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Whats your favourite Lovecraftian story or inspired piece.
I'm partial to the "Dunwitch horror" and "The thing on the doorstep" for stories and "The Mist" for an inspired movie.
Thoughts?

>> No.9763938

>>9763925
Why is Lovecraft so popular with normies?
They get him wrong every time

>> No.9763951

>>9763938
i just really enjoy his concepts

>> No.9763973

>>9763938
you mean they've haven't gotten to the "monsters really = niggers" level of understanding yet, is that what?

>> No.9763975

I remember liking Stephen King's short story "Jerusalem's Lot"

>> No.9764018

>>9763925
The shadow out of time.

Read a couple Ligotti short stories a while back, but I became distracted with other books. Seemed promising.

Not totally relevant to the thread, but how much genre fiction (lovecraft certainly counts) do you read? I'm the only person I know who reads both genre fiction and muh literature, although not in equal measure.

>> No.9764157

Why does everyone love Cthulu so much? He's lame as hell and he got btfo by a boat.

>> No.9764191

>>9763925
Predates Lovecraft, but The Great God Pan and The White People.

>> No.9764213

>>9764157

he didn't get btfo by a boat, he sank because of the storm

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9765599

>>9763925
>favourite Lovecraftian inspired piece
Lovecraft Country

>> No.9765750

>>9763925
Mass Effect.

>> No.9766778
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9766778

Jonathan L. Howard FTW

>> No.9766819

>>9765599
I wanted to enjoy that book, and I thought I would, but it just didn't grab me.

The book "14" by Peter Clines is probably my favorite Lovecraft-inspired work. It's an imperfect book but it has some truly inspired Lovecraftian scenes that just soar, and a very satisfying resolution. Would make a cool movie.

Oh, that reminds me, The Faculty was a really fun riff on Lovecraft, and some of Laird Barron's stories have great atmospherics and a wonderful build-up to and reveal of Lovecraftian horrors (Old Virginia, The Forest, Frontier Death Song).

>> No.9766835

>>9763925
>lovecraftian inspired
bloodborne

i dont even play video games that much desu

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9768303

>>9763925
Shadows of Carcosa FTW

>> No.9768872

>>9765599

This wasn't bad, but it really wasn't that great. The Jim Crow aspect was handled well enough but none of the actual horror/pulp aspects were that interesting.