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With the release of Sinking City 2, I figured it was time to take a look back at some great games with some heavy Lovecraftian inspiration. You know, the cosmic horrors, descending into madness, creatures beyond our understanding. That kind of thing. And yeah, he wasn’t exactly a stellar guy, but he did create some pretty cool mythos. Without further ado, here are 10 Lovecraftian games that I think you should check out, in no particular order.

• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2005)
• Call of Cthulhu (2018)
• Bloodborne (2015)
• Amnesia Series (2010-2023)
• Penumbra Series (2007-2008)
• SOMA (2015)
• Still Wakes the Deep (2024)
• Dredge (2023)
• Moons of Madness (2019)
• Alone in the Dark Series (1992-2024)
• The Lurking Horror (1987)

Originally published in 1980’s New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Stephen King’s short story Crouch End is getting a series adaptation at Prime Video, Variety reports this week.

The Lovecraftian tale was also featured in King’s Nightmares & Dreamscapes.

“Crouch End” will be a six-part limited series at Prime Video.

“London never sleeps deeply, and its dreams are uneasy. When global movie star Doris Freeman bursts into a London police station claiming that strange phenomena are behind the disappearance of her husband, police inspector Ted Vetter must investigate whether she’s telling the truth, whether she could be a murderer, or whether there’s something even more chilling at play.”

Variety notes in today’s report that Prime Video’s “Crouch End” is being adapted by Paul Tomalin (“Bodies”) and directed by Tom Shankland (“Berlin Noir,” “The Serpent”).

For the first time in history, the legal system can go after Meta and other social media platforms and demand them to change the way their apps operate and are designed. In this episode we take a look at what this means and how we got here.

The occasion for this examination is the ongoing publication, over the past two decades, of the most sustained, expansive, detailed, and to my mind successful project of adapting Lovecraft’s major fiction into graphic narrative: Japanese mangaka Gou Tanabe’s nine-volume (so far) series for the Kadokawa publishing conglomerate, which began in 2004. (...)

For decades, critics such as Edmund Wilson derided Lovecraft’s work as objectively “bad art” arising from innate “bad taste” (Wilson 288), but recent years have witnessed a growing acknowledgement among literary scholars that whether one enjoys it or not, Lovecraft’s writing style represents a highly self-conscious formal strategy that bears comparison with other more canonical modernist experiments with which it was contemporaneous. In other words, Lovecraft’s aesthetic significance derives from the material density and specificity of his prose, just as William Faulkner’s, Djuna Barnes’s, or James Joyce’s do, and the themes or concepts that emerging from his prose cannot be legitimately separated from the textual form. This melding of form and content constitutes Lovecraft’s “pulp modernism”

• Fig. 7, “The Call of Cthulhu” by John Coulthart

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Night-Gaunts is a handmade puppet horror short by Monstark, adapted from H.P. Lovecraft’s poem — built and shot in a 10×15-foot shed in two weeks, with no budget and a smartphone. It premiered at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Providence on Lovecraft’s birthday weekend and went on to Screamfest in Los Angeles.

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PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY Monstark

BASED ON THE POEM BY H.P. Lovecraft

NARRATED BY Jake Glazier (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13318265/)

MUSIC BY Jean Baudin (https://jeanbaudin.com/)

ADDITIONAL PROP FABRICATION & SPECIAL THANKS Monica Padden

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50596004

Kim Bo-young relocates The Shadow Over Innsmouth to a quarantined Korean fishing village, and Sophie Bowman’s translation makes the dread rise like a tide.

Review - A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-young: The Korean Lovecraft Retelling That Grieves

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/240019934-a-plagued-sea

Kim Bo-young is one of Korea’s most important speculative writers, and A Plagued Sea is her first horror novella in English, translated by Sophie Bowman and published by Tor Nightfire on 11 August 2026. It reworks Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth, moving the story to Haewon, a Korean fishing village sealed off three years into a plague quarantine. Part cosmic horror, part pandemic elegy, it follows a grieving security officer enforcing an isolation she cannot escape as the villagers begin to change. This A Plagued Sea review looks at why a hundred-page Korean Lovecraft retelling hits harder than novels five times its length.

A contemporary reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Herbert West: Reanimator is on the way, and Deadline has unveiled the first look at the new Herbert West and the pathologist drawn to his orbit.

The original screenplay and storyline come from Jade Sandberg Wallis.

Michael Grossman (“The Originals”, “Pretty Little Liars”) directs.

The new images introduce star Joseph Morgan (“Vampire Diaries“), who plays “brilliant surgeon and scientist Herbert West, who is obsessed with creating a serum to reanimate the dead.” Katie Cassidy (Speed Demon) stars opposite as the pathologist with a troubled past who joins his efforts.

Together, they prove that conquering death may be the ultimate sin against life itself. (...)