h. p. lovecraft

Howard Phillips that is. He'd be 124 if he weren't unfortunately dead. But... That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

A few nights ago I was channel surfing and found on the Chiller channel an exquisite black and white film version of H. P. Lovecraft's The Whisperer in Darkness. Unfortunately, I hit on it fairly well into the movie; but it was still well worth watching. It was set in the late 1920s, with a 20s'...

This was prompted by the "What book do you love but would never choose to live in?" thread. It is a reflection less on Lovecraft's actual stories than on the role-playing game based on them -- Chaosium's "Call of Cthulhu", because the game is more fleshed out, and has more consistent detail and...

Do you like the works of HP Lovecraft? There is a link to lots of good information including many of his works on line HERE If you've never read him, I recommend you start with The Call of Cthulhu. It's not his first or necessarily his best, but it's the most well-known and in some way the...