# HP Lovecraft **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 20, 2011, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227 "2011-10-20T07:44:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/21 "2011-10-25T12:21:28Z")
> [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > I like Pickman’s Model for nostalgic reasons–there was a Night Gallery type show that used it back in the early 70s, which was my introduction to Lovecraft. Yeah, the show was called “Night Gallery”. 😃 Hosted by Rod Serling, it also did HPL’s “Cool Air” & several Lovecraftian projects. My first exposure was the young Dean Stockwell-Sandra Dee-Ed Begley Sr. AIP production of THE DUNWICH HORROR, for which I still have a great deal of fondness. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/22 "2011-10-25T13:23:41Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > My first exposure was the young Dean Stockwell-Sandra Dee-Ed Begley Sr. AIP production of THE DUNWICH HORROR, for which I still have a great deal of fondness. A good thing of its kind, I suppose . . . Shakesp-- Lovecraft it isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/23 "2011-10-25T14:40:25Z")
“The Rats in the Walls” and “The Color Out of Space” are two of the best horror stories ever written. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/24 "2011-10-25T14:51:43Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > “The Rats in the Walls” and “The Color Out of Space” are two of the best horror stories ever written. Agreed. The subtle, corrosive effect of the Color on one’s mind makes it the scariest thing Lovecraft ever came up with. ---
**Author:** ![nofloyd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nofloyd/32/2870_2.png) [@nofloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nofloyd)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/25 "2011-10-25T15:12:47Z")
Shadow over Innsmouth is a fav of mine, like the sneaking out of town when the towns folk are looking for him. And the twisty psychological end ‘Dwell amidst wonder and glory forever’ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/26 "2011-10-25T15:18:45Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Agreed. The subtle, corrosive effect of the Color on one’s mind makes it the scariest thing Lovecraft ever came up with. But how do you show that Color on the screen?! ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/27 "2011-10-25T15:33:50Z")
> [@brainglutton](#): > > but how do you show that color on the screen?! In 3-D! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/28 "2011-10-25T16:24:02Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > In 3-D! Won’t work. Not enough dimensions and, worse, the **wrong ones.** ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/29 "2011-10-26T03:02:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Hey, that’s not the whole of him, sometimes it’s like this: OK, I guess I never read that one. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/30 "2011-10-26T03:31:57Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > That just occurred to me when I posted it – but it then occurred to me that if it’s possible, some horror director must have tried it already. Anybody know? [Sensurround](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensurround) used very low frequency tones that are more felt than heard. Trouble was it tended to either cause damage to the building or make plaster fall from the ceiling or make too much noise for multiplex buildings. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/31 "2011-10-26T14:36:46Z")
> [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > I like Pickman’s Model for nostalgic reasons–there was a Night Gallery type show that used it back in the early 70s, which was my introduction to Lovecraft. Did someone say [Pickman’s Model](http://www.joshuahoffine.com/#a=0&at=0&mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=0)? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/32 "2011-10-26T18:41:51Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > Did someone say [Pickman’s Model](http://www.joshuahoffine.com/#a=0&at=0&mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=0)? Ah, yes, _Pickman’s._ That fashion-mag folded after one issue, for **some** reason. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/33 "2011-10-26T19:29:28Z")
My favorite Lovecraft is The Shadow out of Time. I highly recommend people listen to Dark Adventure Radio Theatre’s productions: [H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth](http://www.amazon.com/H-P-Lovecrafts-Shadow-Over-Innsmouth/dp/B001QV7LAO/ref=wl_it_dp_o_npd?ie=UTF8&coliid=IR0UOGZJCLJWZ&colid=3M22WUS2W2ZRM) [H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Out of Time](http://www.amazon.com/H-P-Lovecrafts-Shadow-Out-Time/dp/B001GGX3P6/ref=pd_bxgy_m_text_b) [H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror](http://www.amazon.com/Lovecrafts-Dunwich-Horror-Adventure-Theatre/dp/B001ASVR8A/ref=pd_bxgy_m_text_c) [H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness](http://www.amazon.com/H-P-Lovecrafts-At-Mountains-Madness/dp/B000NFWGCW/ref=pd_sim_m_3) These are all done in an ‘old tyme’ style and the ones that I bought the CD of (as opposed to the iTunes download) come with little newspaper clippings and stuff. Neat stuff. One of the actors sounds a lot like Donald Sutherland (IMO). ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/34 "2011-10-28T03:42:44Z")
That reminds me, Lovecraft’s grave is about half an hour from my house, and I keep meaning to visit it. I think I’ll do that…(after Halloween, that is). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/35 "2011-10-28T13:15:37Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > That reminds me, Lovecraft’s grave is about half an hour from my house . . . Ya think? " One disgusting canvas seemed to depict a vast cross-section of Beacon Hill, with ant-like armies of the mephitic monsters squeezing themselves through burrows that honeycombed the ground. Dances in the modern cemeteries were freely pictured, and another conception somehow shocked me more than all the rest—a scene in an unknown vault, where scores of the beasts crowded about one who held a well-known Boston guide-book and was evidently reading aloud. All were pointing to a certain passage, and every face seemed so distorted with epileptic and reverberant laughter that I almost thought I heard the fiendish echoes. The title of the picture was, “Holmes, Lowell, and Longfellow Lie Buried in Mount Auburn”." – “Pickman’s Model” ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/36 "2011-10-28T14:22:46Z")
Is “The Shadow Out of Time” about the guy who body-switches with an alien and goes to some place deep in the earth to write the history of humans in books and turns into a cone-man with tentacles ? ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/37 "2011-10-28T14:30:42Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Is “The Shadow Out of Time” about the guy who > > body-switches with an alien and goes to some place deep in the earth to write the history of humans in books and turns into a cone-man with tentacles > > ? Basically, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/38 "2011-10-28T15:08:22Z")
Well, in my defense, I read it more than 20 years ago. I don’t think I’ve read anything else by Lovecraft. ---
**Author:** ![dasmili](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@dasmili](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmili)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/39 "2011-10-28T17:44:15Z")
After reading “Dreams in the Witch House”, Brown Jenkin starred in my nightmares for weeks. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227/40 "2011-10-28T21:48:24Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Well, in my defense, I read it more than 20 years ago. I don’t think I’ve read anything else by Lovecraft. [You may now atone.](http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-lovecraft/600227.md?page=3)