“The Prisoner” and HP Lovecraft: Did Rover Arise from a Bloom of Shoggoths?
Works of Genius survive the death of the maestros that manifested them. For Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the vehicle was paper. For Patrick McGoohan, the other subject for our essay, the medium was...
View ArticleH.P. Lovecraft and H.R. Giger: Towards the Diary of a Diseased Fancy
In the ever-changing landscapes of reality, H.P. Lovecraft and H.R. Giger added their own distinctive road marks, landmarks, and monsters that forever became part of the collective human psyche.
View ArticleH.P. Lovecraft: The Mystical Ways of a Metaphysical Atheist
Lovecraft’s Uniqueness. That is what we want to explore in this essay, “What makes Lovecraft’s fiction trail-blazing?” Or specifically, while Lovecraft was a materialist and atheist, “What literary...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence and Lovecraft’s Elder Things: Will Humanity Echo...
In this discussion, we will address the following questions: How did H.P. Lovecraft view man’s emerging relationship to machines? What lessons can humanity take from the Earth first proto-men, the...
View ArticleUrban Legends about the Batman, Bob Kane, and H.P. Lovecraft
My emotional rollercoaster with the Batman movies brought to mind the difference between wish-fulfillment and reality. What I expected from such movies differed wildly from the reality I sat through...
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Lovecraft and Tolkien: Lovecraftian Horrors in Middle-earth?
In this essay, I would first like briefly to touch on how Lovecraft and Tolkien’s rigorous adherence to their literary sensibilities shaped later cultural expressions of myth and the macabre. Second, I...
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H.P. Lovecraft: Celebrating the Weird in His Words.
I would like to share some thoughts about why Lovecraft’s writings have endured while other weird fiction writers of that era - with the exception of equally pioneering authors, such as Robert E....
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“Forbidden Planet” and “At The Mountains of Madness”
Decades before "Forbidden Planet’"s theatrical run, Howard Phillips Lovecraft broke new imaginative grounds in "At the Mountains of Madness" (1931). Set in Antarctica, remote as the surface of the Moon...
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Lovecraft’s Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones: Fact, Fiction or Foretold in the...
From the mind of one man, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, stirred the Great Old Ones. They sprang forth as primal shadows cast from the dawn of time.
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Cosmicistic Currents and Lovecraftian Eddies in Rick Evans’s “In the Year 2525”
Lovecraft wrote: “I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to...
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H.P. Lovecraft and Vincent Van Gogh: “How Losing Their Religion Sharpened...
Evolution has led humanity to a tipping point. Unlike other animals, there is a fundamental conflict between what human beings want from the universe (whether it be meaning, order, or reasonableness)...
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H.P. Lovecraft and H.R. Giger: How Their Dreams Became Our Nightmares
What was it about these two non-descript men that intoxicated millions? Plus a fascinating list that details ten facets of Lovecraft’s dream life.
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“The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”: Will Immortal Human Beings enter the...
12 ways to prolong a human being’s life in the Lovecraftian Universe! Lovecraft portrayed a universe populated by ageless aliens -- giants in comparison to human beings, who amount to little more than...
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Darwin, King, or Lovecraft: “Will Homo Sapiens Devolve into Homo Canibalis?”
At the heart of several Lovecraft’s stories, there exists a fictional view of the next step in human evolution. Or perhaps I should say, what a misstep in evolution might bring.
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Lovecraft’s Cthulhu and Melville’s Moby Dick: “Cosmic Echoes from the Ocean...
As Ishmael floats helplessly atop the ocean deep, he becomes the stuff of Cosmicism - a strikingly lonely image of humanity adrift in a universe neither good nor evil. Death ends their...
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Lovecraft: Discovering the Man behind the Mythos
In this article, I would like briefly to trace my steps into the World of Lovecraft. I hope during the discussion that you find some common ground with your own HPL experiences.
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H.P. Lovecraft and H.R. Giger: “Was there a Madness to their Methods?”
Both Lovecraft and Giger dredged the hereditary memories of immemorial fear. Like the Grecian god Charon, they poled the haggard ferryboat to the dark underworld. Upon their return, each man captured...
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Lovecraft, Serling, or Sagan: What Future Awaits Mankind? by John A. DeLaughter
This post is by John A. DeLaughter, a Lovecraft eZine contributor. Is modern humanity one-step removed from hairy apedom? Have human beings crept that far from the primal ooze that […]
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H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of an Accidental Shaman
This post is by John A. DeLaughter, a Lovecraft eZine contributor. “Dream Weaver: I’ve just closed my eyes again Climbed aboard the dream weaver train Driver take away my worries […]
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Lovecraft’s Cosmicism Vs. American Idealism, by John A. DeLaughter
Do you recall a simpler time, when the fires of patriotism stirred you? What was it like? When I was in grade school, a music teacher came around to each […]
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