#H.P. Lovecraft
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulu
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Random Bucky-related Fact I Uncovered:
The house on the left corner there is 169 Clinton Street (circa 1935), Brooklyn, where H. P. Lovecraft stayed 1924-1926. The area’s multiculturalism horrified him so much he had to write The Horror at Red Hook (1927) about it.
Why's this interesting?
Because if you look at this prop dog tag for Bucky in the MCU...
...You'll see that that next-of-kin address ^ for Bucky
Is two houses down, behind HP Lovecraft's place, on the street you're looking down at the far-left of that image up there. ^
So the area HP Lovecraft found horrifyingly multicultural in the late 1920s, that's where Steve and Bucky were growing up! 😊
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If I painted Maleficent in her fairy form I figured I should paint her in her dragon “boss” form too. Again tried to keep true in some ways but wanted to incorporate more of that buggy, semi lovecraftian design too.
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So after reading enough of your Lovecraftian short stories, I’m ready to finally dive in and read some Lovecraft. Where should I start?
Either with
or with this one
Both of them have terrific essays putting Lovecraft into context, as a writer and as a person, the Les Klinger one with an introduction by Alan Moore, the Library of America one by editor Peter Straub.
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"That awful door in Benefit Street which I had left ajar." - H. P. Lovecraft
Virgil Finlay - The Shunned House
(Weird Tales - October 1937)
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H.P. Lovecraft - Halloween In Arkham (1979) - The Dreams In The Witch House (Harry O. Morris)
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Nobody:
Transphobes on the internet describing encounters with trans people going about their lives:
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Vincent Price as Joseph Curwen
The Haunted Palace (1963) dir. Roger Corman
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I need a Lovecraftian-style story in which an explorer finds an ancient inscription on a stone monolith, written in a forgotten language, in the antediluvian ruins of a lost city of which only legends formerly spoke.
And then someone translates it, and it turns out to be some king’s plans for an irrigation system.
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The monster from Pickman's Model, a Night Gallery episode that aired December 1, 1971, based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft.
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