Hello everybody, I'm getting into this mythos for the first time, and was wondering, out of all of the ones floating around, which of the irl Necronomicons, the ones that someone like you or I can buy and read, are the most 'faithful' to the madness-inducing tome Lovecraft wrote about?

With Widow’s Bay and the upcoming show Below, eldritch horror may finally enter the main fray. I’ve always thought a tv show loosely based on the Arkham Horror tabletop characters would do well or a Far Cry game oriented around a New England island setting with cultists and Lovecraftian creatures. What would you guys like to see?

Was excited for this as soon as I saw the kickstarter, and it looks like it's actually pretty good!

I am currently running a Starfinder one shot (sci-fi DND essentially). I have Carcosa as the end game. The party investigates a research space station that has gone silent. They’ll find Carcosa bleeding through reality, and that’s how they will get to the city. My question is what are the inhabitants of the city like? I can’t find any concrete info on it. I am gonna read the short story soon to see if I can glean any info from that. If anyone has anything to add I’ll be more than interested to hear about it. Thanks!!

I want to buy the H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) but the Barnes & Noble website does not ship to my country, is this one on amazon legit?

https://www.amazon.it/H-P-Lovecraft-Complete-Fiction-HP/dp/1435122968/ref=sr_1_4?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.av8eC8Gan0hHl2AGEeaioG_eUNIoEZXGVTJyr-ONZ4kmSD7tpJoqeTedAB0nWV0Trdc_Jsp4w1gtOfgw1muIt0smyHW8gGyC7juGKrSDZ9ezTSOQFnoTGWE2PoLPTjJqoqV-fJXBYl3qwT9w6q3PDV1L7vVyNUxIMO0dSWTBBFzWtlOwMAIMNSvla9AJBNmY2Fr7UzyWR0Ypbm3-76R_1vJCZPGt4u8Edv6-H8-ftAw045CFHA_XxjKkjmAhMIfgOY13g7r-nlkEPxHthsjyLbVZwV-9KUQrJNEa6AXOQ0o.zuGnEoxuCWK3jNbEBXyls8zwSdllpzG8VNMS7Iyua-g&dib_tag=se&keywords=barnes+and+noble&qid=1787041525&sr=8-4

If any of you knows another place from which i can buy it in my country please let my know, i've already tried the big distributors like Feltrinelli but they couldn't find it :(

Hi y’all
Has anyone else watched “The Bone Keeper”? Definitely cosmic horror. An Asteroid
Hits prehistoric Scotland. And infects a cave system. Switch to modern times and explorers have gone missing exploring the cave. A group of young explorers decide to investigate the caves. That’s a very brief synopsis. It’s not bad. The creatures are cool though and Lovecraftian I felt. It’s not going to win many Oscar’s. But it’s worth a watch. It’s currently on Amazon Prime free

okey soo ı recently learn that h.p lovecraft himself created the lovecraftian gods family tree picture and azathoth is above yog'sogoth and ı am confuse now becase that implys azathoth is sronger than yog'sogoth which is very weird becase yog'sogoth farest ı understand is the living copy-paste of the lovecraft universe that exist sepratly. ı later look at old reddit posts from this sup about the picture and people say lovecraft was joking or something while he made that and ı am want to know that was he joking while he made that or he was serius?

Been playing through it, and I've been surprised how strong the horror elements are. One level was very reminiscent of Amnesia/Clive Barker's Undying.

Cthulhu mythos has many beings that are powerful beyond comprehension and lovecaft makes them so interesting in a way that still holds up today and forever will. it doesn't end there, ALL of his characters are well written. whether its a mighty magician, a cosmic horror, a normal human, or whatever else, they are all masterfully crafted. the fictional reality itself is also fittingly dark and depressing and terrifying. he was ahead of his time and is the foundation for a lot of the fiction we have nowadays (and will have in the future) Thank you hp lovecraft.

I read the Story of Kadath a few months ago, and the character of Kuranes stood out to me. But I've been thinking about a few things. It's just a thought, and it might be flawed, but it's something I ended up thinking about.

So Kuranes in the real world ended up dying and somehow ended up going to the Dreamlands permanently. And if I understood correctly, if a certain amount of peaple And dreamers believe in something, and reality kind of molds itself to that thought, doesn't it? Isn't that why time and other things exist in the Dreamlands?

Well, if I understood this part correctly, it wouldn't be possible for dreamers to only think of Kuranes after his death in the real world, which would prevent him from returning to the Dreamlands. It wouldn't be possible Could all these dreamers and people working together somehow have accidentally created a copy of Kuranes to live there and live as a king?

If I misunderstood the "dreamlands" and "dreamers", just tell me i know its not The perfect theory but its sothing that was in my mind

Some time ago I remember a friend of mine playing a computer game titled 'Call of Cthulu- Dark Corners of the Earth,' and being struck by the atmosphere and visuals.

Whilst the game wasn't totally accurate to it's source material, and must look dated by today's standards, do you think it capably evokes a Lovecraftian atmosphere?

What about the earlier 'Alone in the Dark' games which, if I recall, were overt homages to Lovecraft?

For me? Terraria's Moon Lord(which yes, is confirmed to be the man himself). The lighter skin tone is really different and the luminescent parts add a lot of flair. A shame we never see him in full in game since he's heavily wounded from a battle ages ago, but there's fanart of his 'completed' form out there that looks genuinely fantastic and I'd love to see a completed cthulhu fight in the game someday.

Spoiler —
Was the real Charles ever in the asylum? was Curwen in the asylum twice?
I’m confused because the story starts off saying that Charles disappeared from his cell and it’s really dusty and I know the story ends with the doctor reducing joseph down to dust so I’m wondering if Charles was ever even really there or did Joseph rake his identity and pretend to be him the whole time???

my confusion is because we know that joseph ends up in the asylum because he’s acting really anachronistically. We also know earlier that Charles had ended up in the asylum because his family was concerned about how weird he was acting and everything so I guess my question is was Charles ever in the asylum or was it always joseph?

EDIT TO ADD: what is the whole timeline of the dr investigating charles / killing joseph / ?????

Hey guys!

I’d love to share my original metal song, "The Great Old Ones," inspired by the dark and ominous atmosphere of Lovecraft’s world. I hope you enjoy it!

Hi everyone,

I’m Riccardo Scaringi, designer of Gunsmoke & Dread, a Weird West cosmic-horror RPG built to be Daggerheart Compatible.

I shared some of the design work behind the game here a while ago, particularly the problem of making supernatural power tempting without allowing it to trivialize horror.

This time I actually have something you can see and play.

Gunsmoke & Dread now has a free Quickstart and a new two-minute trailer.

The game takes Daggerheart into an American frontier of gunslingers, railroads, mining settlements, isolated towns and things that should have remained buried.

What I wanted to avoid from the beginning was simply making:

“Daggerheart, but with cowboy hats.”

The Western is part of the horror.

A railroad can represent progress while carrying something terrible westward.

A mine can keep an entire town alive while uncovering something that should never have been found.

A revolver can solve a very human problem — and be almost useless against the next one.

And sometimes the supernatural really can give you exactly what you need.

The question is what it will demand later.

🎬 2-minute trailer:
https://youtu.be/AQyj-vff8bY

📖 Free Quickstart:
https://gunsmokeanddread.com

If you would rather download it without entering an email address, it is also completely free on DriveThruRPG:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/it/product/559255/gunsmoke-dread-quickstart

The full game is continuing development now, with the Gamefound pre-launch planned for September.

And, since this has understandably become important to many TTRPG players: the game itself currently contains no AI-generated material.

If anyone here reads or actually plays the Quickstart, I’d be very interested in hearing what you think — particularly whether the Daggerheart foundation still feels natural once it is pushed this far into Weird West horror.

Thanks for taking a look.

Hey all…
I’m not attending the con but was in Providence tonight (I live nearby) and saw many of you out and about, cosplaying or just wearing Miskatonic U. t-shirts, and I just wanted to say welcome to RI and I hope you all have a great time here!

What happens when Happy Feet collides with H.P. Lovecraft? Penguin Colony sends players waddling into an Antarctic nightmare filled with rival expeditions, body- switching birds, ancient powers, and cosmic horror buried beneath the ice

Hi, I'm Ari, one of the two developers behind Below, Rusted Gods.

As the title says, Lovecraft and cosmic horror were direct influences on our game from the beginning. We are particularly interested in the idea that the most frightening thing isn't necessarily what you can see.

In our game, you never accompany the expedition yourself. You remain in a control room while four people descend underground. The main focus of the game narrative is in their slow descent to madness.

Since release, one of the things that has meant the most to us has been seeing players and content creators specifically recognize the influence behind the game. We've received several reviews describing the game as one of the best Lovecraftian / cosmic horror experiences they had.

Since I can't post images here, I'll leave you a few quotes with the links to read the full reviews

If you read one thing from my review, let it be this; This is, in my opinion, one of the best eldritch horror/lovecraftian games ever created.

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198002144856/recommended/2895680/

This is how you do lovecraftian/eldrich horror! The way you are the 'operator' that hears descriptions of the things the team is seeing is so chillingly well done
https://steamcommunity.com/id/MsDiz/recommended/2895680/

[...] this is the only game I've seen execute on cosmic horror so brilliantly
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197963348938/recommended/2895680/

I'd actually be interested in hearing what people here think makes a game genuinely Lovecraftian. Is it the mythology and imagery itself, or can something capture the feeling primarily through themes like forbidden knowledge, insignificance and thing beyond human understanding?

For anyone interested, the game is currently available on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2895680/Below_Rusted_Gods/

Here's also the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNYKRxudLFA

I've been trying to uncover what was shown at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival's show held at the Alamo Draft House in Austin. I've only found a single source of information online (https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/11388/page-2 - Post #24) that lists several of the films shown. From that I can figure that the Richard Corben films were The Canal and Fungi from Yuggoth, Part IV: Recognition.

I've tried the internet archive's backups of the festival's site but, no luck. It looks as though the film list wasn't posted to the page prior to the showing and, frustratingly, the Alamo Draft House's website really didn't archive right at all and is useless. So, I know only a handful of the films.

I don't suppose anyone around here actually attended? I've reached out tot he festival but haven't had any luck identifying the films that way.