What would you like to see in a Lovecraft(ian) movie?

all the way through tentacles.

A visual medium isn't grand enough to lend itself to the fuck huge aspect that people associate "Lovecraftian" with.

I would like to see smaller bottled stories like Innsmouth instead of shit like The Void where they try to be more epic than they know how.

>>83791361

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>>83791439
the closest i feel a movie has got to be truly lovecraftian is Dagon (2001) especially with the imagery in pic related of the two tiny humans swimming into the giant lair of the god they worship. to me that's the best way to represent it, to ever show the god removes the mystery/scale of it

>>83791342
Dead Space is the only decent Lovecraftian story executed because the grand scale cosmic horror came unexpectedly in the third instalment.

Nothing, because the man was a disgustingly bigoted racist. And yet people here are praising him. Gross.

>>83791342
0 action scenes.

>>83791342
practical effects done by guillermo del toro is where we need to start, this much i know

>>83791342
What's with the "this guy can't be adapted because he's just so le deep" meme? His works could easily be adapted. They aren't because it wouldn't be profitable. No one cares except for a small minority of fans of his. In fact, they've been adapted several times, but the shouting minority isn't ever satisfied, same as Tolkien fans. This guy isn't worth adapting. He sucks.

>>83791342
I watched a lot of the Poe/Lovevraft (often hybrids) movies by Corman as a kid.

>>83791342
Does someone always go insane in his books or is that a meme?

N I G G E R M A N

I'd like a comic relief character who has trouble putting things into words, but always wants to appear smart, so he describes the moon as gibbous and when he can't describe something, starts trying to ramble about eldritch horrors to cover up for his poor command of the English language.

I actually like Lovecraft's writing, but it would be fun to see it parodied a bit.

>>83791697
Yeah bro, those Tolkien movies totally bombed at the box office.

The Mist was some Lovecraftian type kino

>>83791342
Visual representation of higher dimensional beings/geometry trying to fit into our dimension.

Lots of dialogue, slow stories that crescendo in a few terrifying scenes.

Characters going legitimately crazy, not just lolsorandumb insane ramblings.

Good del Toro-tier practical effects.

Narrators.

Sense of scale similar to what >>83791575 said.

This >>83791361

Really they need slow buildups with good payoffs, lots of practical or top tier computer effects that show people who are slightly other than human, need lots of wardrobe and makeup and scenery changes showing the changing states of mind and changing physical states of characters.

Really they could be pulled off incredibly well but might be a niche thing and would cost a good deal of money.

>>83792256
wasn't that a stephen king short story though?

>>83791342
>Lovecraft
>posts a picture of Timothy McVeigh

shiggy

>>83792341
it was, but anon is right that it was Lovecraftian (King did quite a few Lovecraft-inspired stories, see: Under the Dome, N., The Mist, Jerusalem's Lot, i'm probably forgetting a few)

however both Under the Dome and The Mist are very similar, King does love his "a bunch of people are trapped together and they're all really shitty to each other" thing

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>>83791342
The writers of Alien were allegedly Lovecraft experts and borrowed quite a bit from him

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Source material:
There were, in such voyages, incalculable local dangers; as well as that shocking final peril which gibbers unmentionably outside the ordered universe, where no dreams reach; that last amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the centre of all infinity—the boundless daemon-sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin, monotonous whine of accursed flutes; to which detestable pounding and piping dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic ultimate gods, the blind, voiceless, tenebrous, mindless Other Gods whose soul and messenger is the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep.

Japan:

>>83791342
Forgotten ruins. Creepy books. Silence, tense atmospheres, pple going insane, monsters that dont get shown much and cant be killed in the end. no cheap and shitty jumpscares, sence of horror that is larger than human understanding, sense of ancient forgotten things, and, ffs, no fucking "adaptations" where the script gets changed for some "genious'" "brilliant" new take on the story.

>>83792381
Lmao I never knew how similar they looked, that is gold.

Will be using it constantly when talking about how crazy Lovecraft was.

>>83792381
wtf that's not gregg popovich?

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>>83791361

>>83792332
>Visual representation of higher dimensional beings/geometry
no
one of the major tennants of lovecraftian horror is that the gods are kept in mystery. Lovecraft said something to the tune of "something can never amount to what it has been hyped up to be"

I'd like to see The White Ship get a movie. The Doom That Came to Sarnath could be good too. But anything that got adapted would require a lot of made up characters and scenery. There is no way it would be accurate to the source material.

>>83793320

also anyone on this website that uses the word "lovecraftian" has never read any his stories.

resisting the temptation to put a shit cg shoggoth or deep one in every second scene

>>83793413
Actually, Carpenter's "The Thing" is one of the closest things movies have had to a Shoggoth

>>83793371
what makes you say that? i always used lovecraftian as "influenced by lovecraft" because of the use of imagery/beings that are too horrific for humans to view and comprehend without going insane. there's a very specific sort of description for things like that which instantly hearken back to lovecraft, therefore "lovecraftian"

>>83793568

Have you read any of Lovercraft's stories?

I'll take another Reanimator

>>83792492
I would love to see N and Crouch End adapted into film. Hell crouch end could be done in a somewhat disturbing claymation and still Be good.

>>83793320
The color out of space always bewildered me. I'd love to see it brought to film but it just seems un doable. This group made a version of The Whisperer in the Darkness. They took some liberties but it was still quite good.

Shadow Over Innsbrook has been tried a few times and probably lends itself best to adaptation.

The other stories feature a lot of stuff that is scarier to imagine in your head than to see on a screen

The Dunwich Horror could easily be made into a film.

>>83791439
Been thinking of watching The Void because it looks like it has a decent Lovecraftian vibe. Is it really that bad?

>>83791697
>"this guy can't be adapted because he's just so le deep"
Stop being fucking retarded. Nobody says it's because he's too deep, it's because his stories are mostly unfilmable because of how they're written and the nature of the stories themselves. It's got nothing to do about the quality or depth of his literature, and nobody claims that. I don't even know why would you be so triggered about it.

>>83793980
It's a good watch. The last third of the film kinda loses steam. Which is sad because that's where you get most of the practical effects.

>>83793838
ohhhh I forgot Crouch End, that'd be absolutely terrifying as claymation

>>83793980
>>83794005
seconding this, the buildup was great though

>>83792591
I thought this was implied with the scale of the alien spaceship and the Space Jockey

>>83794014
They made an animated version of N. It was ok. The problem with N I think lies on the fact that since it focuses so much on the ocd the depiction of horror becomes harder to perceive.

Psychological thriller, no monsters seen, people going insane as in gibbering and drooling in a corner and a bleak downer ending.

>>83791342
Diversity. Lovecraft's works are whiter than the paper they're written on.

>>83791616
His views on the Dutch were quite accurate.

>>83793980
It's p good. I didn't mean to use "shit" in a pejorative sense.

I just wasn't appeased with what I got pertaining to the Lovecraft hype

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how about a dune remake? watching sandworms from the 80's really hurts my spirit.

>>83791342
don't really like lovecraft

why not a movie adaptation of the King in Yellow

you know, the thing lovecraft stole EVERYTHING from.

>>83794319
what about that TV version they did? was it the same giant slow dickworms? I never did watch it

>>83794319
That's already being made.

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>>83794371
>>83794393

>>83794393
i'm referring to the one that already happened but that's cool, i hope it's good

>>83794371
>>83794430(me)
>dickworms
oh wait i remember that series. i never watched because it was made for syfy.

>>83794430
They announced that Villeneuve was attached earlier this year. That's really all I know.

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His own life is pretty sad and psychological. He was basically a lazy alienated neet for most of his entire existence.
>Lovecraft was frequently ill as a child, and he barely attended school until he was eight years old because of his sickly condition, and was withdrawn after a year
>His grandfather's death in 1904 greatly affected Lovecraft's life. Mismanagement of his estate left his family in a poor financial situation, and they were forced to move into much smaller accommodations at 598
>He is said to have suffered in 1908, prior to his high school graduation, what he later described as a "nervous breakdown", and consequently never received his high school diploma.[12]
>The adult Lovecraft was gaunt with dark eyes set in a very pale face (he rarely went out before nightfall).[14] For five years after leaving school, he lived an isolated existence with his mother,[15] primarily writing poetry without seeking employment or new social contacts.
>In 1919, after suffering from hysteria and depression for a long period of time, Lovecraft's mother was committed to Butler Hospital - the mental institution where her husband had died.[19] Nevertheless, she wrote frequent letters to Lovecraft, and they remained close until her death on May 24, 1921, the result of complications from gallbladder surgery.[15]
>Not long after the marriage, Greene lost her business and her assets disappeared in a bank failure; she also became ill. Lovecraft made efforts to support his wife through regular jobs, but his lack of previous work experience meant he lacked proven marketable skills. After a few unsuccessful spells as a low level clerk, his job-seeking became desultory.
>In early 1937, Lovecraft was diagnosed with cancer of the small intestine[31] and suffered from malnutrition as a result. He lived in constant pain until his death on March 15, 1937 in Providence.

>>83794513
i'm totally rating this decision on blade runner then. if it sucks, i'm losing all hope because they'll cut funding. if it's good, i'm losing all hope because he'll get cocky and leave shit out for bigger booms.

>>83794586
Human suffering creates the best art

It's why there's so many good Russian authors

In the Mouth of Madness was pretty much a Lovecraft film.

>>83791995
lol what

>>83791342
No tentacle bullshit. It's just way too cheesy. The best parts about Lovecraft were subtle anyways.

>>83792332
Sounds like Umineko and Higrashi

>>83794970
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rats_in_the_Walls

>>83794360
>you know, the thing lovecraft stole EVERYTHING from.
Did you even read the story? Or the book? Or are you repeating something you've read after watching True Detective?
Chambers wasn't a very good writer, even when compared to Lovecraft. All HPL did was take the idea of the book (play, in Chamber's work) that drove whoever read it insane (which also isn't unique to The King In Yellow).

>>83791342
I'd like to see a Netflix series that simply adapts the stories without adding any bullshit sub-plots or new characters. Just straight adaptations with Game of Thrones level production values and an emphasis on mood and atmosphere!!!FACT!!!

>>83791616
>disgustingly bigoted racist.

Yet history has proven him right!!!FACT!!!

>>83793915
Color out of Space has been made into a movie, it's alright.

>>83792591
Dan O'Bannon was a big fan of Lovecraft as well as Phillip K. Dick. You can feel those influences, along with Planet of the Vampires and IT! The Terror from Beyond Space, in ALIEN!!!FACT!!!

>>83791342
At the Mountains of Madness, done completely straight following every single bit of story and plot exactly, including what was at those other mountains. And when the dude namedrops every single Lovecraftian thing ever at the end having looked at them mountains, there would of course be some flashbacks from the complete full length movies that explain every one of them that precedes the Mountains of Madness release.

>>83794214
FUCK OFF NUMALE FAGGOT!!!FACT!!!

>>83791575
You get to see Nyarlathotep all the time in a cinematic medium, easily. And you have, and will with a nigger opposing him soon.

>>83791968
Losing one's mind was clearly scary to him, most likely since were he himself so afflicted then he might become niggerlike.

A well-crafted love story.

I could film "The Shadow Out of Time" with my dick tied behind my back.

del toro's at the mountains of madness

I blindly trust the guy to make a killer movie out of that.
sadly no one will fund it and give him complete freedom.

>>83795288
Yet his adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is pretty bad, and Bleeders is like Troll 2 but without all the funny shit.

>>83793253
This. Depending on the story adapted obviously, it should show the reaction of horror and madness in the human character/s over attempting to portray the extra-dimensional beings themselves, it would frustrate a lot of viewers but the impression should be that if you got to see what they were seeing you would be just as crazy as they are now, your imagination should do the work.

Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath would be great, it's full of fantasy and imagery that could be represented and sets up basically his entire mythology.

Am I the only one that prefers the short stories?

Tom Cruise punching squidmen.

>>83796658
They're all short stories though

>>83791342
Nigger Eggs

>>83791342
Nothing, he's unique

t.lovecraftian schizo

>>83791342
An epic picture based on "The Shadow out of Time", directed by Terry Gilliam.

Cabin in the Woods nailed it.

>>83792492
>Jerusalem's Lot
How does it take from Lovecraft? I've never read it, just knew it was vampires.

Also Tommyknockers is literally Color out of Space.

>>83796853
It's not about vampires.

>>83794934
this

>>83796929
What am I thinking of? And what is it then?

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>>83791342
how would you represent The Colour?

>>83796959
There is a short story called Jerusalem's Lot set in late 19th century. Apparently Salem's Lot is the same city, but the short story isn't about vampires.

I think a docufiction of At the Mountians of Madness would be great.

>>83796986
I would just set the movie entirely in the house where people are corrupted and fall apart. With ominous shots of trees, birds and space.

>>83791342
At the Mountain of Madness is overrated. He explains too much in that story.

the big problem with lovecraft is you can direct a movie to read like lovecraft (later john carpenter, original evil dead, fulci trilogy but especially the house by the cemetery, horror hotel, etc) but it's totally a one-way street where he's already made those movies by virtue of having written them and your best bet is to tell the story the way he would.

>>83797002
Oh shit, I forgot about Jerusalem's Lot. I too thought you were talking about Salem's Lot. I remember thinking King was a genius of subtle horror reading that, long before reading any Lovecraft.

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>>83797084
too late buddy

>>83794586
they should turn his life into a tv series. 5 seasons at least. would be kino af.

STFU LOVECRAFT IS REAL AND WE'RE LIVING IN MATURIN WHO'S RUNNING AWAY FROM AZATHOTH

>>83797209
5 seasons of a guy sitting in the armchair, writing and eating burgers?

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On the Creation of Niggers (1912)
by H. P. Lovecraft

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.

>>83796986
>for in one feverish kaleidoscopic instant there burst up from that doomed and accursed farm a gleamingly eruptive cataclysm of unnatural sparks and substance; blurring the glance of the few who saw it, and sending forth to the zenith a bombarding cloudburst of such coloured and fantastic fragments as our universe must needs disown.

No physical or CGI representation, just blasting wind and noise. Maybe a shot or two of an uncomfortable mess of colors reflected in the character's eyes, then the state they're left in after whatever they saw.

Tentacle porn with really high production values.

>>83797247
you are a retard and utterly clueless. joshi's 2 volume biography is 1400 pages long. lovecraft's life was fascinating.

>>83791342
I want them to show the monster, just to trigger all the fanboi fags.

>>83797301
>joshi
Who is that pooinloo? Rather read Sprague de Camp...

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The Void without the action and more atmosphere

>>83797321
Not showing the monster is such a dumb fake meme. It's hard to find a Lovecraft story where the MC doesn't see any monsters. Even Cthulhu himself is clearly shown and rammed by the boat.

Now if we consider the Gods though, such as Shub-Niggurath, Nyarlathotep, the Other Gods...

>>83797321
>fanboi fags
More like people who've never read Lovecraft. He almost always describes his monsters.

>>83797494

>He almost always describes his monsters.

Rarely. Reading most of his old stories (anything thats not popular) he often throws hints at what the monster could be but does not really go into hardcore detail about it.

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not a /v/ fag but horrorkino has belonged to vidya for quite a while now. Horror movies just cannot compete.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blD2TiavFJA

>>83797521
I don't know about his unpopular stories, but all his popular ones have detailed descriptions of the monsters.

>>83797596
Gaming also has its horror trash, such as the Z-movie series Outlast. Truly good developers such as Frictional are rare...

>>83797491
Cthulhu is unique as far as his 'Gods' go in getting a clear description, probably why it became the go-to Lovecraft entity.

>>83797494
>>83797621
I think the few stories where he only gives hints of the beings and then the human character's reaction leave more of an impression on people, so they prefer to talk about those than his monsters like the Old Ones, Moon Beasts, Zoogs, Gugs, Ghouls etc

>>83791342

The dark brotherhood. I haven't ever found a publishing of it, and can hardly find any mention of it. I'm sure it's only due to some publishing issue with the co-author, but I do find it interesting. maybe there is some truth to that group of people who have a portal to another dimension, or whatever. Been a while since I've read it.

My favorite is celephais.

I hate that he is remembered by casuals for the call of cthulu. It actually makes me angry that people mention cthulu and lovecraft like a merit of liking something dark and supposedly edgy, with a hot topic cthulu shirt on, when he has written way better stuff. He speaks more about his vivid dreams rather than horror for the sake of horror. It is merely a color in his palette. His writing has some issues, just his go to phrasing of things being beyond description, when he very well could have elaborated more, but his cantor seems legitimate, not overly edited, natural, and I think the poetic rhythm of his writing is soothing.

>>83794762
Suffering + Intellect. Otherwise the Rwandan's would have the best literature.

>>83791616
I've read that his views mellowed out over the years and a lot of it was due to his social isolation and upbringing, as he grew and made friends, responded to fans in his writings, he opened up to many other cultures and changed.

i want to see a huge "incomprehensible" elder god rising from his aeon deep slumber out of the depths of the ocean be defeated by a fucking boat ramming his head

cthullu is a meme

>>83798035
It's true though that Victorian England's culture was superior to all others. He was just stating the truth in an edgy way.

>>83795328
JUMPOFFBRIDGEPLZ!!!FACT!!!

>>83795156

>Netflix series
>good
Smh

How do we upvote this?

>>83791342
Adam Sandler?

>>83791575
anon this movie is a meme and you've outed yourself for thinking it's a good representation of lovecraft as a huge fucking pleb

>>83798036
>defeated
He was already 'dead' long before that, and with strage aeons even death may die.

>>83797921
After all the memes I was surprised to find that he mostly dealt with exploration, landscape, architecture and fantasy with the horror coming after.

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>>83794586
He would have been right at home on /tv/.

>>83791342
If based on a specific story or stories, there should be the greatest possible fidelity to the source material (no fucking additions, no fucking love subplots, no fucking jokes inserted). Good obscure actors (a well-known actor would just take me out of a Lovecraft movie). If there are visual effects, they should be seamless - if there's no budget or skill to make them seamless, figure out how to not have them at all. Focus on psychological horror rather than crude horror. Focus on alienness and weirdness. If based on a specific story or stories, attention should be given to Lovecraft's peculiar interests - his love of architecture, the 18th century, books, and New England, for example - since these provide great Lovecraftian atmosphere. Etc. If the movie is Lovecraftian rather than specifically based on Lovecraft text, this wouldn't be important.

Some movies that I've thought were Lovecraftian:
2001: A Space Odyssey (cosmic wonder and horror, contact with trans-human entity or entities)
Alien (specifically, the scenes on LV-426)
The Ninth Gate (scholarly protagonist, plot revolves around books and investigating interesting locations)
The Mothman Prophecies (spooky small town atmosphere)

>>83791968
Few of his stories actually feature someone going insane. However, the idea that contact with powerful non-human entities would be a profound shock to the human mind was an important theme of his fiction. Many of his stories feature people going, not all the way over the edge of madness, but perhaps quite close to it.

>>83798036

>incomprehensible

This was the only peeve of mine of his writing. He seems to just get tired at times, and just filler with describing things as beyond sense.

>>83799318
The insanity is silly.

>>83791342
I'd love to see an adventure type movie set in the Dreamlands world.

Hopefully we'll get that soon-ish:

https://youtu.be/zEiC4a6PLcI

>>83793915
>I'd love to see it brought to film but it just seems un doable

Watch Die Farbe. It couldn't be any more indie, but it's a great adaptation.

https://youtu.be/4t-MxVyublk

>>83799441
You've never read Lovecraft. The incomprehensibility of things is a by-product of the effect it has, the actually descriptors in Lovecraft's fiction are very diverse.

Like, describing the colour from the colour out of space, you get like 4 sentences of how its color can only be described as a color through the use of metaphor.

People need to stop pretending they've read Lovecraft. Lie about better authors ffs

>>83791342
anyone here recommend me some lovecraftian kino?
I've seen some of the biggest available, and even some of the lesser known ones like that bitch who kept to the cold to stay alive.
>>83791616
fuck you

>>83800403
>lovecraftian kino
nothing, read a book

>>83800445
reanimator was pretty good though

>>83800403
>anyone here recommend me some lovecraftian kino?

The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)
Die Farbe (2010)

Plus these:
https://youtu.be/y7jp1CT1h6c
https://youtu.be/jWijkeEzCb8
https://youtu.be/OFnSOfdsblQ

>>83794934
>pretty much

It's flat out a lovecraft film with a love/hate letter to Stephen King attached. Some great special effects and costumes in that movie too.

Can't say it felt like a theatrical film though, but it was good.

>>83800559
thank you, my man

a friend also recommended me The Void - it any good?

>>83800559
Forgot this one
https://youtu.be/4AoR6LjJpbk

>>83800581
Haven't seen it yet, but looks cool.

>>83800488
>>83800488
reanimator is good, and technically lovecraft but also it isn't really lovecraftian in any meaningful sense.

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>>83800605
>"Herbert West–Reanimator" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written between October 1921 and June 1922. It was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. The story was the basis of the 1985 horror film Re-Animator and its sequels, in addition to numerous other adaptations in various media.

>The story is the first to mention Lovecraft's fictional Miskatonic University. It is also notable as one of the first depictions of zombies as scientifically reanimated corpses, with animalistic and uncontrollable temperament.

>>83797185

Is this that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqbYOs_sE20

It looks pretty good. A little cheap but that's 100% forgivable so long as it's well shot and well done.

>>83797596
You can't say one has better horror than the other. They've both got equal shares of brilliant horror works.

That said, horror video games often tend to take their inspiration from film, though even that takes inspiration from other art.

If they ever made one you know it would be boycotted by shitlib media immediately, right

>WE REJECT THIS RACIST FILM BY A RACIST WHITE SUPREEEMIST AUTHOR

What are cool settings? I'd like something with a lighthouse and a small coastal town.

>>83800379

Ok, You are obviously angry. maybe your stepdad yelled in your face for leaving your Xbox controllers out, after he drank your mountain dew and had loud sex with your mom. I understand.

Your right, You have read everything, and I haven't read anything, and I take it from your strong wording that you are a strong man.

Why your triggered, well that's for you to decide. *closes book, sticks book in bookshelf, twists lamp knob. *click.

Black and white
minimal dialogue
The Shadow over Innsmouth themed

Something like this 2005 movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHuY2wXTd0o

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>>83800846
>mfw they renamed his award to something stupid

>>83800861
>I'd like something with a lighthouse and a small coastal town

The Fog, by John Carpenter

>>83800846

He wasn't racist, he was autistic and did it to troll.

>>83800861
The Neighbor

As Above, So Below

>>83793710
Agree. I'd like them finishing medical school, WW1, and the book's ending

>>83791342
>like to see
>lovecraftian
it's like you just don't understand

>>83800952
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkupUtNYeAA

Just play Bloodborne

>>83791342

Racial issues between blacks and rednecks in 1950's Louisiana :^)

>>83793675
>Have you read any of Lovercraft's stories?
Are you the same faggot from the alien thread? You do realise people often refer to a story being Lovecraftian when it deals with cosmic horror? God you're a pathetic piece of shit.

>>83796986
I love how all the farm animals and surrounding nature became mutated and twisted from whatever fell from space.

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>>83792591
Yeah, I don't feel like we need a Lovecraftian film because the scene in which the crew discovers the derelict craft is basically the epitome of the fear of the unknown. It's one of the most incredible scenes in science fiction / horror history.

>>83801862
so you haven't?

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>>83793944
innesmouth.

>>83793944
Yeah, but how do they do the ending?

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>>83791342
What did Lovecraft mean by this?

>>83794214
bull shit. Lovecraft's works have lots of negro, Chinese, Polish, German and generally ethnic characters. they're all described as filthy idol-worshiping scum, but they're there.

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>>83795465
you're gonna have to do better than tie your dick behind your back to depict the Great Race on screen. i don't care how big your dick is.

>>83802110
Not trying to go all "DUDE THE SJWS LMAO" but I feel like there'd probably be some backlash over the protagonist discovering that he comes from a degenerated, "impure" line of breeding.

>>83796986
only way i could think of doing it would be to have a beam of white light with single frames of different colors every few frames, to give the impression of scintillation.

>>83796986
didn't the German version that came out a few years ago film everything in black and white except the colour? I've never seen it but I thought that was a neat idea.

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>>83791585
>Dead Space
>Lovecraftian

>>83792200
Can you read? The comparison was:
>the shouting minority isn't ever satisfied, same as Tolkien fans
Which is a comment specific to the fandom and has nothing to do with box office.

Why are you so dumb and retarded? What is your name and address and what time are you available to fight?

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Will there ever be a film adaptation of At The Mountains of Madness?

>>83800861
Storm of the Century.

>>83797254
wise words

>>83802522
I want it so badly

You can't just get any director for this, no hack like David Fincher would be able to pull this off... you'd need an auteur like Chris Nolan or Tarkovsky

>>83800684
>and technically lovecraft

You should learn what words mean before you post faggot.

>>83800874
Sorry for calling you out on an anonymous imageboard, that must've been really embarassing for you. Don't worry, I'm sure mommy will still tuck you in tonight and rub some vaseline between those red little cheeks.
Any time you want to grow up and read a book maybe they'll let you back on the internet after nap time.

>>83791342
STOP LOOKING AT ME SWAN

>>83797254
Holy shit, its real.

>>83791342
slimy thing in pusy hmmmmmm

>>83802494
You got told bitch. I am right here my address is 367 Shlomview Ave, Jerusalem Israel bitch. I set it on the table and brought it to you bitch. Fight me anytime bitch. I'm waiting on my front porch bitch.

Give me Kadath in a 3 hours movie and I can die happy

>>83791342
I think a Color out of space can be an amazing movie if it is done correctly.

Actually,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6I-l06gqLQ&t=335s

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>>83793675
>>83793371
I have literally read all of his work as I have pic related. I often use the term lovecraftian but not all of his stories are "lovecraftian". It is a term to desribe a story where old undesribable being influence humanity and the main characters uncover some horrible truth. I also think faggots like you that scream "that's not lovecraftuan. it's just tentacles lmao" are the people that haven't read lovecraft but read on the internet about what does his work suppossed to be like.

>>83794319
get outta here, sandworms were the only good part

>>83803459
Dream quest would be an absolute mess of cgi. Don't get me wrong, easily one of my favorite stories but it's pretty close to unfilmable with our current tech.

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>>83802240
>>83802273
Not sure which one would I prefer but both sound like a great way to do it

>>83797084
>>83797261
this I think if it was done well and doesn't have the shitty tv like visuals it can really work. I think it wouldn't blow as VVitch is pretty similar in terms of how the movie is pretty "nothing happens". I would like to see the ominous shots of the farm and how it changes as the color broadens it's influence and how people turn a bit crazy. The scene where Ammi kills what's left of nahum's wife as ahe is still living would be terrifing. I always dream of the scene where the mutated rabbit jumps in a very weird way in front of ammi at night with the color illuminating the road covered in snow while a full moon is glowing. I also think the ending scene where the color finally leaves the farm a Lynch-like cinematography would work well. The long shots of the trees spasmically moving while a very loud sound effect are played in the background.

>>83804605
Not THAT much, I mean..
I imagine something like Pan's Labyrinth of Del Toro, for the real/make up effects. The CGI would be necessary just for a few landscapes and a bunch of sequences. The essential. If I had a budget like the return of the king I think it could be doable.

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>>83804605
I wouldn't mind a cartoon adaptation for adult audiences

>>83804736
I would love it too man but just go through all the locations he travels to (celephais, the moon, kadath itself) and all the creatures he meets (gugs,nyarlathotep and the worms) . It would have to have much more CGI than lotr imo.
I would love it tho if it had that budget but this would be great as well>>83804786

>>83802522
No because Prometheus was made and ripped off the plot so badly that Del Toro decided to not make it.

http://ew.com/article/2012/06/10/prometheus-ridley-scott-guillermo-del-toro-lovecraft/

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>>83804786
This guy Culbard di a pretty good thing. If someone could animate his version it would be pretty awesome.

>>83804862
I still think that with a Hollywood budget could be possible. The thing is that..no one wants to.

>>83792492
I felt like the mist was too focused on its characters to be considered lovecraftian.

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>>83792703
>tfw it was revealed that Mahiro is half Dunwich Horror and explains why plenty of outer gods are very attracted to him and Nyaruko is actually his cousin.
also the reason why Mahiro often attacks Nyaruko with forks? it references Dunwhich creature that was raised in a barn where there's plenty of pitchforks.

>>83800846
Later I his life he let go of his racist views. His perception changed drastically after he moved to NYC

>>83801043
As above so below was pretty good imho. It broke a couple of horror movie stereotypes. I felt the ending was a bit weak but the ride itself was good.

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At the mountains of Madness adaptation.

Black and white, cardboard sets, cheap, B-movie costumes and special effects.

A kind of cross between 1950s B-movies, the 1959 Journey to the Center of the Earth but with an extremely slow pace and a serious script.

>>83791342
true detective is the closest we got to a genuine lovecraftian story. Those who only want tentacle porn, don't appreciate what is really great about his books.

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The Shunned House.

>>83804863
>http://ew.com/article/2012/06/10/prometheus-ridley-scott-guillermo-del-toro-lovecraft/
>Certainly the new, aquatic aliens introduced in the film will ring bells with fans of Lovecraft whose most infamous creation, the monstrous “Cthulhu,” is described in another of the author’s yarns as resembling “an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature.”
Oh look, the author hasn't actually read the story.

>>83805443
not true my man. there were some supernatural hints but they weren't executed that well. probably afraid o go full lovecraft.

>>83805664
is the giant octopus suppossed to be cthulhu?

>>83795288
All that plus the aesthetic that makes it look like it came from straight out of a Heavy Metal magazine.

>>83798035
Just like 4chan users

>>83791342
A lore filled flick full of adventure like in the search of anciant kadath

Must have everything the cats the toads the ghouls .

INHERITED GUILT

>tfw there will never be an adaptation of The Temple into a movie
It'd be perfect, a tense submarine elimination thriller as they sink deeper and deeper into the sea. One of my favorite Lovecraft stories.

The Dream Quest to Unknown Kadath could be an interesting movie as well
I'd also love to see the scene in Reanimator where The Harlem Smoke shows up on Herbert's doorstep, the description of that scene gave me chills down my spine

>>83794586
One thing to keep in mind is that he had numerous acquaintances that he would spend all day writing letters back and forth to.
Despite his hated for Jews he eventually married a jewess because she was the first girl to show interest in him so he compromised his morals
He was the proto-4channer. Had he been born in our age he most assuredly would have been shitposting among us

>>83796817
Cabin in the Woods was a lot more like SCP than it was Lovercraft, even though the former has some SCPs that take huge inspiration from Lovecraft, the whole plenty of different monsters as well as some world ending entity needing to be stopped by a sacrificial procedure is classic SCP

>>83804605
>what are prostetics
>what are animatronics
>what are matte paintings
Just use CGI judiciously and you'll have a beautiful movie.

>>83805430
Of all the stories, AtMoM is one the few I just can't picture in B&W.

>>83805479
Lovely story, very underrated.

>>83807226
>The Temple
damn I forgot about this short story. it is amazing, good choice

>Had he been born in our age he most assuredly would have been shitposting among us
imagine him being posting in tfw no gf thread on r9k and posting his short stories with tentacle porn

>>83795391
>>83791968
his father went insane (possibly due to untreated syphilis) and stayed in an insane asylum until he died
his mother died in the same hospital

also personal letters to friends revealed he was terrified of going insane himself, after seeing what it did to his parents

it's a deep, personal fear that he put into his horror work; kind of like how many horror works utilize phobias (arachnophobia , claustrophobia, etc)

>>83792492
Crouch End

Little known short story of Stephen King. I forget which anthology it appeared in. One of my favourites

>The Outsider filmed from with first-person camera
short movie like 10 minutes with amazing visuals

>>83791342

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.

>>83807918
The Temple is seriously underrated. It's a simple, well written story with just enough touch of supernatural to keep things interesting, while the narrator being a german officer makes for Lovecraft's style of descriptive way of writing feel just perfect, and the open ending being in written in a way that feels natural and not a disappointment at all.

One of his stories that makes me laugh in it's setup is The Thing on the Doorstep
>self insert lonely permavirgin gets a gf with magic powers and big anime eyes
It could actually make for a great misleading movie if advertised differently, a seemingly run of the mill romance story where the truth slowly gets unraveled and the tone shifts to despair and fear

A scene of the raid that takes place in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward would be amazing as well

There are quite a few Lovecraft stories that could be adapted into great movies but it's never going to happen

The third season of twin peaks seems to be scratching the itch for me.

How do you translate indescribable horror to the big screen?

>>83791616
Drink piss and die, retard.

>>83796986
Have the movie in black and white.

>>83809010
Suggestion/implication.

>>83809010
>indescribable horror
I'm getting really tired of this meme.

>>83802436
He's not wrong, the whole backstory of Dead Space is based on cosmic horror.

>>83809010
how to spot people who've never actually read lovecraft

>>83808547
agree on temple but have to admit I didn't like the thing on the doorstep that much. As in many of his stories the twist so obvious from the start and overall it just didn't have that much of an impact on me. It is true it might work well in a movie if done right but I am not a fan of the "witchcraft stories" from Lovecraft.

>self insert lonely permavirgin gets a gf with magic powers and big anime eyes
>tfw you realize it is her dickhead father

>>83809409
>>83809841
THIS why do people say so all the time? Only some of his early mostly shitty work does this. Even the Lurking Fear describes the monster in the end when at first he only said "undescribable"

>>83796986
Never show it directly, only show the effects it has on the environment and
>>83797261
or
>>83802240 for the well seqence

>>83810239
Yeah, The Thing on the Doorstep isn't one of his best works and the twist becomes apparent much too early (which tends to be another problem with his works), it's just I found the set up for the story to be funny

>>83810684
It's mostly a meme, honestly I don't mind either way because Lovecraft's descriptions of his monsters tend to be pretty weak anyways. Perhaps they were shocking back then, but in modern times they fall flat

>>83804634
>>83797261
>>83811391
>Colour out of Space
holy shit just make it happen. Which director could film this the right way? I was thinking Lynch but he would turn it too freaky imo

so...what are some of the best lovecraftian movies?
all I can think of are

>babadook
>cabin in the woods
>nightmare in elm street
>the thing
>It
>texas chainsaw massacre

>>83811846
A-are you baiting?
>Alien
>The Thing
>Sunshine
>In the mouth of madness

>>83811916
in the mouth of madness is not even remotely lovecraftian

>>83811830
Read the thread

>>83800371
>>83802273
>>83800685
>>83797185

>>83811830
None. How can you film something that is called a colour, but only by analogy.
That's the kinda thing that makes HPL work unfilmable. At least his best and more personal work.

>>83811992
except that its about an ancient race of monsters from another dimension that want to reclaim earth.

>>83812050
...yes, and?
lovecraftian means horror, there is barely any horror in that movie

>>83810684
Yeah, but they're non-descriptions. He says a bunch of shit but it's impossible to trully come up with a definitive and coherent image of what they really look like.

>>83808091
It's been done, but wihout the "amazing visuals" part.

>>83804786
I think there is an experimental animation movie based on Dream Quest.

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Has anyone read The Night Land (not by Lovecraft, but one of his favorites). I don't know much about it but it seems interesting. It's sort of obscure but has a cult following.

I just hope that del toro doesnt direct (maybe his team). Del Toro is too in love with his monsters.

I want Mel Gibson to direct At the Mountains of Madness

>>83791342
Zero action movie tropes.
Zero love stories
Only racism, decadence and cosmic horror.

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>>83791342
>>83791342
>>83791342
>>83791342
>>83791342
>>83791342
MORE SAM NEILL

>>83796674
I would watch that

I STILL WANT MY DAS BOOT-IAN 'THE TEMPLE'

>>83800581
/tv/ said it was pretty disappointing. It had like no budget. Cool looking poster, though.

The dreamlands movie
https://youtu.be/ZI_sNNzEmss

>>83811408
>Lovecraft's descriptions of his monsters tend to be pretty weak anyways

Couldn't agree less. His descriptions are so ambiguous and nuanced that the mental images they evoke are necessarily unique to each reader (an evident exception would be the Elder Thing description in AtMoM). I particularly like how he often uses terms that are intuitively dissimilar or antithetical.
For example:

>"The bas-relief was a rough rectangle less than an inch thick and about five by six inches in area; obviously of modern origin. Its designs, however, were far from modern in atmosphere and suggestion; for although the vagaries of cubism and futurism are many and wild, they do not often reproduce that cryptic regularity which lurks in prehistoric writing"

>"The colour, which resembled some of the bands in the meteor’s strange spectrum, was almost impossible to describe; and it was only by analogy that they called it colour at all. Its texture was glossy, and upon tapping it appeared to promise both brittleness and hollowness"

>"They were not altogether crows, nor moles, nor buzzards, nor ants, nor vampire bats, nor decomposed human beings; but something I cannot and must not recall"

(cont)

>>83813950
>"They were of the reptile kind, with body lines suggesting sometimes the crocodile, sometimes the seal, but more often nothing of which either the naturalist or the palaeontologist ever heard. In size they approximated a small man, and their fore legs bore delicate and evidently flexible feet curiously like human hands and fingers. But strangest of all were their heads, which presented a contour violating all known biological principles. To nothing can such things be well compared—in one flash I thought of comparisons as varied as the cat, the bulldog, the mythic Satyr, and the human being. Not Jove himself had so colossal and protuberant a forehead, yet the horns and the noselessness and the alligator-like jaw placed the things outside all established categories"

>>83813310
The director said they had to postpone the production even more.

>>83791342
Directed by David Lynch

>>83791342
The shadow over innsmouth is a straight up thriller and would be fuck easy to adapt into a movie.

>>83791342
37 tentacles, no more, no less.

>>83802006
Gay white guy in a bondage suit ;_;

>>83814110
From your post i can tell that you know nothing about Lynch or Lovecraft.

>>83814261
I'm glad to hear you're accepting your gayness

I suggest Quentin Dupieux as director.

>>83814315
Like your dad

>>83814183
Well, the only issues to work out would be all the background exposition from the drunk guy and the final revelation, which wouldn't work in a film just as they are in the story, but yes, I think it's one of the most adaptable works of his.
That hotel scene could make for some very tense action sequence, which most HPL stories don't feature at all.

No one in this thread has ever even read anything by Lovecraft. Stop saying Lovecraftian. Stop saying he ever said anything was indescribable. REEEEEE

>>83813950
Don't get me wrong, Lovecraft has a lovely descriptive language that easily lets the reader paint a clear picture in there head, it's just that his monsters themselves seem to mostly be humans with features from another animal or two which takes a way a bit from the horror when the thing he's just described isn't all that scary to imagine

>>83814261
You clearly know of neither
Lynch gives off the perfect kind of vibes for a Lovecraft adapation. It's hard to describe, but that sort of dreamy, unreal and uneasy feeling he manages to convey through his filmmaking would fit perfectly to give the right tone in creating some of Lovecraft's stories. What wouldn't fit is how his narratives tend to involve misguiding the viewer about events, leaving things ambiguous and open to interpretation and overall being quite disjointed, when Lovecraft is mostly straight forward, and the narrator is for the most part reliable in relaying the story, save for a few (like Rats in the Walls)

>>83815157
Lynch is straightforward he just want you to pay attention to what you are seeing.

But muh Lynch=weird, lovecraft= weird, hurrrr a Lovecraft movie directed by Lynch of course duuurrrr.

I hate you plebs.

>>83815157
>his monsters themselves seem to mostly be humans with features from another animal
What about Cthulhu, the Mi-Go, Shub-Niggurath, Azathoth, the Shoggoths, Yog-Sothoth.

Actually, from his mythos, I only remember Dagon and Nyarlathothep to be antropomorphic.

>>83814974
Although not a film. Call of Cthulhu Dark corners of the earth vidya did a good job of this. And that game could easily translate into a movie. It all depends on how much of a purist one is. I didn't like some of the liberties they took on the game but sometimes it helped.

>>83815552
Yeah, I loved the whole Innsmouth episode of that game. After that, it just became boring stealth bullshit that bored me and never finished it.

>>83815515
I always try to imagine Shub Niggurath and am left bewildered.

>>83815157
>, it's just that his monsters themselves seem to mostly be humans with features from another animal
Also, this was what HPL criticized the most about genre fiction of his era, and did The Colour Out Of Space in response of that. It was his attempt at trying to think of an alien life form that was like nothing man has ever seen. I think it's a pretty successful story in that regard, and probably one of his best.

>>83815615
Lovecraft never really described her in any of his stories afaik, but I think he mentioned in a letter that she would look like a tentacled cloud.

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>>83815157
>his monsters themselves seem to mostly be humans with features from another animal or two

This only applies to ghouls and other creatures derived from humans. Most of them are only "vaguely anthropoid" or completely non-anthropomorphic.

I mean, how many of these look remotely human to you?

>>83815370
>Lynch is straightforward
The stories he's telling are simple, but the manner in which he does is not.
Take Mulholland Drive for example, Lovecraft would have never written a story in which the character had been dreaming a fantasy scenario the whole time for the simple story of a person being heartbroken over a break up.
I see Lynch as fitting for a Lovecraft adaptation solely in just the feeling he manages to give off scene by scene. The long shots and angles he takes, how he casts actors who give off that ever so slight unnatural feeling in how they act and converse with other people. What Lynch would do well for the adaptations of some of Lovecraft's stories is the atmosphere he creates, not just because >hurr he's weird

>>83815515
>>83816103
Cthulhu is pretty much described as a scaled man with an octopus head, claws and wings
Asides from Azathoth and Cthulhu, I haven't reached to the part in Lovecraft's bibliography where he starts to really get into his mythos. I'm thinking more of the lesser beings, like many of those in the Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, where they're almost all mostly human in form

>>83815860
It was a great story, but it's not like he gives much of it a description either beyond it giving off a color we can't see.

>>83791439
Yeah people tend to forget lovecraft had plenty of short focused stories that could be nice to film (small paranoid towns/ shit like dreams in the witch house etc)

the whole "lmao tentacles lovecraft!" shit is the worst

>>83805664
The author is seriously an idiot, but the point is that Scott ripped off ATMOM and ruined any possibility to have it made. The plot of Prometheus is just a bastardized version of it, and considering how it turned out, I don't think we will see it made.

>>83816202
>but it's not like he gives much of it a description
But that's the point. It can't be described because there's nothing in human experience that even comes close enough to use as a reference.

Also, about Cthulhu
> "A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind."

"Vaguely anthropoid" means that it only slightly resembles an anthropoid shape, which at the same time is only that resembles human form while not being exactly it. That's quite the opposite of "pretty much a man".

>>83804145

Why are people such snobs when it comes to lovecraft?

>>83798035
that is liberal revisionism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7qQ7A4rWM8

>>83812005
I read it but I actually saw it and didn't enjoy it at all. Especially how it diverted from the stories. The army thing made me hate it and the german dubbingb

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a proper adaptation of the Colour out of Space, which sucks because I know it's impossible.

>>83791342
Very slightly explained mysterious and terrifying horrors and cultism

>>83791342
>What would you like to see in a Lovecraft(ian) movie?
Accuracy.

>>83792341
At least he didn't say anything misleading. Some earlier posts were talking about nyarlathotep being in Dark Tower like it's the real nyarlathotep, lel.

>>83817150
didn't want to come off that way, it's what I am fighting against actually with all the "hurr that is not lovecraftian, I have read everything and you plebs don't understand it". I hate that elitism and just think those people and their "indescrubable" shit is cancerous in every thread about adaptation of his works.

>>83817207
I think people had pretty good odeas on how to make that movie in response to this >>83796986

I'd like to see a hole on the floor and you can see deep outer space in it

>>83802629

>calling me out

What kind of ego do you have, to believe anyone elses interpretation to be wrong?

You got your attention boy, now go be autistic in some library, scowling at hot chicks, and thinking they are stupid because they don't notice your superior intelligence.

A cure for wellness seems like a great movie

>/tv/ can discuss Lovecraft better than /lit/ and /x/ combined

Really makes you think.

>>83797004
This. A mocunentary would be the only way to capture the style and scale of the story properly, as that's essentially what it is

>>83817918
lovecraft will always belong to /pol/.

>>83818280
no

>>83791342
niggerman who then gets killed by some eyeball tentacle monster

>>83817918
/lit/ doesn't actually discuss anything, it's just pseuds writing blog posts at each other and arguing over taste.

>>83817166
>that is liberal revisionism
No, that is based on his latest letters.

>>83797482
a good example of a lovecraftian movie

>>83791342
I want to see indescribable monsters that turn folks insane. Just like the books. Real Lovecraftian kino.

>>83798035
neat so its like the opposite of normal people

How to make it work
1: Focus on the people more than the monster. Make them likable and believable. Don't kill them sporadically throughout, which turns the movie into a game of "guess who dies next!" At the end, they should be scarred in different ways. The problem is we always jump to "I saw a scary monster and now I gibber at the moon and talk to invisible fairies!" Instead, some characters should be broken and suffering PTSD symptoms, another will be depressed and suicidal, others will be drowning out what they've seen with vices and indulgences. People react to things differently, so it's weird and offputting when everyone sees a giant squid monster and starts talking to their dead parents.
2: make the monster otherworldly and imposing. Only show a few glimpses of it, and don't just make it a dumb squid monster or alien spawn. These things have been done to death in other movies and have become mundane. Make it seem like it got shat out of a dimension with an entirely different set of physics where its mere presence erodes reality. Use camera tricks and subtle building up so that its not just a dumb space monster, but feels towering and unending, something that will exist long after our universe has gone cold.

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I'm so tired of fanboys rubbing their nipples as they say "Lovecraftian." every time they see a tentacle in anything. Fanboys and nerds are why we can't have nice movies. Also Hollywood.

>>83791342
>What would you like to see in a Lovecraft(ian) movie?
People who truly love the source material doing the best they can with a budget that is fair to the project.

>>83820104
And I'd like to ride Andre the Giant to work every day. Both of our fantasies are unrealistic and bad on multiple levels.

>>83811992
never read something more blatantly stupid in my life. Have you ever read Lovecraft?

>>83815153
/thread

>>83819725
>2: make the monster otherworldly and imposing. Only show a few glimpses of it,
That's where I thought In The Mouth Of Madness totally dropped the ball. They never should've shown the creatures chasing down Sam Neill.

>>83820421
Kinda reminds me of the first parts of Cloverfield that only showed glimpses of it. Or that monster in The Mist that as fucking huge but only saw for a wee bit.

>>83820362

>have you ever read lovecraft?
>lovecraftian

This shit makes me cringe. Its like the Goths vs the emos on south park rn.

I guarantee these people are obese, wearing cthulu shirts, neckbeards, land whales who hang out at the library and when normal people compliment their shirts, they say something condescending like " do you even read lovecraft?"

Why are these suburban kids so edgy?why don't their parents understand?

>>83791342
I really liked A Cure for Wellness, for a recent one, even though the ending was rather out of tone with the rest of it.

>>83821276
Ad hominem attacks are a fallacy

>>83818280

>cancer

Plz go

>>83819459
Here's a letter from Dec 11 1923.
>So, Sonny, your old Grandpa is pretty well satisfied to be a Nordick, chalk white from the Hercynian wood and the Polar mists, and stout arm’d to wield the mace, the broadsword, and the javelin. Nordics can buy dark foreign slaves cheap in the market-place–sharp, clever little Greeks and Alexandrians who will decorate our walls and chisel our friezes well enough when tickled with the lash of a Nordic overseer. Our province is to found the cities and conquer the wilderness and people the waste lands–that, and to assemble and drive the slaves, who tell us stories and sing us songs and paint us pretty pictures. WE ARE THE MASTERS.

So which letters are you referring to, specifically?

I liked In the Mouth of Madness with Sam Neil.

Though I would really like to see Guillermo del Toro do At the Mountains of Madness and maybe afterwards a set of movies based off of: Shadow over Innsmouth, Dunwich Horror, Dagon and maybe if they can pull it off Call of Cthulhu. I wouldn't really trust anyone else to do them.

>>83821340

>welcome to english; critical thinking

Quit begging the question

Which works of Lovecraft are recommended for a first-timer?

>>83821807
Shadow over Innsmouth is short, Mountains of Madness is what The Thing was based off but much more cosmic. Bunch of lists on google too.

>>83821930
Cheers, I'll have a look.

>>83821930
>Mountains of Madness is what The Thing was based off

No
Come on, anon

>>83821807
Dagon and Polaris.
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/d.aspx
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/p.aspx

If you like those you can procede chronologically or read whichever one you want.