I was browsing new communities and came across [email protected].

I mentioned that there was one already, this one. At some point kbin.social died. If nothing else, this new one will have at least a couple people posting.

Full message I got: Yeah, there’s an issue with how communities are federated. If the host instance goes down, there’s nothing which reflects when viewing the community from a remote instance. Local users can continue posting, blissfully unaware that their posts aren’t being federated.

If you can still see your local lemmy.world version of !CosmicHorror\@kbin.social, you might want to make one final post there directing any lemmy.world users to the new !cosmichorror\@lemm.ee.

link: https://youtu.be/U_PhPzSTdxU

Hey H.P. fans! We've been doing this audiodrama thing, but a little differently. We put tons of effort into our audio, sfx, and music, but then we add another layer with what we call and "infovision" window, where we display background info, historical tidbits, explanations of complex back story, and lots of fun imagery, and we also have a little window on the side, where we run definitions of all the rare words authors like to use (especially Lovecraft, he's why we started it! LOL). We find it to be lots of fun, maybe you will too. Hope you can check it out, and enjoy it, it really is an homage to all our favorite authors and stories. Thanks!

Production values are high, some interesting additions to the genre. Like Slay the Spire, but with Elder Gods

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7796307

> Video on Vimeo | Video on YT | Link Invidious > > >An international research group is searching natural resources from the newly melted waters of the Arctic Ocean. They pick up a strange underwater sound from far north. Thinking it might be natural gas, they start their journey to the uncharted waters. Soon they begin to understand the true nature of the Sound. > > - Written and directed by Joonas Allonen & Antti Laakso > - Starring Eero Ojala, Lasse Fagerström, Anastasia Trizna, Mikael Andersson, Fabian Silén > - Produced by Jupe Louhelainen / Twisted Films > - Production country: Finland > > IMDb > > ! > > > ! > > > ! > > > ! > > > > !

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7284660

> Video on Vimeo | Video on YT | Link Invidious > > Ryan Mackfall adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Picture in the House” > > >1907, Massachusetts. A scholar drifts from his path and finds himself in a house he takes for deserted. Deserted, apart from a beguiling book containing dark secrets that exerts a powerful hold over those who come into contact with it. > > - Director - Ryan Mackfall > - Writer - Neil Fox > - Producer - Kingsley Marshall > - Producer - Ryan Mackfall > - Producer - Neil Fox > > - Key Cast: > - The Scholar - Ciaran Clarke > - The Old Man - Kevin Horsham > - Shepherd Boy - Noah Wallace > > ! > > !

Trailer just dropped. cross-posted from the Lovecraft community: https://lemmy.world/post/6795290

> Though not specific to the Cthulhu Mythos, The Lovecraft Investigations is highly recommended to any lovers of Lovecraft. It's a spoof true crime podcast set in the present day and the plots are based on classic Lovecraft stories. > > As it's BBC, I'm guessing it may be geolocked, but for anyone who can access BBC Sounds the previous three seasons are available and a new one is about to start soon.^___

Annotation Index - This page accesses all the annotations of Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows H.P. Lovecraft comics issue by issue, including covers – as well other Moore/Lovecraftian works in collaboration with other artists, and related items.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5286103

> H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival > > A festival of cosmic horror, Weird tales, uncanny, and other Lovecraftian horror films, plus authors, art, music, and more. Since 1995, the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival has been the vanguard of independent Weird filmmaking. > > list of Lovecraftian short and feature films > > Site | Instagram

>A woman embarks on a journey through a restricted wasteland to find her missing sister, only to become trapped by something sinister lurking deep within; a God-monster she cannot escape from.

Starring Pragya Shail and Zack Lemieux

Inspired by a terrifying vivid nightmare.

A short film by ANDREW DUNLOP.

Made for and first screened at the 2022 Digi60 Ottawa Filmmakers Film Festival.

http://1984creative.ca

> Soedesco is adding to the horrors of Halloween on Switch as it's announced a 27th October release date for Superlumen's Lovecraftian point-and-click Desolatium. > > Originally announced back in June 2023, Desolatium is a surreal, psychological graphic adventure where you'll come face-to-face with many of Lovecraft's iconic creatures — many of which "defy conventional description". > > Desolatium has already been highly praised for its innovative structure and sound design, so don't go in expecting this to be your typical Lovecraftian horror experience

SHORT by The Lone Animator YT channel

LINK - Invidious

From the sonnet cycle "Fungi From Yuggoth."

>XIV. Star-Winds

>It is a certain hour of twilight glooms, Mostly in autumn, when the star-wind pours Down hilltop streets, deserted out-of-doors, But shewing early lamplight from snug rooms. The dead leaves rush in strange, fantastic twists, And chimney-smoke whirls round with alien grace, Heeding geometries of outer space, While Fomalhaut peers in through southward mists.

>This is the hour when moonstruck poets know What fungi sprout in Yuggoth, and what scents And tints of flowers fill Nithon’s continents, Such as in no poor earthly garden blow. Yet for each dream these winds to us convey, A dozen more of ours they sweep away!

The Short - The Man from the Sea is the first release from our anthologies of short horror stories.

Written and directed by: Foghorn Prd.

The Lone Animator create Stop-motion fantasy and monster movies based on author works, myth and folklore

HERE - You can find Memory by H P Lovecraft.

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.

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Cthulhumaniacs.com - These writers, while drawing inspiration from Lovecraft's foundational work, bring their unique perspectives and sensibilities to the genre.

VIDEO about the actual powerscale of Azathoth as it is protracted in the original lore. And why the whole "dreaming the universe" idea isn't actually Canon.

> A chronicle of the life, work and mind that created the Cthulhu mythos.

> I love that blend of energy that H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard shared. When a warrior faces the sheer terror of the Lovecraftian universe, and wins or loses, we get a kind of frisson that dusty old antiquarians just can’t provide.

ARTICLE by Maria Zourou

The phrase “cosmic horror” conjures up images of massive tentacled beasts that defy all aspects of human understanding. Monsters created by author H.P.

August 14, 2019

The internet is a spawning pool for eldritch horror and I love the energy this generation has put into crafting whole universes with their collective creativity. It's not just one author anymore. Like ants collaborating on a massive colony structure for them to inhabit.

SCP is a wing of cosmic horror unto itself, with entries ranging from the merely odd to the truly mind-bending. Some of my favorites are the locations like 087. A lot of the monsters are goofy but show their modern origins and I'm here for it. It shows that urban legends will never leave us.

Speaking of, a lot of modern monsters and cryptids have disturbing and insightful morphologies. The origins are always indistinct or non-existent but the real horror is in their tangibility. They've strayed into our universe by means of the mundane and thus bastardized the ordinary. A man in a suit becomes Slender Man. An electronic warning system becomes Siren Head.

Sometimes it is we who stray from our universe and end up in the Backrooms. What was once the exclusive domain of dreams is now possible in waking reality. Dreamlike logic and distortions blend with nostalgia and memory to create a collective nightmare realm. What dwells there, if anything, is usually a product of our neglect and guilty conscience.

Corruption of nostalgia yields seemingly endless variety when a ubiquitous pop culture icon becomes a unkillable eldritch abomination. Garfield has never been as voracious. "I'm sorry, Jon," he repeats, with unceasing malevolence and unending hunger. He must consume all, become all.

I imagine that what we create collectively here in the rich, swirling energy of the still developing internet will fascinate future generations as they trace the evolution of their own cosmic horrors back to this cesspit of cultural DNA. Oh, what otherworldly and unfathomable horrors shall crawl forth to devour the minds of their forebears!

\#CosmicHorror

HERE a nice article of Cole Salao about the concept of cosmic horror and some suggestions of others authors of the genre. Is good to remenber that many great works have ispired Lovecraft in the creation of his mythos as for example The Great God Pan

While some of the author's works have been adapted more than once, these five remain relatively unknown and beg for a faithful adaptation.

• Based on a three-issue comic book miniseries under DC Comics' Elseworlds imprint.

• Tagline: In a city forever in darkness an ancient horror awakens.

If you're like me, there's a lot of crossover in your fandom. That's a commonplace experience these days. Mashups are the remixes of ideas that we might feel have been tapped for everything they're worth, as a way to try and wring something new from the blending. There's a scale of effectiveness for this sort of writing. I won't belabor the point; The Doom that Came to Gotham is of mixed effectiveness. It stands firmly in the realm of a comic hero story, and then adds the elements it needs from Lovecraftian horror to tell the story it wishes to.

There are other ways to convey ideas about the Batman character. Ideas about what he represents, and to whom. Many new adaptations are explorations about who Bruce Wayne is, or indeed whether that is even who he truly is. Adding Lovecraftian elements to his world and his story does allow for some unique insights into the mind of a wealthy man who takes on the image of a leather-winged mammal in order to instill fear into the minds of criminals. But in this story it's the physical and body horror that seems to take precedence, even in a genre known for exploiting psychologically terrifying ideas.

The movie's short run time both helps and hinders it. Doom's pace prevents the audience from really getting a chance to engage with some of its characters, and instead leans on our fully-immersed Batman brains to fill in the emotional gaps. We know all these characters already from a dozen other versions. So it dispenses with the expected amount of character development in favor of a more rapid clip. That pace, on the other hand, does prevent the audience from taking any time to ask bothersome questions about the plot or the mechanics of this new reality.

How much cosmic horror is in The Doom That Came to Gotham? Quite a lot, actually. The story is wrapped in all the usual trappings of Lovecraft. Madness, cults, otherworldly entities, dark histories, and horrific transformations are all represented. What the movie doesn't do is pick one or two of these and tell an exceptional story with them, taking its time to explore the menace of an uncaring monstrosity, or the slow descent into madness that revelation may bring. Instead Doom throws everything into the mix, as if desperate to exude Lovecraft. It's not a damning usage of the tropes, just an unfocused one.

One of the movie's obsessions is re-imagining Batman's rogue's gallery through the lens of these cosmic horror tropes. And given the already monstrous nature of a lot of these characters, there's no shortage of possible cameos. Unfortunately some of these villains only get a brief and ultimately pointless appearance, which leads to the feeling that more thought was put into style than purpose. There is an early plot point that seems important but ultimately leads nowhere and turns out to have been inconsequential; all apparently in service of bringing two more well-known Batman villains into the narrative.

A 1920s Batman, on its face, should be interesting enough. After all, his roots are very old indeed and run through early 20th century America. Bruce Wayne is another iteration of the pulp serialized hero as imagined throughout the 30s and 40s. His wealthy paternal approach to crime fighting certainly needs no introduction to the era of noir. And Lovecraft's writings themselves are era-appropriate. Archaic as his prose was, Lovecraft wrote stories whose themes leaned forward, even if the origins stretched back uncounted eons. His was building on traditions of gothic horror, though, and stripping away the bounds of reality that keep Batman's more grounded world sane and relatable for the mass audience. Lovecraft's vision of horror wasn't appreciated in his time the way he is now. So to blend these two genres is actually riskier than it sounds. Lovecraft says, your money doesn't matter if an inhuman intelligence is bent on devouring the world. And to its credit, The Doom That Came to Gotham does actually bend to this premise.

3 / 5 mi-gos would recommend to genre fans of either

In honor of the holiday, take a tour through Lovecraftian Americana. Eight locations within the United States that influenced Lovecraft's writing. Lovecraft was famously moored to New England, specifically Providence, RI. But locations both close and wildly distant did draw his attention and became the source for some of his best known stories.

Happy 4th, betentacled shamblers! Enjoy a temp icon!

\#CosmicHorror

Few things have been as influential to modern storytelling as the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Here's why we need more.

Weird Tales 367, May 2023 Cosmic Horror Issue

https://www.weirdtales.com/store/p/3gxpcllz8jrtt65el14ewkkqj4p7b7

Modern riffs on primeval rifts

Favorite stories in this issue: The City in the Sea, by Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola The Last Bonneville, by F. Paul Wilson Concerto in Five Movements, by Ramsey Campbell Moziaka, by Nancy Kilpatrick Call of the Void, by Carol Gyzander

\#CosmicHorror

‘He is in the world’ Site 13 is a 2023 American cosmic horror film about a doctor who awakens from a catatonic state in a mental institution

HERE - A look at why Cosmic Horror is so hard to be adapted into movies.

All credit to Screened Channel

There are roughly eighteen thousand, nine-hundred and fifty two listicles on the internet declaring unambiguously to be the definitive listicle of COSMIC HORROR MOVIES. I don't wanna post any of 'em. I wanna talk about mine. And yours. If you find this concept valid and worthwhile, that is. I wanna know what you all consider "cosmic horror." I wanna know what falls under the banner. Because Lovecraft wrote about a number of subjects, not just colossal and incomprehensible alien entities. He also wrote about incomprehensible shadow entities. And undead things. And dreamscapes. And nightmarish revelation. The connective tissue is there on the sidebar. "Violation of the order of nature, preferably indescribable." To paraphrase. So what is it to you, dear audience? [he inquired, whether the audience be dear to him or not]

On my mother's grave, these I declare the finest examples of the indescribable put to visual media - in no hierarchical order. Exhaustive? No. Personal? Absolutely. Check them against your own, and despair. Or discuss.

• The Void. Every list must begin with The Void, for some reason. I mean, it's just got everything. It's the poster child for the genre.
• Re-Animator. Campy. Fun. Jeffrey Combs. Delightful.
• The Endless. Modern low-budget done absolutely right. If you don't have money for wild otherworldly effects, tell the human side. It's the Lovecraft way.
• The Color Out of Space. Nic. Cage.
• Alien. Geiger, O'Bannon, Ridley Scott come together to create a cinematic titan.
• The Thing. Carpenter's flop is a staggering masterpiece of paranoia and human vs otherworldly nature.
• The Lighthouse. A tale of madness and isolation. An ethereal nightmare. Two powerhouse performances.
• Annihilation. An adaptation that communicates the abstract into the (vaguely) narrative. Ponder the foundations of your existence.
• The Evil Dead. You read from the book, didn't you?
• Event Horizon. "Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see." Well, fuck. We're leaving.
• The Blob. It's a creature from space that absorbs everything. And it looks awesome.
• The Mist. Yes we've seen monsters encroach upon our fragile world from another dimension, yes we've seen a group of ordinary people turn on each other during times of crisis, but have we seen it directed by Frank Darabont and adapted from a novella by Stephen King? I think not.
• Hellraiser. "We have such sights to show you." Shivers.
• From Beyond. Another fun Stuart Gordon/Jeffrey Combs/Barbara Crampton collab. This one has BDSM and a skeletonized Ken Foree.
• Messiah of Evil. Creepy, slow-burn 70s horror-thriller with some very unique and interesting characters. This thing is all atmosphere.

HPL: Nyarlathotep Rising, an oversized Lovecraftian narrative RPG game in which your choices write the story and decide the fate of many...

HERE some interesting video regarding the power scale of Cthulhu as portrayed in the lore.

All credit to Web Cam parrow channel