So, there has been some weird shit going on with my Tumblr blogs recently. This blog got deleted by Tumblr for no apparent reason; in between writing to Tumblr team and running around screaming, I created another one dedicated to Lovecraft alone. Now this blog got resurrected as suddently as it got deleted and I really don’t know what to do next:

1. keep the new blog for Lovecraft posts and post in this one about other fandoms
2. keep my old blog for all posts and delete the new one
3. post about Lovecraft in both blogs which probably would increase both the amount of chaos and order in the world

In any case, I’m really happy to see this blog return - it had almost 1000 posts! There are some differences between my new blog and this one, and I probably won’t abandon either of them, but I need to think what to do and reorganize some things if necessary.

sullivanjsue:

darkersoul:

My opinions are that every idea that guy had was bad except for having the US government try nuking Rl'yeh, cuz they definitely would. But, besides that, yeah no the war in heaven idea is very stupid, his reframing as some gods as good and some as pure evil really spits in the face of what I love about the Mythos, really I can’t point to one thing of his I like except that he further incorporated the Carcosa Mythos into the Cthulhu Mytjos, if indirectly.

I respect him for popularizing HPL and his works. We really wouldn’t know HPL as well as we do without him. But as for anything he wrote, I entirely ignore it.

mortallywoundedtree:

“What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything.”
- H.P Lovecraft

hplovecraftmuseum:

CRYPT OF CTHULHU, volume 15, #2 Eastertide 1996 (maybe?) Includes a rendering of the chart which Lovecraft included with a letter to James F. Morton dated, April. 27, 1933. The chart remains controversial in many ways. CAS had sent his own graphic of his cosmic heierarchy to Robert Barlow. It is almost nothing like the device HPL offered Morton. According to HPL in a letter to CAS, Barlow had made a similar request for such a thing to him. Though there is a rumor that Lovecraft sent a chart to Barlow somewhat resembling the one pictured here, there is no evidence that Lovecraft did so or that this ‘other’ chart exists. Smith, in a roundabout way requested a more definite explanation of Lovecraft’s fictional cosmic heierarchy in a letter. Apparently Lovecraft ignored him. This chart to Morton was created as a joke in response to a claim by Morton that he himself was desended from mythological deities. Lovecraft answered ( by letter) that he had only demons behind him. Certainly the names listed below Nyarlathotep on the left side of the chart and those below Cthulhu and Tsathoggua to the right were purely ad-libbed by Lovecraft. The entities and all of those listed above, however, follow a certain self-contained logic as presented in Lovecraft’s own fiction. Lovecraft probably felt safe in giving Morton this chart while refusing such a gift to his writer friends. Lovecraft likely figured Morton - who was not a writer himself - would merely find the chart amusing and toss it in the trash later. HPL would probably have been surprised to find that so many of his correspondent friends would keep and cherish his letters to them. Out of the 100k letters Lovecraft was believed to have written in his life, approximately 10 thousand survive. (Exhibit 315)

hplovecraftmuseum:

NOCTURNE #1 , 1974. NOCTURNE -in this case a 26 page publication- was Harry O. Morris’ contribution to the ESOTERIC ORDER OF DAGON amateur press association. The association was named after the mysterious religious guild mentioned in Lovecraft’s masterful tale: THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH. Included in this mailing - which went out to all members - were news items of interest to the underground Lovecraft fans and early - post Derleth scholars studying HPL’s work. Until Derleth’s passing he had wielded enormous power and control over nearly everything related to Lovecraft. Though Derleth’s claims of control were mostly bluster and gentle intimidation, he would at times threaten legal action against anyone who had plans to publish anything about Lovecraft without going through him first. Sonia Haft, Greene, Lovecraft, Davis, was stifled in her plans to publish some of her late husband’s letters with a memoir of her relationship with HPL. Derleth succeeded in stopping her from doing so With little more than empty threats. With Derleth gone on July 4, 1971, a new era of Lovecraft’s legacy began. In some cases the results were positive, but what is generally called, THE CTHULHU MYTHOS, today is essentially now a free for all. (Exhibit 321)

hplovecraftmuseum:

An illustration from one of the 2 issues of SKULL COMIX dedicated to the works of H. P. Lovecraft. This detail is meant to represent a page from the dreaded, NECRONOMICON of Abdul Alhazred. Also featured is the jade amulet which was taken as tomb loot by the characters featured in story, THE HOUND, by H. P. Lovecraft. These slender publications appeared in the early 1970s just around the time a renewed public interest in Lovecraft was brewing. The language used in the comic adaptations was somewhat simplified, but the artwork was first rate for the time. (Exhibit 323)

hortensius:

i’m just mesmerized by historical figures who fail and die miserably. go girl give us nothing

soniahdavis:

“And even now, I feel that he might have lived, and been well, had we remained together.” April 7, 1967, Sonia to August Derleth on H.P. Lovecraft.

soniahdavis:

Nov. 29, 1966 | A letter to August Derleth.

magicwingslisten:

As to the work of C. L. Moore—I don’t agree with your low estimate. These tales have a peculiar quality of cosmic weirdness, hard to define but easy to recognize, which marks them out as really unique. […] In these tales there is an indefinable atmosphere of vague outsideness & cosmic dread which marks weird work of the best sort. How notably they contrast with the average pulp product—whose bizarre subject-matter is wholly neutralized by the brisk, almost cheerful manner of narration! Whether the Moore tales will keep their pristine quality or deteriorate as their author picks up the methods, formulae, & style of cheap magazine fiction, still remains to be seen.

—H. P. Lovecraft to William F. Anger, 28 Jan 1935, Letters to Robert Bloch & Others 227

hplovecraftmuseum:

“… and thereafter Loveman and I discoursed in the manner of a Greek and a Roman about to part in brotherly amity … CVRA. VT. PALICANVS.” (Lovecraft writing of his parting with Samuel Loveman after meeting him in New York City) and later: “One whole day Loveman and I roamed around the Metropolitan Museum of Art, drinking in the beauty, and agreeing that real beauty perished utterly with the Graeco-Roman age … ” S. L. 1, pp 174. And later: “We live in a decadent age like that of the later Roman Empire, and only the simple can find grounds to dodge the fact … ” SL 1 pp 160. All the above quotes were from Selected Letters 1 ARKHAM HOUSE PUBLISHERS. Loveman was one of Lovecraft’s early friends of Jewish Heritage. Both men were aficionados of Classical art and literature. It’s interesting that Lovecraft’s most famous fiction rarely featured themes from the the Classical World. Although HPL considered Hellenic Greece to be the high point in human cultural evolution he himself felt a greater connection to Ancient Rome - which was in many respects a Grecian derivative. (Exhibit 294)

melodic-operator:

easily the funniest thing 1920s Reddit Atheist hp lovecraft ever wrote re: warding off evil with crucifixes was in dreams in the witch house when the main guy is trying to stop an old witch from choking him to death and he’s wearing this crucifix on a chain and he like, flashes it at her and she sort of rears back so you’re like okay it’s going to like. burn her. classic stuff. and then he pulls it off to use it as a weapon and instead of it hurting her with the power of god or something he just chokes her out with it

melodic-operator:

the funniest part of the shadow over innsmouth is robert olmstead making a bitchy comment about the lack of fire escapes on the gilman lodging house “despite the state’s safety regulations” brother now is NOT the time for the osha inspection‼️

hplovecraftmuseum:

THE IDES OF MARCH. March 15, 44 BC. Julius Caesar is assassinated. March 15, 1937. H. P. Lovecraft dies. March 28, 1904. Whipple Van Buren Phillips - Lovecraft’s grandfather, and the most important male figure in his life, dies. March 22 - April 2, 1925, Great Cthulhu rises and then sinks once more with his cosmic city into the Pacific Ocean. March 16, 1883, Sonia Haft Green Lovecraft Davis is born. March 3, 1924 Lovecraft and Sonia Green were married in NYC. The joining would fail miserably and their unofficial divorce would prove a massive embarrassment for HPL. March 14, 1869, Algernon Blackwood was born. Blackwood’s tale, THE WILLOWS, would be called by Lovecraft, “The greatest supernatural story ever written in the English Language. March 1931, Lovecraft would finish writing, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, perhaps the most ambitious story he ever created. ‘Mts’ would be serialized in the Feb. Mar. April, issues of ASTOUNDING STORIES. Lovecraft’s story as it appeared there was so abridged and filled with typos that he did not consider it legitimately published. March 19, 1902. Florence Carol Weld - Lovecraft’s step daughter with Sonia Greene is born. Sonia’s grown daughter from a previous marriage (her birth-father had died) met Lovecraft briefly. Apparently neither cared for the other. March 26, 2019, Wilum 'Hop Frog’ Pugmire, long time Lovecraft fan, author and beloved personality within the fantasy/ horror underground dies. The Ides of March. I include these dates and personalities merely as examples of coincidence. In his letters to August Derleth, Lovecraft lectured the younger writer on the mistake of giving coincidence any sort of significance other than pure chance. (Exhibit 282)

makerscockandballs:

the original Reanimator lovecraft story is wild btw. most of it is just repetitive “we stole bodies. resurrected them. they fucked our shit up. somehow we got away with it” which is Meh but! the interesting part is what is WRONG with the narrator why is he like this

from day one hes so weirded out by Herbert and still just shrugs and goes along with whatever madness the guy is planning. he also talks about the bodies like theyre objects, both when theyre dead and alive. and when he mentions Herbert murdering someone to resurrect them he just brushes it aside. its like half a sentence.

like babe thats not a thing to brush aside. this guy is similarly fucked up as Herbert even if hes in denial