Listened to an audio of "Call of Cthulhu" (HP Lovecraft) - I am surprised at how many little parts of this book have crept into my psyche, little quotes, names, words I use. My first reading was when I was very young and impressionable 👀 #Lovecraft#Horror#Cthulhu
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Metal Fossil Guru MATS E. ERIKSSON Releases New Book Death: The Antidote To Misery
...a wonderfully weird new book titled Death: The Antidote To Misery. ...tales that straddle several different literary genres. Some might call it Lovecraftian prose, others strange fiction, and yet others might refer...
"It's always the same -- some twat climbs out of a hell, or he gets resurrected because someone bled on the floor of the attic where he was sacrificed, or his latest orphan runs out of organs, and boom, he's noncing around town looking for a victim.
"So now you're making a mess all over the street, there are people shouting about the noise, and firing this drone at full power costs £200 a second.
"But do you think about that? No, you only think about yourself."
-- Daisy Makwetu, Hacker and Drone Pilot, Swansea, 2086
In HDSF news, I'm working on a connected series of important entries, but meanwhile, here's one for "Cthulhu Mythos", for all of you #Lovecraft fans. First recorded in 1942, from (no surprise) August Derleth.
Mes amis de la HPL Historical Society (je sais, j'ai beaucoup d'amis dans des endroits bizarres...) viennent de publier leur version audio de "The Shunned House" ("La Maison abandonnée", dans ma traduction) et c'est vraiment génial. Les mecs sont brillants ! Et en plus je suis dans les remerciements avec mon autre ami Arnaud Duroy parce qu'on les a aidés pour quelques passages en vieux français. Allez, venez frémir et vibrer avec nous ! C'est disponible ici :
(Il s'agit d'une des meilleures nouvelles de Lovecraft, hommage à sa Providence tant aimée ainsi qu'à ses chers oncles (par alliance) et à son grand-père maternel.)
I'm starting the #spookyseason 👻🎃 with "Call of the Sea" in #vr on #quest2 , a little gem I nearly missed.
Call of the Sea is a #puzzle / #adventure#game set on a tropical island in the 1930s which blends an emotional story with elements of #lovecraftian#horror.
I must admit, the contrast between idyllic island and #lovecraft madness works very well for me, it gave me #goosebumps more than once without having to rely on jump scares.
Schedule for HP Lovecraft film festival this coming week in Portland Oregon. I'll be there. I have no idea why it says September 2015 (when it was founded?) on the link box there but this is the right schedule... #lovecraft#horror
I’ve been getting back into #CallOfCthulhu lately, after a decades long absence from running that game. I missed out on the chance to run another face to face game this weekend because of my workload, but I look forward to more sessions in the future 😊
Det er alltid så deilig med varmende supper på høsten! Olmstead’s Vegetable Soup fra kokeboken «Recipes from the World of H. P. Lovecraft». En kjapp suppe med mye smak! Kan ikke alltid bruke 2 timer på middagen heller.
The "nobody ever uses the bathroom in fiction unless something is sus" trope popped up in a Trail of Cthulhu campaign I ran back in high school. One of the PCs realized in a moment of Mythos-inflicted hysteria that he hadn't used the bathroom in 9 months, which led to him slowly realizing that he was in an episodic work of fiction and would stop existing when the story was over
At what point do the people in this #Scottish village realise they are living in an #HPLovecraft story? Because I think they might be living in a #Lovecraft story. Or is it a realization that only comes about to visitors in the dead of night?
We're all in this together. But when we go home at the end of the day, many of us have other hobbies or interests, completely unrelated to infosec.
What is yours?
I'll start: I'm a guitar player, and heavy metal enthusiast besides. Here's a short demo I made for a zombie movie that didn't make it past the cutting room floor.
What do you do when your customers aren't watching? #infosec
@ksaj I spend a fairly significant fraction of my time with #Lovecraft stuff. Namely, I run a podcast about Lovecraft fiction which you can follow at @podsothoth and I publish pretty much whenever we get around to it. I also run an in person #CallofCthulhu#ttrpg with a bunch of other nerds as PCs and NPCs, which is fairly monster-of-the-week style (but we only play like once a month).
Started podcasting, and TTRPGing (over Zoom originally) during pandemic, when I realized I had literally no hobbies outside of infosec/software.
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Great how many different associations to authors and artist are made.
The first one I thought of was #lovecraft and his always undescribable bloodcurdling horrors.
I played Cthulhu: Death May Die yesterday. Much shenanigans involving monsters, cultists, and general ne'er-do-wells. We managed to win, but my character perished before the end. Great game.
Lizzie Borden took an axe, she gave some cultists forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave some monsters forty-one. Then she was bested by a huge, intergalactic abomination.
Virgil Finlay illustration for the 1919 H.P. Lovecraft story "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" for it's reprint appearance in the March, 1938 issue of Weird Tales. It was later inscribed and gifted to another giant, "To A. Merritt, a master of fantasy. From Virgil Finlay"
Hey, hon? Remember when Camp Mulholland burned to the ground? Me neither. It's like the memory has been purposely wiped clean. Oh well, at least we still have our shirts!
In a world veiled in post-noctum mysteries, tales of eerie cities and forsaken towns abound. Among them is the urban legend of the Lost Town of Quietville. Travelers, en route to their destinations, often find themselves on winding backroads that lead to this peculiar hamlet. Eyewitnesses recount homes adorned with bizarre symbols, and behind every window, there's a figure with a grotesque hand over their mouth. As if entranced, they continuously sketch these uncanny symbols onto fogged windows, never pausing. Those bold enough to attempt entry assert that the houses lack doors and the windows are unbreakable. Within the town, voices are inexplicably subdued, turning any spoken words into mere whispers. When travelers finally depart from Quietville, they can never locate it again. Some believe that discovering Quietville is a curse; upon death, they will become another silent inhabitant of the town.
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But nobody EVER roleplays using the bathroom. This is very suspicious. (comicpress.socksandpuppets.com)
This comic is part of an ongoing story that might make more sense with full context....
You got Poe in my Lovecraft!