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.
A good thing of its kind, I suppose . . . Shakesp-- Lovecraft it isn’t.
“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.
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’
But how do you show that Color on the screen?!
In 3-D!
Won’t work. Not enough dimensions and, worse, the wrong ones.
OK, I guess I never read that one.
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.
Did someone say Pickman’s Model?
Ah, yes, Pickman’s. That fashion-mag folded after one issue, for some reason.
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
H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Out of Time
H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror
H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness
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).
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).
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”
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.
Well, in my defense, I read it more than 20 years ago. I don’t think I’ve read anything else by Lovecraft.
After reading “Dreams in the Witch House”, Brown Jenkin starred in my nightmares for weeks.