Adapting Lovecraft

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Book Announcement: The Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft

Tim Lanzendörfer

The first extensive discussion of the great range of adaptations of Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s work, The Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft brings together nineteen essays on theory, copyright, translation...

Tumbbad: The Curse of Hastar

Vansh-Sharma

The Indian folk horror film Tumbbad (2019) represents a rare merging of Hindu mythology with Lovecraftian themes. Author Vansh Sharma discusses the ways in which the movie allegorizes and critiques key events in Indian history while also retaining formal aspects of the traditional morality tale.

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Cthulhu: Le Pacte d'Innsmouth

Aurélien Buchatz

In November 2021, Elder Craft published this neat little tabletop RPG book written by Maxime Le Dain and designed by Sebastien Moricard, drawing from one of H.P. Loveraft’s most famous tales: The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Innsmouth is probably Lovecraft’s most used short story for RPGs, most notably in the Call of Cthulhu games starting in the 1980’s. Let us see what this adaptation looks like.

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Concerning Fun: Politicizing Ludonarrative Dissonance

Max José Dreysse Passos de Carvalho

Theoretical and slightly too long piece dealing with ludonarrative dissonance and its political implications.

Concerning Fun Video Games

Cthulhu Mythos: Hastur, the King in Yellow

Aurélien Buchatz

Lovecraft was never shy about his influences, discussing them at length in his correspondences, and sometimes referencing them in his work, thus expanding the Lovecraftian canon far beyond the reach of his own stories. The King in Yellow is one such entity, and we will try to understand here what enraptured Lovecraft so much in the original eponymous collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers that he decided to include Hastur in his pantheon, as a Great Old One.

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All Submissions

Author	Title	Tags
Vansh-Sharma	Tumbbad: The Curse of Hastar	Comment TV & Film Written Fiction
Aurélien Buchatz	Cthulhu: Le Pacte d'Innsmouth	Comment Tabletop Games
Max José Dreysse Passos de Carvalho	Concerning Fun: Politicizing Ludonarrative Dissonance	Concerning Fun Video Games
Aurélien Buchatz	Cthulhu Mythos: Hastur, the King in Yellow	Comment Written Fiction
Aurélien Buchatz	Gyaru and Cthulhu, Lovecraft in the 21st century	Comics
Max José Dreysse Passos de Carvalho	Concerning Fun: Evil Texts Pt. 1, Or: Why They Can't Indict The Cosmos	Concerning Fun Tabletop Games TV & Film Video Games
Max José Dreysse Passos de Carvalho	Concerning Fun: Some Notes on Cthulhu and Natural History	Concerning Fun Video Games
Tim Lanzendörfer	Book Announcement: The Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft	Announcement
Aurélien Buchatz	The Bestiary of Dusk, a Lovecraftian Love Letter	Comics
Max José Dreysse Passos de Carvalho	Concerning Fun: Call of the Sea	Concerning Fun Video Games
Tim Lanzendörfer	Arkham Horror Fiction: Fourth-Order Adaptation	Tabletop Games Written Fiction
Max José Dreysse Passos de Carvalho	About "Concerning Fun"	Announcement Concerning Fun