#hplhs

[transgirl-gaming-thoughts]

Just watched “The Call of Cthulhu” short film by HPLHS, really great film! A fun silent film emulating the style of Lovecraft’s time, while faithfully adapting the story of “The Call of Cthulhu” in a new media.

[doubtfultaste]

The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)

[vintagerpg]

The coolest wallet you’ve ever seen. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re opening up the Arkham Investigator’s Wallet, from the prop maestros at the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. It’s a real leather wallet, stuffed with ‘20s-style IDs, paperwork, newspaper clippings, a trolley coin, a mysterious key and much more. The props tie directly with the scenario book The Dog Walker, which is included and can be run for a group or solo using a special PDF. Other items promise to be of use with Chaosium’s forthcoming guidebook to Arkham for Call of Cthulhu. One of the most fun RPG products I’ve ever laid eyes on, full stop.

[alovecraft]

Today is the annual fb share of this song. Happy yule!! 💜

[wyrmalien]

MY AUTISM IS HERE

[tristanoberon]

Llevo unos días que mi mood es... #madness #HPLHS https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl_VQGPMAxI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[what-life-is-really-like]

Lovecraftian Christmas Song

In honor of the HPLHS’ Lovecraft-Christmas songs, I have written my own to the tune of ‘Christmas Island’ by the Andrew Sisters (this is pretty much a 1st draft, but I don’t want to have this stuck in my drafts until next year).

How’d you like to spend Solstice on Cthulhu’s island?

How’d you like to watch Rlyeh rising up from the beneath the sea?

How’d you like to spend Solstice on Cthulhu’s island?

How’d you like to explore all of Rlyeh’s strange geometry?

How’d you like to free Cthulhu like those poor sailors do?

Watch great Cthulhu slide into the sea to devour you?

If you ever spend Solstice on Cthulhu’s island, you’ll be led astray, for every day your nightmares will come true.

How’d you like to free Cthulhu like those poor sailors do?

Watch great Cthulhu slide into the sea to devour you?

If you ever spend Solstice on Cthulhu’s island, you’ll be led astray, for every day your nightmares will come true.

[goryhorroor]

Personal top 4:

Videodrome by David Cronenberg

The Call of Cthulhu by Andrew Leman and the HPLHS

Evil Dead 2 by Sam Raimi

The Blob (1998) by Chuck Russell

(Honorable mention to The Thing 1982 of course. I haven't done my winter rewatch yet)

body horror must be your thing

[hyadesmoons]

Character journal for my Hexblood Rogue for a friend's campaign. Character sheet from Arcane Goods, icons from Flaticon, other ephemera from HPLHS, Chris Matzke's Necronomicon, APOCTHULHU's Yellow and Unpleasant Land, and Shared World. Book, pages, and scrapbook paper from Amazon. Character art by me.

[nemeyuko]

jumps around very excitedly someone who also enjoys the HPLHS' dark adventure radio theatre!!!! hi hello!!!!! :D!!!!!!!

Hello! :D

Yes I enjoy their work. Sadly I own three of the radio dramas physically. The rest I get on iTunes.

[drcatco]

HPLHS · Carol of the Old Ones

Enjoy a Very Scary Solstice, courtesy of The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society

[priestessofspiders]

In the very slight defense of pop culture Cthulhu depictions, Wilcox's bas-relief is described as "If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful", and the idol recovered from the cultists on the Alert is described as "The crouching image with its cuttlefish head, dragon body, scaly wings, and hieroglyphed pedestal". So there is some basis for the popular culture understanding of what Cthulhu looks like, BUT, I've always found that depicting him in a traditionally "badass" way is somewhat missing the point. He is also, as you said, described as flabby, corpulent, blob-like. Hell, when Johansen confronts Cthulhu in the Alert, he is given the description of "pursuing jelly". He only happens to look vaguely humanoid, if anything his anatomical structure is more or less completely alien, the vaguely human form a total coincidence. I mean, when he gets rammed by the Alert he pops like a balloon for goodness sake!

Also I do think people tend to take the "octopus" and "cuttlefish" comparisons far too literally, if I see a Cthulhu with only 8 tentacles I'm going to be disappointed. I expect to see dozens at least. The best on-screen depiction of Cthulhu I have ever seen is in the HP Lovecraft historical society's silent film adaptation, where he is portrayed with stop motion and generally kept more or less to the shadows

In addition, the HPLHS film also had the best depiction of R'lyeh in my opinion, I always loved it being a sort of Caligari-esque abstract landscape.

All the physical properties of Cthulhu as understood by popular culture:

Huge

Green

Scowling octopus man face

Badass humanoid reptile body

Cool dragon wings

All the physical properties of Cthulhu ever actually described in the original story:

Huge

Green

Kind of squiddy face mostly referred to as "squirming feelers"

"Sticky"

"Flabby"

[bloopwatch]

Reviving one of my many Tumblr blogs. Since this one is devoted to cosmic horror intruding into the real world, seems like a good place to talk about The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's excellent Dark Adventure Radio Theatre episode "The White Tree - a tale of Inspector Legrasse." Although many of the DART episodes take liberties with the original source material in order to surprise readers of the original works, this is their first wholly original work. Other than the protagonist himself, whom readers will recall is the narrator of the middle chapter of Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu, this work is completely that of the HPLHS' Sean Branney.

I don't want to spoil anything, so I will simply quote their own synopsis. "In Dark Adventure Radio Theatre's first wholly original episode, Inspector Legrasse stumbles onto a case which may be connected to the Cthulhu cult he and his men broke up nearly twenty years before. Once again he leads an investigation which takes him into the foreboding bayous of Louisiana. Will he again be pitted against deranged cultists and the abominations they worship, or has he found something even more evil and insidious?"

I loved this episode, which went in directions I certainly did not expect. I recommend it highly.

https://store.hplhs.org/collections/dark-adventure-radio-theatre/products/dark-adventure-radio-theatre-the-white-tree

[wyrmalien]

am i for real about to make a facebook account .

[redacted-metallum]

One of my favorite I guess, tropes? Trends? In Lovecraft adaptations is people (who are often themselves LGBT+) looking at all the times Lovecraft used queer to describe a horrible little man and going "oh queer like me!" with full knowledge that it didnt mean that yet.

Looking at you, Andrew Leeman HPLHS (affectionate)

[renmorris]

I’m revisiting HPLHS' shadow out of time radio play and it’s so good, it really emphasizes the recovery story aspect of the whole thing by having Peaslee relay his story to a patient and concerned doctor who's like, determined to ease his mind and be open minded in the process, even as his condition worsens. It’s nice.

Also there’s a bit where his wife is freaking out about Yith possessed!Peaslee and she’s describing how alien and different he is now, how he’s infodumping about Roman culture in great detail and she’s like with distress and disgust HE DOESN’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ROME!

That delivery always kills me because I feel like the implication is that Peaslee was way too boring and dull to be interested in history or anything before the swap.

I love Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee being the most terminally boring, most vanilla guy at Miskatonic, of all the faculty he is the least equipped to handle being brain swapped out of his own time and placed in a big freaky alien body

but of course the Yith are very invested in his perspective. the only people who have ever found him interesting. in any way