Editing H.P. Lovecraft (section)

==Some of Lovecraft's stories==
* '''Call of Cthulhu:''' Artists round the world go mad as an eldritch god stirs in its slumber. The one where Cthulhu actually appears and is skewered by a steamboat.
* '''The Shadow over Innsmouth:''' Man goes on trip to backwater ancestral hometown to learn more about his family. What he finds is not what he was looking for.  Also clearly demonstrates Lovecraft's fear of sea creatures (which is the reason so many aliens and ancient eldritch beings in his stories have these features - especially the recurring tentacle motif) and his [[/pol/|disapproval of interracial/inter-ethnic mixing]].  Important background for [[Delta Green]].
* '''The Colour Out of Space:''' A meteorite whose color cannot be described lands on a farm, contaminates the soil and water, drains the crops and livestock of their vitality, and drives the family into insanity before consuming them. Then it flies away to do the same thing to some other world. Was made into a relatively faithful film adaptation in 2019, starring Nicolas Cage. It’s as awesome as it sounds.
* '''Dagon:''' Short story on one of the Deep One gods.
* '''The Dunwich Horror:''' A physical manifestation of cosmic insanity had a baby with a normal human. As investigation on this strange boy deepens, people realize things are horribly wrong, as the blood and noises around the house suggest. Remember kids, race-mixing bad. One of the few stories where humanity wins, though a few villagers dies before the Horror is stopped. Is also stopped by three professors, one who is another Lovecraft author insert.
* '''The Case of Charles Dexter Ward:''' An intrepid investigator showing a certain [[Matt Ward|descendant]] how to be [[awesome]].
* '''At the Mountains of Madness:''' Half of an Antarctic university expedition goes missing, so the other half sets out to find them. Little do they know about the billion-year-old horrors in wait. John Carpenter's ''The Thing'' was not an adaptation of this work, but it shares a lot of common elements.
* '''The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath:''' AKA Adventures of Mary Sue. It is nice though. Also clearly demonstrates Lovecraft's immense love of cats.
* '''The Cats of Ulthar:''' Don't ever kill a cat, especially not if the cat belongs to a gypsy. You will pay!
* '''Herbert West: Reanimator:''' Mad scientist insists on reanimating the dead, despite the fact that they make it very clear that they would rather not come back and the reanimation makes them violent and cannibalistic. There's a movie, considered good for low-budget 1980s. Jeffrey Combs absolutely owns the role of Herbert West, and there's plenty of [[PROMOTIONS|naked Barbara Crampton]], if you're into that sort of thing.
* '''From Beyond:''' There's another movie, starring Barbara Crampton's leather bikini.
* '''Nyarlathotep:''' Introduced the title character, who is basically [[Just as planned]] personified. The only one of Lovecraft’s deities to have a human personality, [[Nyarlathotep]] has become a go-to villain for many adaptations of the Cthulhu mythos.
* '''Cool Air:''' A wealthy young man who is probably a Lovecraft self-insert moves into an apartment building filled with immigrants, where he meets one he actually doesn’t hate, an old doctor with a literally quite cool room. Time goes on and the air conditioner for the room breaks, sending the Doc into a panic. When they come back to fix it, he’s become goop on the floor, because surprise surprise he was using this (for the time) radically new technology to postpone his decay because he'd been dead for 18 years. Cue dreadful realization.
* '''The Rats in the Walls:''' A gentleman returns to his ancestral home in England, which he inherited. Unleashes an evil without knowing and descends into madness to the sound of rats. One of the author's shorter stories, it was first published in 'Weird Tales'. Lovecraft's black cat "Niggerman" makes a cameo appearance (yeah, remember how we said he was and is considered turbo-racist even by the standards of his era?).