Horror, fantasy, and science fiction author Stephen King called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." King has made it clear in his semi-autobiographical non-fiction book Danse Macabre that Lovecraft was responsible for King's own fascination with ...
P. Lovecraft's mythos. It would be impossible to underestimate the impact author H.P. Lovecraft has had on movies. His stories have been inspiring feature films for decades, and they continue to do so. The tales of horror he wrote were so vivid and so horrific that they have had an ...
Another excellent edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and ...
Overall, gameplay is a mixture of text-based adventure, survival horror, and classic RPG, with a splash of visual novel thrown in for good measure. The storytelling is sublime, the vibes are on point, and it truly reads as a love letter to Ito’s iconic stories. If you want to hear ...
And horror books can get under your skin like no other medium, whether you’re peering at a scary novel under the covers as a youngster or devouring new or classic horror as a grown up. Good horror writing sticks with you.For Halloween we’ve attempted to round up some of the scariest...
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The measured optimism ofCall Of The Sea, going by developer comments, is meant to go against the mood usually seen in the horror stories of Howard Philips Lovecraft, a reclusive New England horror writer whoseCthulhu MythosandDream Cycleseries of stories pioneered the sub-genre of Cosmic Horror...
Whether we accept this view of his own sexual instincts or not, there is no denying that sexuality—normal and aberrant—underlies a number of significant tales in the Lovecraft oeuvre. The impregnation of a human woman by Yog-Sothoth in “The Dunwich Horror” and the mating of humans with...
I'm floored by the poor reception this movie got. It's a loving throwback to horror classics with modern polish, clearly influenced by HP Lovecraft and body horror classics like Hellraiser and The Thing. If you like "classic" horror - i.e., horror before CGI and jump scares replaced prac...
Carrie would be released in 1976 on its way to becoming an all-time horror classic. In the film, Sissy Spacek plays an extremely shy and sheltered High School girl who is bullied relentlessly at home and school. At home, her mother is a complete and total nutbar salad who has ...