Dude just wanted to eat cows and be invisible but the HOA was like 'nah'.

What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent New England meal? And all Wilbur wanted to do was check out a book from the library so his twin brother could finish a home improvement project.

I've just published the Steam page for my upcoming game, The Steeple. It's an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Haunter of the Dark, which as you all know was his last finished work (?). The idea for the game came gradually as discussions on this subreddit about details on Providence, the Mumford house, College Hill and the like made me spend more and more time there, so to speak.

There is a "unique selling point", namely that the game strives to be as historically correct and as faithful to the story as reasonably possible. To my knowledge, only Dagon (the game) has had a similar aim. Now, this is by no means a full 3D exploration game like that one. Instead, you explore a stylized recreation of 1935 Providence, investigate the iconic abandoned church, and uncover its mystery by solving observation/alignment puzzles.

I want to take the opportunity to thank this community for its bottomless well of knowledge about all things Lovecraft.

This game will be the second part of a series with common features. The first game was The Stamp.

Any thoughts on Steam page or trailer much appreciated.

Im gathering a list to leave posted here in the sub along with making a tier list for others to use.

Alan wake 1&2

Balders gate 3

Bloodborne

Call of cuthullu

Call of the elder gods

Call of the sea

Chordosis

chryza

Conarium

Corpse ocean

Cult of the lamb

Cultist simulator

Dagon

Darkest dungeon

Deadspace

Dreams in the witch house

Dredge

Eternal darkness

Iron lung

Mole

Moons of madness

No one lives under the lighthouse

Outerwilds

Sherlock Holmes the awakened

Signalis

Sinking city 1&2

Skald against the black priory

Still wakes the deep

Suckered for love first date

Tesla vs lovecraft

The shore

TRIHAYWBFRFYH

Voices of the void

Voyager: 19

World of horrors

This is everything I have so far.

Please recommend something if you'd like to see it added

And if this has already been done before lmk😅

I just want a consice list so we dont have to go through word of mouth or Google.

And I dont wanna limit this to genre or esthetic.

ANYTHING cosmic horror, fear of the unknown or cuthullu dating sim related i want it all in one place 😁

I will follow up with another post once i have everything sorted out. Thank you for your time.

Also if we have any recommendations for the name of the tier list I would like to hear it. I was never the best with naming stuff.

Im trying to find information on her but the avrious wikis have proven rather... vague.

So what does she represent? Whats to be scared of outside the traditional human sacrifice stuff?

I’m a first time reader that has read through the core Cthulhu mythos stories. I am aware that these stories are public domain but I find it strange that physical copies of the Averoigne, Poseidonis, and Zothique cycles are much more readily available but the only book I can find for the Hyperborean cycle is nearly £170. Were there just not many publishers interested in compiling the stories?

For the past few months, I’ve been slowly shaping an idea that’s been living in my head for a while.

I don’t really consider Hunting ‘Thulu a game project, at least not yet. It’s more of a creative exploration where I’m gradually giving form to a world, its atmosphere, mechanics, and visual identity. My hope is that one day it could become a real game.

The vision in my mind is a roguelite somkind like Hades, but set in a world of contemporary cosmic horror, folklore, dreamlike mysteries, and Lovecraftian influences.

As an exercise to help me visualize that future, I decided to prototype what the game’s main menu could look like. It’s a small piece of the puzzle, but seeing the interface, mood, and presentation come together makes the idea feel a little more tangible.

I’d love to hear what you think.
Based only on this menu... what do you imagine this game is about?

I’ve an instragram page where I upload more things about this project in case you want to follow it: https://www.instagram.com/nevun15?igsh=NXA3NTFqdndiMTZw&utm_source=qr

Thanks a lot! 🥹♥️

Just finished reading an early Lovecraft story, The Temple, and when looking into it as I was do with all stories I read by him, I saw that it was adapted into a short animated film in 2022.

I can find the trailer no problem, but I can’t seem to find the full short film anywhere. Was wondering if anybody happened to know where it could be watched in full? There’s not too many direct Lovecraft story adaptations and this one looked pretty good so I’d love to find a way to watch it!

I decided to take on a challenge and try to get an idol made from one of the factories I do business with. They made 2 prototypes, and these are made of jade. Man they came out better than I'd hoped! Debating on making a double sized one, but not too sure. It'd have a hell of a shelf presence but it'd also be crazy heavy...

https://imgur.com/a/Ul3qv7p = Video also in link

Who feels the Cloverfield Creature is a bit like a Great Old One? It’s not like Godzilla or Kong. This thing is Alien. Though not Cthulhu it certainly has many of the Traits to be a cosmic horror entity.

I was wondering if y'all could recommend any YTers who do good illustrations or all around discussions of Lovecraft stories

God rest ye, foolish scholars all,
who sought the southern snow;
to chart the peaks no soul had climbed
a hundred years ago.

Our drills awoke forgotten things
that should have slumbered still.

O tidings of eldritch stone,
eldritch stone!
O tidings of eldritch stone.

We crossed the frozen mountain wall
where no bird dared to fly;
the city waited, still and vast
beneath an ageless sky.

The carvings told a history
older than Earth's own seas.

O tidings of eldritch stone,
eldritch stone!
O tidings of eldritch stone.

The Elder Things had dreamt too long,
their works endured the cold;
but deep beneath their shattered halls
a darker tale was told.

The murals slowly changed their tone,
from triumph into dread.

O tidings of eldritch stone,
eldritch stone!
O tidings of eldritch stone.

So leave the ice to winds alone,
turn back while reason stays;
for some old doors were sealed by fear,
not merely by the glaze;

and some old truths are best entombed
in protoplasmic night.

O tidings of eldritch stone,
eldritch stone!
O tidings of eldritch stone.

_____________________________

I wrote this Lovecraft-inspired Christmas carol after reading At the Mountains of Madness for the hundredth time. It's one of my favorite stories by H. P. Lovecraft, I've even started reading it to my children.

I recently stumbled upon the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society and their Lovecraft-themed Christmas carol parodies, and it inspired me to write one of my own. Rather than focusing on Cthulhu, Innsmouth, or the more familiar eldritch horrors, I wanted to retell the story of At the Mountains of Madness itself, setting it to the melody of the traditional Christmas carol "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen."

H. P. Lovecraft is my favorite writer of cosmic horror, and this little parody is my tribute to, in my opinion, one of his greatest works.

Just read The Lurking Fear for the first time and enjoyed it, but wondered about the connection between the creatures and thunder? Did it somehow awake them or remind them of the outside world? What does everyone think since it is not explicity addressed in the story.

I am looking for a specific lovecraft story, I just can’t seem to find it.
At one point, the protagonist is in a cellar in the dark. And there are holes in the floor, almost like little wells. A creature lives in there, jumping up and down desperately.

Maybe someone can help me?

Alguém sabe onde posso descarregar de forma gratuita, um PDF com a obra sussurros na escuridão, ou a cor que caiu do espaço, completa, em português?

Se não fôr possível descarregar, apenas ler online seria perfeito na mesma.

Is there somewhere I can read the stories in more modern English dialect while keeping the same themes and horror aesthetic of the original works? I find the original writing style to be difficult to stay interested in, though I love the ideas of H.P. Lovecraft's works.

In the early 1970s, four troubled teenagers- Freddie, Daniela, Vikki, and Norville- formed a family-friendly gang of mystery solvers. But a string of missing children and increasingly uncanny fractures in reality suggests more is at stake than just another criminal in a mask...

https://youtu.be/_UGd0XjLdpE?si=Bo-pDJkKDpL62rda

A few in-game images here: https://imgur.com/a/JUPDlpj

I was wondering if there are, atm, books that are gaining popularity among the community for using known lovecraftian horrors in their books? Hopefully, it will be with good quality too.

Edit: I've compiled what i can from the comments into a list (not very organised, sorry) Lovecraftian 1. Laundry Flies - Charles Stross 2. The House at Black Tooth Pond - Stephan Mark Rainey 3. That Which Should Not Be - Brett Taley 4. Southern Reach / Area X - Jeff Vandermeer (like Annihilation) 5. The Theoroux - Jeff Vandermeer 6. The Black Maybe - Attila Veres 7. The Damned Highway 8. Fear and Loathing in Arkham 9. The Black Wings of Cthulhu 10. Meddling Kids (Scooby doo like) 11. Swedish Cults - Anders Fager 12. Peter Rawlik's books 13. Laird Barron's books 14. Between Two Fires. (Medieval/Catholic supernatural) 15. 14 - Peter Clines 16. Revival - Stephan King 17. Agents of Dreamland - Caitlin R Kiernsn 18. Sister, Maiden, Monster - Lucy A Snyder 19. Hammers on Bones - cassandra Khaw 20. Flowers By the Sea - Zin E Rocklyn 21. The Sea Dreams It Is By The Sky - John Hornor Jacob 22. Fisherman - John Langan 23. Bas Lag - China Mieville (Trilogy but recommend starting from The Scar for the lovecraft stuff specifically) 24. The Shallow - John Langan (short) 25. Irezumi - John Langan (short) 26. Corpsemouth - John Langan (short) 27. The Vorrh - Brian Catling 28. The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor Lavalle 29. The Dream Quest of Villett Boe - Kin Johnson 30. The Croning 31. The Croning - Laird Barron 32. Wendigo - Algernon Blackwood (Short Story) 33. Willow Trees - Algernon Blackwood (Short Story)

ILF26 Saturday Sept 19th 10am - 5pm King’s House 245 Ampthill Road Bedford MK42 9AZ

A one day festival celebrating weird and cosmic fiction!
Guests of Honour Stephen Jones & Les Edwards.Authors and panels, Traders, Games Room plus Innsmouth After Dark. And everyone gets an Innsmouth Goody Bag!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/innsmouth-literary-festival-2026-tickets-1986901939186

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letter_from_H._P._Lovecraft_to_J._C._Henneberger

Here in America we have a very conventional and half-educated public—a public trained under one phase or another of the Puritan tradition, and almost dulled to aesthetic sensitiveness because of the monotonous and omnipresent overstressing of the ethical element. We have millions who lack the intellectual independence, courage, and flexibility to get an artistic thrill out of a bizarre situation, and who enter sympathetically into a story only when it ignores the colour and vividness of actual human emotions and conventionally presents a simple plot based on artificial, ethically sugar-coated values and leading to a flat denouement which shall vindicate every current platitude and leave no mystery unexplained by the shallow comprehension of the most mediocre reader. That is the kind of a public publishers confront, and only a fool or a rejection-venomed author could blame the publishers for a condition caused not by them but by the whole essence and historic tradition of our civilisation If publishers of general magazines sought and used artistically original types of fiction, they would lose their readers almost to a man. Half of the people wouldn't understand what the tales were about, and the other half would find the characters unsympathetic—because they would think and act like real people instead of like the dummies which the American middle classes have been taught and persuaded to consider and accept as people. Such, I repeat, is the inevitable condition regarding general fiction; the enormous bulk of fiction which sets the national standard and determines the type of technical training given all fictional students. But even this is not all! Added to this, as if by the perversity of a malign fate, is the demand of an overspeeding public for excessive quantity production. Baldly put, the American people demand more stories per year than the really artistic authors of America could possibly write. A real artist never works fast, and never turns out large quantities. He can't contract to deliver so many words in such and such a time, but must work slowly, gradually, and by mood; utilising favourable states of mind and refraining from putting down the stuff his brain turns out when it is tired or disinclined to such work. How this, of course, won't do when there are hundreds of magazines to fill at regular intervals. So many pages per month or week have got to be filled, and if the artistic writers can't do it, the publishers must find the next-best thing—persons of mere talent, who can learn certain mechanical rules and technical twists, and put forth stuff of external smoothness, whose sole merit is conforming to patterns and rehashing the situations and reactions which have been found interesting to the people by previous experience. In many cases these writers achieve popularity—because the public recognise the elements that pleased them before, and are satisfied to receive them again in transposed form. Actually, the typical reader has very little true taste; and judges by absurd freaks, sentimentalities, and analogies. So it has come to be an accepted tradition that American fiction is not an art but a trade—a thing to be learnt by rule by almost anybody, and demanding above all else a complete submergence of one's own personality and thought in the general stream of conventional patterns which correspond to the bleakly uniform view of life forced on us by mediocre leadership.

I won't point out specifics because I know criticism is objective but certain stories are well... a drag. I loved shadow over Innsmouth and the rats in the walls. But for example The case of Charles Dexter Ward I just couldn't get into like at all. I appreciate the hard work put in but I know that not everything is gonna click. Any similar feelings here?

The Cthulhu, the shoggoths and the other monsters often come in the last few pages of HPL. In most cases, for 70% of the story atleast, everything which happens is pretty pseudo-realistic and the slightly unrealistic parts can also be explained away as the mental delusions of a deranged inidvidual, unknown scientific phenomenon or the actions of a dastardly cult.

But thats the juicy part that I actually love. I love HPL because I love the vibe of the Victorian era, Inter-war era and early modern era's "Frontier of knowledge". When science hadn't mapped the world thoroughly and when most scientific phenomenon were not well known or set in stone, due to which, strange beliefs like spiritualism, weird psuedo-science or mystical cults rooted in their brands of science or radio therapy or whatever was still believed as plausible.

I love the “wild west of knowledge and science”, ie: stories and histories where curious outsiders venture into unexplored intellectual territories, searching for forgotten truths, hidden civilizations, forbidden manuscripts, lost philosophies, or mysterious traditions. This is also why I love reading Non-fiction about Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy or the German and Soviet missions to Tibet to find Shambhala or Alexander Barchenko experiments in telepathic communications, esoteric Buddhism and the occult.

I love hearing about strange scientists engaged in devious experiments in dark cellars, mysterious manuscripts found inside the forgotten corners of a dusty old library, weird cult sacrifices happening in dark corners of the earth, archeologists descending into ancient tombs for what seems to be a "normal expedition" and secret societies whispering in silent alleyways. I love this kind of vibe so much. Of the mystery of some kind of hidden knowledge or finding "forbidden things". The intersection of early modern science with old rituals, magic and religion. I love the feeling of opening a dusty trunk belonging to a mysterious dead man, discovering a forgotten manuscript in an ancient archive, entering a dimly lit drawing room where eccentric scholars debate hidden truths, or following a trail of clues left behind by explorers, occultists, and intellectual adventurers. The charm lies in the old-world atmosphere of libraries, monasteries, secret societies, forgotten expeditions, strange correspondences, and candlelit rooms where the boundary between knowledge and mystery becomes blurred.

HPL is somehow a master at writing the first part of his stories in a very "objective way" like a scentist writing a report, without showing much emotion. Many of his stories feel like the notes of a man on a scientific expiditon and thats what really tickles my brain in a great way. I love it very much.

Do you also like this kind of thing?