A Specter

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[lonelylovelyslore]

Cosmic/Eldritch Resources

Cosmic/Eldritch Horror Resources

Cosmic/Eldritch Horror Resources

As a soon to be Call of Cthulhu keeper and enjoyer of cosmic, eldritch, and lovecraftian horror, I have taken it upon myself to compile the works relevant to the genre and Call of Cthulhu (as a ttrpg) into a spreadsheet.

Texts by Lovecraft, extended authors, and Chambers are included, with more to come as I read and am exposed to more. Each text has information including publication year, dates in-text (as I am able to find them or as they have been hypothesized by people who have been doing this much longer than me) the gods or entities referenced, prominent characters and family names, locations, etc. I've also included a few of the books that I myself have purchased and which stories are included in them. With so much of this available online (such as within the HP Lovecraft Archive) I am in no way encouraging anyone to purchase books, but if you prefer reading physically like me, at least you'll know which books are the most valuable for you.

This is still very much a work in progress, and information will be added as I read and research. I do not mind being informed of any missing information or errors, and I always appreciate recommendations for what to read and research next.

Please note that I am NOT including content warnings. Be wary as these texts are horror and products of their times, so there is a lot of potentially concerning/upsetting/harmful content. I did not want to risk accidentally missing a warning and giving false comfort to someone, so please research content warnings before you read.

This is an ongoing project that I am doing to keep track for myself, it is not an academic endeavour or an endorsement of any of these works.

I would be so happy to discuss what I've read so far and/or to help anyone interested in reading any of these works find the most suitable texts (that said I haven't yet read everything listed... I'm working on it)

I do hope y'all find this useful, and happy planning/reading/researching!

[alg01]

bowling ball

[cassiecasyl]

autocorrect disrespecting the outer gods (a collection)

[howard-phillips-hatecraft]

Praise be to The Lord of the Woods, The Black Goat with a Thousand young, She Who Should Not Be Named. What? No, saying her name doesn’t curse you or anything, it’s just a very unfortunate name.

[lemon13th]

Sherry is sad that her name is the butt of a lot of questionable "jokes"

[dark-ethereal-visions]

In the Mouth of Madness (1994) In the film, the works of Sutter Cane are occasionally quoted. Most if not all of these quotes are actually taken directly from several H.P. Lovecraft short stories with some adaptations to fit them into the film story. Most notably, in the scene where Styles reads to Trent as he gazes into the abyss–her speech lifts much of its description, including such elements as “the illimitable gulf of the unknown” from the last few paragraphs of Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls.” In an earlier scene as well, Trent reads a line verbatim from Lovecraft’s “The Haunter of the Dark,” in reference to the black church being “the seat of an evil older than mankind and wider than the known universe.”

[lightningarmour]

Some of you have never read Sutter Cane and it really shows.

[abs0luteb4stard]

[dark-ethereal-visions]

A little chaos at the bookstore but at least the latest Sutter Cane book is available!

[cyberbabka]

In the Mouth of Madness (1994) // dir. John Carpenter DoP: Gary B. Kibbe

[lccxrealx]

"I'm not going anywhere. I'm God now. You understand?"

[nimuetheseawitch]

"God's not supposed to be a hack horror writer."

- John Trent, In the Mouth of Madness

[nimuetheseawitch]

I think one of the reasons I love In the Mouth of Madness is that the set up is very classic noir with a horror twist. We have all the necessary characters and setting: the jaded insurance investigator, the femme fatale, the wealthy client, all in the big city where terrible things can happen. But we also have some classic horror: the asylum, the axe murderer, the creepy small town, the black church. The brilliance of the film is in how it twists tropes while also staying incredibly true to them.

[lonelylovelyslore]

This! It felt so much like a response and expansion of so much horror media without ever feeling "too familiar" or "overdone". It was the perfect balance of expected and surprising, and it felt like there was respect for the genres it was working in and the work that came before it.

[suspiciously-human]

realizing that the in the mouth of madness novelization was ai generated started my villain arc. you cannot interact with that media at all without fully leaning into the bit

and i mean it. if you want to make a novelization of in the mouth of madness you need to FULLY lean into the bit. write the other six, move to new england, go crazy and then radio silent that’s the only way to do it

[suspiciously-human]

Author’s Note: Sorry this chapter took so long to put out, my beta reader smashed a cafe window with an axe, name dropped my AO3 handle, and then got shot by cops so i’ve been preoccupied with handling that O_o

[fanofspooky]

In The Mouth Of Madness concept art

[splatteronmywalls]

[kidspawn]

I really think the beauty of pynch is they fundamentally shouldn't work on paper, they're oppositional of one another save for how fiercely and ravenously they love. adam is not ronan's easy choice. ronan is not adam's easy choice. they choose each other anyway.