Category: Uncategorized
-
The Resident Evil franchise was riding high after the release of its second installment. Perfect scores and gaming awards were rained down on the game. Fans were again calling for another game, begging for more monsters and mayhem. With record sales Capcom was happy to give fans what they wanted. With Resident Evil 2 doing…
-
In mid-1919, H. P. Lovecraft moved his cosmos from the lighthouse of the soul to the foundations of civilization itself. With The Doom That Came to Sarnath, he produced a prose-poem of staggering cruelty and historical inevitability. This is not a story about ghosts or monsters in the traditional sense; it is a story about…
-
In October 1919, H. P. Lovecraft stood upon the precipice of a radical stylistic transformation. Inspired by the rhythmic, antique beauty of Lord Dunsany, he penned The White Ship—a story that ostensibly reads like a fairy tale but functions as a brutal, existential autopsy. If Beyond the Wall of Sleep was a rupture of the…
-
In the spring of 1919, H. P. Lovecraft turned his gaze away from the ancestral graveyards of New England and to the state mental hospitals of the Catskills region. With Beyond the Wall of Sleep, we encounter one of the most aggressive ruptures in the Lovecraftian canon. If Polaris was a dream of a lost…
-
With the 1918 composition of Polaris, we move from the stinking, salt-caked mire of the Pacific into a realm of glacial, celestial dread. If Dagon was a biological shock to the system — a revelation of prehuman flesh and submerged antiquity — Polaris is a psychological dissolution. It marks one of H. P. Lovecraft’s earliest…
-
Dagon and the First Glimpse into the Abyss: H.P. Lovecraft, Deep Time, and the Birth of Cosmic Horror H.P. Lovecraft’s Dagon (written in 1917 and first published in The Vagrant in 1919) is frequently dismissed by the casual reader and the surface-level academic as a mere prototype—a rough, unpolished draft for the greater, more tentacular…
-
The first Resident Evil game was a smash hit and had players begging to enter the world of Survival Horror one more time. With so much anticipation and pressure, Capcom, the studio producing Resident Evil, had their work cut out for them. The developers started putting together a sequel starring Elsa Walker and Leon S.…
-
If we are to chart the dark, erratic heartbeat of H.P. Lovecraft’s creative life, we must begin not with a cosmic explosion, but with a quiet, moldering click of a key in an ancient lock. Written in the early summer of 1917, The Tomb represents the formal re-emergence of Lovecraft as a fiction writer after…
-
The Task of Taming H.P. Lovecraft: The undertaking to which this lengthy treatise—and the exhaustive articles which shall follow it—is dedicated, is one of profound, yet necessary, darkness. We embark here upon a meticulous, sequential expedition through the entire major body of fiction penned by Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937); not merely to recount the lurid,…
-
Resident Evil is a series that needs little introduction. For nearly 30 years the Resident Evil franchise has been setting the standard for horror in gaming. With viral zombies, sentient mold, and head exploding parasites, the series has continued to give players excitement, terror, and spectacles untold. Nine games make up the main series with…