Lovecraft Mythos - Cosmic Horror

Boom! Studios has announced that it is set to publish an English-language adaptation of the hit French graphic novel The Last Day of H.P. Lovecraft as a four-issue limited series.

Written by Romauld Guilivo with art by Jakub Rebelka, it tells the “dreamlike story of the very last day of horror pioneer and controversial writer H.P. Lovecraft [and] the final journey of a complex and tortured man facing his choices, his writings, and his wrongs at the very last moment of his life.”

You can check out an early unlettered sneak peek at The Last Day of H.P.

Sunken Engine Demo offers an atmospheric preview of the Lovecraftian Ship Repair Simulator. Repair your first ship, explore your surroundings, and survive the creeping dread of the sea.

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The Fallout franchise has long maintained a Lovecraftian subplot, which I often call "The Dunwich Mystery". Last week, Fallout 76 expanded upon these Eldritch themes with the "Gone Fission" update, which primairly emphasized a new fishing mechanic, but also introduced new characters and locations related to Fallout's Dunwich Mystery.

In Worshippers of Cthulhu, you are tasked with leading a cult dedicated to awakening Cthulhu. Your journey begins by establishing and managing cities across multiple islands. Efficient resource management and strategic decisions are key. Perform dark rituals to gain supernatural powers and explore mysterious lands for hidden resources. Conquer territories while deciding the fate of non-believers—convert or sacrifice them. Balance Cthulhu’s Patience with your cult’s Fanaticism to ensure survival and dominance in a constantly evolving environment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80VMXFJLwjI

(...) The concepts for a film adaptation of At The Mountains of Madness have been in Guillermo del Toro's head for decades, with the acclaimed visual artist admitting to having an obsession with the story as far back as his childhood. A script was first penned by del Toro alongside frequent collaborator Matthew Robbins, who also aided the director with the writing of Pinnochio and Crimson Peak, as early as 2003. The screenplay was pitched by the pair to Warner Brothers multiple times, but the entertainment repeatedly turned it down, caught up on del Toro's insistence on an R-rating. (...)

A new take on H.P. Lovecraft’s Herbert West: Reanimator is officially in the works, and it’s coming from the minds behind The Haunting in Connecticut. Screenwriters Adam Simon and Tim Metcalfe are teaming up once again to adapt the classic horror story into a contemporary feature film.

I love it when the Internet culture collides with Stuff and it ends up being bloody horrifying.

Hey all, I recently finished a side project that grew out of my fascination with Lovecraft's way of using broken up sentences to signal cognitive/mental disintegration. Many of Lovecraft's stories start with intact grammar, and indeed the grammar is intact through most of it.... and then, at the end, it often breaks down. So language is something fragile and easily broken.

I think the effect is increased by Lovecraft's long, winding, meticulously constructed sentences in the tradition of the nineteenth century and the contrast in comparison with the "modernist" fragmentary exclamations ending the stories.

Anyway, I made a game exploring this. The result is the short, minimalistic puzzler called The Stamp.

It’s centered around a childhood symbol game that gets "tainted" by introducing elements from the Pnakotic manuscripts, and involves mirroring sentences using esoteric or mundane symbols. As it's a text-based game, there’s no combat or jump scares, just a slow descent into dissonance and seeking patterns in vain.

I really wanted the some of feel of stories like The Whisperer in Darkness and The Haunter of the Dark, where perception and language begin to slip.

If this sounds interesting, you can find it on Steam: 🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3079840/The_Stamp/

Nothing could be more valuable for me than input from Lovecraft aficionados, so I'd love to hear what fellow fans think. I'll of course be happy to send a free key (in a chat) so you can download the game for free (provided there's some brutally honest feedback in return :)).

https://www.artstation.com/ivanpalma

Innsmouth priest

High Priest of Dagon

Cosmic creature

The third iteration of Lovecraftian Days - hosted and curated by Fulqrum Publishing, and joined by dozens of other developers and publishers. The event will celebrate the influences of the classic works of H.P. Lovecraft, and the cosmic horror genre in gaming. The celebrations will include new game releases, new announcements, game demos and discounts.

The audiodrama that has got a few mentions on here before switches from BBC Radio 4 to Kickstarter. Not sure why, as it has gone down well at the Beeb but that is how they are doing things.

Developer Misterial Games and publisher Fulqrum Publishing will be launching their first-person Lovecraftian horror game ‘Stygian: Outer Gods’ on PC via Steam’s Early Access programme on the 14th of April.

Dive into a hostile world that challenges your very existence, in this survival horror game with RPG elements. Unravel a thousand-year-old mystery, risk your sanity and face the Outer Gods with your skills. Every bullet and every decision counts now, are you up to the task?

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_yqqa8UETI

I am unsure if I have seen this one. Going to check it out today.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478988/

Bremen, Germany-based illustrator Autun Purser has created “Fantastic Travel Destinations,” a collection of illustrations depicting locations from literature as colorful travel posters.

https://www.apillustration.co.uk/projects/fantastic-travel-destinations/

As The Sinking City 2‘s hugely successful crowdfunding campaign nears its conclusion, Ukrainian developer Frogwares has announced a fresh bit of business for its Lovecraft-inspired open-world detective series: the original game is being remastered in Unreal Engine 5. (...)

The old deviantart link is dead, if you have some new links post below.

Art By DrFaustusAU - https://www.deviantart.com/drfaustusau/art/Lovecraft-Actually-346990142

Beyond the Wall of Sleep is more than a tribute to the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Although it’s meant to be a sequel to another tale, Chad Ferrin massaged what he got into a quirky fun tale about the (coming) end of days.

Chad Ferring Filmmaker

From a simple film thrown together last minute to becoming a trilogy to honor the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Chad Ferrin doesn’t need that long of a re-introduction. When I spoke to him about his first work, The Deep Ones, (interview link) the ideas for a modern age retelling of several tales have its charm. And he wasted no time in working on a direct sequel for the first.

But for the third, it’s a completely different beast, and I had to chat with him again about how that came to be: (...)