1-18-08

[GreenPea]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Basically, if they show any of Lovecraft's creations/ideas, they're almost bound to ruin it.

That is pretty much my point. Honestly interpreting the Lovecraftian monsters literally would make then look quite silly, triagle shaped aliens, gods with octopus heads, crabmen...But what Lovecraft tried to really do with those descriptions was just to emphasize the alieness of these beings, and as there are no human words capable to describe them they are compared to familiar beings..

But anyway my favorite Lovecraft stories are not even the Cuthulu mythos ones but those like Dreams at the Witchhouse or the Shadow over Insmouth, in which normal humans slowly through the story start playing with the occult opening a world of madness that ultimately destroys them....