Tag: H. P. Lovecraft
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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With the recent release of Longlegs—a film that deserves every bit of hype it’s getting—it’s nice to see Nicolas Cage in the limelight again. The actor rose to fame mainly through a swathe of action movies in the late 90s/early 00s (not to mention becoming somewhat of a meme), but as his career has progressed,…
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I’m a big fan of H. P. Lovecraft. His proclivity for esoteric cults, horrors beyond human description, and ancient creatures far older than mankind resonates with me on a deep level, so I’ll watch just about anything adapted from his works. In fact, I’m always on the lookout for great new Lovecraftian horror, so when…