H.P. Lovecraft: Difference between revisions

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[[File:HPL-Smiling!.jpg|frame|A rare picture of our author [[The Un-Smile|attempting to smile.]]]]

 

{{quote|''"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."''}}

Despite [[wikipedia:H. P. Lovecraft#Copyright|some controversy]] over whether most of his works are genuinely public domain, they're all invariably available online [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:H._P._Lovecraft somewhere]. The letters are harder to get ahold of (and expensive as hell, check out Abebooks), but they're well worth the search.

 

* ''[[At the Mountains of Madness]]''—Scholarly expedition to [[Mysterious Antarctica|Antarctica]] discovers ruins of a city built by [[Ancient Astronauts]] and has close encounters with [[Blob Monster|formless horrors]] and [[Our Monsters Are Weird|giant hairless penguins]], incidentally proving that "[[It Gets Better]]" ''can'' be used to great effect.

** Guillermo del Toro (the director of ''Hellboy'' and ''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]'') had a screenplay prepared, although it will be quite a while before anything comes of it, what with [[The Hobbit (novel)|one thing]] and [[Frankenstein|another]]. Although it had [[Tom Cruise]] and [[James Cameron]] involved, it was cancelled in light of The Wolfman reboot flopping.