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Lovecraft and Chaos Behind the Wizard’s Curtain
This post is by John DeLaughter, a Lovecraft eZine contributor. The Unveiling of the Wizard, from MGM’s Wizard of Oz, has become a cultural icon. Despite the fireworks, Toto scampers […]
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“Gothic Gotchas and Prussian Pathologies in Lovecraft’s The Temple”, By John...
This post is by John A. DeLaughter, a Lovecraft eZine contributor. Every great author has spun a nautical yarn or two. Peter Benchley had Jaws, Samuel Taylor Coleridge had Rime […]
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Lovecraft’s Views on Cats (and Dogs), Their Function in His Selected Works,...
This post is by John A. DeLaughter, a Lovecraft eZine contributor. What did Albert Einstein, Sir Winston Churchill, George Burns and H.P. Lovecraft have in common? Other than death? Each […]
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Mommie Dearest: H.P. Lovecraft’s Descent into Maternal Madness By John A....
This post is by John A. DeLaughter, a Lovecraft eZine contributor. Mommie Dearest was one of the first celebrity tell-all books (later to become a movie starring Faye Dunaway). In […]
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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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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, 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 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: 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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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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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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“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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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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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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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...
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