Dream Cycle Book Club: Week Fourteen
Welcome back to our Dream Cycle Book Club, where we explore the dream based stories and dream-adjacent tales written by H.P. Lovecraft. In this week's thread we shall discuss the final half of At the Mountains of Madness.
This week we will be reading our penultimate story: The Dreams in the Witch House. The Arkham Archivist provides us with a collated collection of stories here. A LibriVox audio recording is not available and so I direct you to a recording by the YouTuber HorrorBabble here
This week image credit goes to Joseph Diaz.
"The Temple" by H.P. Lovecraft | Illustration by Tanabe Gou - Animated by MSA Channel
Short film on YT / Link Invidious
From "H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories" manga illustrated by Gou Tanabe
Story by H.P. Lovecraft
Dream Cycle Book Club: Week Thirteen
Hello everyone and welcome to the thirteenth week of our book club exploring H.P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.
In this week's thread we discuss the first 5 chapters of At the Mountains of Madness, written in 1931. Our reading assignment for this week is the second half of At the Mountains of Madness, from Chapter VI onwards.
A PDF of the short story is found in the collected works curated by the Arkham Archivist here. A LibriVox audio recording is available here.
Very sorry for the late submission this week. My department is hosting an algebra conference and I'm spending my evenings "networking" (read: getting drunk while ranting about the Representation Theory of algebraic groups). Unfortunately, pleasure has to be sidelined by business until Wednesday evening. I'll post comments on the first five chapters as soon as possible but expect significa
Dream Cycle Book Club: Week Twelve
Hello everyone and welcome back to the Dream Cycle Book Club. Today we will discuss the final two parts of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
Our reading for this week is the first five chapters of At the Mountains of Madness, written in 1931. The first five chapters should put us at around the halfway point of this novella.
I'd call this one Dream Cycle-adjacent, as it features and mentions locations such as Leng and Kadath. It's also an important story in Lovecraft's Bibliography, but we'll cover that during the relevant discussion.
A PDF of the short story is found in the collected works curated by the Arkham Archivist here. A LibriVox audio recording is available here.
Image credit Jagoba Lekuona
Lovecraft jokes
“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”― H. P. Lovecraft Google “Lovecraft” and “Humor” and you’ll find an astounding number of jokes and cartoons, the Mythos giving Star Trek and Star Wars a run for its money in the meme department. Here I’ve culled out a few. Q: ...
Because the night is dark and full of jokes...
Not enough? Here more:
https://upjoke.com/lovecraft-jokes
http://thedodologist.blogspot.com/2009/12/lovecraftian-jokes.html?m=1
H P Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time - Short Film
Video on YT / Video on Invidious
This video is an adaptation of H P Lovecraft's famous sci-fi story. This is a collaboration between Richard Svensson (The Lone Animator), Daniel Lennéer and Christopher Johansson. Åke Rosén stars, and John Hutch narrates.
Daniel's project page: http://millroad.lenneer.se
Dream Cycle Book Club: Week Eleven
Hello everyone and welcome back to the Dream Cycle Book Club. This week we will be discussing the first three parts of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
Our reading for this week will be parts IV and V of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, thus finishing the story. The text, collated as part of a collection by The Arkham Archivist, is found here. An audio recording by the talented HorrorBabble can be found here.
The image is a portrait of Vincent Price who played the role of Charles Dexter Ward/Joseph Curwen in the 1963 film The Haunted Palace. Art credit goes to Shayu Dan
H.P. Lovecraft's Dagon - Short movie
SHORT by The Lone Animator
LINK - Invidious
I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. Do not think from my slavery to morphine that I am a weakling or a degenerate. When you have read these hastily scrawled pages you may guess, though never fully realise, why it is that I must have forgetfulness or death.
Original short story
Dream Cycle Book Club: Week Ten
Hello everyone and welcome to the tenth week of our Dream Cycle Book Club. In this thread we'll be discussing Lovecraft's epic novella The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath.
This week's reading is The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Written in 1927. This is another novella of Lovecraft, weighing in at 104 pages in my copy of his fiction. I'm aware that 100 pages of Lovecraft's often verbose prose can be trying. Thankfully, Lovecraft actually separated this story into parts, which allows for easy splitting up of the reading. Our reading for this week is parts I-III, with parts IV and V covered next week. The text is available in PDF format courtesy of the Arkham Archivist here. Audio is provided by the talented HorrorBabble here
Image Credit Jian Guo
Lovecraft Stories with the Magic of Stop-motion - The Lone Animator
The Lone Animator create Stop-motion fantasy and monster movies based on author works, myth and folklore
HERE - You can find a Playlist of his Lovecraft Stories.
I suggest you to also watch the other videos of the channel, he's a true artist who put a lot of love into his works.
Dream Cycle Book Club: Week Nine
Hello everyone and welcome to Week Nine of our Dream Cycle Book Club. This week's thread is for the discussion of the three stories from last week: The Outsider, The Silver Key, and The Strange High House in the Mist.
Our reading for this week is a single story, The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. It is Lovecraft's first novella-length Dreamlands story and ties together many of the disconnected stories that we've read in previous weeks. The PDF is available via the Arkham Archivist here. Audio is provided once again by the talented HorrorBabble here.
The Silver Key used in the OP was created by the Rhode Island based sculptor Gage Prentiss
Tentaclii ~ News and scholarship on H.P. Lovecraft
TENTACLII is a weblog on the literary works and life of H.P. Lovecraft, with an emphasis on the scholarly work on Lovecraft and his circle. With occasional forays into book reviews, notable audio, documentaries, visual art and similar. But avoiding the tidal-waves of “Lovecraft inspired” dross, except for the sake of an occasional chuckle here and there.
You can find some funny stuff as:
An annotated “The History of the Necronomicon”.
A Study of Ecosystemic Configurations and the Ocean in Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
and more...
Dream Cycle Book Club: Week Eight
Hello everyone and welcome back to our Dream Cycle Book Club. This week we will be discussing What the Moon Brings and The Hound.
There are only three more short stories until we reach the first novella length dreamlands story. If I'd had a bit more forethought, I'd have loaded one of the last two weeks with a third story, as both featured very short stories. Hopefully this week's reading doesn't prove too much. We have three stories for this week: The Outsider, The Silver Key, and The Strange High House in the Mist.
Our First story, The Outsider, was written in 1921 but is listed on Wikipedia as 1926; this led to me missing it a couple weeks ago. It is available in PDF format via the Arkham Archivist here, and a LibriVox audio recording is available here.
The Silver Key is our second story thi
Dream Cycle Book Club: Week Seven
Welcome back everyone, to the seventh meeting of our Dream Cycle Book Club. This week we will be discussing Hypnos and Azathoth.
Our reading for this week is two more short stories: What the Moon Brings and The Hound.
What the Moon Brings was written in June 1922. It is available in PDF format via the Arkham Archivist here. An audiobook version is available via LibriVox here
The Hound was written in September 1922 and is the last dream related story written by Lovecraft in 1922. It is available in PDF format via the same link given above. I cannot find a LibriVox recording so I once again link to a reading by the talented HorrorBabble here.
Image credit Carole Raddato
The H.P. Lovecraft Archive
Archive online edicated to Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the 20th century master of weird fiction, who died in 1937. You can explore his numerous facets through the many pages outlined.
Dream Cycle Book Club: Week Six
Welcome back to our adventure into the Dreamlands as described by H.P. Lovecraft. In this week's thread we will be discussing the reading of last week, The Quest of Iranon and The Other Gods.
This week we reach the "midway point" in terms of stories read in the Dream Cycle, though the stories in the latter half tend to be weightier volumes. We will be reading two more tales: Hypnos and Azathoth.
Our first story, Hypnos was written in March 1922. It is found in PDF format via our friend the Arkham Archivist here and in audio format via LibriVox here.
Our second story, Azathoth is the shortest of our tales thus far and is reportedly the beginning to an incomplete novel of Lovecraft. It can be found in PDF format via the same link above. I failed to find a LibriVox audio recording, thus I rely once
Dream Cycle Book Club: Week Five
Welcome once again to our investigation into the world of Dream as defined by our favourite horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft. In this thread we will be discussing the reading assignment for the past week: Ex Oblivione and The Nameless City.
Our reading assignment for this week is two more short stories: The Quest of Iranon and The Other Gods.
The Quest of Iranon is another of Lovecraft's tales explicitly inspired by Lord Dunsany. The story, written in February 1921, is available in PDF format via the Arkham Archivist here. Unfortunately, LibriVox does not have an audio version of this story available, thus our audio recording for this week is via the YouTuber HorrorBabble. The video, filtered through Piped (a privacy friendly alternative YouTube Frontend) is available here
The Other Gods is also heavily inspired by Dunsany's Work. Written in August 1921, the tex
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The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)
One more great movie adaptation from The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
Trailer: https://youtu.be/wQkos7WTHjg
