#wilburwhateley

[roadmapofpain]

Wilbur Whateley

[octoberboy1031]

Look at this adorably evil #WilburWhateley from @the_cryptocurium!! 🦑🐺 #cryptocurium #thedunwichhorror #hplovecraft #providencebynight #newenglandhorror #horror #horrorgeek #creepy #spooky #august #summer #night #terrorverse #dandelionwine (at North Providence, Rhode Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgvW0IQuHkf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lakekraken]

I found this tiny, horrifying gem in an antique store in Pentwater, MI. @wilburwhateley it made me think of you. Just a fun, strange little item.

[mrr080t0]

Whateley at the Orne Library by Paul Carrick. #HPLovecraft #occult #occulthorror #necronomicon #wilburwhateley

[willpottorff]

I might be stuck inside because of STELLA!!!! But I'm still inking some pages! #art #ink #artoftheday #comicart #comicbook #montserrat #comicpages #horror #cat #artistsoninstagram #artistsofinstagram #artistoninstagram #artistofinstagram #rats #hplovecraft #wilburwhateley (at Chemical Dog Productions)

[redacted-metallum]

@wilburwhateleys inspired me.

[ninasnon-sense]

wilburwhateley replied to your post: I think I’m going to try and watch all the movies...

See! That’s what I’m talking about. So goofy. I think I actually groaned at that part of the story.

I just laughed. It was bad enough when the monster pissed on a guy, but just the pure shock that the main character felt at realising maybe a woman needs to be the one to wield the stone vagina had me cracking up.

[eldritch-sanctum]

I was watching the second episode of Myths & Monsters on Netflix (actually because someone else was) and I couldn’t help but think of how the theme had influenced Lovecraft.

The episode was on the theme of civilization vs. wilderness.  They talked about how the Ancient Greeks thought of nature as chaotic, uncivilized, where humans do not belong, but easily where humans can trespass into the territory of the gods, especially gods like Pan, or get punished by the gods for their transgressions (like the story of Actaeon), where the gods and divine were more at home, yet was dangerous for mortals.  Yet it was also a place where one had to strike it if they couldn’t survive on civilization alone, such as hunters and also when one needed to travel from one town to the next.

They also mentioned the Fey realm in Celtic lore being this realm of wondrous beauty and bounty-the opposite of the cold, brutish world, that if one steps into things can go badly.  There is a sense of untamedness and working on its own unknown laws that if transgressed have terrible consequences. 

Then they mentioned the ultimate unknown-the sea full of monsters and that contrast that the sea feeds you but also can kill you easily, a vast frontier populated very alien creatures like the kraken.

Then talked about the psychoanalytic take on the wolf in fairy tales being the symbol for the untamable self, there lies a thin veneer of civilization and nature within the human psyche.

I was disappointed that they did not mention Lovecraft as someone who expanded these very ideas into the modern world (but they did mention Jaws) or that science fiction such as Star Trek and Alien revives these very themes often with space or even the deep ocean to rehash them for a world where much of the Earth is already cartographed.  I remember hearing about these themes when reading analysis on Lovecraft and even in Lovecraft’s own work and analysis he mentions figures like Pan or the fey.  This “fear of the unknown” is often tied with Lovecraft’s racism and I know it would be a mistake to dismiss his racism in his works but it kinda reminds me that that whole “unknown chaotic wilderness” thing is something that has roots elsewhere.  

It also gives me more of a backbone to tie high fantasy things to eldritch horrors rather than the way D&D does sloppily by having Far Realm stuff be yet another source of evil out there. 

@wilburwhateley

[valtharr]

@wilburwhateley @thebreakerofoaths

I really, really had to scroll until I found it, but it’s about this post.

[willpottorff]

What about Gug you ask?!? I posted on reddit recently with that Wilbur Whateley piece and someone recommended I do Gug from Lovecraft’s The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, so I did! Not a crazy story in fact someone will probably find it boring but what about Gug?!?! • • • #art #illustration #artist #horrormonster #comicart #ghouls #photoshop #creaturedesign #horror #artwork #horrorlife #creature #artoftheday #horrorart #willpottorff #thedunwichhorror #tentacle #lovecraftian #hplovecraft #illustratorsoninstagram #illustrator #wilburwhateley #yogsothoth #gug #thedreamquestofunknownkadath (at Chemical Dog Productions) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFciHeij2oB/?igshid=10kco3nsa4wgn

[lakekraken]

@wilburwhateley @misterchristianx come see, my friends!

Photographer Charles Freger has traveled through 19 European nations to gather pictures of impressive costumes from pagan rituals that have survived to this day. The series, entitled “Wilder Mann,” inspires images of an older, wilder and more tribal Europe filled with wild beasts, bonfires and pagan gods.

More photos here

[rosymaplemoth]

I'm fairly certain that stealing books from libraries is a crime, kiddo. Quick sketch of my favorite teenage delinquent lookin' a little shocked. #hplovecraft #lovecraft #dunwich #thedunwichhorror #wilburwhateley

[ninasnon-sense]

wilburwhateley replied to your post: I think I’m going to try and watch all the movies...

:D I’ll bookmark it for when I’m in the mood for a trainwreck. Thanks! Have you read the story, by chance?

Not yet. It's on my list but I get so little free time these days. I am trying to make my way through Barkers writing though. I'm about a third through Imajica at the moment.

[elephantbitterhead]

wilburwhateley replied to your post “While we’re having pictures of me, let’s also have my most favorite....”

I resisted making smartass remarks about the eyeliner earlier since you beat me to it. :D it was going to be something-something-baby jane, I dunno...but this is cool! I have never been across the Atlantic, and it always surprises me for some reason when I see standing stones "in context"/just...there beside the new construction. I wonder at the different approach to the land then. The u.s/'gotta rip it all up!' vs. 'work around' thing. At least that's how it seems, etc.

I think this (the ‘no leave it as you found it!’) is true in many cases. Standing stones are left in the oddest, most awkward places. But it’s not just them. For example in Scotland, the thing you really see it about is doocots, these fancy olde-tyme stone houses for doves/pigeons. It’s supposed to be bad luck to tear them down, so you’ll see them in the weirdest places. Standing firm in the middle of a planted field, crowding up against a new-build house, etc. And not a doo in sight.

[shruggoths]

wilburwhateley replied to your post:i’ve been really getting into vampire: the...

Just kidding. I was clicking through folks who follow and saw this. To be fair, we were pretty embarrassing. It was fun, though. :D

HWAAAA i was not expecting this today!! but anyway i like some aspects of the 90s goth scene but it’s VERY saturated in VTM so it gets a little draining, along with the general bleakness of the setting. like can’t these vampires just like.... chill out