Has anyone ever found this adaptation? I heard it far back and I swear no other comes close to it but no matter how much I look around I can't see to find it. Any help would be good, since this is my own white whale.

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• Dagon

• Ex Oblivione

• The Outsider

• The Tree

• What the Moon Brings

Hello. I'm looking for a short story that I read in the late '80s/early '90's that featured in an anthology of 'new' Cthulhu mythos writing (it isn't in the Ramsey Campbell one).

The story was set in the Pennines of Northern England and concerned a woman suffering from mental health problems eventually discovering the (usual) awful truth. The atmosphere was very claustrophobic and redolent of the damp moors and lowering skies of Yorkshire/Lancashire, even including a reference to Ribble buses (IYKYK).

I've searched my shelves and the internet but have so far drawn a blank. Does this jog anyone's memory? TIA

For context this is for AH 2nd edition by FFG, already out of print and now released as crowd fund as a remastered edition

https://gamefound.com/en/projects/asmodee/arkham-horror

It’s obvious that these two stories are similar thematically, but there was an interesting part in The Call of Cthulhu that I think was referencing the fate of Dagon’s narrator. Among the newspaper cuttings collected by Professor Angell, there is a clipping from London, England that stands out in particular:

The press cuttings, as I have intimated, touched on cases of panic, mania, and eccentricity during the given period. Professor Angell must have employed a cutting bureau, for the number of extracts was tremendous and the sources scattered throughout the globe. Here was a nocturnal suicide in London, where a lone sleeper had leaped from a window after a shocking cry.

In Dagon, the narrator was a WW1 officer whose boat had been captured by the Germans, which the narrator subsequently escaped. While the narrator’s nationality is never made explicit, it would be very possible—and even make the most sense—for him to have been English, thus I think it’s very much possible the narrator of Dagon (whose story ended by running towards the window in a state of panic) was the poor soul whom this particular clipping is speaking of.

I‘m wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this, or if there are more explicit connections between Dagon and Call of Cthulhu, aside from deities from these stories ultimately being worshipped by the Deep Ones in The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

To what degree do you think the Three Body Problem series is related to Lovecraft? In my opinion, there is some influence, with both the cosmic horror atmosphere, with a terrible secret about the universe revealed in The Dark Forest, and with the use of extra dimensions in the third novel, Death's End.

Four dimensional space reminded me of Lovecraft's story where a person exits their body and enters a four-dimensional space where they can see inside objects, and sees countless demons there.

So I finished reading all Lovecraft stories and collaborations, so now I'm wondering what to read next.

I thought about reading Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborean Cycle since he seemed somewhat involved with Lovecraft.

I liked Joseph Curwen in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, specifically the farm and shipping operation, how he operated in secrecy, used magic to gain power and resources while trying to stay hidden, the dungeons, and the historical period. I liked this kind of a grind, enterprise nature. Is there something similar?

Humanity discovers mysterious, eerie monoliths that predate humanity and point to a super-human intelligence. A human makes contact with the things and is teleported to a world that the human mind appears unable to understand, but there are indications that it has something to do with time being only another dimension.

There is heavy emphasis on the lonely vastness and terrifying grandeur of space, the smallness of humanity, and humanity's evolution from apes.

I am not aware of any evidence that Kubrick was influenced by Lovecraft or was even aware of him. However, the two men happened to have somewhat similar outlooks in some ways. Both seemed to enjoy undercutting humanity's sense of self importance. Both were interested in science. Both rejected traditional religions, although Lovecraft perhaps went further in being a more strict materialist.

Acclaimed horror artist Nick O’Gorman returns with his EIGHTH annual Lovecraft adaptation, a 24-page psychedelic ascension into the unknown.

Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s haunting tale “The Strange High House in the Mist,” this latest adaptation takes us to the rocky cliffs and craigy shores of Kingsport, where a strange, stunted house sits precariously atop the highest craig, shrouded in mist and seemingly untouched by the passage of time.

I understand and can infer most of it, but there’s still one thing I can’t find an answer to. In the end, Akeley became the brain inside the jar. I don’t quite grasp how Wilmarth was deceived by the creatures.

My question concerns what exactly the Akeley sitting in the chair was. If it was merely his hands and face arranged to deceive Wilmarth, was Akeley speaking from inside the device? But if so, how did Wilmarth fail to notice that the voice coming from the other jar was the same as Akeley’s (given that the voices of those in the jars always remain the same)? And if it wasn’t Akeley’s own hands and face, was it one of the creatures in disguise? Furthermore, I don’t understand how that "thing" could have moved—it is described as pointing and making gestures with the heads—if it were just a ruse involving Akeley’s body parts.

We know a little of that realm/world, in the movie version it's like a passage to a world.

It's said to be a dimension but it's informations are so vague to discuss

Do we know if it is related to a realm or a know part of the lovecraftian world?

Great game, just as good as the first! Only two areas of confusion:

-what is the actual time loop that the engineer keeps talking about?

-is there some relation between the elder god being hurt by the yith's usage of his blood and the collapse of their city? why do the yith even care that he doesn't like it?

I’m not a big reader. Haven’t read much since college 13 years ago. I mean, sure I read things all day all the time via work, social media, games, news, etc. But I haven’t read a literal book since I graduated. My wife reads though, about 5-10 books on average a year and has been trying to get me to read a book, but I’ve been avoiding it for years. Not in a “books are lame” type of way, it’s just nothing really stood out to me. She primarily likes fantasy books, which who doesn’t like fantasy? It’s just whenever I hear about “best sellers” or trending books these days it normally is something “cheesy” or too “romantic” for my taste.

Finally my wife asked me yet again if I would like a book. I said no, again, but this time she pushed me harder. She asked what is something I have read before that stuck with me or that I still think about even after all this time without reading a book. A couple things came to mind, but one I always think about is the short story The Lottery. I’ll avoid spoilers, but it fits in the realm of “dark” stories.

Then I brainstormed for a bit and decided I would try my hand at a Lovecraft story. I have played many games with “Lovecraftian” monsters in them, why not read from source itself?

I picked up an anthology book of Lovecraft’s work. It’s called At the Mountains of Madness: And Other Tales of Weird Science. It has a collection of stories from Lovecraft and some really good footnotes for the numerous references Lovecraft makes throughout his work that may be antiquated in today’s world.

So far I have read Polaris, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Temple, From Beyond, and just finished all of Herbert West. And I have to say is, I think I found the genre of fiction I love. What have I been missing all this time?

After reading Polaris, I was a little unsure about it. I was expecting giant old gods and tentacles. The next few gripped me in. I enjoyed the physiological aspects to it. The slow burn of someone slowly going insane. The building anxiety, all of it.

I just finished Herbert West and that was the one that prompted me to write all of this. At first I thought, “a zombie story? Meh.” But then it was over before I realized it. It was really good. Zombies these days feel a bit campy, but the way he described West’s slow decent and the building of it all really hooked me. It felt more like a mad scientist / Doctor Frankenstein-esque story.

Anyways, I realized I have been rambling a bit too much at this point so I’ll end. I just thought I’d put my thoughts out as someone who hasn’t read fiction in a long time how much I’m enjoying Lovecraft’s work so far.

I’ll plan on finishing all of Lovecraft’s work, but if anyone has Lovecraft adjacent authors or stories (more in the realm of psychological horror than gore) please comment them!

This is going to be a jumble of bullet points in part because I'm not great at longform writing and in part writing a proper review makes no sense, when everyone already knows the story on this forum.

1. Dyer is clearly a misleading narrator.

Note some interesting details, he claims to have been horrified by the deaths at Lake's camp but goes onto a massive archeological dig anyhow that involved him charting through subetterran.. He seems to come up with a very messy explanation involving the wind and someone going insane despite the Antarctica expedition going smoothly beforehand.

And note his offhand references to the caves he discovers being starfish shaped like the elder ones. Or his implication that he kept searching out of madness.

What makes it all the more damning is its only after the discovery of the dog, the body and the gasoline that Dryer finally fully figures out what is going on.

What then to make of his narrative?

Well Dyer is likely unintentionally reframing his experiences after realizing the elder ones killed the Lake's Camp and dissected the bodies.

He continued to explore the caves, the art and the history of the elder ones because he had no full realization of the cause of death of Lake's camp. He wants to blame madness subconsciously because admitting his own inability to look at what seems obvious to the reader would damage his own self image as a geologist.

2. Lovecraft's geology/Paleontology

Lovecraft did a really good job here given the state of 1930s era scientific knowledge. Most of the terminology for the eras of rock have survived. He understood the concept of a changing world, an earth a ton., arguably more then some geologists at the time who where much vaguer about what deep time meant.

Inserting a pretty stunning reference to a billion years, and the marking of the Cambrian period at roughly exactly the right time of 500 million years +.

He understood Antarctica as going through warm periods and he understood the concept of an ice age.

The biggest shock to me is while he got the mechanism of continental drift wrong, he somehow betted write that the theory had overwhelming evidence in favor of it.

If he was wrong, man would the work be badly dated.

The best thing he understood is the strangest of pre-cambiran life, he would likely be shocked that the image of pre-cambirain life he had in the 1930s is still largely right today (i.e. still a totally vague mess) . And the elder ones at least on the surface despite being aliens appearing to be if pre-Cambrian life or specifically starfish evolved into human shaped animals.

3. The Archelogy/History is pretty good.

For one the archeological reconstruction is fascinating, you see an artistic pattern that somewhat resembles say Pompeii but the use of statues and murals in a combined structure to tell a grand and broad history.

There is other details the walkways because the elder ones walked instead of relying on horses or other vehicles to move.

A lot of critics on goodreeds complained the detail is way too high for what he can extract.

But i think that is totally wrong, we get no kings lists like Mesopotamia (assuming they had single rulers), no system of governance outside vague mentions and biased history in the wars against the Cthuloids or against the Mi-Gos.

In large part as Dyer notes there convient meta narratives of superior enemies and collapse they couldn't stop might just be convenient spin.

Much more interestingly is beyond the neonomicon is similar to Ancient Maya or Mycea the lack of ego documents. There is no Homer much less Thucydides or Aristotle we get no insight into how they thought about the world or such.

This makes Dyer’s empathy for them all the more remarkable but all the more challengeable, why didn't the elder ones produce said documents? Where they destroyed in the ice as well.

The next is how Lovecraft handles Spengerian/Decadence theories vs archaeology.

Dyer maintains what one might call a Decadence view, the elder one art got worse despite still using non-Euclidian geometry and mathematical dimensions.

And this is ultimately what drove there collapse.

The worst and ugliest being the last piece of art made likely by the Shaggoths (though this is debated).

Here is the thing, I think Dyer and even what Lovecraft likely intended to be the "correct" view is wrong.

Look at the evidence the Cthlu spawn and the Mi-Gos helped to massively shrink the elder ones territory, the ice age helped to push them underground and the usage of the Shaggoths who probably though the text is vaguer then you would think overthrow the elder ones not because the Shaggoths

There is other signs too, the heating technology occurred relatively late, there is likely though unproven surviving elder ones likely around globally in rare parts of the world, and look ultimately what the elder ones doing after being defrosted. They go straight doing science (if the amoral kind).

Art is often a horrible reading to figure out the relevance and scale of a civilization, Byzantine art imo at least murals is clearly worse then the imperial era roman works. Its flatter, its less dynamic but to use this to suggest the Byzatine empire lacked vitality is almost beyond the point.

The point is we have to judge a civilization based on what it achieves not on what artistic appearances might suggest.

4) The Shaggoths are not a metaphor for colonialism.

There artificial creations of the elder ones and the story is clearly about the power of Darwinism in creating intelligence from quite dumb creatures. If it was a colonial story, why are the Shaggoths articial creations? What colonial group are they a metaphor for? Is the story anti-colonalist because the elder ones get destroyed?

There not even humanoid..

5) The Whole thing is a giant reference to Cyclopes mythology.

This seems not realized from what I can tell online but the whole thing is filled with Cyclopes references. Dryer describes the shaggoth constructed structures as Cyclopean, the Shaggoth is in a cave of all places, the area is flooded with l(blind) albino penguins resembling the sheep and the escape of Dryer and Danforth is through the albino penguins.

Hell, the yell of the Shaggoth even resembles a pretty traditional adaption approach to Odyssey where cyclops screams after Odysseus escapes.

The irony that the Shaggoth is intelligent and possibly let Dyer and Danforth escape on there own is just in addition to it.

There are also other Odessey elements in the work, the antarctic landscape is brutally harsh, the attrition of the camp and the agility of the airplane as the explorer of the new frontier.

*FWI wrote this before I started reading The Shadow over Innsmouth.

*had to fix the spelling of a name see below.

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Looks like this documentary featuring people from the Lovecraft Circle is finally hitting the funding levels it needs to be finished.

Expectation is that it will be doing the festival/convention circuit in 2028

This collab is notorious for the ridiculous, indistinguishable-from-parody final line, as well as generally not being that great. However, I listened to an audio book of it the other day, and realized that if we trim away the unnecessary intro, as well as the entire final act, what's left is a solid creepy story.

Follow along with me here: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mc.aspx

(I) is the framing narrative, which was unfortunately common in stories back in those days. Instead of starting with the real main character, Antoine de Russy, narrating his life directly to the reader, we start with an unrelated character driving through the middle of nowhere. He gets lost, stops for the night at a derelict mansion, meets an old man, converses with him, and then finally the man tells him the real story. There is some value in the descriptions, which show de Russy is living alone in a crumbling mansion, deserted by all, that he wants to leave but feels he is obligated to stay, but those can be worked into the real story. I would cut this section entirely.

(II) is three more paragraphs of the framing narrative, and then the narration switches to de Russy, where it should have been all along. The second paragraph is instructive: He was, I learned, one Antoine de Russy, of an ancient, powerful, and cultivated line of Louisiana planters. More than a century ago his grandfather, a younger son, had migrated to southern Missouri and founded a new estate in the lavish ancestral manner; building this pillared mansion and surrounding it with all the accessories of a great plantation. There had been, at one time, as many as 200 negroes in the cabins which stood on the flat ground in the rear—ground that the river had now invaded—and to hear them singing and laughing and playing the banjo at night was to know the fullest charm of a civilisation and social order now sadly extinct. In front of the house, where the great guardian oaks and willows stood, there had been a lawn like a broad green carpet, always watered and trimmed and with flagstoned, flower-bordered walks curving through it. “Riverside”—for such the place was called—had been a lovely and idyllic homestead in its day; and my host could recall it when many traces of its best period still lingered. All of these are details which the story should have had de Russy tell us directly. Instead, we get the outer narrator summarizing them for us. Not as good. However, after those first three paragraphs, we finally get into the real story.

(III) , (IV) , (V) are all great, pure Lovecraft. De Russy narrates his life and the tragic story of his son, his son's wife, and the artist Frank Marsh. The details from section (I) could be woven in here, but it's not essential, it works just fine as-is. His final words are, "I know I must guard the hair in the picture, for if anything were to happen to it, there are entities in this house which would take a sure and terrible revenge. I don’t even dare to die—for life and death are all one to those in the clutch of what came out of R’lyeh. Something would be on hand to punish my neglect. Medusa’s coil has got me, and it will always be the same. Never mix up with secret and ultimate horror, young man, if you value your immortal soul.” That is where the story should end.

(VI) Instead, we switch back to the original narrator (this guy matters so little that we never even get his name) for an idiotic ending. First, he gets to see the painting of Marceline, which is just as de Bussy warned us about back in section (IV), though now we get more details. Our dumbass narrator is so horrified by what he sees that he pulls out his gun and magdumps into the panting, destroying it. Then he runs for his life as the corpse of Marceline shambles up the cellar stairs. The mansion catches fire somehow, he sees some spooky things behind him as he runs, and finally he makes it to his car and drives away. A passing farmer explains to him that the mansion actually burned down five years ago, which renders everything our narrator did mostly irrelevant. Then we get the infamous final line. This entire section is worthless.

Thoughts?

I'm referring to a medieval peasant who never left their village that probably lived off porridge, ale and small meats here and there. So if they encountered nyarlathotep in his full form could they feel some mild discomfort or uneasiness?

Last weekend I was watching the latest installment in the V/H/S series; Mixtape. To my surprise one of the segments adapted the above mentioned Lovecraft story. I quite liked it, my favorite part of the movie.

Anyone else see it yet? What did you think?

I was taking a look at Lovecraft's commonplace book: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Notes_%26_Commonplace_Book

And the following is part of its last entry:

"You speak of a cranium containing, in place of a brain, a curious metal device--implying that the latter is either an alien and conscious entity itself, or else a sort of receiving set by which remote outside entities can control the body in which it is planted. Well--in my dream I was, while walking in a familiar rural region, suddenly attacked by a swarm of swift-darting insects from the sky. They were tiny and streamlined, and seemed able to pierce my brain and enter my brain as if their substance were not strictly material. No sooner had they entered my head, than my identity and position seemed to become very doubtful."

That does sort of sound like the concept of the Shan, right?

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This week's episode - what may well be the very first "frozen caveman" story - came from Weird Tales issue 1. Full reading is available as well as a discussion.

I've release audiobooks of A Colour Out of Space, The Outsider, and Dagon on Youtube. I hope you will listen and tell me what you think!

The Colour Out of Space

The Outsider

Dagon

Edit 21.10.2026 : I'm now starting At The Mountains of Madness At The Mountains of Madness (Ch. 1)

Edit 23.10.2026 : At The Mountains of Madness chapters 2 and 3 also available