Lovecraftian thread

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We're just psychologicaly prepping for when the stars are right.

The thing is, the alienation of modern society and the implied deterministic nature of the universe already make us feel insignificant in the scale of the cosmos. We're living Lovecraft, the monsters are just conceptual.

i didn't need these feels right after waking up.

>There will never be a Lovecraft work or Lovecraft inspired work ever experienced by a modern audience that evokes the feelings Lovecraft intended.

Despite the vast majority of the site being nothing more than a circle-jerk, there are actually a few SCPs that evoke Lovecraft extremely well (if not better).

Which SCPs would you say do the feel well?

I'm really bad with the numbers and names, but there's one about an exploration team visiting an extradimensional court, and eventually they get found out by the Ambassador for the court.

Another involves a space station where putting things into an airlock opens it up into a different point in space, and living things get body-horror'd to the max, while they're screaming at invisible entities that only they can see. They don't die from the injuries and they can't stop it from happening.

Or the one about the giant snake-eel in the Indian ocean that's so massive it can't be accurately measured, and drives people to want to see it and descend into the depths to be near it.

Or the one that's an obelisk that details ancient alien shit and something about things from outside this universe.

There's more than that, but my memory is failing me.

I've found that Lovecraftian horror doesn't work too well in visual media. The gist of it is that the abominations are otherworldly and outside the range of human experience. When someone tries to actually depict them it often ends up looking like a spaghetti-like mass of tentacles or giant mushroom people.

It's the same with action games. A lot of the feeling of dread and powerlessness is lost when you can actually fight and slay the horrors.

You are too good for this thread. That's the first time I've read Dream Quest, and the Life Eaters is beautiful in ways that concept shouldn't be.

Human imagination is often a better tool for horror than what can be put onto a screen. Sometimes, the more disturbing events are the ones you don't see.

Take this scene from a shit UK show for example (starts at the 5 minute mark):

youtu.be/gld1LLfUPhc?t=300

You don't see the kid get brained, you can only hear it and see some shadows. Your mind fills in the rest and makes it worse than if you'd just seen some cheesy blood effects on the actor.

Very true. There is a series of Lovecraft-inspired adventure games done in pixel art (it's called The Last Door). I was a bit sceptical at first but the minimalist and blurry graphics actually enhance the feeling of dread because they set the overall tone of each scene but leave the details to the imagination.

Another good game is The Consuming Shadow. Indie games do the lovecraftian vibe really well because, as (you) said, visuals are almost tertiary.

the color out of space genuinely freaked me out. stop acting like lovecraft is only relevant in his own period. the guy was an incredible writer even to this day.

nobody is impressed that you're not scared. derailing every discussion of lovecraft with this rhetoric is reductive and offtopic.

>the guy was an incredible writer even to this day.

That's a bit over-cooking it. His idea of writing horror was just to say "oh god this is so scary". While he came up with good concepts for stories, he wasn't the best at his execution of them (like non-coked up Stephen King).

youtube.com/watch?v=Us2ylGAwBnk

>You are too good for this thread.
That is flattering.

> Life Eaters is beautiful in ways that concept shouldn't be.
As I said in the link:
>I hate the way the word "epic" is banalized nowadays. A million million youtube videos claim to be "epic" just because they create a brief moment of euphoria.
>But this is epic. It has affected and inspired me, and I'll not forget it.
>Also, I have to buy the physical comics. It wouldn't feel right to have this feeling without a sacrifice in return, and all the authors ask is money from me.