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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Wann, wenn nicht morgen, 12. August 2026?
1️⃣ Die Planeten Jupiter, Merkur, Mars, Uranus, Saturn und Neptun stehen am frühen Morgen kurz vor Sonnenaufgang in einer Reihe am Himmel.
2️⃣ Eine totale Sonnenfinsternis zieht morgen über die Erde. Der Kernschatten bewegt sich exakt über Grönland, Island, Nordspanien und streift eine winzige Ecke Portugals.
3️⃣ Der bekannte Perseiden-Meteorschauer erreicht in der Nacht vom 12. auf den 13. August seinen absoluten Höhepunkt.
Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
(Bildquelle: Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips), "Cthulhu" (1934). Howard P. Lovecraft collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:926697/)
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Wann, wenn nicht morgen, 12. August 2026?
1️⃣ Die Planeten Jupiter, Merkur, Mars, Uranus, Saturn und Neptun stehen am frühen Morgen kurz vor Sonnenaufgang in einer Reihe am Himmel.
2️⃣ Eine totale Sonnenfinsternis zieht morgen über die Erde. Der Kernschatten bewegt sich exakt über Grönland, Island, Nordspanien und streift eine winzige Ecke Portugals.
3️⃣ Der bekannte Perseiden-Meteorschauer erreicht in der Nacht vom 12. auf den 13. August seinen absoluten Höhepunkt.
Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
(Bildquelle: Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips), "Cthulhu" (1934). Howard P. Lovecraft collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:926697/)
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Ooooh...! Spooky coincidence time. I'm planning a reunion of two of my friends from back home (#LovecraftLand in Massachusetts), so of course I felt obligated to provide entertainment (in the form of #KateBush music videos -- our common musical interest). Anyhow, while looking through my YT playlists, I came across a trailer for #StrangeMagick . I forgot it had come out, and quickly found the actual documentary. I knew it was about #HPLovecraft and #AleisterCrowley, but did not realize it dealt a lot with the #OssipeeVortex. It just so happens that our planned reunion (a few days after the #SolarEclipse ) will take place at the vortex! Talk about #StrangePhenomena !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7HaWR7Fyf0&list=PLMMeqQl_oGNq85khQmsWWPCTCl_oT3_sc&index=1&t=29s
#Lovecraft #KateBush #Magick #Coincidence #Crowley #SpookyTime
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Ooooh...! Spooky coincidence time. I'm planning a reunion of two of my friends from back home (#LovecraftLand in Massachusetts), so of course I felt obligated to provide entertainment (in the form of #KateBush music videos -- our common musical interest). Anyhow, while looking through my YT playlists, I came across a trailer for #StrangeMagick . I forgot it had come out, and quickly found the actual documentary. I knew it was about #HPLovecraft and #AleisterCrowley, but did not realize it dealt a lot with the #OssipeeVortex. It just so happens that our planned reunion (a few days after the #SolarEclipse ) will take place at the vortex! Talk about #StrangePhenomena !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7HaWR7Fyf0&list=PLMMeqQl_oGNq85khQmsWWPCTCl_oT3_sc&index=1&t=29s
#Lovecraft #KateBush #Magick #Coincidence #Crowley #SpookyTime
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A partial stack of my sketch-a-days, along with a crocheted Cthulhu that my niece made for me.
#sketch-a-day #art #crochete #cthulhu #HPLovecraft #lovecraft #mythos -
One week away from NecronomiCon Providence 2026! Anyone else attending?
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One week away from NecronomiCon Providence 2026! Anyone else attending?
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Season 2 Episode 10 of EVIL*ASTERISK PODCAST features Jeffrey A. Brown's cosmic horror film, Keeper (2019) 🦑
The podcast is on Spotify, YouTube, Apple, Amazon, Audible, and more.
@atmanrising and I review obscure, odd, and wholly original horror films that might not be getting the attention they deserve.
#podcast #film #films #movie #movies #indie #horror #indiehorror #cosmichorror #lovecraft #scifi #moviereview #filmreview #monster #sciencefiction
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Season 2 Episode 10 of EVIL*ASTERISK PODCAST features Jeffrey A. Brown's cosmic horror film, Keeper (2019) 🦑
The podcast is on Spotify, YouTube, Apple, Amazon, Audible, and more.
@atmanrising and I review obscure, odd, and wholly original horror films that might not be getting the attention they deserve.
#podcast #film #films #movie #movies #indie #horror #indiehorror #cosmichorror #lovecraft #scifi #moviereview #filmreview #monster #sciencefiction
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““The strangenesses are multiplying… though the world before they began was already a strange place, so often it’s difficult to know if an event falls into the category of the old, ordinary strangenesses or the new, extraordinary variety.”*…
In a review of five recent books, Robert Baskin considers the genre of “weird fiction”…
On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, the British science fiction and fantasy writer M. John Harrison [accomplished author, Booker judge, and long-list nominee this year] asked a question on Third Alternative magazine’s messageboard: “The New Weird. Who does it? What is it? Is it even anything?” This incited a taxonomic fury, as writers, fans, and amateur scholars attempted to define this new subgenre. Harrison eventually offered his own definition; the New Weird, like stories published in the namesake early twentieth-century pulp magazine Weird Tales, is a mix of “horror, sf, and fantasy,” with an emphasis on the horror…
[Baskin usess the books in question to review the genre’s history (Poe, Lovecraft, Edith Wharton [!]) and its current state (Miéville, VanderMeer, et al.); he concludes…]
… So why read this shit? Why reissue it?
Weird fiction is a literature of crisis. The main narrative move of every important Weird fiction story is the Weird intrusion, the appearance of the new and wrong object or sensation or practice that does not belong. These intrusions challenge and endanger the protagonist’s sense of metaphysical stability. In the King in Yellow, the Weird intruder is the titular play—the madness of the text refuses to remain on the page. China Miéville argues that this awareness of crisis makes Weird Fiction uniquely open to interpretation: a “leeway for readings against the ideological grain is part of what makes Weird Fiction such an ongoingly fascinating field.” The Weird is not just a literature of fear and repulsion; it also always includes wonder and attraction. “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” – Lovecraft’s contribution to the Weird Mount Rushmore – depicts the state’s extermination of a group of racially ambiguous New Englanders who made the mistake of breeding with fishy foreigners. Despite this, the story ends in sublime ambiguity [spoiler for a nearly century-old story to follow]. The protagonist, who has spent the rest of the story in hateful terror of the Innsmouth locals, discovers that he is one of them, and in my favorite passage in all of Lovecraft, decides to go to the sea with his cousin and embrace The Weird: “We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y’hanthlei, and in that layer of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever.” What was once feared is now cause for exultation. The move between terror and wonder recurs throughout the Weird corpus—if you’re attuned to its Weird frequencies…
A literature for our times: “‘We Shall Dwell Amidst Wonder and Glory For Ever’: On Weird Fiction,” from @clereviewbooks.bsky.social.
* Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
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As we engage extremity, we might recall that i was on this date in 1946 that Santa Claus Land, the world’s first themed amusement park, opened in Santa Claus, Indiana…
Ronald Reagan visiting Santa Claus Land in 1955 #amusementPark #culture #EdgarAllanPoe #fiction #history #HPLovecraft #literature #Lovecraft #MJohnHarrison #SantaClausLand #themePark #weirdFictionIn 1941, Louis J. Koch visited the town of Santa Claus in Indiana. He found it sad that some children would visit this town eager to meet Santa only to find that he was not there. This fueled his desire to create a Santa Claus Land park where kids could see Santa any time of the year. Due to World War II, construction didn’t begin until August 1945.
The park opened on this day in 1946 with free admission, a toy shop, toy displays, a restaurant, a few rides and of course the jolly old elf himself. Later, a deer farm was added.
In 1955, a new section, Pleasureland (now known as Rudolph’s Reindeer Ranch) was added. As the park grew, the focus of the park grew as well focusing on families rather than just children.
By 1984, the park added a Halloween and a Fourth of July section to the park and changed its name to Holiday World. In 1993, the Koch family added the Splashin’ Safari Water Park. In 2006, during the park’s 60th anniversary, Holiday World added a Thanksgiving section.
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““The strangenesses are multiplying… though the world before they began was already a strange place, so often it’s difficult to know if an event falls into the category of the old, ordinary strangenesses or the new, extraordinary variety.”*…
In a review of five recent books, Robert Baskin considers the genre of “weird fiction”…
On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, the British science fiction and fantasy writer M. John Harrison [accomplished author, Booker judge, and long-list nominee this year] asked a question on Third Alternative magazine’s messageboard: “The New Weird. Who does it? What is it? Is it even anything?” This incited a taxonomic fury, as writers, fans, and amateur scholars attempted to define this new subgenre. Harrison eventually offered his own definition; the New Weird, like stories published in the namesake early twentieth-century pulp magazine Weird Tales, is a mix of “horror, sf, and fantasy,” with an emphasis on the horror…
[Baskin usess the books in question to review the genre’s history (Poe, Lovecraft, Edith Wharton [!]) and its current state (Miéville, VanderMeer, et al.); he concludes…]
… So why read this shit? Why reissue it?
Weird fiction is a literature of crisis. The main narrative move of every important Weird fiction story is the Weird intrusion, the appearance of the new and wrong object or sensation or practice that does not belong. These intrusions challenge and endanger the protagonist’s sense of metaphysical stability. In the King in Yellow, the Weird intruder is the titular play—the madness of the text refuses to remain on the page. China Miéville argues that this awareness of crisis makes Weird Fiction uniquely open to interpretation: a “leeway for readings against the ideological grain is part of what makes Weird Fiction such an ongoingly fascinating field.” The Weird is not just a literature of fear and repulsion; it also always includes wonder and attraction. “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” – Lovecraft’s contribution to the Weird Mount Rushmore – depicts the state’s extermination of a group of racially ambiguous New Englanders who made the mistake of breeding with fishy foreigners. Despite this, the story ends in sublime ambiguity [spoiler for a nearly century-old story to follow]. The protagonist, who has spent the rest of the story in hateful terror of the Innsmouth locals, discovers that he is one of them, and in my favorite passage in all of Lovecraft, decides to go to the sea with his cousin and embrace The Weird: “We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y’hanthlei, and in that layer of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever.” What was once feared is now cause for exultation. The move between terror and wonder recurs throughout the Weird corpus—if you’re attuned to its Weird frequencies…
A literature for our times: “‘We Shall Dwell Amidst Wonder and Glory For Ever’: On Weird Fiction,” from @clereviewbooks.bsky.social.
* Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
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As we engage extremity, we might recall that i was on this date in 1946 that Santa Claus Land, the world’s first themed amusement park, opened in Santa Claus, Indiana…
Ronald Reagan visiting Santa Claus Land in 1955 #amusementPark #culture #EdgarAllanPoe #fiction #history #HPLovecraft #literature #Lovecraft #MJohnHarrison #SantaClausLand #themePark #weirdFictionIn 1941, Louis J. Koch visited the town of Santa Claus in Indiana. He found it sad that some children would visit this town eager to meet Santa only to find that he was not there. This fueled his desire to create a Santa Claus Land park where kids could see Santa any time of the year. Due to World War II, construction didn’t begin until August 1945.
The park opened on this day in 1946 with free admission, a toy shop, toy displays, a restaurant, a few rides and of course the jolly old elf himself. Later, a deer farm was added.
In 1955, a new section, Pleasureland (now known as Rudolph’s Reindeer Ranch) was added. As the park grew, the focus of the park grew as well focusing on families rather than just children.
By 1984, the park added a Halloween and a Fourth of July section to the park and changed its name to Holiday World. In 1993, the Koch family added the Splashin’ Safari Water Park. In 2006, during the park’s 60th anniversary, Holiday World added a Thanksgiving section.
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Habe im Urlaub etwas systematischer #Lovecraft gelesen. Das ist schon auch eher so ein one-trick-pony, alles wird nur behauptet, ist leider unbeschreiblich (nicht so das gute Setup für Literatur) und Charaktere gibt es generell nicht da ja alles kosmisch unbedeutend 🙄
Noch jemand einen Tipp welche Story aus dem Schema originell ausbricht? -
Habe im Urlaub etwas systematischer #Lovecraft gelesen. Das ist schon auch eher so ein one-trick-pony, alles wird nur behauptet, ist leider unbeschreiblich (nicht so das gute Setup für Literatur) und Charaktere gibt es generell nicht da ja alles kosmisch unbedeutend 🙄
Noch jemand einen Tipp welche Story aus dem Schema originell ausbricht? -
@SFFMagazineCovers Entry for the cover story at the #Lovecraft wiki: https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Spawn_of_Dagon_(short_story)
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@SFFMagazineCovers Entry for the cover story at the #Lovecraft wiki: https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Spawn_of_Dagon_(short_story)
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#patel #idiotrepublican #lovecraft #innsmouthlook Is Patel from Massachusetts? Because he’s got
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The Sinking City 2 publica un nuevo tráiler con más de 12 minutos de gameplay
https://powerups.es/the-sinking-city-2-publica-un-nuevo-trailer-con-mas-de-12-minutos-de-gameplay/
#Noticias #Frogwares #gameplay #Lovecraft #NewGame #TheSinkingCity2
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The Sinking City 2 publica un nuevo tráiler con más de 12 minutos de gameplay
https://powerups.es/the-sinking-city-2-publica-un-nuevo-trailer-con-mas-de-12-minutos-de-gameplay/
#Noticias #Frogwares #gameplay #Lovecraft #NewGame #TheSinkingCity2
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When I created Cthulhu #drawing for Winter Solstice I thought about making more #Lovecraft mythos creatures in Monster Hunter Rise icon style.
Now, it's time for #ShubNiggurath, The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young. I hope it's good enough both as my vision of this #goddess and this style is similar enough. I am still learning it.
#art #MastoArt #CreativeToots #krita #ArtWithOpenSource #creature #deity
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When I created Cthulhu #drawing for Winter Solstice I thought about making more #Lovecraft mythos creatures in Monster Hunter Rise icon style.
Now, it's time for #ShubNiggurath, The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young. I hope it's good enough both as my vision of this #goddess and this style is similar enough. I am still learning it.
#art #MastoArt #CreativeToots #krita #ArtWithOpenSource #creature #deity
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Tripthulhu, my trippy Cthulhu artwork, is now available to buy on things! 🎉
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Tripthulhu, my trippy Cthulhu artwork, is now available to buy on things! 🎉
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Hab jetzt die ersten sieben Folgen der Serie Lovecraft Country geschaut. Ist ok. Zu viel Familiendrama, zu wenig Lovecraft. Teils zu lange Szenen deren Kontext erst viel später klar wird, wenn überhaupt.
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Hab jetzt die ersten sieben Folgen der Serie Lovecraft Country geschaut. Ist ok. Zu viel Familiendrama, zu wenig Lovecraft. Teils zu lange Szenen deren Kontext erst viel später klar wird, wenn überhaupt.
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¿Así o más claro?
La palabra Eldritch es muy anterior a Lovecraft, yo la uso en el sentido etimológico original cuyo significado es "del reino de los elfos", por lo cual no tengo ninguna relación con el horror cósmico ni cosas por el estilo.
Uso el término como originalmente se ocupaba: para denominar algo fuera de lo común. -
¿Así o más claro?
La palabra Eldritch es muy anterior a Lovecraft, yo la uso en el sentido etimológico original cuyo significado es "del reino de los elfos", por lo cual no tengo ninguna relación con el horror cósmico ni cosas por el estilo.
Uso el término como originalmente se ocupaba: para denominar algo fuera de lo común. -
Twelve years ago, editor Ellen Datlow assembled "Lovecraft's Monsters," an iconic anthology of H.P. Lovecraft-inspired short stories. Now she's releasing a sequel, "Lovecraft's Brood: Tales Of Cosmic Horror." To learn more, check out this exclusive interview.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-lovecrafts-brood-editor-ellen-datlow/
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#EllenDatlow #EllenDatlowInterview #EllenDatlowLovecraftsBrood #EllenDatlowLovecraftsBroodInterview #HPLovecraft #Lovecraft #CosmicHorror #Horror #ShortStory #ShortStories -
Baby Cthulhu, Awakening
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On Sundays, Techdirt posts a bunch of old links from 10, 15 and 20 years ago.
One of today's links is a doozy.
https://www.techdirt.com/2011/07/14/confusing-case-lovecrafts-copyrights/
Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn!
#Lovecraft #Cthulhu #Horror :emoji_squint:
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On Sundays, Techdirt posts a bunch of old links from 10, 15 and 20 years ago.
One of today's links is a doozy.
https://www.techdirt.com/2011/07/14/confusing-case-lovecrafts-copyrights/
Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn!
#Lovecraft #Cthulhu #Horror :emoji_squint:
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A few weeks from now my #ttrpg group will embark on the globe-trotting Trail of Cthulhu campaign "Eternal Lies". I'm starting my read-up and note taking now.
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A few weeks from now my #ttrpg group will embark on the globe-trotting Trail of Cthulhu campaign "Eternal Lies". I'm starting my read-up and note taking now.
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“The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich”, by Fritz Leiber
The very immensity of the desert impressed me more than I had expected. Being on the edge of the little town of Smithville seemed to me like being on the boundary between the finite and the fearful infinite.
The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich was published for the first time in 1997 — five years after Fritz Leiber’s death, and sixty years after it was written. The manuscript was lost in the 1950s and resurfaced in the 1990s.
In this novella, George Kramer receives a letter from longtime friend John Ellis, who lives in the small desert town of Smithville. In the letter, Ellis tells of the death of his wife, Mary, and Kramer decides to visit his old friend. Upon his arrival, strange things start to happen.
This is a gem of a book, and it belongs on the shelf of every weird fiction reader. Adding to the appeal are the illustrations by Jason Van Hollander (see below for an example).
Enjoy!
art by Jason Van Hollander “There are an infinite number of directions in the desert.” #books #horror #lovecraft #lovecraftian #reading #timeTravel #weirdFiction
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“The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich”, by Fritz Leiber
The very immensity of the desert impressed me more than I had expected. Being on the edge of the little town of Smithville seemed to me like being on the boundary between the finite and the fearful infinite.
The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich was published for the first time in 1997 — five years after Fritz Leiber’s death, and sixty years after it was written. The manuscript was lost in the 1950s and resurfaced in the 1990s.
In this novella, George Kramer receives a letter from longtime friend John Ellis, who lives in the small desert town of Smithville. In the letter, Ellis tells of the death of his wife, Mary, and Kramer decides to visit his old friend. Upon his arrival, strange things start to happen.
This is a gem of a book, and it belongs on the shelf of every weird fiction reader. Adding to the appeal are the illustrations by Jason Van Hollander (see below for an example).
Enjoy!
art by Jason Van Hollander “There are an infinite number of directions in the desert.” #books #horror #lovecraft #lovecraftian #reading #timeTravel #weirdFiction
Mike Davis -
Mit #TheMound: Omen of Cthulhu ist ein neues Koop-Abenteuer für PC, #PS5 und #Xbox gestartet. Das Spiel basiert auf einer Geschichte von H.P. #Lovecraft und setzt auf fiese Halluzinationen. #Cthulhu https://winfuture.de/videos/Spiele/The-Mound-Omen-of-Cthulhu-Koop-Horror-startet-auf-PC-und-Konsole-28868.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
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Mit #TheMound: Omen of Cthulhu ist ein neues Koop-Abenteuer für PC, #PS5 und #Xbox gestartet. Das Spiel basiert auf einer Geschichte von H.P. #Lovecraft und setzt auf fiese Halluzinationen. #Cthulhu https://winfuture.de/videos/Spiele/The-Mound-Omen-of-Cthulhu-Koop-Horror-startet-auf-PC-und-Konsole-28868.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
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H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is one of my favorite tales.
I love visiting unknown towns and imagining staying there.
Reading this tale, that feeling turns scary… like I’m experiencing the same thing.
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H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is one of my favorite tales.
I love visiting unknown towns and imagining staying there.
Reading this tale, that feeling turns scary… like I’m experiencing the same thing.
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H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is one of my favorite tales.
I love visiting unknown towns and imagining staying there.
Reading this tale, that feeling turns scary… like I’m experiencing the same thing.
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H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is one of my favorite tales.
I love visiting unknown towns and imagining staying there.
Reading this tale, that feeling turns scary… like I’m experiencing the same thing.
#Lovecraft #CosmicHorror #Books #Bookworm #Reader -
Confirmed: I mentioned to AI the three Lovecraft's that were in my mind when I watched The Blair Witch Project.
I hope this AI infor works for u ! -
Confirmed: I mentioned to AI the three Lovecraft's that were in my mind when I watched The Blair Witch Project.
I hope this AI infor works for u ! -
Confirmed: I mentioned to AI the three Lovecraft's that were in my mind when I watched The Blair Witch Project.
I hope this AI infor works for u !
https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6a533b092c80819182523d38a110dc34
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I’ve watched this movie many times since 1999.
Now, after over 20 years, I suddenly noticed some Lovecraftian elements in it…
Am I just obsessed with Lovecraft’s works?
Time to do some research...
I’m kinda excited! -
I’ve watched this movie many times since 1999.
Now, after over 20 years, I suddenly noticed some Lovecraftian elements in it…
Am I just obsessed with Lovecraft’s works?
Time to do some research...
I’m kinda excited! -
Sometime train an LLM on all H.P. #Lovecraft's published letters, essays and fiction. It would be like flame-warring with him in fanzines!
