - 01:00 PM, said:

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Ftagn!

Been a huge Lovedraft fan ever since I read the Outsider about 3 years ago. If your looking for a game to play while we wait for MWO try out Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. The combat is a little lackluster but the story and atmosphere of the game are very well done IMO.

Also, if your looking for an awesome Lovecraftian movie to see, go watch Cabin in the Woods, one of the better horror movies of the past couple years.

It's kinda funny, too. Because the game paints J. Edgar Hoover as a total dick.

[Wolf Hreda]

RL Nice, on 30 May 2012 - 07:19 PM, said:

For me? The Dunwich Horror, The Colour Out of Space and The Whisperer in Darkness. I noticed that unlike most of the works inspired by Lovecraft, the original stories usually don't feature narrators who actually encounter the stories' eldritch horrors with their own eyes, instead learning about them through second-hand means (the Mi-Go from The Whisperer in Darkness are described via letters, Cthulhu in The Call of Cthulhu is recounted through a journal, IIRC and in The Shadow Out of Time, the narrator only remembers the Great Race of Yith from dreams, the protagonist reads about the Deep Ones in The Shadow Over Innsmouth). In fact, the only two Lovecraft stories I have read where the protagonists come face to face with monsters are The Dunwich Horror and At the Mountains of Madness. It's really a testiment to how effective he is as a horror writer when he can present such creepiness without even featuring any monsters that physically appear in the story.

Oh, also returning to the game, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, I love that you get to live through the scene of him escaping Innsmouth. So frantic and infuriating.

[RL Nice]

I've read "The Beast in the Cave", one of Lovecraft's lesser known works. It bears a striking similarity to The Descent. Alas, revealing what the similarity is would spoil the main twist in the short story.

[Baldwin Chang]

Wolf Hreda, on 02 June 2012 - 11:59 AM, said:

It's kinda funny, too. Because the game paints J. Edgar Hoover as a total dick.

J. Edgar Hoover was a dick.

[RL Nice]

So... what's your favorite work to have been influenced by Lovecraft? I'm pretty partial to Hellboy and Warhammer 40,000 myself.

[Stahlseele]

http://en.wikipedia....re!_Nyaruko-san
may i present to you?
Nyarlathothep!

[Gremlich Johns]

There was a rock group in the 60's by that name as well.

Scary stuff - I only read it during the daytime....