People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos: Cosmic Horror, Lovecraft, Weird Fiction

Ultraterrestrials with Farmer Dave

Dave talks about ultraterrestrials.Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]
 

Monsters of the Cabin in the Woods

Dave talks about the monsters in Cabin in the woods.Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]
 

Picture in the House/Cabin in the Woods

"The Picture in the House" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on December 12, 1920.
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Indrid Cold

Indrid Cold (later known as the Grinning Man or Smiling Man) is a legendary humanoid being who originated in 20th century folklore, and became a stock character in certain works of fiction. He is usually associated with tales of the Mothman from Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the 1960s.
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The Outsider/The Others

"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926.
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William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land 11

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension.
It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls.
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William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land 10

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension.
It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls.
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William Hope Hodgson’s 'The Night Land' 9

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension.
It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls.
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William Hope Hodgson’s 'The Night Land' part 8

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension.
It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls.
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The Dweller in the Gulf/Fire in the Sky

"The Dweller in the Gulf", is a short story by American author  Clark Ashton Smith. It forms the second part of his Mars series.
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William Hope Hodgson’s 'The Night Land' 7

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension.
It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls.
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William Hope Hodgson’s 'The Night Land' part 6

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension.
It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls.
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