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There are few names in fiction that have crawled so deeply into our collective nightmares as Cthulhu. You might not have read a single Lovecraft story, but you know that name. But the strange thing is, the so-called “Cthulhu Mythos” was never meant to exist the way we think of it today. What started as one anxious man’s bizarre stories about cosmic insignificance turned into one of the most sprawling, fan-built mythologies in all of literature. So today, we’re diving into the deep end — into the murky history of how Cthulhu and his many eldritch friends came to rule the world of horror.

• Intro: 0:00
• What exactly is Cthulhu?: 1:29
• Raycon Ad: 7:20
• The Greater Mythos : 8:54
• Writing, Themes, & Criticism : 13:30
• The Books and Phases of Cthulhu: 19:25
• The Many Adaptations: 24:00
• The Future, Fandom, & Conclusion: 32:45

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Following up on the success of A Mountain Walked, this volume presents another dozen tales of the Cthulhu Mythos that show how H. P. Lovecraft’s motifs, conceptions, and imagery have affected an entire century of weird writing. Beginning with a delightful parody of Lovecraft written by Edith Miniter in 1921, this anthology features “The Red Brain,” a story of incalculable cosmic horror by Donald Wandrei; “The Beast of Averoigne,” in which Clark Ashton Smith plays a riff on “The Dunwich Horror”; and C. Hall Thompson’s “The Will of Claude Ashur,” an ingenious adaptation of “The Thing on the Doorstep.”

Contents

• "Introduction" by S. T. Joshi
• "Falco Ossifracus: by Mr. Goodguile" by Edith Miniter
• "The Red Brain" by Donald Wandrei
• "The Beast of Averoigne" by Clark Ashton Smith
• "The Will of Claude Ashur" by C. Hall Thompson
• "The Pattern" by Ramsey Campbell
• "The Sect of the Idiot" by Thomas Ligotti
• "Meryphillia" by Brian McNaughton
• "The Peddler's Tale; or, Isobel's Revenge" by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• "Integrity" by Jonathan Thomas
• "Pickman's Lazarus" by W. H. Pugmire
• "The Crimson Fog" by Mark Samuels
• "Misanthrope" by Ray Garton

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From Beyond is a 1986 science-fiction body horror film directed by Stuart Gordon, loosely based on the short story of the same name by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written by Dennis Paoli, Gordon and Brian Yuzna, and stars Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ken Foree and Ted Sorel.

A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.

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Comic author and book illustrator,, work for publishers Ovni press, stonebot comic books, zarabatana books, glenat, Pictus, Red 5 comics, Edelvives, UTOPÍA editorial, Ediciones La cupula, etc.

Os Mitos de Lovecraft (2020) is a crowdfunded Brazilian black-and-white graphic anthology edited by Douglas P. Freitas and begins with an absolute masterpiece in two pages, “Out of the Æons” by Salvador Sanz

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The Colour Out of Space

The Haunter of the Dark

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The Dunwich Horror is a 1970 American supernatural horror film directed by Daniel Haller, and starring Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, and Ed Begley. A loose adaptation of the novella of the same name by H. P. Lovecraft.

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