Howard Phillips Lovecraft

[Janszoon]

I didn't realize he was trying to make a movie of it. If there's one person who could actually pull it off, it's him.

I think they started on it and it spent some years in development hell before they maybe pulled the plug 🤔

His Cabinet of Curiosities series on Netflix has a few Lovecraft adaptations, among them Dreams in the Witch House and Pickman's Model (which had Crispin Glover in it). Well worth checking out for the Lovecraft fan, I think 🙂

I keep forgetting about that show. I definitely need to check it out. Crispin Glover seems like a good casting choice for the "Pickman's Model" episode.

[Guybrush]

I keep forgetting about that show. I definitely need to check it out. Crispin Glover seems like a good casting choice for the "Pickman's Model" episode.

I quite liked that episode and was delighted to see Glover on screen again and in such a fittingly eccentric role.

The good episodes are well worth watching. The bad ones can be safely avoided Just check a guide or, if your tastes are similar to mine, consider skipping episodes 1, 2 and 7.

[Janszoon]

I keep forgetting about that show. I definitely need to check it out. Crispin Glover seems like a good casting choice for the "Pickman's Model" episode.

I quite liked that episode and was delighted to see Glover on screen again and in such a fittingly eccentric role.

The good episodes are well worth watching. The bad ones can be safely avoided Just check a guide or, if your tastes are similar to mine, consider skipping episodes 1, 2 and 7.

I'm kind of a completist about these kind of things. So I'll probably watch all of them but I'll make sure I lower my expectations for those three.

[jadis]

Visited Lovecraft's grave when I was in Providence, it's one of the local attractions. Not necessarily a huge fan of his as a writer but he surely influenced some interesting people. I like some of Ligotti's stuff that's supposed to be in that vein

[Guybrush]

I generally think of his ideas as more powerful or perhaps interesting than his actual writing, although I definitely like that too. Sometimes, he just goes hard into unintentional comedy or becomes nonsensical.

Spoiler for Shadow Over Innsmouth

Like at the end of Shadow over Innsmouth when we find out the narrator is actually a fish person from an Innsmouth family and it makes little sense that he, a fish monster, would write that story about himself adopting the pov from his pre-transformation days.

Also people going mad and "speaking" in Cthulhu tongues in text

[close]

It's great!

[jadis]

Sounds fun, I want to read this story

Of what I do remember reading, "We were sitting on a dilapidated seventeenth-century tomb in the late afternoon of an autumn day at the old burying ground in Arkham, and speculating about the unnamable" is a solid opening sentence. 

[Guybrush]

Sounds fun, I want to read this story

Of what I do remember reading, "We were sitting on a dilapidated seventeenth-century tomb in the late afternoon of an autumn day at the old burying ground in Arkham, and speculating about the unnamable" is a solid opening sentence. 

Also slightly unintentionally funny in that if you name something The Unnameable, you've named it