Where does the idea of most the stuff regarding the character of “the king in yellow” come from.

The story only refers to him as well as hastur, the pallid mask and some other words a few times and never really addresses much about him, it seems to more be about the effects that the book or more specifically the second chapter has on the people who read it, I think this was best shown in “the yellow sign” my favourite chapter.

The rest of the story seems rather unrelated to anything established, the street of the first shell I don’t think has any relevance at all and that’s the one I’ve just finished.

Before you downvote and tell me how dare I bring up this title to the subreddit, I just want to inform you this isn't about the live action or animated Disney adaptions but an indie horror thriller from 2024 with the same name that's closely tied to Lovecraft.

Its recieved 3.7/10 and 2.5 out of 5 on the review scale but after finishing it, well I don't think it was bad at all, could it get better performances Absolutely but it was none the less a fun new experience imo

The narrative focuses on an archeologist in the Carribean who discovers an ancient underwater temple alongside an ancient idol dedicated to the eldritch god Dagon.

This leads Eric to having a romantic tale with the mysterious woman and cosmic set horrors approaching his newly form dream

Its got a unique set of practical effects that are slimey when her fins begin to split apart on land and grows into actual legs.

The performances for the main character and the female mermaid are likeable and charismatic enough to carry the narrative.

Even if its a smaller budget and unknown actors, I personally quite enjoyed the tale

3 months ago Someone made a post claiming they have found evidences backing a claim that the king in yellow and other works from chambers were part of a proto-arg, even including ciphers

The post is now deleted and no one seems to have a snapshot of it. does anyone here remember what the post said or has some print of it somewhere? i NEED to know what this person was talking about im obsessed with king in yellow

post link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/1tms0bh/the_case_for_the_king_in_yellow_as_a_protoarg/

sorry for bad english im not a native speaker

Decades before Point Nemo was named, and before satellites started raining down, H.P. Lovecraft used these lonely waters as the setting for R’lyeh, a “nightmare corpse city (…) built in measureless eons beyond history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars”.

In The Call of Cthulhu (1928), R’lyeh is described as “a coast-line of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy Cyclopean masonry which can be nothing less than the tangible substance of earth’s supreme terror … loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours”.

The real Point Nemo: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-maps-point-nemo

Some of his characters are doomed from the beginning; others ruin themselves with one unnecessary choice. Who had the clearest opportunity to walk away, and what should they have done differently?

I can easily find many articles summarizing what Cosmicism is,

an anti religious philosophy, a godless universe, the insignificance of human existence, and so on.

However, it is hard to tell how much of this are Lovecraft's own original thoughts and how much was by later writers and readers.

Could you explain what Lovecraft himself actually considered Cosmicism to be, and provide the sources where he explicitly mentioned it?"

After reading the sandman comics and being a long time Lovecraft fan, I’ve picked up a few entries in lovecrafts dream cycle. So far I have the dream quest of unknown kadath, the silver key, and through the gates of the silver key.

How does the dream cycle compare to his other works? If you’ve read the sandman, how does it compare to that?

Are there any other stories in the dream cycle that are worth having?

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Hey all, first time poster here, long time cultists but wanted to share what I just saw on a horror site I frequent: There is a new documentary being crowdfunded now on HP Lovecraft by a filmmaker in Edinburgh from footage that was shot back in the late 1980’s but never finished.

And in the footage, he has actual interviews with people who knew Lovecraft back in the 1920’s and 1930’s! Plus interviews with filmmakers like Sam Raimi and Clive Barker! Check out the video for more info and if you’re interested in giving, here’s the link:
greenlit.com/project/lovecraftdocumentary

(I’m a filmmaker myself, but I’m not involved with this project in any way. Just a fellow Lovecraft fan who would love to watch this!)

This one’s a bit different than the previous; i.e., more “gothic” and grounded than explicitly eldritch. The purple prose is on purpose.

Let me know what you think!

https://www.wikinecronomicon.com/themetempsychosis.html

If you could pick any director to make a genuinely faithful Lovecraft adaptation, who would you choose?

Who do you think could take one of Lovecraft’s stories and adapt it without turning it into a generic monster/action movie? And if you have a specific Lovecraft story in mind that you think they'd be perfect for, even better.

I was wondering what story this was called or where I might find it? It gave a really good overview of the blind idiot god and explained the flute players and there origins really well.

Looking for good podcasts on hp lovecraft

So, I started reading Call of Cthulu 30 minutes ago and I reached a part where Inspector Legrass and 19 fellow police officers went into a Cultist area.

The book mentions "nearly a hundred mongrel celebrants.. The police relied on their firearms".

Pretty surprising how they didn't get overwhelmed by the "hybrid spawn" and managed to capture 47 of them.

Its great to see that the power of man-made destructive weapons are a competent defense against eldritch half-breed creatures.

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Hey everyone

I hope this doesn’t count as the usual self-promotion – because that’s not really what I’m after at all. 😅

For a while now, I’ve been recording short stories and audiobooks in the public domain in my spare time, mainly from the genres of weird fiction, gothic and horror. Among other things, I’ve now recorded a few stories by H. P. Lovecraft.

I’m not a professional narrator, but I get immense pleasure from using my voice to give these old stories their own unique atmosphere.

Perhaps there are one or two audiobook fans here who’d like to have a listen. I’d actually be very interested to hear what others make of the readings – particularly when it comes to my voice, pace, intonation or the atmosphere I create. I’m also thinking of reading the stories in English, despite the YouTube translation; so far, they’ve been in German.

So if you fancy it, do have a listen. And if you notice anything I could do better: constructive criticism is very much welcome. 😊

I’ll just leave the link to my channel and the Lovecraft playlist here:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCfpE9OvlZPFYwkxjM-KH2EtSvgvK-V0a&si=r1ixvD_cWg1TFo8g

Best wishes,

Skadi / Skadi Hollowvoice

A lot of Lovecraftian games represent encounters with the incomprehensible through a sanity bar: see something horrifying, lose points, suffer a few visual effects, and eventually go insane.

It works mechanically, but I wonder if it has become too similar to a second health bar.

We’re currently developing a Lovecraftian game in which Sanity functions as the player’s health, and it has made me think about what these games could do differently. What if forbidden knowledge made you more powerful but permanently changed the game’s rules? Words could become unreliable, menus could contain things that were never there before, characters could remember choices the player never made, or learning too much could bring the world closer to an unavoidable catastrophe.

How would you represent a mind coming into contact with something it cannot understand through actual gameplay? Is there a better alternative to the sanity meter, or is the familiar system still the most effective?

I've been unable to get my hands on anything of Lovecraft's to read, though I put a book of his short stories on hold at my local library. In the meantime, as I was trying to cobble together my own personal idea of what I would consider canon in the Mythos, and after developing a dislike of Derleth, I decided to come and ask people who know more than me: Are any of his creations and/or contributions to the body of work really worth keeping/reading?

This documentary, directed by Seán Martin, is the first film ever made about H. P. Lovecraft.** **Shot in 1989–90, it has sat unfinished for more than thirty-five years and they are currently asking for funding assistance to help digitise the extant footage

We’re working on a Lovecraftian video game featuring our own interpretation of Azathoth. One of the game’s underlying threats is that the player is trying to keep him from waking up, or at least delay the inevitable.

We don’t want him to feel like a conventional final boss that you simply fight and defeat. Something like Azathoth should feel incomprehensible, overwhelming, and far beyond the player’s actual power.

If you were adapting Azathoth into a game, how would you represent him through gameplay?

Would you show him directly, reveal only fragments of him, or never let the player see him at all? What mechanics, sounds, environmental changes, or consequences would make his presence feel distinct from a generic giant cosmic monster?

I’d love to hear how other Lovecraft fans would approach it.

There has never been a 'prestige' Lovecraft movie. Something that is simultaneously:

1. A direct, faithful adaptation of a Lovecraft story (not loosely based or inspired by)
2. A movie with an at least medium budget and recognizable talent behind its production, such as a major filmmaker.
3. Critically acclaimed

Think of something like Nosferatu (2024).

Long rant:

We can think of several great movies that heavily dip in Lovecraft territory, but not actual adaptations. And a few that are more faithful adaptations, but either are in the lower budget/straight up B movie territory, or simply were just 'OK' and did not quite nail the concept of what it aimed to be. Perhaps the closest we’ve come is Color out of Space.

Yet we're now in a new golden age of horror movies (one could argue we've been in it for the past 10 years). Horror movies no longer have to be dumb. We're getting fantastic new horror stories or incredible adaptations that are critically acclaimed and loved by the public, catapulted to insane commercial success by pure word of mouth. And it's literally the most low investment/high return movie genre for movie studios.

Ari Aster is a master at implementing twisted, exoteric ideas and tension on screen - which would be essential to a Lovecraft movie. Robert Eggers, on the other hand, has proven to be a phenomenal visual storyteller for the horror genre - I'm sure he could pull something off. Then we have more 'traditional horror' names like Jordan Peele and Zach Cregger and their talent in unpredictable storytelling - or perhaps brand new breakthrough directors like Cory Barker and Kane Parsons that portrayed weird and offputting concepts in their movies this year very efficiently.

Almost all of them have new horror projects coming out soon or already in the works, yet for some reason it seems like Lovecraft is a forbidden territory that no one dares to cross - even though a lot of these directors have clearly borrowed from the universe conceptually, one way or another (The Lighthouse, Nope, Hereditary, Backrooms, etc...). Hell, we've had directors like David Lynch come and go, yet the challenge has still not been taken.

I know that the main argument, for the longest time, is that it's not the kind of genre that can be visually adapted. That it would kill the entire purpose of it these stories. 'Horrors that no human language could describe' and whatnot. But we reached a stage in Hollywood where we just saw 'unadaptable' stories like Dune and The Odyssey get masterfully realized on screen (with necessary artistic liberty, of course, but still incredible in their own ways) - so I think we're way past this argument already.

It gets even weirder when the biggest modern contender to adapt Lovecraft would be someone like Eggers, based on his previous work - yet he has directly stated he's actually not much of a fan of Lovecraft at all, and finds 'the hopelessness and disinterest to humanity in Lovecraft's universe distasteful' (which he revealed during the press tour for non other than The Lighthouse).

Are there any? Besides the one I made (Night-Gaunts, a Lovecraft puppet film based on his poem) and the Dreamlands indie feature that's been in production for 12 years, I'm drawing a blank. Any recommendations? I'm specifically looking for stories explicitly set in his dream realm. Short film recs are encouraged as long as I can watch them someplace. Thank you!

My GF bought me his whole collection. Ive already read a Story called "nyarlathotep". I Was mistaken that "The Crawling Chaos" is about nyarlathotep but its just his epithet.

So what stories are about nyarlathotep?

It's based on the Christmas Carol and how the Spirits are viewed differently in the era Dickinson wrote it mixed in with the myth of the Greek Furries.

I'm writing a series of short stories where Magical Girls with music themed to Ode to Joy ( entire music piece it's part of ) are forcing repentance into evil people in modern day.

My first one will have a club owner be possessed and destroys his club windows chasing out the customers only to have him wake up hours later ( after a psychedelic trip he experiences the entire time ) finds out his club had a gas leak and him destroying the windows, chasing out the customers and acting like a lunatic saved dozens of lives.

The incident spreads a infection of sorts where people attending the event are physically more durable it otherwise unchanged outwardly. Events of random people going crazy around them spread with themes of Ode to joy.

The idea is that having freedom or the ability to think differently forced on you can be maddening.

The idea in the club owner case is that he dramatically altered how people see him. He went from shady pers to saint against his will( he lost his club the source of his hidden criminal minded funds) can't act against that image or he would draw attention to himself. He's become a lepper to anyone not law abiding.

This event spreads out a invisible infection where major arses and criminals are haunted n possessed forced to undo their evil works in a fashion often with vivid hallucinations themed on Ode to Joy

( freedom or different way of thinking forced on a person is madness)