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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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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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“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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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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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...
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...
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 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 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 Article“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...
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