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- Jan 4, 2020
Saw that there wasn't a thread for works surrounding the mythos as a whole and needed to change that.
The Cthulhu Mythos is a ficitional mythos created by everyone's favorite autistic turbo racist, H.P. Lovecraft. In it, humanity learns horrifying truths about how insignifigant they are, how we aren't the true apex predators, how there are fates worse than death, and how we are but pawns for more advanced and powerful beings. It ended up being the genre maker (or at least codifier) for the cosmic horror genre, and spanned both urban fantasy and scifi (Lovecraft shifting towards the later in later years).
Originally built up through multiple short stories published in pulp magazines throughout the years from Lovecraft and a few of his contemporaries and kept from obscurity thanks to controversial figure August Derleth, it's now a nerd household name thanks to the likes of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu tabletop RPG (thanks Sandy Peterson, the same lad who worked at ID on the early Doom entries) and other dedicated nerds who wrote stories and comics on the mythos. It also helps that the mythos was created so that other authors could also work within it & that most of the original stories are now in public domain.
You can read all of Lovecraft's original works along with his biography & other writings at the HP Lovecraft archive. It's full of purple prose, but there's a reason his stuff endured throughout the past 100 years. You can enjoy his letters to his friends as well, which gives some insight on how his mind worked and how much he was disgusted by non-WASP (including rednecks along with anyone who had skin darker than regular white bread). He was interesting and thoughtful in spite od his many phobias and lolcow tendencies which other farmers could summarize better than me.
So farmers, what are your favorite stories from the mythos if you have one? What Cthulhu mythos or mythos inspired work (like John Carpenter's The Thing) do you love, like, hate, etc? Got a favorite god or monster? Just want to sperg about how much you hate what the mythos has turned into or yell about how Lovecraft was RIGHT about those DAMN DIRTY NIGGERS? Discuss!
I've been enjoying The Sinking City recently myself: its not great horror and its jank as fuck, but there was a lot of love put into it and the detective mechanics are fun. I think my favorite of the original short stories was the Colour from Outer Space (Lovecraft liked using the non-american spellings of words in spite of being an American himself because he was a pretentious fuck). Nyarlathotep is one of my favorite gods, I got giddy when he was in the glorious FPS DUSK.
The Cthulhu Mythos is a ficitional mythos created by everyone's favorite autistic turbo racist, H.P. Lovecraft. In it, humanity learns horrifying truths about how insignifigant they are, how we aren't the true apex predators, how there are fates worse than death, and how we are but pawns for more advanced and powerful beings. It ended up being the genre maker (or at least codifier) for the cosmic horror genre, and spanned both urban fantasy and scifi (Lovecraft shifting towards the later in later years).
Originally built up through multiple short stories published in pulp magazines throughout the years from Lovecraft and a few of his contemporaries and kept from obscurity thanks to controversial figure August Derleth, it's now a nerd household name thanks to the likes of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu tabletop RPG (thanks Sandy Peterson, the same lad who worked at ID on the early Doom entries) and other dedicated nerds who wrote stories and comics on the mythos. It also helps that the mythos was created so that other authors could also work within it & that most of the original stories are now in public domain.
You can read all of Lovecraft's original works along with his biography & other writings at the HP Lovecraft archive. It's full of purple prose, but there's a reason his stuff endured throughout the past 100 years. You can enjoy his letters to his friends as well, which gives some insight on how his mind worked and how much he was disgusted by non-WASP (including rednecks along with anyone who had skin darker than regular white bread). He was interesting and thoughtful in spite od his many phobias and lolcow tendencies which other farmers could summarize better than me.
So farmers, what are your favorite stories from the mythos if you have one? What Cthulhu mythos or mythos inspired work (like John Carpenter's The Thing) do you love, like, hate, etc? Got a favorite god or monster? Just want to sperg about how much you hate what the mythos has turned into or yell about how Lovecraft was RIGHT about those DAMN DIRTY NIGGERS? Discuss!
I've been enjoying The Sinking City recently myself: its not great horror and its jank as fuck, but there was a lot of love put into it and the detective mechanics are fun. I think my favorite of the original short stories was the Colour from Outer Space (Lovecraft liked using the non-american spellings of words in spite of being an American himself because he was a pretentious fuck). Nyarlathotep is one of my favorite gods, I got giddy when he was in the glorious FPS DUSK.
