I only came across this comic a couple of days ago and quite frankly it scares the crap outta me. You’ve captured a lot of both the uneasy fear and flat-out horror of Lovecraft’s writing – I salute you!
Holy cow, that’s one big heap of ectoplasma and limbs.
I guess this is not the right forum, but since you guys seem to be an interesting and intelligent bunch of Lovecraft lovers I’m gonna ask it anyway:
Which of Lovecraft’s stories do you find most frightening?
I have recently finished reading most of his stories, and for me I guess “The Temple” was the creepiest one while reading it while “The rats in the walls” has a pretty creepy ending to it.
For the most part though I don’t think Loverafts stories are very creepy while reading them – you often deduct what is going to happen well before the end – but there is always a certain creepy feeling staying with you after you’ve put the book aside.. Something about our own insignificance in the terrifying cosmos.
“I can not conceive of such abnormal creations, even in illusion. Had I met with your experiences I would not have supposed, for an instant, that the fantastic shapes could have been aught but a dream, or the result of hallucination, while, without a question, you considered them real.”
Dystop:
We have already seen a Lathamian shoggoth, I think?
MrDoctor:
You seem to be an Early Lovecraftian, just like Mr/Ms. Pugmire & James Havoc?
The most “creepy” Lovecraft story one has read is “The Whisperer In Darkness”- a powerfull expression of the human fear of loosing face.
The most cosmically wierd would be “At The Mountains Of Madness” (has anyone else noticed that the shoggoths seem to be brain-pirates?).
Mr. Latham himself has had the good sense to make clear that LIM is not canonical Lovecraft-it has been hybridized with the psychic dectective genre.
Mr.Doctor: That feeling is what I like about Lovecraft. Most of the times he gives the ending away by having the main character tell the story of _why_ he is now going to shoot himself in the face, so there’s seldom any real thrill about plot-twists and such.
at Mr Dr,
“The shadow out of time.” Suddenly you are standnding in a conical strange body you can hardly operate while semi materiel monsters come from the deep, and….
oh so scary
Finally recalled what T`tkthya sounded like-T`yog, the Muvian High Priest of Shub-Niggurath from “Out of the Aeons”.
Meso-deen could be a mix of ancient Greek & Aklo?
Thats several places The White People could have come from.
Dystop:
Or a proto-shoggoth, judging by its traciabillity, & power parrallels to Melmoth.
But with all due regard for the importance of civility & a nice taste in ties, shoggoth is as shoggoth doth. These beings seem to be from a completely different pond in the woods.
The Netwayman:
That would would be apocalyptically unfortunate for everyone involved. (Of course, in “canon” Lovecraft, so would shoggoths infecting humanity).
It would also be too much of a tangent?
According to wikipedia, its Hr. Klimts “Jurisprudence”-part of a trilology including “Philosophy” & “Medicine”.
The sources I have referred to all try to imply the national socialists were trying to “supress” Klimts art-but far as I can tell, they seem to have been using it for something, & did not want us to.
Thanks, by the way, for not adding a few “e”s to medivalist, by the way.
I would end up being “Ye Cholericke Auncienne Modernisste” that way.
July 23rd, 2010 at 12:29 am
Oh snap.
July 23rd, 2010 at 2:05 am
And I was just about to go to sleep. Thanks.
July 23rd, 2010 at 5:28 am
Excellent!
July 23rd, 2010 at 5:45 am
I only came across this comic a couple of days ago and quite frankly it scares the crap outta me. You’ve captured a lot of both the uneasy fear and flat-out horror of Lovecraft’s writing – I salute you!
July 23rd, 2010 at 6:06 am
Shoggoths?
July 23rd, 2010 at 6:28 am
Holy cow, that’s one big heap of ectoplasma and limbs.
I guess this is not the right forum, but since you guys seem to be an interesting and intelligent bunch of Lovecraft lovers I’m gonna ask it anyway:
Which of Lovecraft’s stories do you find most frightening?
I have recently finished reading most of his stories, and for me I guess “The Temple” was the creepiest one while reading it while “The rats in the walls” has a pretty creepy ending to it.
For the most part though I don’t think Loverafts stories are very creepy while reading them – you often deduct what is going to happen well before the end – but there is always a certain creepy feeling staying with you after you’ve put the book aside.. Something about our own insignificance in the terrifying cosmos.
July 23rd, 2010 at 9:18 am
I knew it!
I knew they must’ve summoned something mighty scary
July 23rd, 2010 at 12:44 pm
“I can not conceive of such abnormal creations, even in illusion. Had I met with your experiences I would not have supposed, for an instant, that the fantastic shapes could have been aught but a dream, or the result of hallucination, while, without a question, you considered them real.”
Dystop:
We have already seen a Lathamian shoggoth, I think?
MrDoctor:
You seem to be an Early Lovecraftian, just like Mr/Ms. Pugmire & James Havoc?
The most “creepy” Lovecraft story one has read is “The Whisperer In Darkness”- a powerfull expression of the human fear of loosing face.
The most cosmically wierd would be “At The Mountains Of Madness” (has anyone else noticed that the shoggoths seem to be brain-pirates?).
Mr. Latham himself has had the good sense to make clear that LIM is not canonical Lovecraft-it has been hybridized with the psychic dectective genre.
July 23rd, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Mr.Doctor: That feeling is what I like about Lovecraft. Most of the times he gives the ending away by having the main character tell the story of _why_ he is now going to shoot himself in the face, so there’s seldom any real thrill about plot-twists and such.
July 25th, 2010 at 4:58 am
at Mr Dr,
“The shadow out of time.” Suddenly you are standnding in a conical strange body you can hardly operate while semi materiel monsters come from the deep, and….
oh so scary
July 27th, 2010 at 9:39 am
Finally recalled what T`tkthya sounded like-T`yog, the Muvian High Priest of Shub-Niggurath from “Out of the Aeons”.
Meso-deen could be a mix of ancient Greek & Aklo?
Thats several places The White People could have come from.
July 27th, 2010 at 10:03 am
Well-reasoned and researched, sir. Just don’t get lost amongst The Willows.
July 27th, 2010 at 10:31 am
Theres a spooky blond man there too, now.
July 27th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Grumpy Old Medivalist : Ah, yes. But that was something like a Shoggoth lord, was it not?
July 28th, 2010 at 2:19 am
My first impression was of two Flying Polyps
July 28th, 2010 at 9:17 am
Dystop:
Or a proto-shoggoth, judging by its traciabillity, & power parrallels to Melmoth.
But with all due regard for the importance of civility & a nice taste in ties, shoggoth is as shoggoth doth. These beings seem to be from a completely different pond in the woods.
The Netwayman:
That would would be apocalyptically unfortunate for everyone involved. (Of course, in “canon” Lovecraft, so would shoggoths infecting humanity).
It would also be too much of a tangent?
…oh dear. Hope those are not Tom’s real family.
Ah, the wonders of nudging Foucault’s Pendulum!
July 28th, 2010 at 10:29 am
Wow, I love this web comic. Larry, which one is your Cthulhu?
July 28th, 2010 at 11:10 am
I’m afraid you’ll have to wait until Book 6 to find that out. I’m not giving any hints.
July 29th, 2010 at 7:51 am
Untill then, O Subterrean Righter of Stars, you must console yourself with something
http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=2177
like this.
…Hold on a sec. Did Mr. Latham just hint at the Rising of R’lyeh?!
July 29th, 2010 at 8:19 am
…or like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Jurisprudence_Klimt.jpg
It was burnt by the SS in 1945, along with the magic castle they had kept it in.
No, really.
…of course, it would be not unlike Mr. Latham to use the Rev. High-Priest of Yog-Sothoth to examine the fine arts, instead.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:54 am
That’s either a Klimt or a Klimt knock-off.
July 30th, 2010 at 5:39 am
According to wikipedia, its Hr. Klimts “Jurisprudence”-part of a trilology including “Philosophy” & “Medicine”.
The sources I have referred to all try to imply the national socialists were trying to “supress” Klimts art-but far as I can tell, they seem to have been using it for something, & did not want us to.
Thanks, by the way, for not adding a few “e”s to medivalist, by the way.
I would end up being “Ye Cholericke Auncienne Modernisste” that way.