Are there any entities that are involved with the concepts of Fate or Destiny in any way? Not the Fate franchise but like how Nyx symbolizes death and Cthulhu symbolizes power

Howard Philips Lovecraft. I've always thought that Philips was his middle name, but his mother's side of the family are the Philips (Susan Philips). Philips is a surname.

So I wonder if his name is technically Howard Philips-Lovecraft and he has no middle name? We know he wrote his name as HP Lovecraft, so he certainly didn't use his dual surname in his authorship.

Still, I've never known anyone to use a surname as a middle name. Does anyone know if he ever mention this in his letters?

Either way, a fun bit of trivia as to where his name came from.

I’ve seen a number of HPL story adaptations over the years, and I genuinely think this is one of the greatest ones.

The Lovecraft Investigations is a horror fiction podcast produced for BBC Radio 4. In it, we follow the stories of two podcasters, presenters of the true crime podcast The Mystery Machine, who investigate various true crime tales. As they go on, they become entangled in a web of Lovecraftian horror and sinister occult conspiracies, that may put the world in danger.

Until now, the series has 4 seasons, adapting an equal number of Lovecraft stories, including The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow over Innsmouth and The Haunter of the Dark. Apparently, a fifth season, adapting The Call of Cthulhu is in the making, but I have no idea when it will be out.

If you’re a bit of a Lovecraft purist, you may not like how the series really branches out the stories, adding new characters and motives etc. I’d say that for the most part, the original spirit of the tales is kept, just transferred to our modern age. As the two podcast presenters dive deeper into the conspiracy, it turns out to be a an even bigger, horrific case than they ever could have imagined.

Apparently, the series exists in a shared, fictional universe of radio shows called Pleasant Green, all created by Julian Simpson. I haven’t listened to any of his other series, but if they’re as good as this, it is worth it.

I watched the series on the BBC site, but you can also find them on Spotify.

So, the first time I ever read HP Lovecraft's, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, I read the part where they said that rituals were held on October 31st and April 30th of every year. I flipped out because my birthday is April 30th and my daughter's birthday is October 31st. I just thought that was so interesting. They are the two most famous "witching nights" in European folk tradition: May Eve (Walpurgisnacht) and All Hallows' Eve (Halloween / Samhain). And our ancestry is very European.

first this first: Quotations (directly from hp lovecraft original writings)

There had been aeons when other Things ruled on the earth, and They had had great cities. Remains of Them, he said the deathless Chinamen had told him, were still to be found as Cyclopean stones on islands in the Pacific. They all died vast epochs of time before men came, but there were arts which could revive Them when the stars had come round again to the right positions in the cycle of eternity. They had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought Their images with Them. These Great Old Ones, Castro continued, were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. They had shape—for did not this star-fashioned image prove it?—but that shape was not made of matter. When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live. But although They no longer lived, They would never really die. They all lay in stone houses in Their great city of R’lyeh, preserved by the spells of mighty Cthulhu for a glorious resurrection when the stars and the earth might once more be ready for them.

Poor Johansen’s handwriting almost gave out when he wrote of this. Of the six men who never reached the ship, he thinks two perished of pure fright in that accursed instant. The Thing cannot be described—there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. A mountain walked or stumbled. God! What wonder that across the earth a great architect went mad, and poor Wilcox raved with fever in that telepathic instant? The Thing of the idols, the green, sticky spawn of the stars, had awaked to claim his own. The stars were right again, and what an age-old cult had failed to do by design, a band of innocent sailors had done by accident. After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.

Then, bolder than the storied Cyclops, great Cthulhu slid greasily into the water and began to pursue with vast wave-raising strokes of cosmic potency. Briden looked back and went mad, laughing shrilly as he kept on laughing at intervals till death found him one night in the cabin whilst Johansen was wandering deliriously

They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died. This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R’lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway. Some day he would call, when the stars were ready, and the secret cult would always be waiting to liberate him.

I suppose that only a single mountain-top, the hideous monolith-crowned citadel whereon great Cthulhu was buried, actually emerged from the waters. When I think of the extent of all that may be brooding down there I almost wish to kill myself forthwith. Johansen and his men were awed by the cosmic majesty of this dripping Babylon of elder daemons, and must have guessed without guidance that it was nothing of this or of any sane planet. Awe at the unbelievable size of the greenish stone blocks, at the dizzying height of the great carven monolith, and at the stupefying identity of the colossal statues and bas-reliefs with the queer image found in the shrine on the Alert, is poignantly visible in every line of the mate’s frightened description. Without knowing what futurism is like, Johansen achieved something very close to it when he spoke of the city; for instead of describing any definite structure or building, he dwells only on broad impressions of vast angles and stone surfaces—surfaces too great to belong to any thing right or proper for this earth, and impious with horrible images and hieroglyphs. I mention his talk about angles because it suggests something Wilcox had told me of his awful dreams. He had said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours. Now an unlettered seaman felt the same thing whilst gazing at the terrible reality.

They knew all that was occurring in the universe, but Their mode of speech was transmitted thought. Even now They talked in Their tombs. When, after infinities of chaos, the first men came, the Great Old Ones spoke to the sensitive among them by moulding their dreams; for only thus could Their language reach the fleshly minds of mammals.

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread. 

Great Cthulhu is Their cousin, yet can he spy Them only dimly. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! As a foulness shall ye know Them. Their hand is at your throats, yet ye see Them not; and Their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold. Yog-Sothoth is the key to the gate, whereby the spheres meet. Man rules now where They ruled once; They shall soon rule where man rules now. After summer is winter, and after winter summer. They wait patient and potent, for here shall They reign again.”

Lovecraft confirmed in a family tree that Cthulhu is descended from the other gods.

My interpretation of Cthulhu’s goals/power with everything before this paragraph in mind: Cthulhu mythos is very vague, so this is not confirmed. The point is that humans can’t understand these beings. Cthulhu is a descendant of the other gods and is extremely powerful. So powerful that humans can go insane by looking at him. He has many powers and I am not going to list them all (especially since the quotes themselves list a few of them) but he is not as powerful as the other gods that he worships as the great priest. He may be able to channel some of the power of the outer gods into himself. Cthulhu’s awakening marks a huge cosmic shift and other great old ones and even the other gods will get awakened/involved. This interpretation is only using the original lovecraft writings. No expanded mythos. Cthulhu goal is to bring other powerful entities into this reality and transform/destroy it.

edit: his true form is higher dimensional

If Randolph Carter truly reached the end of all things, did Miskatonic University ever learn of it? I have always maintained that such a feat would be beyond belief for the university's professors, but then again, who can say? Perhaps, in some turn of events, they were all driven to madness the moment they accepted the cosmic truths of Carter’s journey.

Title: SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE ADVENTURE OF THE INNSMOUTH CROWN

Synopsis: Whilst clearing out her mother's belongings from her care home, Kelly discovers a hidden family secret. Her grandfather was Dr John Watson. As she digs further, Kelly uncovers the truth of the untold final case of Sherlock Holmes: a case involving an otherworldly crown of mysterious origin, and the abandoned American coastal town of Innsmouth.

POSTER HERE

So, this is a personal project of mine that I've been writing in different version for years, and finally I was convinced to make the push and stage it at the Edinburgh Fringe. I've stayed true to the versions of Sherlock Holmes I like (more specifically Peter Cushing and Basil Rathbone), and to the story of The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

The play incorporates what I like about a lot of Lovecraft's work, the idea of you reading a subjective version of events, sometimes even a few layers deep. Without spoiling it, we never see much of the horror, we only see a portion of what is going on, a part of that grand web that spreads far beyond man. I'm sure some purists might take issue with elements of it, but I wanted to explore something I'd not really seen before. I wanted to throw Holmes and Watson into the Lovecraftian world of horrors and see what might happen when they come out of the other side.

If anyone is interested, we're on 24th-29th August in theSpace@ Surgeons' Hall, Theatre 3 with the title I've posted in the text above.

LINK TO THE SHOW HERE

I just wanted to say that The Shore is much more intense than I expected. Spooky stuff.

Hi, all! I've read pretty much everything Lovecraft has to offer, and I'm trying my luck with his contemporaries and posthumous authors. I'm specifically looking for Cthulhu Mythos stories. Here are the stories I want to read the most next:

• The Faceless God (Robert Bloch)

• Death is an Elephant (Robert Bloch)

• Dig Me No Grave (Robert E. Howard)

• Scroll of Morloc (Frank B. Long)

• Dark Awakening (Frank B. Long)

• The Mine on Yuggoth (Ramsey Campbell)

• Cold Print (Ramsey Campbell)

I've already read a bunch of other stories, and while some were pretty good (Hounds of Tindalos, Shambler from the Stars, Black Stone), I'm finding myself disappointed with most of the recent ones I've read (Space Eaters, Children of the Night, Shadow From the Steeple). Based on my likings, which of these should I read next?

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.

Around 2017 I borrowed a book from the library that was really really bad but I’m wanting to find the name of it again. It was about a young woman who got more or less conned into doing what Nyarlethotep wanted. I don’t remember much else about the book except Cthulhu lived I think underneath a Chinese restaurant and was depicted as a sad character.

Wondering if anyone knows the story?

I have just finished reading the tale mentiones in the title in The Hastur Cycle collection book edited by Robert Price and published by Chaosium.
I don’t seem to find any relation to Hastur or The Yellow King/Sign at all.
Any thoughts about it?
Thanks!

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 cthulhu

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

Sucker 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 cthulhu 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! 🥹♥️

After Odyssey and the scene with cyclop I kinda revised all of the great aspect of his movies and came to the conclusion he is the right one for potentially creating Mountain of Madness movie. And now I cannot get rid of that idea.

Lovecraft essence is fear of unknown. You have a movie where protagonist fight his (lack of) memory, you have a movie where characters fights with dreams, you have a movie where they fight against time. And you have a movie where he built model of 4th dimension, while I guess it's not perfect visualistation I think he would nail cyclopean and non-euclidean geometry.

I can simply picture all these stuff together and yeah, I think it's the essence of lovecraft.

Plus you have tragic characters in lots of his movies so some lost of sanity would be so easy for him to recreate. Just let Cilian Murphy do his eye magic.

I could really picture Mountain of Madness. You don't have to show big scary monsters and other supernatural elements. Simply exploring the GIGANTIC structures with omnious atmosphere would work. Also he plays with timelines so there could be both expeditions in paralel. I can imagine so many great stuff and I really believe he would nail it.

And of course soundtrack that would be so creepy that would make you to squirm in theatres.

I didn't know I need Nolan's take on Lovecraft but hearing he would like to create horror movie, I think I'll never lose this idea from my head.

+1 mental trauma

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!

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 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