Tag: H. P. Lovecraft
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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…