#the whisperer in darkness

[rupertbbare]

#h p lovecraft #mr men and little miss #little miss #mr men #the dunwich horror #dagon #shadow over innsmouth #cthonic #deep ones #shub-niggurath #azathoth #mi-go #the whisperer in darkness #batrachian #king in yellow #hastur #nyarlathotep #shoggoth #mountains of madness #found on reddit

[darkersoul]

Mi-Go and "Brain Cylinder," as described by Miskatonic University students after the Orne Library fire of 1936.

#cthulhu mythos #call of cthulhu #cthulhu #hp lovecraft #lovecraft #mi-go #migo #the whisperer in darkness

[friendlycursedspaceotter]

So anyone else in this tiny fandom want to make a zine about this or is it just me?

Like, I think it would fit the vibe of the show

#the lovecraft investigations #zine #fanzine #the case of charles dexter ward #the whisperer in darkness #the shadow over innsmouth #the haunter of the dark #as far as i know #we are about the only ones carrying this fandom #but it’s cool

[silvandar]

Penpal might be replaced by Eldritch God, should I accept booty call?

#the whisperer in darkness #h p lovecraft #Lovecraft

[hplovecraftmuseum]

About a year ago I was pondering whether Lovecraft had been trying to give us clues to the secret identity of the suave young man called Noyes. Noyes was featured in HPL's tale, THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS. Noyes drives a large and stylish automobile and is 'probably' the individual leading a ritual that the ill-fated Vermont scholar beset by the 'Mi-Go' records. This ritual mentions Nyarlathotep and is probably attended by the monstrous cosmic creatures identified as The Fungi From Yuggoth. Was the outwardly human Noyes character actually a manifestation of Nyarlathotep himself or possibly one of his "avatars?' The name Noyes struck me as rather odd. It contains an 'N' and a 'Y' as well as other letters which were also in the name Nyarlathotep. What if Lovecraft had given Noyes a first name with letters that might flesh out a further relation to Nyarlathotep? No doubt Lovecraft was aware of anagrams. What if Noyes first name had been Arthur? Now we were getting close to the shared letters between the two. Of course we lacked a 'P' or an 'L' and that would be a problem. A year later - today in fact - it occurred to me that it might be interesting to see if there had ever been anyone of note named 'Arthur Noyes' that Lovecraft could have known about. I was surprised that a very good possibility existed. Below is s photo of one Arthur Amos Noyes ( September 13, 1866 - June 3. 1936) Noyes was a noted chemist, inventor and educator. Noyes was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts and received a PhD in 1890 from Leipzig University. This gent served as president of MIT from 1907 - 1909. He died at 69 less than a year before Lovecraft's own passing in 1937. Now several interesting facts concerning this Arthur Amos Noyes occurred to me. 1. Lovecraft himself had a serious interest in chemistry. He was known to have created a least one accidental explosion with his own chemistry 'lab' as a boy. 2. Newburyport was a town Lovecraft had visited at least once in his New England travels. It had a profound effect on his imagination. 3. The young man named Noyes in THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS speaks with a refined Boston accent. We might assume that the 'real' Arthur Amos Noyes would have had a similar type of speech. Well, it's a stretch to associate the real Noyes with the Lovecraft character, but I offer it here for what it's worth. (Exhibit 440)

#lovecraft #Noyes #the whisperer in darkness #Arthur Amos Noyes

[ash-tree-eyes]

Trying to read HP Lovecraft stories really is like picking one that seems to have an interesting premise, and then a few pages in it's suddenly like "ah yes, my friend has made a deal with fungus crab abominable snowmen from Pluto, who are going to take him to space in an evil magic brain tube" as though this is a perfectly natural conclusion to the story

#if you think this is an exagerration #go read the whisperer in darkness #i couldn't make this shit up if i wanted to #hp lovecraft #the whisperer in darkness

[the-only-failure-is-never-to-try]

I will single-handedly carry The Lovecraft Investigations Fandom on my back or so god help me

#As soon as im done with it i want to listen to the whole pleasant green universe podcasts #the lovecraft investigations #pleasant green #lovecraft investigations #the case of charles dexter ward #the whisperer in darkness #the shadow over innsmouth #kennedy fisher #matthew heawood

[redacted-metallum]

Whisperer in Darkness by HP Lovecraft

#cthulhu mythos #revs thoughts #eldritch sitcom #whisperer in darkness #the whisperer in darkness #horrible chart

[cookiereading]

#the whisperer in darkness #horror quotes #book quotes #h p lovecraft

[virovac]

Yugothian fungi-lobster

You know, a good way to make up for clumsy writing of the Yuggothian Space Crabs ( I refuse to call them Mi-Go, another term for yeti) is to build on the extradimensional nature and explain why they are so merciful in their own way: they truly weren’t in physical danger as we know it.

Sure these miners might not be able to radically transform their bodies as hinted lin the murals of the star-headed elder things, but that was showing warriors of their kind. Stealthy miners might have different tricks up their sleeves.

Those “corpses” disintegrating rapidly? How do we know they aren’t reappearing elsewhere? 

Given Lovecraft was trying to demonize multicultural societies with them, we could make them bond with other life forms as easily as humans do. And their difficulty of truly dying as we know it we could twist this as part of why they loathe to kill instead of trapping people in fates worse than death. The thought of ending a mind they can have meaningful communication with could be abhorrent to those not conditioned as warriors, because death is something they have mostly conquered. Its existential horror.

And thus their alien idea of mercy leads to people’s brains trapped in jars and later robot bodies..

#fungi from yuggoth #The Whisperer in Darkness

[virtues-of-artemis]

AAAh, gosh it feels good to be crawling out of my subterranean cavern once more to post a single, unimportant thing and promptly vanish again. Please, while I hold you in attention, allow me to divulge:

Very few Lovecraft stories have actually made me uncomfortable - I mostly just think 'Hmm yes, this is a pretty spooky story' and then go about my day, but The Whisperer in Darkness is probably up there as one of the most chilling things I've read this month.

I have a crushing, CRUSHING fear of people talking to me through my window at night, because my bed is in a corner with two windows to the back and side of it.

Akeley in The Whisperer in Darkness, when he hears the creatures speak to him at night, embodies everything I fear about being spoken to by some stranger through my window, therefore being a veryyy good way for the story to get under my skin and comfortably stay there as I fall into unimaginable depths of horror. 🙃

But it's not just that! The idea of non-human, malicious entities impersonating people is also really quite spooky. I don't have a fear of monsters specifically, but the thought of some creature being so old and secretive as to have kept hidden and learnt enough of human activities to emulate them, and further, to emulate specific human beings (the letter they write pretending to be Akeley also weirds me out a lot because of this) is such a good horror niche - unfortunately, a niche that feeds into my fears a lot.

Anyway, unless I decide to post later on, I shall now allow myself to fall into yet another spell of blissful ✨inactivity✨

#hp lovecraft #lovecraft #the whisperer in darkness #gothic lit #gothic literature #horror #horror novels #rambling

[yamimichi]

#the whisperer in darkness #hp lovecraft #lovecraft #lovecraftian #lovecraftian horror #mi-go

[shanaraharlyah]

The Whisperer in Darkness

Repostober Day 7

For my art thesis I was charged with creating a body of work, hosting a show in one of the galleries on campus, documenting it and submitting a short thesis statement along with the documentation (images and photos). The title of my thesis was Fantastic Creatures and Lovecraftian Beasts and the work consisted of illustrations from Lovecraft's stories as well as creatures/monsters inspired by his writing, mythology and my own imagination.

Years later, when I began working with 3D renders I redid my illustration for The Whisperer in Darkness as a gift for my boyfriend.

Setup in DAZ Studio 3 Advanced. Rendered with LuxRender. Postwork in Photoshop Elements 8.0.

#the whisperer in darkness #hp lovecraft #repostober #illustration #horror #scifi #aliens #daz studio #luxrender #artists on tumblr #shanarah art

[chronivore]

#the whisperer in darkness #hp lovecraft

[hplovecraftmuseum]

Perhaps the oddest of all Lovecraft's fictional creatures with origins from worlds or planets beyond Earth are the FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH. These entities have come to earth from Yuggoth, which modern earthlings have come to call Pluto. Supposedly their ultimate point of origin is even farther away. Unlike most of Lovecraft's other alien creatures who may exist in the human psyche as 'racial memories', the Fungi - who are apparently the reality behind the, Yeti, Mi-Go, Abominable Snowman myths, look about as unlikely in that roll as anything could be! In essence the Fungi from Yuggoth are pink, crab-like monsters with mushroom heads, and the wings of a bat. What motivated Lovecraft to concoct such a thing to feature in his story, THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS, is hard to fathom. Ultimately I think the idea seriously detracts from the story. Though 'Whisperer' was written at a time when Lovecraft was creating his greatest masterpieces, I personally don't think it measures up to tales like AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH, or THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME, even remotely. Was Lovecraft making a sneering comment on the whole concept of Racial Memory itself? (Exhibit 347)

#lovecraft #the fungi from yuggoth #the whisperer in darkness #racial memory

[stainlesssteellocust]

Of course, though I praise it, this tale is still very silly.

The guy from The Whisperer in Darkness has apparently set up the Mythos equivalent of the fucking Speedwagon Foundation

#titus gets a little silly with it #< reminder to block that tag if you don’t want to see all this #titus crow #cthulhu mythos #brian lumley #the whisperer in darkness #speedwagon foundation #jjba adjacent #I wonder if araki was inspired by this? #h p lovecraft