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...
Reading Lovecraft with Deleuze, as adaptation.
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.
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.
Theoretical and slightly too long piece dealing with ludonarrative dissonance and its political implications.
