Lachlan
Great Builder of Civs !
That's all ! I love the author of fantastic-horror !
And YOU ?
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Anybody know H.P. Lovecraft ?
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floppa21
Crusty Manhole
A toy company made plush animals of Cthulu and Nyarlathotep. Quite funny. 
Lachlan
Great Builder of Civs !
Plush high fidelity 
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floppa21
Crusty Manhole
There's a 'summer fun cthulu' with sandals and a colorful shirt and straw hat and a Santa Cthulu from what I remember. Of course a plain one also.
Kafka2
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Dr. Dr. Doktor
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I generally read H.P. Lovecraft to understand what went on in the American psyche in the 20s. The diagnosis would be that this period was characterized by a collective and total screw up.
The monsters are resulting from the chaotic freudian id, or subconsciousness, and come from the then relatively unknown, and therefore scary, outer space, while on earth they inhabit the then just mapped wastelands of the Antarctic. The protagonists are often 'dilettantes', that is young people from the moneyed leisure class. Their angst derives from their alienation to the purpose of their existence.
The stories usually ends with them going quite insane when confronted with the unfathomable evil of the world.
The monsters are resulting from the chaotic freudian id, or subconsciousness, and come from the then relatively unknown, and therefore scary, outer space, while on earth they inhabit the then just mapped wastelands of the Antarctic. The protagonists are often 'dilettantes', that is young people from the moneyed leisure class. Their angst derives from their alienation to the purpose of their existence.
The stories usually ends with them going quite insane when confronted with the unfathomable evil of the world.
Al Zan
King
who is this dam cthulu i keep hearing about!
Mescalhead
Vincebus Eruptum
LoveCraft is a genious. But I love his psychological and dream tales more than the horror, and even the horror tales aren't classic run-of-the-mill horror.
The stories of his that blew me away were, Polaris (best short story I have ever read), The Doom that Came to Sarnath, Nyarlathotep, The Nameless City, Celephais, The Quest of Iranon, many more.
The stories of his that blew me away were, Polaris (best short story I have ever read), The Doom that Came to Sarnath, Nyarlathotep, The Nameless City, Celephais, The Quest of Iranon, many more.
SanPellegrino
Wanderer
Lovecraft is great, scread the **** out of me when I was 14 and read it in my bed in the evening. especially I like the idea that the "good" usually lose and I can't remember a happy end of one of his stories.
JtheJackal
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At the Mountains of Madness made me jump out of my chair. 
Lovecraft is great.
Lovecraft is great.
wilbill
That Old Time Religion
Cthulhu. Leader of the Great Old Ones. Cthulhu exists in a deep sleep of death in the watery depths of R'lyeh silently dreaming, waiting for the day when the stars are right and his worshippers raise R'lyeh from the Pacific Ocean. It is his spells that protect and preserve the other Great Old Ones. Cthulhu has never been directly described, for those few who have seen him go stark raving mad. A description, then, can only be brought from a statue found depicting him. Cthulhu has a vaguely anthropoid outline, but with and octopus-like head whose face was a a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. He is of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and his cephalopod head is covered with facial feelers. Some have said to imagine Cthulhu, one must imagine a squid, a dragon and a man together in one body. (from a Lovecraft website)
I'm not a huge fan, but I've read most of his works a couple of times and to me they're the most downright scary horror stories I've ever run across.
Shabbaman
rebuffing the rebels
Aargh! You said the name of the unspeakable! He's coming! He's coming...
As a M:TG player I get rpg-references thrown at me all the time. The lovecraft-rpg seems to be a lot of fun, some (sub-par, yet fun to read) magazines use it as a running gag.
As a M:TG player I get rpg-references thrown at me all the time. The lovecraft-rpg seems to be a lot of fun, some (sub-par, yet fun to read) magazines use it as a running gag.
Love Lovecraft!
...one of the few men to truly document the unspeakable horrors that stalk cloven-hooved through elder night. Shub-Niggurath, the black goat with a thousand young! Ia! Ia! Phtagn!
My favourite story is the one he ghost-wrote for Harry Houdini, detailing his nightmare descent into the pyramids and below. The Sphinx! What horror was it carven to represent?
...and so on. Absolutely love it!
...one of the few men to truly document the unspeakable horrors that stalk cloven-hooved through elder night. Shub-Niggurath, the black goat with a thousand young! Ia! Ia! Phtagn!
My favourite story is the one he ghost-wrote for Harry Houdini, detailing his nightmare descent into the pyramids and below. The Sphinx! What horror was it carven to represent?
...and so on. Absolutely love it!
FearlessLeader2
Fundamentalist Loon
BorgeoisBuffoon
Local Idiot
Slightly. I've played 'Alone in the Dark', which heavily borrows from him. I need to get one of his books. 
Mescalhead
Vincebus Eruptum
Yes. That is what Lovecraft is best at. Taking preconcieved notions of what is frightening and throwing them out the window because his horrors are so archaic that they were the original source for the collective fear of ancient man decended from Sumer. His finger is on the pulse of the continuum of the Ancient Ones, and the primordial sludge of Shub Niggurath.
Have you ever read his letters? He was quite prolific and while many get repetitive, he has some gems and can be enjoyed most easily if you are not offended by the occasional early 20th century racist statement(s).
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