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Post by ChrisLAdams on Aug 20, 2019 8:41:45 GMT -5
That donut doesn't look very eldritch. You haven't seen the recipe.... Ingredients 1 ¼ cups dragon milk. 2 ¼ teaspoons active yeast infection from Old Gran. 2 Night-Gaunt eggs. 8 tablespoons corpse butter, melted and cooled. ¼ cup granulated bone from a fresh corpse. 1 teaspoon of essential Saltes of humane Dust 4 ¼ cups flour from ye beyonde, plus more for rolling out the dough. 2 quarts humane oil, for frying, plus more for the bowl.  |
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Aug 20, 2019 8:45:05 GMT -5
In honor of HPLs birthday I've been listening to Horror Babble's excellent readings on my commutes.
I love this fella's orations. I believe I listened to his reading of some REH, as well. Maybe The Black Stone?
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Post by zarono on Aug 20, 2019 10:45:26 GMT -5
Happy birthday H.P.L.!  |
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Aug 20, 2019 10:57:59 GMT -5
Happy birthday H.P.L.! Extraordinary, Zarono! I wish I could do faces and figures. I'm more a landscape guy I guess. |
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Post by zarono on Aug 20, 2019 12:23:15 GMT -5
Happy birthday H.P.L.! Extraordinary, Zarono! I wish I could do faces and figures. I'm more a landscape guy I guess. Thanks! I'm not very good at portraits though, my first version of this had goofy staring eyes so I just blacked them out and I think I got lucky and produced a better effect. |
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Aug 20, 2019 12:25:59 GMT -5
Extraordinary, Zarono! I wish I could do faces and figures. I'm more a landscape guy I guess. Thanks! I'm not very good at portraits though, my first version of this had goofy staring eyes so I just blacked them out and I think I got lucky and produced a better effect. As Bob Ross said - we don't make mistakes; we have happy accidents. Good recovery, there. When I'm unhappy with an aspect of a painting, it often causes it to take a turn it might not otherwise have taken. Mostly, I'm usually happy with the new direction. But not always! |
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Post by sorcerer on Aug 20, 2019 18:06:08 GMT -5
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Post by charleshelm on Sept 2, 2019 13:03:27 GMT -5
I was unable to celebrate his birthday this year as I was out of the country. Will have to make it up later.
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Post by deuce on Oct 4, 2019 15:50:20 GMT -5
Lovecraft scholar and Mythos author, Robert M. Price, reading HPL's poem, "October":
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Post by deuce on Apr 19, 2020 11:12:55 GMT -5
Lovecraft on Hamlet:
Continuing in the dramatick line, but ascending the scale several degrees, I find "Hamlet" a most absorbing character, even as you do. It is hard for me to give an original estimate or opinion, since other commentators' opinions are so abundant; but I find in Hamlet a rare, delicate, & nearly poetical mind, filled with the highest ideals and pervaded by the delusion (common to all gentle & retired characters unless their temperament be scientific & predominantly rational--which is seldom the case with poets) that all humanity approximates such a standard as he conceives.
All at once, however, man's inherent baseness becomes apparent to him under the most soul-trying circumstances; exhibiting itself not in the remote world, but in the person of his mother & his uncle, in such a manner as to convince him most suddenly & most vitally that there is no good in humanity. Well may he question life, when the perfidiousness of those whom he has reason to believe the best of mortals, is so cruelly obtruded on his notice. Having had his theories of life founded on mediaeval and pragmatical conceptions, he now loses that subtle something which impels persons to go on in the ordinary currents; specifically, he loses the conviction that the usual motives & pursuits of life are more than empty illusions or trifles.
Now this is not "madness"--I am sick of hearing fools & superficial criticks prate about "Hamlet's madness". It is really a distressing glimpse of absolute truth. But in effect, it approximates mental derangement. Reason is unimpaired, but Hamlet no longer sees any occasion for its use. He perceives the objects & events about him, & their relation to each other & to himself, as clearly as before; but his new estimate of their importance, and his lack of any aim or desire to pursue an ordinary course amongst them, impart to his point of view such a contemptuous, ironical singularity that he may well be thought a madman by mistake. He sums up this position himself when he says:
"How weary, stale, flat, & unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world
Fie on't! ah, Fie! 'tis an unweeded garden
That grows to seed. Things rank & gross in Nature
Possess it merely."
H. P. Lovecraft to Alfred Galpin, 14 Nov 1918, Letters to Alfred Galpin 48-49
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Post by charleshelm on Sept 5, 2020 11:20:53 GMT -5
A picture I shot for Instagram on HPL's birthday as well as a shot of the the bust available from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society and a generic eBay Cthulu:
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Post by robp on Oct 31, 2020 9:08:43 GMT -5
It's Halloween in Innsmouth! The latest episode of Innsmouth Book Club is here, with talk of Stephen King's Crouch End, the HPLHS Call of Cthulhu movie and an interview with Russell Smeaton. Join us for the tour..... IBC Halloween |
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Post by theironshadow on Nov 12, 2020 12:17:42 GMT -5
I'm a huge fan of HPL, with what i call a 'post-complete' collection of his fiction works, being VG's Necronomicon, Eldritch Tales, HPL: The Complete Fiction from Barnes And Noble, plus the two volumes of his collaborations, 'Crawling Chaos And Others' and 'Medusas Coil And Others'. I was trying to find a copy of the last known letters of HPL on the internet (purchasing the book isn't an option, and Volume 5 is OOP at Arkham House) and whilst doing so found this first-class video about the final days of HPL from details of his diary...
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Post by Jason Aiken on Aug 31, 2022 21:10:45 GMT -5
I take a look at a quality Lovecraft starter collection:
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Post by karasuthecrow on Aug 31, 2022 22:56:02 GMT -5
In order to celebrate his birthday we remastered the episode dedicated to his life and works.
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