>Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
How the frick would you even say that in live action, no wonder no one makes lovecraftian kinos
>Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
>Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
How the frick would you even say that in live action, no wonder no one makes lovecraftian kinos
AHH A FOREIGN LANGUAGE Black personMAN SAVE ME
You can have Lovecraft inspired.
John Carpenter is the filmmaker who better understood Lovecraft and his Apocalypse Trilogy is the proof of it.
Maybe Lovecraft had Tourets Syndrome.
I think he said the Cth part was supposed to be very gutteral, like a swallowing noise
His letters to friends was when he explained that, in his mind, the word "C'thulu" was meant to be pronounced as a single syllable as if it were being choked or coughed. But that's also just one word and it was used as a title, he wasn't really interested in actual linguistics or trying to make things into a coherent syntax that people could piece together.
2 syllables, khlul-hloo
Can’t be any worse than Brad Pitts Irish accent.
The Devil's Own, yeah?
Just have them speak Chinese
Parts of Lovecraftian mythos are dank but none of it is very good.
>none of it is very good
>Shadow Over Innsmouth
>Music of Erich Zann
>Mountains of Madness
>Rats in the Walls
>Pickman's Model
>Colour Out of Space
Read more than spooky Tentacle Monster.
That hotel chase in Innsmouth is some of the most intense shit I've ever read.
>Shadow Over Innsmouth
>Mountains of Madness
I've read these. Awesome stories.
Good choice.
Pickman’s Model is the first creepypasta lol
way back (probably long enough that most anons won't remember) there was a running meme about what if HPL was now and him as a millennial Cinemaphile shitposter.
>Pickman’s Model is the first creepypasta
fits right in there
By the way certain Boston houses really do have tunnels which connnect to smugglers' beaches and graveyards, that's 100% real.
>>Rats in the Walls
This one genuinely surprised me.
Lovecraft is good at build-up, holy shit.
I liked the temple.
I liked The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath too. Really nice fantasy story
My homie
brothers
The ending was so kino.
Shadow is neat but has a silly ending.
Music is whatever.
Mountains of Madness is 10/10.
Rats in the Walls is unremarkable.
Pickman's Model is cute but as the other Anon said, reads too much like a creepypasta for me to genuinely enjoy it these days.
Colour is one of the grossest stories I've ever read. It's not 'scary' so much as it is sad and disgusting. These are compliments though.
I like Horror at Red Hook; Herbert West; cats of Ulthar; and that one where a guy goes into/beneath the pyramids and sees what he thinks is a creature before realizing it's actually just the hand/fingers of a creature.
>Music is whatever.
Opinion discarded
>Music is whatever.
kys
>Music is whatever.
Colour Out of Space is the best thing Lovecraft ever wrote and the Cage movie about it is fairly decent.
You forgot The Shadow Out of Time
>where a guy goes into/beneath the pyramids
That one is great. Its called The Nameless City
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Long, but great.
And
Memory
Nyarlyathotep
Paris
What the Moon Brings
The one about the Greek painters
DQOUK
The Walls of Eryx
The Mound
Paris*
*Polaris
It is though. It's good at a level where it's impossible to imprint his ideas on to film media. remember that actual good writers and directors have tried for what is now generations. They have ALL failed. Also his cat was cool. I have a black one called King Kang.
How do you think the vet or vet reception would react to a cat called Black person man, do you think they'd try to avoid saying it? Would they make a fuss? Would they just act like it was any other silly pet name?
Heh, good question. I don't think it would lead to good treatment, put it that way. To normies my cat is called KK. There is zero point turning a vet against you when your cat is dying. So if your cat is called Black personman, tell the vet his name is Manny.
Poor cat won't respond to being called the wrong name.
Cats respond to sound and intent. When you look at a cat and call them they know. You can call them random names and it will be much the same. Now if they sound the same, in KK's case the hard K. He'll still know even if you don't look at him. Meanwhile he'll ignore sounds with different sibilants, like pspspspspspsps. He won't give a shit. Anyway, Manny has the strong M sound. The cat will still know unless it's moronic. It's similar enough as far as a cat brain goes.
I call my cat a furred Black person sometimes
I was on the fence about lovecraft until I read all of his works.
He's actually extremely talented and influential
If you actually read *all* of his works it's impressive how much better he got after the first few stories. His first couple are BAD. Like they were written by a hack trying to do a Lovercraft impression..
Thankfully they're not included in most collections because the gap in quality is jarring. He kept doing the exact same shtick but all the pieces suddenly clicked somehow.
Weren't his early works like some guy who found out he is monke and some old man who traps people in the jar? Lol
>found out he is monke
That was based on a true story, he found out he was part Welsh.
Reasonable response honestly.
meme, his early stories are good, Dagon is one of the best things he ever wrote
This guy gets it.
Better than CoC.quick and to the point
many of his works were just practice exercises in writing and never meant to be released his estate or his israelite wife/business partner released them post death iirc
Lovecraft was extremely self-critical of his writing. If he had had his way, we probably wouldn't have some of his best stuff like The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
well that should be up to him now shouldnt it
Maybe. I still want to see the movies that George lucas makes for just him and his friends though.
I think I phrased my post the wrong way. I don't think that Lovecraft was ever against his stuff being published, it's more that he would sometimes just give up on trying to publish it after one or two rejections and he would stuff it in his drawer or something. So it's not that his friends went against his will by publishing it.
He hated Reanimator and only wrote it for the money
I was gonna say that sucks to hear, though probably doesn't matter much when it comes to the movie, and how great the theme is https://youtu.be/UlU1LRR2-Es
>never meant to be released his estate or his israelite wife/business partner released them post death iirc
August Derleth basically saved Lovecraft from complete obscurity.
That man is a hero. Virgil asked for his work to be burned after his death, humanity didn't listen then either. Sometimes we must protect the work from its creator.
I'm halfway through. Part of the appeal is seeing an influential author improve. Early stuff is competent but dry and I don't understand his fame. I push through with effort. At 1/3 in, it begins to become a page turner. I'm now a bit over halfway through right now and understand the appeal. Dude became a unique author. I love how the (now) anachronistic use of language gives the stories that dreamy element.
Must be from one of the second half of stories of picrel, if that helps you at all.
Oh hell yeah. Thanks!
You're welcome. It's easy to miss because the director, Roger Corman was known for Poe adaptations (which are also worth watching fwiw) and either he or the studio thought that a story by a comparatively unknown up-and-comer like Lovecraft wouldn't do as well. Corman liked the story a lot though and wanted to adapt it so they settled on just taking a completely unrelated name from a Poe poem and then just adapting the Lovecraft story.
Much of the best stuff comes about as somebody's passion project, disregarding commercial appeal. Especially true of film.
Added to my reading list. He is well spoken of.
That may be a cynical take. According to the introduction of collected works, Lovecraft had done nothing to preserve or monetize his work at time of death. Two acquaintance writers founded Arkham House to collect his material and publish it. I get the impression that he might have been easily forgotten by history, being a loner who died young and without family, if not for their efforts.
>I love how the (now) anachronistic use of language gives the stories that dreamy element.
You should check out Thomas Ligotti. To me he's the spiritual successor to Lovecraft. He takes HPL's themes of existential terror to a new level, and also writes in a similar dreamy, gothic prose that really elevates the atmosphere in his stories.
His prose can be daunting sometimes but only if you're an illiterate zoomer. And he has some fricking awesome ones
>Shadow out of time
>Whisper in the darkness(spoopy brain stealing surgeon fungus crabs)
>Pickman's model
>The music of Eric zhan
>The color out of space(comet lands in old farmers back yard and shenanigans ensue)
>Dreams in the witch house(narrator spends the night in a house of woman accused of being witch for doing the crime of MATH! Not only may she not be dead but it turns out maybe she was doing math too!)
>At the mountains of madness
I still can't get into any of the dream quest shit though.
>I still can't get into any of the dream quest shit though.
Imo try starting with these stories to ease your way into the Dream Cycle:
The Cats of Ulthar
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
Celephaïs
They're not especially long, and are good fantasy stories that don't require much involvement. Cats of Ulthar is my favorite
He was mocking africans, Black folk, if you will
I would love a ryan gostling kino in a Lovecraftian setting
Finns could probably manage.
%3D%3D
They're words from a language not spoken with human mouths, it's going to be gutteral and weird.
What did Danforth see, bros? I need to know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black person_(dog)
>article protected due to repeated vandalism
Kek. Glad to see my ip address is blocked on there.
>Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
How do you respond without sounding mad?
Be welsh
Iä iä Cthulhu fhtagn, of course
>How the frick would you even say that in live action
u literally cant it wasnt written for human tongues
I bet Ben Burtt would have been able to make something pretty good. Using some mixture of voice and animal sounds.
ask the Welsh
frickin hicks
pee hing loo mee low nawf ka thoo loo rah lay wee ga nagel fuh tawn
'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward' would make for an amazing film. Obsession and forbidden knowledge, arrogance and mistakes made in meddling with things beyond control. It's not very complicated and doesn't rely on the mythos. Most of it takes place in two locations.
In a better fork of the timeline they've made this kino already.
What's the one about the guy who's a book collector? I think the guy he gets the book off was an alien another planet, but they had a proper society.
My friend, I have some good news for you:
https://archive.org/details/the-haunted-palace
>hurr how do you heckin respond without sounding... LE MAD?? durr hurr
shut the frick up
The music of Erich Zann is his best story in my opinion, but I'm a musician myself so I'm biased.
Skill issue
Having read Lovecraft's words on pronouncing Cthulhu, I would do it something like this I think:
https://voca.ro/1mAh09c1ibdg
It's CAS for me
Excellent taste
Thanks anon. Makes me feel a little bit better about the embarrassing amount of money I spent on the collected works hardback editions
Read his poetry too its worth a look if you like his fiction.
Anyone who isn't a moronic anglo can pronounce this
Not so tough anymore mr. English as first language huh?
That shit is easy to say for anyone with even a little bit of linguistic intelligence.
why was Black personman so scared of Welsh?
>casually makes the best Lovecraftian film
>Ryan Gosling as Lovecraft
kino
Which eldritch language do I have to learn to find the fishy people?
English, unironically. But you pretty much HAVE to be some fat old boomer from New England. That's the trade off.
Fish ladies are built for BBC (big boomer wiener)
>jobs to a dog
forgot pic shit
Still the creepiest lovecraft creation
A bit problematic starting a thread about Lovecraft now that we know he was a racist, don't you think?
I'm Welsh and i thought that was Welsh at first glance
Why is this thread autosaging?
Because it isn't a paid Disney shill thread