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	~~{{sick\|He created Cthulhu, of course he’s a sick fuck!}}~~
	[[Image:Lovecraft.jpg\|thumb\|right\|This is the closest he was able to pull to a smile.]]		[[Image:Lovecraft.jpg\|thumb\|right\|This is the closest he was able to pull to a smile.]]
	{{Topquote\|For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...\|H.P. Lovecraft, defining what is to be, at core, an elegan/tg/entleman}}		{{Topquote\|For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...\|H.P. Lovecraft, defining what is to be, at core, an elegan/tg/entleman}}

	{{Topquote\|~~Say the name of my cat~~\|H.P. Lovecraft~~, probably~~}}		{{Topquote\|I am threatened by [[Hot Chicks\|women]] and [[Cthulhu\|squids]]. [[Monstergirls\|Woman squids]] would terrify me.\|also H.P. Lovecraft}}

	'''Howard Phillips Lovecraft''' was an American writer of horror fiction for 1920s pulp magazines, mostly the now defunct but famous at the time ''Weird Tales''. He is lauded one century later as the pioneer of the idea of "cosmic horror". In his stories (and the genre that evolved from it) the horror doesn't arise from prosaic fears of death and dismemberment, but from the idea that the universe itself is utterly alien and either indifferent or actively malevolent towards mankind, full of incomprehensible horrors that our minds are ill-equipped to cope with because some asshat didn't make it OSHA-compatible. This idea replaced the traditional spooks, werewolves, vampires and psychos with tentacled monstrosities from beyond space and time, dark gods sleeping beneath the ocean, and secretive cults carrying out terrible rites to bring their masters back to the world of the living. His influence can be felt throughout our culture as cosmic horror became a core concept of both fantasy and science-fiction - Mind Flayers in D&D, the insidious cults and corrupting influence of the gods of Chaos in ''Warhammer'', and of course ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]''.		'''Howard Phillips Lovecraft''' was an American writer of horror fiction for 1920s pulp magazines, mostly the now defunct but famous at the time ''Weird Tales''. He is lauded one century later as the pioneer of the idea of "cosmic horror". In his stories (and the genre that evolved from it) the horror doesn't arise from prosaic fears of death and dismemberment, but from the idea that the universe itself is utterly alien and either indifferent or actively malevolent towards mankind, full of incomprehensible horrors that our minds are ill-equipped to cope with because some asshat didn't make it OSHA-compatible. This idea replaced the traditional spooks, werewolves, vampires and psychos with tentacled monstrosities from beyond space and time, dark gods sleeping beneath the ocean, and secretive cults carrying out terrible rites to bring their masters back to the world of the living. His influence can be felt throughout our culture as cosmic horror became a core concept of both fantasy and science-fiction - Mind Flayers in D&D, the insidious cults and corrupting influence of the gods of Chaos in ''Warhammer'', and of course ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]''.

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1d4chan>TheWiseDane: /* Lovecraftian Horror and Sanity */

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Lovecraftian Horror and Sanity

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	One thing that Lovecraft sort of pioneered is the idea of sanity breakage; that the mind is ruined before the body. This is particularly important for /tg/, since an incredible amount of books, movies, games and shows has taken inspiration from Lovecraft's sanity-drained protagonists (or taken inspiration from another source who took inspiration from Lovecraft). If a game has a [[Arkham Horror\|pile of blue tokens to measure mental health alongside the normal red for physical health,]] it dis.		One thing that Lovecraft sort of pioneered is the idea of sanity breakage; that the mind is ruined before the body. This is particularly important for /tg/, since an incredible amount of books, movies, games and shows has taken inspiration from Lovecraft's sanity-drained protagonists (or taken inspiration from another source who took inspiration from Lovecraft). If a game has a [[Arkham Horror\|pile of blue tokens to measure mental health alongside the normal red for physical health,]] it dis.

	In the original short stories and novels, the protagonists' minds usually breaks due to realizing the grander ramifications of whatever eldritch nonsense they have been dealing with. They'll confess to this by writing a sort-of epitaph to themselves where they explain how mad they are in perfect english, sometimes before offing themselves or being taken by some horror.		In the original short stories and novels, the protagonists' minds usually breaks due to realizing the grander ramifications of whatever eldritch nonsense they have been dealing with. They'll confess to this by writing a sort-of epitaph to themselves where they explain how mad they are in perfect english, sometimes before offing themselves or being taken by some horror. Occasionally people also faint when they see something weird or alien, but it's worth noting that, in the original stories, insanity came from the knowledge of Deep Ones, Old Ones and cults existing just beyond sight, not necessarily that they were so horrible that they drain sanity to just look at. Sure, those gripplies are horrible but in most cases, it's the ramifications of their existence that gets to the people in Lovecraft's stories, not just a sanity drain - at most, protagonists have a momentary lapse of panic or indecision as they grapple with the fear of death.

			In a lot of games, this has been gamefied and turned into a mechanic; a sort of separate health bar that makes players feel vulnerable to the mere sight of a tentacle. In some games like the [[Arkham Horror]] series, enemies can drain sanity through their attacks or players can drain it themselves by using certain spells or abilities.

	==Influences on Tabletop Gaming==		==Influences on Tabletop Gaming==

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	* '''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.		* '''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?).		* '''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?).

			== Lovecraftian Horror and Sanity ==
			One thing that Lovecraft sort of pioneered is the idea of sanity breakage; that the mind is ruined before the body. This is particularly important for /tg/, since an incredible amount of books, movies, games and shows has taken inspiration from Lovecraft's sanity-drained protagonists (or taken inspiration from another source who took inspiration from Lovecraft). If a game has a [[Arkham Horror\|pile of blue tokens to measure mental health alongside the normal red for physical health,]] it dis.

			In the original short stories and novels, the protagonists' minds usually breaks due to realizing the grander ramifications of whatever eldritch nonsense they have been dealing with. They'll confess to this by writing a sort-of epitaph to themselves where they explain how mad they are in perfect english, sometimes before offing themselves or being taken by some horror.

	==Influences on Tabletop Gaming==		==Influences on Tabletop Gaming==

1d4chan>TheWiseDane: /* Some of Lovecraft's stories */

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Some of Lovecraft's stories

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	* '''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.		* '''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.		* '''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.		* '''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]].		* '''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.		* '''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.

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References

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	<br>Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.]]		<br>Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.]]

	~~<s>He also~~ named ~~his cat~~ after the slur ~~as well</s> (much~~ to the Internet's amusement ~~and chagrin)~~. It was his father ~~who~~ was ~~responsible for naming the cat after that slur~~. ~~Not that he was bothered by this, but the~~ cats ~~that he fed and took care of~~ in Providence were given more appropriate names		His family cat was named after the same slur, to the Internet's eternal amusement. Lovecraft didn't pick the name himself, it was his father's idea, but being a young and impressionable kid he thought it was hilarious. The cats Lovecraft bought for himself in Providence were given more appropriate names.

	==External Links==		==External Links==

1d4chan>Rogalydondon: /* Some of Lovecraft's stories */

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Some of Lovecraft's stories

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Some of Lovecraft's stories

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	* '''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]] is the go to villain in any adaption of the franchise.		* '''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]] is the go to villain in any adaption of the franchise.
	* '''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 inevitable death, and had been for 18 years. Cue dreadful realization.		* '''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 inevitable death, and had been 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 considered turbo-racist even ~~for early 20th century America~~?).		* '''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?).

	==Influences on Tabletop Gaming==		==Influences on Tabletop Gaming==

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Some of Lovecraft's stories

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	* '''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]] is the go to villain in any adaption of the franchise.		* '''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]] is the go to villain in any adaption of the franchise.
	* '''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 inevitable death, and had been for 18 years. Cue dreadful realization.		* '''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 inevitable death, and had been 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.		* '''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 considered turbo-racist even for early 20th century America?).

	==Influences on Tabletop Gaming==		==Influences on Tabletop Gaming==

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	[[Image:Lovecraft.jpg\|thumb\|right\|This is the closest he was able to pull to a smile.]]		[[Image:Lovecraft.jpg\|thumb\|right\|This is the closest he was able to pull to a smile.]]
	{{Topquote\|For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...\|H.P. Lovecraft, defining what is to be, at core, an elegan/tg/entleman}}		{{Topquote\|For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...\|H.P. Lovecraft, defining what is to be, at core, an elegan/tg/entleman}}

	{{Topquote\|~~Say the name of my cat~~\|H.P. Lovecraft~~, probably~~}}		{{Topquote\|I am threatened by [[Hot Chicks\|women]] and [[Cthulhu\|squids]]. [[Monstergirls\|Woman squids]] would terrify me.\|also H.P. Lovecraft}}

	'''Howard Phillips Lovecraft''' was an American writer of horror fiction for 1920s pulp magazines, mostly the now defunct but famous at the time ''Weird Tales''. He is lauded one century later as the pioneer of the idea of "cosmic horror". In his stories (and the genre that evolved from it) the horror doesn't arise from prosaic fears of death and dismemberment, but from the idea that the universe itself is utterly alien and either indifferent or actively malevolent towards mankind, full of incomprehensible horrors that our minds are ill-equipped to cope with because some asshat didn't make it OSHA-compatible. This idea replaced the traditional spooks, werewolves, vampires and psychos with tentacled monstrosities from beyond space and time, dark gods sleeping beneath the ocean, and secretive cults carrying out terrible rites to bring their masters back to the world of the living. His influence can be felt throughout our culture as cosmic horror became a core concept of both fantasy and science-fiction - Mind Flayers in D&D, the insidious cults and corrupting influence of the gods of Chaos in ''Warhammer'', and of course ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]''.		'''Howard Phillips Lovecraft''' was an American writer of horror fiction for 1920s pulp magazines, mostly the now defunct but famous at the time ''Weird Tales''. He is lauded one century later as the pioneer of the idea of "cosmic horror". In his stories (and the genre that evolved from it) the horror doesn't arise from prosaic fears of death and dismemberment, but from the idea that the universe itself is utterly alien and either indifferent or actively malevolent towards mankind, full of incomprehensible horrors that our minds are ill-equipped to cope with because some asshat didn't make it OSHA-compatible. This idea replaced the traditional spooks, werewolves, vampires and psychos with tentacled monstrosities from beyond space and time, dark gods sleeping beneath the ocean, and secretive cults carrying out terrible rites to bring their masters back to the world of the living. His influence can be felt throughout our culture as cosmic horror became a core concept of both fantasy and science-fiction - Mind Flayers in D&D, the insidious cults and corrupting influence of the gods of Chaos in ''Warhammer'', and of course ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]''.

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	* '''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.		* '''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 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 ~~Nicholas~~ Cage. It’s as awesome as it sounds.		* '''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.		* '''Dagon:''' Short story on one of the Deep One gods.
	* '''The Dunwich Horror:''' A physical manifestation of ~~the~~ cosmic ~~order~~ 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.		* '''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.
	* '''The Case of Charles Dexter Ward:''' An intrepid investigator showing a certain [[Matt Ward\|descendant]] how to be [[awesome]].		* '''The Case of Charles Dexter Ward:''' An intrepid investigator showing a certain [[Matt Ward\|descendant]] how to be [[awesome]].
	* '''At the Mountains of Madness:''' An Antarctic university expedition ~~went~~ missing, so ~~a second mission is sent~~ 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.		* '''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 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!		* '''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.		* '''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.		* '''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]] ~~is the~~ go to villain ~~in any adaption~~ of the ~~franchise~~.		* '''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 ~~inevitable death, and had~~ been for 18 years. Cue dreadful realization.		* '''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?).		* '''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?).