"Then suddenly I saw it. With only a slight churning to mark its rise to the surface, the thing slid into view above the dark waters. Vast, Polyphemus-like, and loathsome, it darted like a stupendous monster of nightmares to the monolith, about which it flung its gigantic scaly arms, the while it bowed its hideous head and gave vent to certain measured sounds. I think I went mad then."–– Dagon
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born on this day in 1890, marking this as the 119th anniversary of the birth of the master of cosmic horror.
A great online resource, containing everything written by the man, is The H. P. Lovecraft Archive.
The Statement of Randolph Carter. nuff said.
ReplyDeleteI was listening to a pretty interest bio on Youtube about HP last night. Pretty interesting & learned a few things. Certainly a huge influence on horror and a lot of other genre.
ReplyDeleteNecronomicon--as described by the mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred: "the ghastly soul symbol of the forbidden corpse-eating cult of inaccessible Leng in Central Asia."
ReplyDeleteSort of sets a mood, eh?
Some movies based on Lovecraft:
From Beyond
Re-Animatator (and its sequels)
Dagon
The Dunwich Horror
In the Mouth of Madness
Nightmares
Deadtime Stories
Cast a Deadly Spell
Trilogy of Terror II
Unnamable
Necronomicon: Book of the Dead
The Call of Cthulhu
The Case of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (not very good from what I've read)
Cool Air
Dreams of Cthulhu: Rough Magik Initiative
Out of Mind
Pickman's Model (foreign anthology)
The Tomb
Dreams in the Witch House
Unknown Beyond