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Doesn't Netflix have Dagon and Necronomicron: Book of the Dead? I looove John Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy and The Mist RULES! Frank Darabont has also made many a Stephen King flick (Shawshank especially).

Off the top of my head, I would say HP Lovecraft isn't simply about madness driving horrors, it's biological horror, rather than supernatural. So almost anything by David Cronenberg, a lot of Japanese and Korean film, such as Akira, Uzemaki, The Ring movies, (which is based upon a Japanese folklore, but in modern times became biological horror, the Ring is actually a hybrid biological, technological virus), etc.

Also, the Matthew McCant-spell-his-last-name's True Detective breeches the Lovecraftian realm on a subtle and then not so subtle way in the end, such as the concept of "black stars" in a constant daytime of white background. I would say it's pre-Lovecraftian mythos from authors in the 1800s writing nihilistic almost biological horror, more just heavy uncomfortable writing. I can't recall the primary author who inspired Lovecraft beyond Bram Stoker's The Lair of the White Worm.

Anyway. I love horror, thrillers, suspense, nihilism, pulp and gothic literature.

This is my second favourite carol by the HP Lovecraft Historical Society. My favourite is http://videosift.com/video/Carol-of-the-Old-Ones. They also do a damn good "Oh Cthulhu!"

You can buy two albums of them from hplhs.org, or from any good music store (so long as the angles inside don't quite measure up and it disappears when you go to look for it again).

My only problem is that every time I hear the 'originals' I sing along to the Cthulhu version.

The guy to the far left at :10 was my best friend's boyfriend. Weird to see him go on to have a movie career. His best friend went on to have a bigger career -- character actor in all the Star Trek series plus he is something of an HP Lovecraft icon -- he was the lead in the original Reanimator movies.

My brush with fame.... kids from my clique in high school going on to Porky's Stardom and Trek geekdom.

>> ^Drax:

I only downvoted ant's comment for the sake of irony...
walks off cackling madly


And I upvoted it for the sake of vaginas...

Thank you!

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*promote

>> ^Payback:

When I was that age, I'd say "vagina vagina vagina..." in math class. And home room. and social studies. during lunch... crap, I guess it was like every other word. Vagina at least I vagina got over vagina it.


Vagina! Vagina! Vagina!

>> ^mindbrain:

>> ^luxury_pie:
Despite the name of the teacher, what reference is there to Mr. Lovecraft?

Many. The last names of the students reference some of his tales: Noreen Dunwich (Dunwich Horror) Larissa Insmouth (Shadow Over Insmouth) and Jimmy Pickman (Pickman's Model). The principal's last name is Peters, but my knowledge of Lovecraft is not specific enough to pick up on a common name like that. Anyone? Bueller?
Also his stories are almost always first hand accounts which usually end up revealing the doom and/or madness of the story-teller. Several notable creature names/aliases were spoken during the incantation.
Finally the method of descriptive prose used in this piece is heavily inspired by Lovecraft.


I think there are some Call of Cthulhu references too (it looks like an octopus)...

I just started reading Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft and it is an AWESOME book.

>> ^luxury_pie:

Despite the name of the teacher, what reference is there to Mr. Lovecraft?


Many. The last names of the students reference some of his tales: Noreen Dunwich (Dunwich Horror) Larissa Insmouth (Shadow Over Insmouth) and Jimmy Pickman (Pickman's Model). The principal's last name is Peters, but my knowledge of Lovecraft is not specific enough to pick up on a common name like that. Anyone? Bueller?

Also his stories are almost always first hand accounts which usually end up revealing the doom and/or madness of the story-teller. Several notable creature names/aliases were spoken during the incantation.
Finally the method of descriptive prose used in this piece is heavily inspired by Lovecraft.

Whoa, with all these author names being thrown around, I might as well list my pet goat and where the wild things are. I'm so terrible at getting myself to read a good book, even though I invariably enjoy myself when I do.

Nevertheless, these are some of the books/short stories I've enjoyed enough to recall on the spot actually reading. You may now proceed to shun the sub-literate.


Marching As To War - Pierre Berton

The Shadow Out Of Time - HP Lovecraft

World War Z - Max Brooks

April Raintree - Beatrice Culleton

The Stand - Stephen King

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There is another - the HP Lovecraft Historical Society has a sequel 'An Even Scarier Solstice'
http://www.cthulhulives.org/Solstice/index.html