/lit/ - Literature

Bandwagons. I know people who love Cthulhu but have never read the stories.

>tfw Nyarlathotep and Azathoth never get the love they deserve
:(
Del Toro bought the film rights to At The Mountains Of Madness btw (guy who did Pan's Labyrinth)

>>5941275
Because he is easier to visualize than, say, yog-sothoth.
I for one li, e Azathoth the best, mainly because I got a hunch that he is the perfect metaphor for capital.

Because originally the people who read Lovecraft were nerds who liked cosmic horror and liked applying its themes and ideas to stuff they did, which made it seep into nerd culture in a more general way, which then made well-meaning people who hadn't read Lovecraft nevertheless familiar with Lovecraft-y stuff, which then made it accessible to progressively worse dilettantes who only appropriated the most visible aspects of it and only talked about it because it had become a staple of nerd culture even though they didn't really understand its original aspects, and then finally when nerdy shit was turned into a Reddit hipster meme fashion accessory the hipsters picked the most visible possible token of the final phase which had already been winnowed down to CTHULHU AND SHOGGOTHS I THINK anyway

>>5941275
Actually I think Cthulhu is basically just a metonym for "Elder Gods and other Lovecrafty evil things" at this point. I know that a lot of the time when I say Cthulhu I mean it in that general sense. It's just easier than saying "Elder Gods" or "Lovecraftian horrors" and everyone immediately knows what you mean.

Because cthulhu has become nearly synonymous with "geek" culture. I'll wager if you ask any girl you see with a Cthulhu shirt what her favorite Lovecraft stories are she'd say "love who?

>>5941312
Nah I don't think so. Everyone who talks about Chtulhu is figuring that giant monster with an octopuss head
Even a creature "simple to imagine" as Yig is never mentioned by anyone

This movie is pretty good btw.
They made some minor changes in the first part (you can't directly turn an epistolary tale into a movie) and completely changed the ending (and despite some ridiculous sequences it's not dumb at all)
I recommend this

Best place to start with Lovecraft? Got an amazon voucher to burn through

>>5941321
That's how I use it tho and I've read a shitload of Lovecraft

& if I can offer a counterpoint here it really seems like most of the people in this thread care more than anything else about posers and fake nerds and keeping the standards of nerdom up and in particular about how awful girls are. That's pretty fucking stupid, not to mention not a basically literary concern but a social one. But fuck it, Lovecraft is kind of a shitty overrated writer anyway

>>5941338
I'm reading a 4 volumes collection of his works.
I started with the 1927-1930 cause I couldn't find the other 3 volumes.
Every tale can be read without particular difficulties even if you don't know the lovecraftian mythology, but I'd still recommend to follow the chronological order
His first works are a lot different from the ones in his adulthood but still manage to reach high peaks of quality

>>5941338
All his works are in the public domain and widely available online

I recommend starting with "Shadow Over Innsmouth" and or "Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath"

>>5941338
you can find almost all of his work in two large volumes, "Necronomicon" and "Eldritch Tales"

>>5941360
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>>5941380
Thanks all, will look into all suggestions

>>5941338
wayne june

>>5941294
He'd be perfect to adapt that. But hasn't he given up on it?

>>5941294
>>5941554

I wonder how they would adapt it and not fuck it up. The way the story is told doesn't seem like it would work well in a film format.

>>5941554
He gave up on it because Prometheus came out and he said, at the time, people would think they were too similar, iirc.

>>5941335
I am interested.
Anyone played the videogame/interactive story adaptation?

>>5943844
>video games
>>>/v/

>>5943854
>>>/v/
>videogames

hahaha, nice one