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**** it. I think I need to get off the net

Are so many people into the book, or is there something else?

Perhaps there's no explanation for it's popularity? Perhaps it's just one of those goofy internet things?


Lovecraft is sci fi/horror writing. The stuff the geeks love. This is the internet. It's Mecca for geeks. Match made in heaven.
 
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That's one of the few movies where a remake couldn't possibly be any WORSE than the original.

The only Lovecraft-based movie that I recall I've seen was Dagoon.

The movie "In The Mouth of Madness" starring Sam Neill was inspired by Lovecraft's many novels.

From wikipedia:
"The film pays tribute to the work of seminal horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, with many references to his stories and themes. Its title is a play on one of Lovecraft's most famous tales, At the Mountains of Madness, and insanity plays as great a role in the film as it does in Lovecraft's fiction. The opening scene depicts Trent's confinement to an asylum with the bulk of the story told in flashback, a common technique of Lovecraft's. Quick reference is made to the Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos, as well as to Lovecraftian settings and characters (such as Mrs. Pickman). As read on-screen, Sutter Cane's writings even incorporate direct passages from his work.[1]

All of Sutter Cane's novels have similar titles to H.P. Lovecraft's books."

1. There are a couple of 'Lovercraftian' passages in the film, but only the following quote from Sutter Cane is pulled directly from his work. Compare Lovecraft's original: "I did not shriek, but all the fiendish ghouls that ride the nightwind shrieked for me as in that same second there crashed down upon my mind a single and fleeting avalanche of soul-annihilating memory." (HP Lovecraft 'The Outsider'). And Sutter Cane's: "Trents eyes refused to close, he did not shriek, but the hideous unholy abominations shrieked for him, as in the same second he saw them spill and tumble upwards out of an enormous carrion black pit, choked with the gleaming white bones of countless unhallowed centuries." "Carrion black pit" is a phrase that recurs repeatedly in several Lovecraft stories.​