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Library of Lovecraft Mythos in Miskatonic University

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H.P. Lovecraft Wikipedia

Lovecraft Mythos. Forbidden Knowledge.

Games, comics & audio

Games, comics & audio

At the Mountains of Madness — Gou Tanabe

Gou Tanabe’s At the Mountains of Madness translates Lovecraft’s Antarctic novella into an extended black-and-white manga. Its English edition, translated by Zack Davisson, is part of Tanabe’s continuing engagement with the writer. The adaptation is especially useful for studying how scientific description, immense architecture and delayed revelation change when they become visible page compositions.

5 min read · 842 words

Games, comics & audio

Call of Cthulhu — roleplaying game

Call of Cthulhu is Chaosium’s tabletop roleplaying game of investigation and horror, created by Sandy Petersen and first published in 1981. Players portray people encountering dangerous mysteries, while a Keeper presents the world and adjudicates their actions. Its rules turn vulnerability, discovery and the cost of forbidden knowledge into procedures for collaborative play.

6 min read · 1,053 words

Games, comics & audio

Comics and graphic adaptations

Lovecraftian comics range from compact adaptations of individual tales to extended manga, multi-artist anthologies and original narratives built around the Mythos. Their history is not a single progression toward one definitive visual style. Different creators make different choices about color, bodily form, narrative voice and the amount of time a reader spends looking at the unknown.

4 min read · 827 words

Games, comics & audio

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre is the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society’s series of full-cast audio dramas, presented in the style of vintage radio. Actors, music, sound effects and fictional broadcast framing turn literary narratives and game scenarios into performed stories. Physical editions also make extensive use of replica documents, extending the imagined world beyond the recording.

5 min read · 937 words

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Games and the Mythos

Games adapt the Mythos by giving participants choices, procedures and possible outcomes. Tabletop roleplaying, cooperative board games, campaign card games and digital adventures do this in different ways. Their investigators, rules and scenarios form important later traditions, while remaining distinguishable from the events and descriptions in Lovecraft’s fiction.

5 min read · 939 words

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Providence — comic series

Providence is Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows’s twelve-issue comic series, published by Avatar Press in 2015–2017. Beginning with journalist Robert Black in 1919, it makes the origins and interpretation of Lovecraftian fiction part of its own mystery. It is connected to The Courtyard and Neonomicon, while developing a distinct historical setting and a dense interplay between images, records and literary allusions.

5 min read · 875 words

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Trail of Cthulhu

Trail of Cthulhu is Pelgrane Press’s investigative horror roleplaying game, first published in 2008. Kenneth Hite’s treatment of the Mythos uses Robin D. Laws’s GUMSHOE system and a principal 1930s setting. Its central design concern is allowing an investigation to advance through essential evidence while leaving interpretation, danger and consequential decisions to the players.

5 min read · 988 words