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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Dreams In The Witch House in Books

Jan 16, 2021

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The Dreams in the Witch House
By H.P. Lovecraft

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Plagued by insane nightmare visions, Walter Gilman seeks help in MiskatonicUniversity's infamous library of forbidden books, where, in the pages of Abdul Alhazred's dreaded Necronomicon, he finds terrible hints that seem to connect his own studies in advanced mathematics with the fantastic legends of elder magic. "The Dreams in the Witch House," gathered together here with more than twenty other tales of terror, exemplifies H. P. Lovecraft's primacy among twentieth-century American horror writers. greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale. (Stephen King)

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Song Of Horror

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Song of Horror, is a cinematic third-person survival horror. Help Daniel Noyer, our protagonist,...

Colossal Short Stories Collection

Book and Reference

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Over 2400 great short stories of all literary genres from Dickens, Andersen, Edgar Allan Poe, A....

Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition)

8.3 (6 Ratings) Rate It

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Massively and enduringly popular role-playing game originally designed by Sandy Petersen, one of the...

The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Weird Stories

H.P. Lovecraft and S.T. Joshi

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Collecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of...

Awix (3310 KP) rated The Shape of Water (2017) in Movies

Feb 19, 2018 (Updated Feb 19, 2018)

The Shape of Water (2017)

2017 | Drama, Fantasy

7.6

(107 Ratings)

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Guillermo del Toro's stunning fantasy film is either a radical reimagining of Creature from the Black Lagoon, or a grand amour as written by H.P. Lovecraft (or maybe both). Lonely cleaner discovers fish-man creature being mistreated in the installation where she works, bond develops between them.

Manages to work both as a 60s-set genre movie and more topical comment on issues of tolerance and diversity (just for a change). Quite charming and beautiful on the whole, though the strength of the sex and violence might be an issue for some people. The downtrodden-minorities-stick-it-to-The-Man subtext is a bit on the nose, perhaps, and I'm not sure the third act musical number really works, but on the whole this is a brilliant movie.

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Ghost

Louise Welsh

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Haunted houses, mysterious Counts, weeping widows and restless souls, here is the definitive...

Awix (3310 KP) rated The Private Life of Elder Things in Books

Aug 18, 2019 (Updated Aug 18, 2019)

Short story collection consisting of various riffs on elements from HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos; you probably have to be fairly familiar with Lovecraft and his acolytes to get the full effect, as this does almost turn into a game of Spot-the-Yithian in places. All the usual suspects appear, along with excursions into more obscure areas (there's some excellent Hastur-related wordplay in the story featuring that part of the mythos).

Of the three authors, Tchaikovsky is probably the best stylist, McDonald manages to find some humanity and depth in fairly unlikely places, while Gauntlett is the pulpiest. None of them attempt to actually copy Lovecraft's idiosyncratic prose style, which is probably a blessing. None of the stories are genuinely inspired, but they're usually very readable even if they sometimes get a touch bizarre.

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Russ Troutt (291 KP) rated Lovecraft Country in TV

Aug 19, 2020

Lovecraft Country

2020 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

7.5

(11 Ratings)

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I usually wait until the end of a season to post about a show I've watched, but after just the first episode of Lovecraft Country I had to make sure everyone knows about this new show. From the opening scene I was sucked in with the force of an alien's tentacle. While hitchhikers may have a guide to the galaxy, in 1950's America a guide had to be written letting traveling black people know where it was safe to travel and stop during said travels. While writing the guide and also searching for a missing family member, the main characters played by the amazing talents of Jonathan Majors, Courtney B. Vance, and the oh so beautiful Jurnee Smollett are having to battle two evils, alien creatures and racist white men.