Any good Lovecraft comics? Any publisher is fine with me.

>>93676478
better stick to the source material

you wanna read some fish rape?

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I remember how excited I was when I've finally got my hands at one compilation of Lovecraft stories, expecting nothing but pure horror and madness

The picture sums up what I've got instead. There's some nice concepts here and there, but nothing beyond that. Without even counting his habit to re-hash stories with minor differences thousands of times.

This isolated person saw something unspeakable and now is getting nuts? How unexpected...

Does not surprise me at all how Stephan King got "inspired" by him. In fact, it explains a lot.

>>93676478

>The Courtyard
>Neonomicon
>Providence

All of these are by Alan Moore. Read them in that order. Neonomicon is a little hit or miss with some people because it goes a little outside Lovecraft's "allude to things, not be explicit" tendencies (see: Deep One rape), but character and story is good and it's connected to the Courtyard. You *can* skip it, but I personally really liked it.

>Fall of Cthulhu

This is more if you want just straight up tentacles and world-ending apocalypse action. It's not nuanced, but it's a fun Lovecraftian monster mash with a pretty interesting story. Just not super "Lovecraftian" in the traditional sense.


>Hellboy

This has a lot of Lovecraftian stuff hidden away in it, and it's a generally great story to boot. BPRD, Abe Sapien, and others are all spinoffs and have some Lovecraftian stuff as well.

>>93676478

Hope you like Avatar Press and some dong because you're reading Providence.

>>93676596

So what you're saying is you have garbage taste.

>>93676478
Not good but most Otherworldy themes and magical stories in Marvel Universe revolve around sleeping Elder Gods and wake minor dieties that are basically clones of Lovecraft cosmogony. I repeat though it's Marvel, so it's ain't very good.

Lovecraft's work is the kind of thing that I think must be enjoyed in the original medium, as >>93676551
said.

Almost all of his works rely heavily on imagination, as most old ones and even the relatively "good" elder gods drive you batshit insane just by glimpsing at them.

The novel and short story format really is the best for his type of fiction, as it leaves the most to the imagination of the reader.

I'm not trying to sound elitist here but really, I've read a decent amount of Lovecraftian comics and I wouldn't really recommend any of them. Really the only adaptations of lovecraft that work are the ones that take stuff from innsmouth or also rely on a great deal of imagination (tabletop and board games).

>>93676601
What is the comic in which Lovecraft finds some Negro's eggs?

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>>93676478

Read this instead.

Locke & Key has some Lovecraft vibes going on. It's also a really good series.

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>>93676623
The only reason Lovecraft is praised is because his named turned into a stamp of genre. His stories, in another hand, are boring to say the least.

Funny enough, people who usually defends him no matter what, usually never read anything but his greatest hits, or sometimes not even that

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Look up SelfMadeHero if you want straight up adaptations as graphic novels.

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>>93676478
>it's Kafkaesque
>it's Lovecraftian
>it's Orwellian

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mignola is a big lovecraft boo and it's the closest you'll get to good lovecraftian comics. locke and key has ugly art and is boring and I think alan moore hates lovecraft and doesnt really get him. It's a shame there's really no direct comic adaptations of lovecrafts work

>>93676735
>and I think alan moore hates lovecraft
Is there anybody that Alan Moore doesn't hates?

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Apparently there's a comic adaptation of The House on the Borderland, but I can't vouch for it's quality since I just learned about it myself.

>>93676733
Orwellian is overused to describe literally anything dystopian regardless of the relevency to his work, but lovecraftian and kafkaesque I don't see laymen abuse as much.

>>93676735
>negro eggs


Uhhh what?

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>>93676735

>locke and key has ugly art and is boring

>>93676761
>please no meat touching ma'am

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>>93676596
I think it's hard to appreciate Lovecraft's work in a modern context. And I'm not saying your criticisms are wrong or that you don't "get it." It's just that stuff that was scary to people back then don't really work today.

During Lovecraft's time, science was the "new god" that could explain the world and rationalize everything. With enough time and gumption, we could explain the universe and find the reasoning of our place in it, maybe as God intended.

Lovecraft's work was the complete anti-thesis of these ideas. No, some things in the world are unknowable/unexplainable. No, critical thinking and rationalization won't save you. You are less than a spec in an uncaring universe. The greater beings on this plane are horrifying, and your best scenarios are they either ignore you or you die quick.

Today we've dealt with the themes of "the world is not what it seems," "free will is a joke," and "science can be a bad thing" so much that Lovecraft's stories don't pack much of a punch anymore.

It's why I have trouble getting into the stilted dialogue of comics of decades past. It doesn't mean I can't respect the groundwork that was laid, but we can't perfectly put our brains into that time/context either.

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The Doom That Came To Gotham for that sweet, sweet Troy Nixey art.

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>>93676761
Anything barely "unspeakable" turned into "Lovecraftian" and is often used advocating the horror quality of shitty movies/games

Kafkaesque is wrongly used for anything surreal, more often by people that thinks that surreal and nonsense are the exactly same thing.

>>93676782
I'm sorry but I cant get into it. I've tried

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One of my favorites.

I heard Locke & Key was good.

The Army of Darkness comic sometimes dabble in the Lovecraftian side of things (what with the Necronomicon and all)

>>93676841

Fair enough. The first trade is a bit slow. How far did you get?

>>93676821
>you are less than a spec in an uncaring universe
>the concepts that terrified people of the past we have come to accept even as children in modern times
Now there's the real horror

This was alright but it's an alternate history bio with Lovecraft himself as a reluctant protagonist.

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>>93676733
Please no meat-touching, ma'am.

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>>93676851
This version was better

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>>93676478
This is great.

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>>93676748
neil gaiman

>>93676777
it's alan moore going "lovecraft was a racist XD fishrape"

for the record lovecraft was significantly more tolerant before his death but everyone likes to overlook that fact and smear him

>>93676927
I dont remember but it wasnt very far. Maybe I'll pick it up again. lots of comics I love have shitty starts.

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>>93676821
I think Moore decrypted Lovecraft flawlessly in Neonomicon . Lovecraft horror is, when it all comes down, fear of change. Does no matter if by racial difference, sexual difference, wealth difference or religious difference, those common social anxieties plays out as unspeakable horrors on his works, and that's the overall appeal, and I understand that, but his approach for me turned into a cheap gimmick way too quick. Every time he is coming close to a resolution of any sort, he just goes "nope you can't comprehend it" and close the case. It's hard to invest on a story that you know for fact that will go nowhere, few people will survive and no conclusion to any arc will ever be solved.
The "survivalist diary" kinda works, but not for 20 or more stories. It's overall pretty boring, you know what I'm saying?

For the whole "monsters in the age of science", I would rather go with Frankenstein or Jekyll/Hyde

>>93677024

The first trade is probably the weakest part. It's worth reading through and judging it from the whole read, if you can.

There was one that had Lovecraft as a character as he was involved in a case that Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini are investigating.
It was called Edge of the unknown but I don't remember much about the story, it was fucking nuts tho

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>>93676777
Short story long, Lovecraft was from a decadent prestigious family with no penny, so he grew a grudge on everything new or "modern", racial mixing included, but not exclusively, along with more open sexual activity, divorce and many other things that are a common motif on his works

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>>93676777
- On the Creation of Niggers -

When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.

- H.P Lovecraft (1912)

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what's the best lovecraft story and why is it the cats of ulthar?

>>93677196
His long, long text about how cats are "the noblest of animals" it's hilariously autistic. Look it up

Guy really loved some cats

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Where did we go wrong?

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>>93677066
I agree! It's a bit sad to see everyone on this board go "lol fishrape" on Moore's series. I thought it was a great deconstruction of Lovecraft's work. It wasn't done out of hatred, but just on going to the core of the author's issues that were clearly present in the stories, which was more than just racism.

I get the "boring and pointless" remarks, but I'm not sure where else you can go with the themes present in Lovecraft's works. Having the hero triumph or fully get what's going on isn't going to work in this kind of horror. Maybe if the apocalypse actually played out in the stories? Show the horrors of full societal change or whatever.

>>93676940
Yeah, exactly. You go up to someone and say life has no meaning and the universe is an unfeeling place with little to no rhyme or reason and the most they will do is shrug. That shit at its core is still scary and we have no real comforting answers, but we are kind of numb to it now. But a show like Rick and Morty, or an equivalent of it, would be obscene in the 1920s.

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>>93677066

>For the whole "monsters in the age of science"

But the whole point is that the horror of Lovecraft isn't the monsters, it's the existential dread of being an insignificant speck in an uncaring universe. The monsters serve to carry that horror to the reader and the protagonists. It brings up the core feeling of the unknown and preys on humanity's complacency and comfort in their delusions of being the center of the universe and says "No, you're not important in the slightest. You never have been, you never will be. Your understanding of everything is wrong, and if you knew even a grain of the truth you would either go mad or weep and retreat back into your own ignorance."

Cosmic horror isn't like other horrors because it's not about what you can know, or see, or feel, or touch. It's about what you don't know. The fear of not knowing anything about your place in the world threatens people's security in their own existence. In a time where science was changing so much about peoples' understanding of the world around them, stories like that were very scary.

Lovecraft was one of the bigger drivers of "allude, don't show" and minimalist horror, and that has become a staple for horror without which every horror film would be vapid slasher films.

And as >>93676821 said, again: a lot of Lovecraft in the modern day has JAWS syndrome. It's not scary any more, but back then, in that time, it was frightening as hell. There is absolutely no question that Lovecraft had a profound impact on the horror genre that is still prevalent today, even in the horror books, movies, and comics that don't have flailing tentacles and unknowable elder evils.

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>>93676478
This, Tanabe Gou made some. Yeah this is mango but style dont even look like animo soo comic still is great.

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>>93676978
>>93676851

>>93677312

>all those fidget spinners

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Technically a manga, but Ito's work is so good that I'm gonna go ahead and say fuck it and post this gem.

>>93677312
what is the Shadow Out of Time and The Whisperer in Darkness about?

>>93677363
Incidentally, Lovecraft would have loved Ito's Cat Diary. They both love cats.

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>>93677243
He's the only one to blame

Squids are not scary at all! They are cute as hell, in fact

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>>93676682
I read all his works, and some of his letters.
He does get repetitive, without a doubt, but never boring. I like his dream-cycle stories, they're truly amazing, and it is what made me read Machen, Lord Dunsany and the sort. If you read from those two, you'll really see where Lovecraft drew his inspiration, not from isolation.
Not to mention, his grandest work, the over-hyped Call of Cthulhu is a great story, but not for the reasons people usually say like lel cthulhu fthagn i'a rightlol?; It's a great piece of work about the balance of society and how easy it would be to drive the entire planet into madness with a flick of a switch.
tl;dr version:
I do admit, his "grave" stories are shit. Dream-cycle is 10/10, especially if you read Dunsany and Machen, his main mythos stories are unique and build a great world, even if you say it's leltooscary to imagine, that's not the main point of Lovecraft, it never was, it was just one of his shticks, and it didn't change the quality of his stories, they're like after-thoughts.

>HOORRD

>>93677290
Maybe it's because there is no such thing as manga/anime drawing style.

>>93677363
Ito's medicore. He is great at drawing creepy stuff, but he can't write a decent story to save his life.

>>93676735
>>93676777
>>93677024
The negro egg thing is actually from Planetary. So it's Ellis, not Moore going "lovecraft was a racist XD"

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Jason Thompson has some buried in his site archives.

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<= This deserves to be better known.

otherwise Breccia adaptations are gorgeous.

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>>93676851

I knew I saw these guys somewhere before when I was reading this chapter.

>>93676478
lovecraft is now in the modern world and works on funhaus

Lovecraft thought he looked hideous, but did he really?

>>93678849
That doesn't surprise me. He seems like he thought EVERYTHING was hideous. His prose goes on and on about describing every last, least little thing as if it were the most hideous thing imaginable, and then when something that IS the most hideous thing imaginable shows up, all I can think is "I wonder if Flying Polyps or whatever would drive you insane or just look really cool if you're not a turn-of-the-century autist with Puritan sensibilities."

>>93677366
>Shadow Out of Time
Guy goes weird for a few years and then snaps out of it. He ends up having nightmares of an alien world. Turns out those few years he had his mind swapped with a member from an ancient race that could travel through time by swapping minds with living creatures at different points in time. While they don't have the courtesy of asking before taking over your body and leaving your mind in their's, the aliens are pretty chill, and as long as you don't make a fuss, they'll even t\let you read their research.

>The Whisper in Darkness
An associate of a scholar does research on paranormal and folklore in rural New England, stumbles across alien fungi-bugs. The scholar receives letters detailing the associates fear that they are stalking him until the last letter arrives with a "Its all cool, they're not so bad". The scholar goes to see his friend, find him in a hideout for cultists and is convinced the aliens aren't so bad by a meat-puppet of his friend, while the friend's brain is in a metal jar, waiting to be taken to Pluto.

The BBC did an audio version of Shadow over Innsmouth, read by Richard Coyle (AKA Jeff from Coupling, Moist von Lipwig). It's pretty great.

https://archive.org/details/BBCRadio4TheShadowOverInnsmouth

>>93677243
Normies.

>>93678908
Pretty sure the syphilis added penalties to his San checks, and normal people would just be a little grossed out, or fetishize them if not-so-normal.

>>93678382
what mango?

>>93679228
JoKos Wacky Random Escapades

>>93678908
I read one of his short stories where a mummy wakes up in a tomb and finds a mirror and goes on and on about how hideous he looks. Pretty much a self-insert story.

Poor guy, I'm glad his work is remembered fondly.

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>>93676735
> I think alan moore hates lovecraft and doesnt really get him
You smocking weed bro? Go read Providence and try to tell me that again.
Providence is the ultimate Lovecraft homage

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>>93676478
what I wanna know is if there was any work that got the same idea of dark gods and beings of great madness, unimaginable in the scope of the human mind, like pick related

>>93677669
Uzumaki is decent enoght tho.

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>>93676478

>>93679342
Zalgo?

>>93679350
Is it a detective novel with a lovecraftian twist?
or a Lovecraft story featured around a detective?

I'm willing to bet it's the second one.

>>93679350
Nah, that story is pretty dumb.

>>93679358
it's a scooby doo episode

>>93679358
>>93679360
It's very Scooby Doo like but if you enjoy the Shadow you'll find it funny.

You know, I read this great article that suggested Lovecraft was gay.

The evidence was that one of his fans, a young boy in Florida, wrote him fan letters, which led to them collaborating on stories together.

This culminated in Lovecraft coming down to visit the boy for a couple weeks, staying in his bedroom. Kid was like a teenager, and a homosexual. Idk. Seems likely.

>>93676573
Yes, actually

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>>93679357
anon, are you trying to hurt me?

>>93676640
>most old ones and even the relatively "good" elder gods drive you batshit insane just by glimpsing at them.
no they don't. the implications of their existence can drive you insane, but it doesn't always. The PTSD from surviving your encounter with them which you can't talk to anyone bout without them thinking you're insane can drive you insane, but doesn't always. Devoting your whole life to finding out the truth of what happened when there's so few reliable information to be found can drive you insane, but doesn't always.
Just looking at shit in and of itself? that only happened like twice and both times it was more akin to the 'looking to the true form of Zeus killed Semele' kind of deal where it was explicitly a supernatural affliction rather than anything to do with what it actually looked like

>>93679385
I read a great article about how your moms hips are in dire need of surgery after I absolutely fucking destroyed them with my penis during intercourse.

>>93679394
I just spoke the first thing out of my head.

>>93678226
he's still had the problem of being unable to fucking plan out his panels though, holy shit

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>>93679342
Morrison's Nameless

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>>93679342
Milligan's Shade, the Changing Man

>>93679492
i completely forgot how fucking good the writing and imagery in shade was, i need to read it completely, my god

>>93679405

Pls no bully

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>>93679342
not /co/ but the Chzo Mythos games

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>>93676640
>most old ones and even the relatively "good" elder gods drive you batshit insane just by glimpsing at them.
No they don't. Lovecraft protagonists don't go crazy because they see weird shit, they go crazy because they realize their own place in the cosmos.

>>93679615
>When existential horror doesn't do it for you because "lol too dark no comprehend haha"

>Lovecraft
>not a racist hack

pick one

his KOOTOOLOO FATAGUN xD fanbase is equally cringey

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>>93679631
for you>>93679660

>>93679402
I heard it put like this: The Elder Gods and and Great Old Ones exist in more dimensions than we do. We're basically seeing creatures that exist in 5, 6, maybe more dimensions and our minds try to comprehend something that is impossible to comprehend. So our minds snap due to not understanding what we are seeing.

>>93677066
>I think Moore decrypted Lovecraft flawlessly in Neonomicon .


>"Warren is dead you fool"
>"Heh, good one"

Fuck off

>>93677669
>Maybe it's because there is no such thing as manga/anime drawing style.
Of course there is.

>>93679660
But there's nothing wrong with racism?

>>93679810
Is that a fucking question.

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>>93676821
If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species. As our collective consciousness expands beyond a crucial point, we are at last ready to accept life's fundamental truth: that life's only purpose is life itself.

>>93676753
I read it. It's pretty good.

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>>93677196
Arthur Jermyn is criminally underrated

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>>93679920
Yang you don't know the first about Collective Consciousness. You haven't made contact with the Planetmind yet, you haven't even figured out how to tame mindworms, nor have you invented networked true AI. You don't even have Total Immersion Videogames that have multiplayer support.
Those self-righteous misanthropic murder-hippies have made more advances than you

>>93680035
Your mom and sister.
Plus your grandmother, her too.
Stretched hole two, I did.

>>93679339
Hasn't Alan Moore been known to pull complete 180s on stuff? Or am I getting him confused with someone else.

>>93676821
Pretty much. I started reading Lovecraft when I was still with one foot stuck in fundie Protestant religion. And it fucking terrified me.

Especially the parts about Azathoth, the blind idiot god. Because he's basically God without any love.

>>93680067
my own impression is neonomicon was written with very little research, then he went and did a shitload of research, and then he did providence

>>93677243
Well, lots of Lovecraft's stories were metaphors for social change. A lot of the social change that was happening while he was active have now been embraced as part of life. As such the manifestation of that change becomes less threatening.

>>93680083
People have noted that Moore had been interested in Lovecraftian stuff for ages before that - but I think what Moore meant by "not having done enough research" was in how the context of Lovecraft's society shaped his horror.

>>93680067
Alan Moore felt bad about going a bit too far subverting Lovecraft in Neonomicon, so he made Providence as a tribute to the classic Lovecraftian style.

>>93676672
This.

>>93677669

>but he can't write a decent story to save his life.

He can, he's just pretty bad at bringing it all home at the end.

>>93680123
Aye, and funnily enough, in doing so he was able to do what he's said he wanted with Neonomicon (ie. the sex stuff) so much more effectively.

I think you need the coldness and detachment for it to work. Neonomicon tried too hard to be wry and self-aware (and all those attempts fell flat by themselves)

>>93677287
Read somewhere a note on how the "discovered universe" expanded during Lovecraft's lifetime - the difference was enormous.

To make Lovecraft's horror work in modern time, you just need to change some tiny things.
Personally, the biggest change that you need is to alter the "oh no the terrifying truth is too much!" *commits sudoku* endings.

A proper modern Lovecraftian tale would end with an acceptance of the horror, and a submission to it. Imagine say, a story about an astronomy student who discovers a method of calculating what lies beyond the visible universe. And now, everytime he looks at the night sky, he sees these cosmic eyeballs of galaxy sized entities just lurking beyond the edge of the observable universe. He's clearly perturbed by it, maybe even goes to an insane asylum. And then he's "cured", finishes his studies, gets a job at an observatory, gets married, has kids, has grandkids, dies. And everytime throughout his entire life, those eyes in the nightsky always gaze at him. And he never stops thinking about it. Just always there.

>>93680302
I think that's what made Providence work so well. At the end everyone was confused and terrified but they all knew the prophecy was going to happen and there was no point in fighting it. That weird cognitive dissonance in the face of something so monstrously terrifying is pretty compelling.

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I'd recommend the second Army of Darkness/Reanimator crossover from 2013. Essentially Lovecraft's "Herbert West-Reanimator" short story with Ash as West's lab assistant.

>>93680341
When I was a kid, I read this Lovecraft-inspired story by a Dutch writer, about a police detective going after a cult trying to do something.
By the time the detective has found the cult, the cult pulls an Ozymandias on him, the ritual had already been completed. The cult gets arrested by the cops, and the detective goes home.
And his daughter asks him if she can get a pet shoggoth, because tommorrow is National Pet Day.
The detective has this gnawing uncomfortable feeling he can't put his finger on, so he watches the TV. There's a fuzzy video of fundamentalist American terrorists claiming they will destroy the Great Satan Saudi-Arabia, followed by a speech of the president of Saudi-Arabia that they will not rest and continue the War on Terror.
The next day, he brings his daughter to school, and he sees all those kids with their shoggoths at school, and he realises that the whole world has gone insane, and he's the only one left that remembers what the world was like before the ritual.

Shame I forgot the name.

Bloodborne

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>>93677243

>>93677196
I've been the most moved by "The Colour Out of Space".

>>93677196
I just recalled that he named one of his cats "Nigger Man"

>>93680619
That was the name of protagonist's cat in Rats in the walls

>>93676672
Was there actual lovecraftian horror or was it all just hallucinations

>>93676478
I found a bunch of good recs in this thread but I don't know where to download them from considering every torrent site I used to frequent is kill.

>>93680095
Even Watchmen is peppered with genuine Lovecraftian elements.

>>93680565
Leave it to Derleth to make everything even worse

>>93680603
That story always reminds me of the Goiânia incident, when some people accidentally encountered radioactive material.

http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2011/03/28/contamination-in-goiania/

>The powder enthralled everyone. Devair began to suspect that it might be supernatural. His brother dipped a finger into the dust and drew a cross on his abdomen. Maria slept in bedclothes covered in the sparkly blue dust. Neighbors and acquaintances came to the Ferreiras’ home to take some of the mystical powder for good luck. Six-year-old Leide rubbed the powder all over her arms so that she glowed and sparkled. The bedclothes, the house, and the girl were covered in crystals. So was the egg sandwich she ate for lunch.

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>>93680302
So you could say that as time passed and we came to see more special effects and what not, our brain can handle a few more truths that the people on Lovecraft's time. At least that's how I think of it.

>>93680619
that was his grandmother. who even he admitted was hyper racist for the time.

>>93680302
>A proper modern Lovecraftian tale would end with an acceptance of the horror
>and a submission to it

So Bloodborne's black Phantasm ending then.

Just because you abandon 'humanity' doesn't mean you have to embrace a more animalistic or even heartless mindset. You just have to accept that life and morality inevitably becomes more alien as our species evolves. Especially if we really transcend death at some point.

Artificial wombs are already freaking people out.

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>tfw no prank-loving cosmic-horror eldritch chaos goddess gf

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>>93680565
Does anyone even know any stories from Derleth other than "The Trail of Cthulhu" (Which by the way is the example of typical modern " team of investigators investigate strange happenings"- type of cosmic horror) ?

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>>93676640
I'm still puzzled by how they would have to "realistically" portray Lovecraftian beings in a visual medium

>>93676733
You know "Kafkaesque" is a meme, calm down.

Unless, are you some /lit/fag who sees people unironically say it? My condolences.

>>93676478
You have a few options, OP.

The serious answer: there aren't any
>>93676551
>>93676640
It doesn't work in comics. Part of the whole point with the stories is that text does not inherently convey sensory information, and you have to interpret and imagine details- and that gives you a better sense of something being unspeakable or incomprehensible than a concrete visual that you don't have to imagine or interpret.

The fair answer: there might be a few that try, but good luck seeing if they're good or not.
>>93676672

The stupid answer: yes, there are meme lovecraft comics that are only good because you have shit taste, and at most only superficially reference Lovecraftian signifiers while being completely vapid otherwise.
>fish rape

>>93678849
His mother used to go on and on about how ugly he was, so much that he eventually believed her. I mean sure he wasn't an outstanding beauty but he was a bit above average.

>>93679719
I feel that's not giving much credit to the human mind, it would just get frustrated and just see a heavily distorted version of it.
>>93680619
To be fair a lot of cats are niggers

>>93679212
>An owlturd comic that is not about endless depression

what is this sorcery?

>>93676807
Currently reading this, breddy gud!

>>93676735
This is really bad satire.

>>93681123
>So Bloodborne's black Phantasm ending then.
What is this?

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>>93681058
Well that is truly terrifying. Not only how they treated the damn radiactive thing, but something about how close they were to be ignored makes me so uneasy.

>On 28 September, Maria dragged herself back to the doctor’s office and deposited on his desk a small plastic bag filled with iridescent blue powder. This, she said, was the culprit. The doctor dismissed her claims as superstitious nonsense and admitted her to the Tropical Diseases hospital. But another doctor at the clinic called a health physicist to test the mysterious bag. The next day, 112 thousand people found themselves packed into Olympic stadium, queuing at hastily constructed tents to be tested for radiation poisoning.

Seriously if the other doctor was not there who knows, maybe they would have had to wait more time to discover what it was or they would have never know.

Also

>Brasil

Of fucking course leave it to American countries to be competent as hell.

>>93676735
>It's a shame there's really no direct comic adaptations of lovecrafts work
What? There's like two volumes of comics that are just straight up adaptions of various Lovecraft stories by different artists. There's also the Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and At the Mountains of Madness among others.

>>93676753
Well it has Corben so at the very least the art would be good.

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>>93681444
Fucking Nyarly I swear would be hot

>>93678382
Sauce?

>>93676735
>>93677024

Why Lovecraft looks like an asian?

I honestly think that one of the best Lovecraft inspires stories out there is In the Mouth of Madness by Carpenter, he genuinely nails that feeling of helplessness in the face of inevitability that cosmic horror tries to do.

>>93681101
Society mostly lost a lot of its sense of self. We no longer place humanity above all other life on the planet and we now know that Earth is just a small-time planet in a universe so vast our minds can't comprehend it, filled with mindless forces of nature that could destroy our planet if we ever rolled the dice wrong. And we can't ever stop rolling the dice because entropy will destroy everything eventually.

A lot of people have lost that comforting thought that God is real and loves you and your life matters. As with people of the past that thought still horrifies us on some level and causes a great sense of anxiety and dread. We've just gotten better at ignoring it and pushing it to the back of our minds. We haven't gotten better at confronting that thought and pondering it for too long will plunge you in the same existential crisis it would cause in people of the past. We know that. That's why we decide to ignore it.

>>93680565
Bullshit quottation, he is not saying he hates niggers. Got you there, anon. ALovecraft was such a racist, amirite?

>>93682026
Does that anime just borrows the names and makes bland " waifu " characters or does it actually drops some sick twisted mad reality truth bombs with satisfying references?

>>93676753
Mmm, Corbeny!

I read a pretty good comic about an evil house that imprisoned it's owners and killed people and seemingly spontaneously grew out of the ground but I can't seem to recall the name. The same artist did the Hellboy story with the luchador vampire hunters if I recall correctly.

>>93682761
Ragemoor. It was the last of a race of stone giants that were the only defense against the true terrors from space.

>>93681101
it kind of reminds me of langfords "different kinds of darkness", where the whole point is the fact that a brain could withstand the horrid shit of madness, but only with actual training. Even then, it still caused some of the kids to still get fucked mentally.

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>>93682514
As a rule, Anime couldn't drop any but the lightest of reality bombs of 'oh no, life isn't fair', 'people will manipulate you to their benefit if you let them', oh and of course, how could we forget 'people die when they are killed, that sucks!.'

Ultimately, it's just in line with Japan's usual response (there are of course exceptions) to something they either don't understand, or find unsettling to make it cutesy, young, and palatable, and perhaps there's something Lovecraftian about that. Reducing monsters, gods, and demons into adorable little charms of colorful cheap plastic so even children may keep them in their pocket and the most pathetic members of society may guard the gates of civilization by fetishisticictly drowning 'the alien' in a pitiable spurt of weak seed.

>>93682462
>Lovecraft was such a racist, amirite?
He was though, but just in a subtle "White Man's Burden," /colonial era kind of way.
>Non-backwater whites are the humans with the fewest connections to insane cosmic horrors, the only bastion of "sanity" and bliss in a malevolent and incomprehensible universe

But that's not even really complete or accurate anyway, because then 'civilized whites' are also the ones the most blind to the actual nature of the universe, and who is to say if that's actually a preferential position to be in.

I don't judge him for it. It's mostly just the times he lived in.

>angry replies

Now that I think about it, those direct comic adaptations of specific stories aren't that bad, but god are they boiler-plate and unexciting.
I just find Mountains of Madness boring as hell, as text or as a comic.

Literally every other Lovecraft story is more fun to read.

>>93676735
>>93677024
I despise this story, it makes Lovecraft out to be an idiot, when he was legitimately very intelligent and well read

>ctrl f
>the outsider
>0 of 0

you are all terrible plebs. terrible terrible plebs

>>93683280
You mean this one? >>93679334

>>93676733

DUDE...BLOODBORNE

>>93682982
About the racist, I think he wasnt so bad when you consider the times he lived in.
And about Mountains of Madness, I like the thug notes analysis. Its a really good insight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlFHzQ7pq0Y

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What's the deal with The King in Yellow and why is is synonymous with Lovecraft but not written by him?

>>93683782
It's a preeminent example of Weird Fiction, and later authors would take elements from that and lovecraft to form their own takes of mythologies.

>>93683782
The King in Yellow attends a masquerade ball.
At the end of the ball, everybody else has unmasked, as is custom.
When the host asks he do the same, as a show of trust and delight he remarks "But I wear no mask".
This causes the host to question first, before coming to the realisation that the King in Yellow isn't human, and that the horrible mask he wears is his face.

>>93680603
Mah fuckin' nigga

The Colour Out of Space is what I honestly consider his best work, all his other stories were either meh-tier to that's kinda neat, but when it came to Colours I was absolutely enthralled. Damn shame it's so underrated.

>>93683782
It was a series of short stories which took the idea of Lovecraftian fiction (aka big bad things are out there beyond understanding and they can affect us mentally and spiritually, the idea of madness when trying to peer into that void, and the overall uncaring or ambivalent nature of those forces).

Much of what we term 'Lovecraftian fiction' actually wasn't written by Lovecraft at all, but was done so in that spirit.

>>93683782
It's like proto-Lovecraft from ~20 years before his stuff.

I liked it, but didn't finish it all.

>>93677243
Providence talks about this. Basically it's the dreamworld (where all the Lovecraftian things exist) intruding into our world through the writings of Lovecraft.

Funny thing is, I think Moore legitimately believes this

>>93683915
>>93680603
You guys have shown that /co/ has good taste, if you ignore all the shitposters, that are about 90% of this board.
Bless, you anons!

>>93683782
The King In Yellow was basically Lovecraft before Lovecraft, some bizarre entity that appeared in a few books, so much as speaking about him would lead to potential madness.

Lovecraft took heavy inspiration from the King in Yellow, hell, he even referenced the books a few times in his own work.

>>93683981
>Funny thing is, I think Moore legitimately believes this

He talks about a version of it in his interview about Providence. Basically Moore is of the mind that once something is written/created it becomes likelier to actually exist.

>tfw we're nearly 200 posts into a Lovecraft thread and it hasn't completely devolved into "Lovecraft was racist!" shitpost
That's kind of a massive accomplishment honestly.

>>93684057
Oh god.What have you done?

>>93679615
It must have been a real mind fuck to realise that Earth is tiny and people dont matter for people hundreds of years ago, huh?

>>93682982
He was racist in an autistic sort of way, even more than his contemporaries; I'd go as far as say he was entirely against humans as a concept and focused in on racial and social traits as a way to channel his inner rages. Shadow over Innsmouth was him railing against Pan Islanders and mixed racial kids, Call of Cthulu had over-the-top black cultists from murky swamplands and he shat on the 'white trash' poor in Dunwich Horror.

I find it actually interesting that someone who writes about cosmic horrors and the pittance that man is against the backdrop of eternity would take such a nitpick view of humanity. Even moreso that he writes other stories like Into the Mountains of Madness which essentially ends with the narrator opining that the horrors were just scientists like they were and were just doing something understandable under the circumstances (but fuck that Yog-Sothoth tho). He later, in his personal life, kinda chills out on his racist kick maybe. (A funny story has him ranting about Jews and then his wife having to remind him that she is actually Jewish at a party.)

In the end I think Lovecraft's life revolved around his inner struggles of his intellectual acknowledgement of humanity's insignificance with the visceral hatred he had of other humans and he channeled it through banal caricatures and hotly worded letters to contemporaries who thought he needed to chill the fuck out.

>>93680341
Yeah but Providence also plays it straight, I mean, see what happens to Black

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What's your opinion on Algernon Blackwood?

I think the "cosmic horror" stories kind of have an overstated place in Lovecraftian works and I actually prefer his more contained stories that don't involve infinity-aged monstrosities.

My favorites were stuff like Re-Animator (and I love the movie of this, though for all the wrong reasons), Colour out of Space and the Curious Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

>>93684162
I love the Thing at the Doorstep and Arthur Jermyn for this reason as well.
Very central ideas and themes pulled off very well.

>tfw a comic adaptation of Arthur Jermyn changed the white apes to Dagon

>>93678382
[MENACING]

>>93684162
This i agree with, I'm actually in love with cosmic horror but i prefer his more contained stories. The ones that sit in the back of your head for awhile after. The Beast in the Cave is a very simple but haunting short story

The Colour Out of Space is the best Lovecraft story because a brand new color is something you well and truly cannot comprehend with your human brain.

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I heard that Thomas Ligotti is quite good. Any recommendations ( Probably because he is a modern age Lovecraft)? Didn't his story got an comic adaptation?

>>93683782
Proto-Lovecraftian, did the whole "le drives you mad" thing like 25 years before HP himself, also funnily enough predicted WWI

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>>93684093
A lot of Lovecraft's personal flaws as a person were caused by his forced isolation as a child because of his health issues and severely overprotective mother and aunts.

Later in his life, after Lovecraft got out of Providence and actually went out into the world, a lot of his views on race and just plain autism really did begin to mellow out. He eventually had a large network of friends all over the country and would regularly sleep on their sofa's when visiting them, his views on race calmed down quite substantially (granted he never quite got over it but he began to see minorities more as regular humans than literal animals), etc.

Honestly, if it wasn't for his failing health forcing him to go back to living with his aunts and eventually stomach cancer killing him at such a young age Lovecraft probably would have become a far more open minded individual.

>>93679492
Oh yeah, the entire thing is just great from start to finish

>>93684277
Hell, he had mellowed so that even Samuel Loveman, who considered him one of (if not the) closest friend was shocked and horrified to discover his previous prejudices and burned most Lovecraft's letters.

>>93684242
The Snarling Sea
The Eyes of Scrungus
Scythe of Ouranos
Where P'yngas Sleeps

>>93684162
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how different Herbert was from Lovecraft's usually characters who faint the moment something spooky happens?
I mean this guy opens the door to see a massive, ape like black zombie holding a severed arm in its mouth and his first reaction is to immediately pull out his gun and just unloading into the fucker.

>>93684341
Googling any of these brings nothing up.

>>93684363
He just continues and continues, undaunted in his tasks.

Herbert was great and I think a lot of that was that Lovecraft was trying to be funny, and his pure humor work is pretty funny

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>>93684392
His parody of the wasteland is a classic.

>>93684363
Herbert was Lovecraft's take on a mad scientist and it worked wonderfully. No looking back except to see what may have gone wrong, but never doubting your end goals and just pushing more and more. I'd say he was distilled autism but I think I've typed enough about that particular cognitive disorder on this site. Obsessive fits better!

>>93684430
Sweet Ermengarde is amazing and I really hope that anon who said they'd get a tattoo of the title went through with it

>>93676652
That was the Authority/Planetary crossover issue.

>>93684144
Only read The Wendigo, shit was pretty great.

>>93676782
But the art is atrocious. It looks like a book for little retarded children.

>>93684392
>his pure humor work is pretty funny
Sweet Ermingard completely caught me off guard when I started read the complete fiction, shit was hilarious

>>93684277
His later quotes on socialism and conservatism show an interesting shift in his ideological/phobic stuff. I can't find the quote where he acknowledges that he spent much of his early life in the dark. I'm mangling it, but he basically admitted he was working on it late, but better late than never.

>>93683782
It's not Lovecraft.
It's his fans remaking the Red Mask. That's it.
He mentions the priest, and the king in yellow twice in his works. Other gods, a creature that protects the old pagan gods from being seen, and in the dream-quest for kadath, where he is a ruler of a desolate area as this frog-like plasma being. Nothing concrete. Anyone telling you anything else is bullshit.

>>93684384
Some of his stories are out of print but I can't imagine why they wouldn't at least be mentioned

>>93684680
>he is a ruler of a desolate area as this frog-like plasma being
I didn't know there was a story about me.

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>>93676478
I've never read Lovecraft's original stuff, but whenever there's a comic that's supposedly in ''Lovecraftian'' style I'm bored out of my fucking mind. Can someone tell me what Lovecraftian even means? What is it supposed to be? What's the Lovecraftian checklist?

>>93684757
Honestly, Lovecraft himself didn't pigeonhole himself so "Lovecraftian" is more of an atmosphere.
A lot of things described as such, especially comics and movies, use it to describe "fish monsters from space".

It's really more about cold, detached, alienation and helplessness.

>>93684757
It means there's existential dread and tentacles.

The popular definition omits the existential dread.

>>93684757
The main point of Lovecraft's fiction is that humanities actual knowledge of the shit that goes on around them is extremely limited and the cosmos is filled with things that makes their existence beyond insignificant.

Now-a-days though, it just means your average hentai minus the sex.

>>93684242
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxZpEFJhO6k

>>93684757
Lovecraftian should be humanity being unimportant in the face of the vast cosmic threats. Those threats being uncaring gods who carelessly step on humans and such, be it through physical encounter or just a random mental sneeze that makes half the population mad.

Lovecratian style is basically this: Normal human meets another human with a weird habit. That turns out to be bigger than life. Normal human has to deal with it. That's the basic idea. Those are his grave stories, his New England stories, his more popular stories. Beyond that you have stories about ancestry, about dreams and alternate realities. Also, an amazing, but stolen, idea of the concept of God.
His writings are varied and interesting, but among those varied ideas he re-uses a lot. That's the problem.

Checklist for me:
The curious case of Charles Dexter Ward.
What the Moon brings.
Ex oblivione.
Sweet Ermengarde.
Call of Cthulhu - while paying attention to its critique of how weak humanity's grasp on normality is. Quite interesting
Rats in the walls and the Color out of space are classics.
Dunwich horror is shit, but it's referenced EVERYWHERE.
The Dream-cycle stories, which are heavily influenced by Dunsany and Machen.
At the mountains of madness.
Herbert West, the re-animator is something you need to know about to understand a few modern cultural jokes.

Everything else feels like a re-hash. The Street is great, but it feels like something you read, based on what I listed.
Have fun.

>>93676682
I'm a major in literature, and I love Lovecraft.
You're just assuming everyone who likes him is an ignorant, and it's just as retarded as claiming everyone who doesn't isn't.
If Lovecraft manages to still be relevant and popular to this day, without really adhering to pretty much any popular tropes (antiquated prose, stories based on rethoric and thought over action, no female characters/love interests, no happy endings, no clear mythology, no clear descriptions of the creatures, etc.) is because there's some merit to it and denying it won't change that fact.

>>93684540
Here we go. Its from his latter letters.

>what a complacent, self-assured, egocentric jackass I was in those days! . . . I can the better understand the inert blindness and defiant ignorance of the reactionaries from having been one of them. I know how smugly ignorant I was. . . . It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33—but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all."
>HPL in a letter to C. L. Moore, February 7 1937

>>93676735
>I think alan moore hates lovecraft
Read some of the interviews where he talks about him, he doesn't hate him at all but quite the opposite.

>It's a shame there's really no direct comic adaptations of lovecrafts work
There's a fucking shitload. Just look for non-American comics, and anthology stuff and you'll find lots of adaptations.

>>93683782
He thought the weird tales in the collection perfectly captured what Lovecraft himself was going for

>>93684242
>>93684341
would add
>The Conspiracy against the Human Race

>>93683934
other good proto-Lovecraft is Lord Dunsany's The Gods of Pegāna

and Conan is or was part of the Cthulhu Mythos

>>93680145
>>93680123
>>93680067
>>93679339
funny story, I hadn't read neonomicon, but know of it by reputation, and I just finished reading providence today
guess what? providence is a direct sequel, and if you haven't read neonomicon, the last issue of providence is confusing as fuck

everything up until the last issue gave me no impression at all that they were directly connected

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>Discussing Weird Fiction.

What does /co/ do better than /lit/ or /x/?

>>93685212
The last issue was unnecessary shit anyway

Did you like it?

>>93685212
If you wanted to know whether you /should/ read Neonomicon, then the answer would be yes.

Hell, I'd tell you yes you should
I'd also still tell you that it sucks.

>>93685231
Because /lit/ is a bunch of pretentious leftist parasites who will shit on basically every book written in the past 200 years and /x/ is nothing but shitposters and legit schizophrenia who think they entered a different reality because they remember the name of a candy bar wrong.

>>93685231
/lit/ considers HP genre fiction as well as "muh racist" and /x/ is just schizos and roleplayers

>>93685247

>Neonomicon

Usually I sell or give away unwanted comics but I straight up threw that in the dumpster the second I was finished with it.

>>93685365
It really is essential to the whole Providence storyline. I wish it weren't, but it is.

>>93676735
what... alan moore has spent over a decade studying lovecraft and writing about him. i'm pretty sure he's heavy into occultism.

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>>93680565
>>93681044

As much as I might dislike Derleth for tainting the overall Mythos with Christian themes and elemental bullshit, the fact remains that he was instrumental in preserving and disseminating Lovecraft's body of work after the man's death. For that reason and that reason alone, I cannot bring myself to hate him.

>>93684144
Too- I want to say lyrical for some reason. Mystical maybe?- for my taste. The Wendigo was OK but most everything read more like weird fairy tales than horror fiction.

>>93685554
>the fact remains that he was instrumental in preserving and disseminating Lovecraft's body of work after the man's death

By wrestling from the hands of a young naive boy

>>93681457
webm related, creative cgi artists are the way to go.

>>93677222
one of my favorite works of his

>>93684510

>What is stylized artwork?
>Lel retarded children XD

Kill yourself.

>>93685212
Good to know, I read about 3/4 of Providence when somebody storytimed it a while ago. I'm far more of a Lovecraft guy then I am a comics guy but I'll have to read the whole thing one of these days.

>>93677222
>Dream Quest had an army of cats defeating an army of moon dwelling slavers working directly of a cosmic horror

>>93685568
Is that the story where a man is whisked away throughout space through infinite wonders, fatally?

It felt Lovecraftian, but I agree that is not horror.

>>93681974
This posted earlier as well:
>>93678368
Though it isn't available in English AFAIK.
I've seen an adaption of The Outsider anthologized also but that one was more like an illustrated story than a comic.

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>>93679402
This supernatural affliction thingy, this presence, this tabooed holiness, is probably a bigger deal than you're making of it, being that we may be unsignificant, but we're also fragile. Because of it if you can interact with a god, see him or merely find something out about him and get away with it unchanged, it's either because he's broken or you're under an aegis of sorts.

>>93686575
>unsignificant

>>93684032
Well Moore is legit into magic so I guess it makes sense for him to believe on meme magic. I bet he would feel at home with the Re:Creators' plot.

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>>93686594
any other sexual eldritch works? I have a particular love for Flash Frame

>mfw the sound was yellow

>>93684960
Boy I would say it's rare to see grown up adults accept they had wrong ideas and actively trying to change for the better. Lovecraft had flaws but reading stuff like this really melts my heart.

>>93683782
The King in Yellow is a book that somewhat inspired Lovecraft, mostly with the idea of an obscure piece of writing that drives whoever reads it mad. Chambers wasn't as good as Lovecraft, and didn't take it as far as did though, and people saying he "ripped him off" are more than likely hipsters who watched True Detective and like to pretend they know better, but they haven't read the stories themselves.
I'd argue William Hope Hodgson, Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood more proto-Lovecraft than Chambers. Not to mention that pretty much everything Chambers wrote after that is pretty much irrelevant.

>>93687814
Aye Dunwich Horror is a pretty huge lift from The Great God Pan

>>93683870
isn't that the visitor, the kings ambassador?

>>93680603
The pacing in that story is masterful. Everything about the way he slowly builds up to that horrible inexorable conclusion is fantastic, easily the best structured story he ever wrote.

>nobody posted Necronauts
Plebs, the lot of you.

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>>93688573
*fucking image

>>93676573
was wondering when fish dicks would get mentioned when I clicked this thread

>>93688590
Looks lame

>>93687837
I wouldn't say a huge lift, since Great God Pan had more to do with psychoanalitical concepts like the subconscious, while HPL himself wasn't a big fan of psychoanalysis, but the Machen influence is there for sure.
The Terror uses a somewhat similar framing device as Call of Cthulhu as well, even though the stories unfold in pretty different directions.
The biggest difference between Machen and Lovecraft is that Machen wrote about stuff he really believed in, while HPL was just having some fun and exorcising his fears, and this is quite noticeable in their works.

>>93688619
Read it, and then repeat those words.

>>93688709
Reads lame

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This was a pretty good mix of a Lovecraft biography and his work

>>93688731
It's amazingly action and romance oriented.
Which makes sense since it was based on an unproduced film script. Worth reading just to see Lovecraft be retrofitted into a leading man role.

>>93681044
'Leave it to Derleth' sounds like a wacky sitcom about the mythos writers

>>93688772
Damn it now I want to watch that

>>93684315
What a fucking nigger. I know plenty of guys who were into the whole skinhead thing in the 80s but are cool people now.

>>93681880
You collect three Umbilical Chords resulting from Eldritch-on-human woman action

You then transcend into godhood, after eating them.

I'm surprised how many important people from the past fit the "autistic" label. I mean, I wish all these famous content creators could post and lurk on 4chan and other imageboards.
It'd be sad yet funny to see anons calling Lovecraft out on /co/, or /sci/ shitposting Einstein into oblivion, etc.

>>93688731
>Carpenter
He really really loved Lovercraft, didn't he?

>>93688731
Enrique Breccia's art on this was fucking brilliant. I loved the different styles between the oniric and real sequences.

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>>93681880
after consuming the byproduct of alien god's attempts to use humans as their surrogate mothers, you 'do your job' and prevent the physical manifestation of a baby god y first destroying its physical vessel (a ramshackle pile of corpses welded together) then chasing it into the dreamlands and killing the wetnurse protecting its disembodied soul.
You go to the bloke who has been mentoring you the whole time and he offers to kill you, which will allow you to wake up and return to your normal life, no longer an immortal hunter.
You refuse, you fight, and you kill him.
His benefactor, a strange entity called the Moon Presence, then manifests and caresses you, intending to do to you what it did to your mentor to make him into an obedient servant
but after eating those umbilical cords, you are just a bit too removed from a normal human and just a bit too close to a god for thaat to work on you
so you fight. and you slay the moon presence. its essence goes into you, and you are transformed into a small black slug, implied to be the larval form of the moon presence, and your attendant vows to take good care of you.

And you, the player, are left wondering if the moon presence you killed was also once a man, if even a sliver of your hunter's human personality will survive the metamorphosis, if the hunt has ended or will still continue, and if the new entity that will arise from this transformation is an ally or enemy to humanity, or perhaps wholly indifferent

>>93689068
>And you, the player, are left wondering if the moon presence you killed was also once a man,
for the record, it wasn't. ex-humans bleed white and take bonus damage from bolt and kinhunter gems. MP is none of those things.

>>93688978
Outside of Mouth of Madness, I wouldn't really say so. Prince of Darkness is more a Nigel Kneale/Quatermass approach to cosmic horror where there are rational scientific explanations for why the Devil exists but he's still coming to destroy the universe and we're all fucked. You could argue the Shape in Halloween is a Lovecraftian abomination made of man but Michael Myers is more of a Boogeyman.

>>93688885
Never have I seen that referred to as the "black phantasm" ending.

I get what you seem to be describing, but that wasn't familiar terminology, as far as I remember the Bloodborne community, maybe I am wrong though, and was a tad confusing.

>>93687837
a sizable chunk of Lovecraft's work was remixes of The Great God Pan, focusing on this element or that

>>93676478
Uzumaki is pretty good.

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>>93677196
>what's the best lovecraft story and why is it the cats of ulthar?

I'm partial to 'The Picture in the House'. I truly felt the dread of the protagonist on that last paragraph.

>>93689281
>>93677196
I don't know about 'the best' but I deeply enjoyed Dreams in The Witch House when I first read it.

>>93689281
>'The Picture in the House'
I love this one. The dread builds the entire time, and then snaps perfectly when you expect it to

>>93676729
I just read this and it's a fairly enjoyable adaption

>>93689130
>False kin (who have high insight) are weak against elemental damage like fire and bolt
>Particularly strong beast (and remember that beasthood is higher with the less insight you have) usually have an elemental power to them, mainly bolt
God damn I love all the little details Miyazaki put into BB

>>93676735
>>93680067
>>93685212
Neonomicon was basically done to pay the bills, when Moore had a surface understanding of Lovecraft. Providence was written after he'd done some digging and come to appreciate the guy's place in literature. He's spoken at length about it: http://thequietus.com/articles/16129-alan-moore-providence-cthulhu-philosophy-language-lovecraft

Yes, Neonomicon on its own is pretty bad. But a common opinion here on /co/ is that Providence is so good, and ties such a neat bow on things, that it actually redeems Neonomicon somewhat.

>>93680083
Essentially this.

>>93689281
The Rats in the Walls is the only one that actually horrified me, even if the premise has become somewhat cliche in the genre. It's just the kind of thing that gets to me.

>>93689281
if there was one thing that lovecraft does pretty fucking well, it was when he attempted to write reveals, like the end of dunwich horror, fucking phenomenal buildup and reveal

>>93682848
It's not really that. Moe itself is just a reaction to Japan's stressful workaholic culture. It focuses on being stress-free by design.

>>93677066
>Every time he is coming close to a resolution of any sort, he just goes "nope you can't comprehend it" and close the case
You're wrong, because the amount of stories where you don't find out what was going on can be counted on no hands, because you always fucking find out what was going on. You rarely get the true visual scope of what someone saw, but even then you usually get an image, even if only poetically. You can often even see exactly where a story is going, because Lovecraft essentially spells it out for the narrator, who will typically refuse to believe what has or is happening until they are finally confronted with it in a way they can't dismiss.

And it wasn't even a fear of change, it was a fear of degredation most of the time. What degenerate actually means, which is to be de-generated, or return to a lesser state. Pop evolutionary thought then, and to an extent even now, considered there to be a set of hierarchies, atop which was the White European, with exactly how "white european" counted varying. The higher you were, the more evolved you were. And the lower you were, the closer you were to the "original" human and all the dark secrets they knew when their species was young. The fear wasn't of other races changing things, it was of there being an unchange, a return to a more primeval state from which oblivious rationalistic thought protected people and uplifted society. Other races were typically discussed in terms of not just being lesser, but being more primitive. Earlier examples of mankind which offered a seduction of secret, forgotten knowledge to people who wouldn't leave well enough alone. Despite Lovecraft's love of the past, his fear came from it too. From a family he barely knew personally that cast the specter of mental illness and isolation over his life. It's typical for the interspecies/racial horror that a narrator experiences to be from the distant past, not the immediate preceding generation or even the future.

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has anyone ever been batshit enough to make a Burroughs comic?

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>unimaginable horrors
>"uhh, lotsa tentacles I guess"
Alberto Breccia had about the right idea of how to draw a Lovecraftian horror.

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>>93677196
Pickman's Model. Not because of the creature's that are revealed to be real, but the realization that someone who you could be so close to could be connected to such vile and wicked things.

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>>93684474
>Sweet Ermengarde
someone should convince Skottie Young to do an adaptation of Sweet Ermengarde, his style would be perfect for it

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>>93690756
>anon asks a question that is exactly in your interests and experience

Yes.
Malcolm McNeill worked with Burroughs on some shit and an attempted Ah Pook is Here book.

See Observed While Falling which is more of a memoir and reprints some of the material from the art book, and The Lost Art of Ah Pook is Here, published by Fantagraphics.
I still have copies, but for reasons that I don't remember, I ruined the spines. I considered completely dismantling at least the art book to scan the pages, but I doubted that anyone would be interested.

Also Chuck Burns has been known to ... try... to make Burroughs influenced comics, but I never liked his obnoxiously adolescent characters. His art is still perfect for the subject matter, just a shame that I hate his writing.

Technically some of Grant Morrison's work kinda counts, see The Filth and maybe a few bits of The Invisibles but that's a huge stretch, but he isn't American enough to feel quite right either.
I still like The Filth though.

>>93688978
Yes, he did. He even chose his writing pseudonym for "They Live" (Armitage) as an homage to HPL.
I think I remember him saying that he also wanted to do the "Cigarette Burns" episode of MoH because it was like The Necronomicon but on film.

>>93690875
>orb, thirty times the height of a normal man
>human legs
>bear claws arranged in a manner evocative of a mouth or mandibles
>many lamprey-like tentacles around the circumference
>huge pig snouts above its equator
>at the very top, almost beyond notice, a human head with wild medusa-looking hair

>>93689220
I didn't mean to imply it as an official title.

Just that that's literally what you become.

The slugs are called phantasms. A reference to the fact that they have origins in the nightmare realm.

>>93676478
There used to be a company called Golden Goat Studios, used to do these great Cthulhu Mythos stories. I used to read the comics on that site ALL the time, I used to think I'd be able to read them any old time I pleased and didn't save a fucking ONE of them. Bummer too, because I really liked them, good and bad.

I remember one that was less Lovecraftian, and more Rod Sterling called "For Those About To Rock" that I thought was great, about this garage band who summons a demon to become famous and in a twist ending become a pop boy-band. Other stories were more like creepy shit going down, octopuses or fishmen, or deadly zombie-monstrosities would be at the core of things.

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>>93681457
It no play.

This thread is giving me a major case of deja vu.

I was also a bit disappointed after reading all of Lovecraft's fiction. He honestly ended up doing a lot more monsters and shit than cosmic horror.

Then again, I don't think I could read three variants of Colour out of Space.

>>93693530
That idea comes from Sumerian mythology btw.

Read it, it's fucking incredible.

>>93691639
I feel like a lot of the humour would be lost if it was adapted to a more visual medium, one of the reasons it was so great is because of how much fun it made of the way romance novels were written (the extremely specific height descriptions, "Curses!" he cried... Lord whatshisname, not the cat.)

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>>93676478
The Shadow Over Innsmith was fucking great. Also, Hellboy feels very Lovecraft like at times

>>93693657
Shadow Over Innsmouth sucked. The actual story had fuck all happen in it (yeah, yeah, Lovecraft's style, blah blah) and the way he described the villagers made the whole thing seem farcical. Long winded descriptions that basically amount to "oh this guy looked like a fish".

The ending is good though.

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>>93685271
I hate how right you are. I went to /lit/ for like a month after it was created. I found out pretty quick that they don't really like books as much as they say. And /x/ is good for pictures and story recommendations, but the average intelligence is picture related.

>>93693726
I appreciate you posting this as it clearly took some effort and it is nice for these old things to get archived and saved somewhere, but that was an incredibly stupid depiction/summary of Lovecraft's work.

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>>93685271
>leftist as an insult
>on /co/ of all places

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>>93693715
Is not like I was expecting this little comical thing to end any different, but damn if it felt incredibly disappointing.

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>>93693716
It's a damn shame, /x/ actually used to be pretty comfy with all the threads about unsolved crimes, bizarre documented occurrence's, and of course sitting around for hours listening to numbers stations online

>>93676478
>good
>Lovecraft

Racism is never good.

>>93693751
you mean accurate

>>93676478
Nightmare World

that's the name of the series I read that that a Lovecraftian style. Well, Lovecraft by way of EC comics. Which, now that I think of it, probably ALSO had some Lovecraft stories in it... Something like Vault of Horror, or Weird Science Fantasy, or maybe less likely ,that one with the witch.

>>93677169
Golden

>>93677196
I really liked Dream Quest

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>>93693757
Politicsposting is the new hot meme now. Posters who derail threads like that think they are cool

Pic attached: a /pol/ poster derailing threads.

>>93693705
You mean the actual HPL story? Because if your complaint is that "fuckall happened", then obviously Lovecraft is not for you. Not in a condescendent, "you don't get it" kinda way, but in that his stories aren't really driven by action, but by the inner process of the main protagonist. You could even say that the stories are actually sort of a gap between what happened before them and what will more than likely happen after them, more than what happens in the story itself.

>>93693764
Yeah, I pop in every now and again, but I stopped going around the time "ded bort" became a thing.

Lovecraft is shit

>>93693751
It's a spoof on Chick tracts. It's not any more stupid than any of those, and those are for real.