The origin and "core" of the Mythos start of course with the collection 23 of Lovecraft’s greatest weird tales. In these stories, monstrous entities traverse the gulfs of time and space and humankind cowers in fright at the havoc they wreak.

Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos - (Suggested Reading Order)

• Dagon - | [Post]
• Nyarlathotep - | [Post]
• The Nameless City - | [Post]
• Azathoth
• The Hound
• The Festival - | [Post]
• The Call of Cthulhu - | [Post]
• The Colour out of Space - | [Post]
• History of the Necronomicon
• The Curse of Yig
• The Dunwich Horror - | [Post]
• The Whisperer in Darkness - | [Post]
• The Mound
• At the Mountains of Madness - | [Post]
• The Shadow over Innsmouth - | [Post]
• The Dreams in the Witch House - | [Post]
• The Man of Stone
• The Horror in the Museum
• The Thing on the Doorstep
• Out of the Aeons
• The Tree on the Hill
• The Shadow out of Time - | [Post]
• The Haunter of the Dark

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EXTRA - The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales by H.P. Lovecraft from Barnes & Noble

A collection of correspondence to and from HPL. Also contained are many of his original manuscripts. (Brown University)

Mythos Anthologies

• 1963 - The Dunwich Horror and Others
• 1969 - Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
• 1971 - The Spawn of Cthulhu
• 1974 - The Watchers Out of Time and Others
• 1976 - The Disciples of Cthulhu
• 1980 - New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
• 1986 - At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels
• 1989 - The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions
• 1990 - Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: Golden Anniversary Anthology
• 1992 - Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos
• 1994 - Cthulhu's Heirs
• 1995 - The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft
• 1995 - Cthulhu 2000
• 1996 - The New Lovecraft Circle
• 2001 - Song of Cthulhu
• 2002 - The Children of Cthulhu
• 2009 - Cthulhu Unbound
• 2009 - Cthulhu Unbound 2
• 2010 - Cthulhu's Reign
• 2010 - Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror
• 2011 - Historical Lovecraft
• 2011 - The Book of Cthulhu
• 2011 - New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird
• 2014 - A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
• 2017 - The Red Brain: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

With blood dripping from our hands, we present the Love Letter to Lovecraft Bundle. Fight to rebuild what was lost as one of the last humans living in Remnant: From the Ashes, a soulslike action-adventure rooted in Eldritch themes. Embark on a journey into the darkest nightmares imaginable before you go insane in Forgive Me Father 2 Deluxe Edition, a hand-drawn Lovecraftian boomer shooter. Or maybe psychological horror is your thing—investigate the mysterious and tragic death of the Hawkins family in Call of Cthulhu. Pay what you want for thrilling experiences in gaming and help support Kiss the Ground!

https://daily-philosophy.com/happy-birthday-hp-lovecraft/

Night-Gaunts is a handmade puppet horror short by Monstark, adapted from H.P. Lovecraft’s poem — built and shot in a 10×15-foot shed in two weeks, with no budget and a smartphone. It premiered at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Providence on Lovecraft’s birthday weekend and went on to Screamfest in Los Angeles.

https://monstark.com/

https://pagancircus.com/

PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY Monstark

BASED ON THE POEM BY H.P. Lovecraft

NARRATED BY Jake Glazier (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13318265/)

MUSIC BY Jean Baudin (https://jeanbaudin.com/)

ADDITIONAL PROP FABRICATION & SPECIAL THANKS Monica Padden

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50596004

Kim Bo-young relocates The Shadow Over Innsmouth to a quarantined Korean fishing village, and Sophie Bowman’s translation makes the dread rise like a tide.

Review - A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-young: The Korean Lovecraft Retelling That Grieves

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/240019934-a-plagued-sea

Kim Bo-young is one of Korea’s most important speculative writers, and A Plagued Sea is her first horror novella in English, translated by Sophie Bowman and published by Tor Nightfire on 11 August 2026. It reworks Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth, moving the story to Haewon, a Korean fishing village sealed off three years into a plague quarantine. Part cosmic horror, part pandemic elegy, it follows a grieving security officer enforcing an isolation she cannot escape as the villagers begin to change. This A Plagued Sea review looks at why a hundred-page Korean Lovecraft retelling hits harder than novels five times its length.

A contemporary reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Herbert West: Reanimator is on the way, and Deadline has unveiled the first look at the new Herbert West and the pathologist drawn to his orbit.

The original screenplay and storyline come from Jade Sandberg Wallis.

Michael Grossman (“The Originals”, “Pretty Little Liars”) directs.

The new images introduce star Joseph Morgan (“Vampire Diaries“), who plays “brilliant surgeon and scientist Herbert West, who is obsessed with creating a serum to reanimate the dead.” Katie Cassidy (Speed Demon) stars opposite as the pathologist with a troubled past who joins his efforts.

Together, they prove that conquering death may be the ultimate sin against life itself. (...)

Theatre troupe La Fenice’s improvised drama creates new perspectives on eldritch terrors

The show at the Tavern is the latest in physical theatre experts La Fenice’s Speak No More series. These were inspired by the New York smash Sleep No More, which turned an entire building into a massive, wordless adaptation of Macbeth. “Seeing this immersive show that was performed silently,” Meehan said, “we went, ‘Oh, this is what we do.’”

The first production was a Shakespearean homage with improv troupe Golden at Hideout Studios, but this evolved into site-specific creations starting with murder-mystery Golden Age at the Neill-Cochran House. A cinematic influence insinuated itself with VVitch at the Haskell House and Contagion at Independence Brewery, which drew heavily on interstellar horrors like The Thing and Alien. However, Lovecraft diverges from those earlier iterations because their physical violence is replaced by internalized horrors. Speak No More veteran cast member Tatiana Jitkoff said, “It’s much less murdery and much more about madness.” (...)

Cross-posting this watch party announcement from ![email protected] ... according to wikipedia this movie has a lot of Lovecraft Mythos-inspired content, hope it's acceptable!

In the Mouth of Madness (1994) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, August 9 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/715444/in-the-mouth-of-madness

• for info on how to block ads, see: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566

• archive: https://archive.org/details/in-the-mouth-of-madness_202510

• archive: https://archive.org/details/in-the-mouth-of-madness.1994

• it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time

• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/in-the-mouth-of-madness

• for trigger warnings see: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/10069

...supernatural horror film directed and scored by John Carpenter ... [Sam] Neill stars as John Trent, an insurance investigator who visits a small town while looking into the disappearance of a successful author of horror novels, and begins to question his sanity as the lines between reality and fiction seem to blur. ... In the Mouth of Madness pays tribute to the works of author H. P. Lovecraft in its exploration of insanity, and its title is derived from the Lovecraft novella At the Mountains of Madness. Distributed by New Line Cinema, In the Mouth of Madness received mixed reviews upon release, but has gained a cult following.

...

Critics generally commended the film on its technical aspects, particularly its special effects, acting, and directing, but perceived it as being too complicated, confusing, pretentious, and underwhelming. Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars, saying that the film has an intriguing premise, but squanders it by relying on hackneyed jump scares and gore, taking the form of "a horror house movie, in which the protagonists creep along while creatures leap at them."[17] Gene Siskel gave the film the same rating,[citation needed] as did James Berardinelli, who said the film "comes close to doing something interesting but gets cold feet" and is "confusing, weird, and not very involving", comparing the film to buying an exotic sports car only to drive it slowly.[citation needed] Lisa Schwarzbaum, writing in Entertainment Weekly, gave the film a C rating, remarking that "much of it [is] bloatedly self-indulgent and a small part wicked funny", with only a smattering of successful moments.[18]

In fully positive reviews from the time period, Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it "a thinking person's horror picture that dares to be as cerebral as it is visceral".[19] John Hartl of the Seattle Times also gave the film a positive review, saying it is "a stylized collection of well-timed shockers, helped along by the contributions of its capable cast."[20] The Chicago Reader gave it three stars, calling it "a must see".[21] In a later review, Chris Stuckmann also awarded the film with an "A," noting its ambition, creativity, and originality alongside Carpenter's direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Mouth_of_Madness

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/cornthulu-4a7a7ae16d5542ca9e8a0dfb8796c692

Datlow notes in her introduction that these stories more about cosmic dread than the trappings of Lovecraft mythos, which makes Lovecraft’s Brood very accessible if Lovecraft isn’t your thing.

https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Lovecraft's_Brood

Contents

• Introduction by Ellen Datlow
• "Once Seen" by Conrad Williams
• "Mr. Ainsley" by Steve Rasnic Tem
• "Sideways" by Ray Cluley
• "Empty Shells on a Cold Shore" by Jacob Steven Mohr
• "The Keep Quiet" by Aaron Dries
• "Agent of Chaos" by T. Kingfisher
• "The Beholder's Share" by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• "Backbite" by Norman Partridge
• "Eat the Wyrm" by Elizabeth Hand
• "The Note" by Paul Tremblay
• "a strange form of life" by Laird Barron
• "Call of the Void—L'appel du Vide" by Carol Gyzander
• "Hypnopompia" by L. Marie Wood
• "Volcano" by Livia Llewellyn
• "Halogen Sky" by Wendy N. Wagner
• "Wind Come Down the Mountain" by A. C. Wise
• "Infantum" by Ian Rogers
• "Deep Diving" by Gary McMahon
• "One Possible Shape of Things to Come" by Brian Hodge
• About the Authors
• About the Editor

In an exciting development for fans of British comedy, Radio 4 is set to air a new one-off special titled “The Call Of Cthudo,” which cleverly combines the classic board game Cluedo with the eerily imaginative universe of H.P. Lovecraft. This unique comedy-horror piece, crafted by James Henry, marks a reunion of sorts for members of the casts from beloved shows “Green Wing” and “Piglets,” bringing together familiar faces in a fresh context.

Scheduled to air in October, “The Call Of Cthudo” features a stellar lineup, with Mark Heap and Stephen Mangan taking on significant roles. Heap portrays Mister Violet, while Mangan steps into the shoes of Lord Black. The plot revolves around a group of color-themed strangers who find themselves trapped in a sprawling country house, faced with the challenge of solving a murder mystery. However, as the storyline unfolds, it becomes evident that the house—and the situation—are far stranger than any of them could possibly anticipate.

(...)

https://gwabryel.blogspot.com/

IN THE WOOD OF CYPRESS ( from Lovecraft's text "The Call of Cthulhu")

R’LYEH ( from Lovecraft's text "The Call of Cthulhu")

AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS ( from the text of H.P. Lovecraft )

Lovecraft’s real horror was never the monster, but the universe around it: cold, ancient, indifferent, and unmoved by human reason.

Published May 21, 2026 at 18:15

Written by Marko K.___

H.P. Lovecraft’s iconic mad scientist first came to cinematic life in 1985’s cult classic horror Re-Animator, embodied in unforgettable fashion by Jeffrey Combs, who reprised the maniacal role in 1990’s Bride of Re-Animator and 2003’s Beyond Re-Animator. 23 years after Combs’ third and final time playing Lovecraft’s take on Victor Frankenstein, the obsessively brilliant character is set to make a comeback in a modern-dress re-imagining.

With Combs himself not coming back for the de-hyphenated Herbert West: ReAnimator, the planned fresh adaptation of Lovecraft’s original story has cast a new mad scientist, tapping Joseph Morgan as the titular West. The Titans star will be joined by Arrow’s Katie Cassidy as Dr. Kate Locke (via exclusive report by Dread Central).

(...)

A four-player co-op extraction game where a Lovecraftian island warps your perception while you haul treasure back to the ship.

The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu drops a squad of treasure hunters onto a cursed jungle island, then spends the rest of the run making them doubt everything they see. It’s a co-op extraction game built around a simple promise and a nasty twist. Grab the loot the captain wants, drag it back to your galleon, and try to leave before the island stops playing fair.

(...)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2569760/The_Mound_Omen_of_Cthulhu/

Lest you think that all I do is lounge about watching movies all the live-long day, I also have a decent book collection. In particular, there’s a good deal of cosmic horror, specifically Lovecraft and Lovecraft-inspired works.

Lovecraft is, of course, a troubling figure. His influence is extensive and undeniable, but the man himself was a fairly rabid racist and xenophobe (it’s said that he later regretted and attempted to disavow such benighted attitudes). The fact remains that the world he created continues to be expanded, a practice that is unlikely to stop any time soon. So here’s a ranked list Cthulhu Mythos stories not by Lovecraft.

#10 Sticks (Karl Edward Wagner)

#9 Bad Sushi (Cherie Priest)

#8 A Study In Emerald (Neil Gaiman)

#7 The Big Fish (Jack Yeovil)

#6 Little Lady (J.C. Koch)

#5 Diana Of The Hundred Breasts (Robert Silverberg)

#4 Jerusalem’s Lot (Stephen King)

#3 Pickman’s Other Model (1929) (Caitlín R. Kiernan)

#2 Fat Face (Michael Shea)

#1 Flash Frame (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)

Spanish genre legend Álex de la Iglesia (The Day of the Beast, The Bar) is making his animation directorial debut with Ages of Madness: The Howling of the Jinn, an adult-aimed CG feature that aims to become the first major animated adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s mythos for the big screen. Production on the ambitious project is scheduled to begin later this year.

more about: https://www.animationmagazine.net/2026/06/ages-of-madness-animated-lovecraft-feature-taps-goya-winner-alex-de-la-iglesia/

During my last trip to Kyoto, I stumbled upon these figures while walking around Yodobashi Camera (a large "electronics and many other things" store that can be found in most major cities in Japan).

The first collection of five vintage existential horror Science Fiction, aka Cosmic Horror, short stories that were written by other authors than H. P. Lovecraft. With a special exception for «The Curse of Yig» that was ghost written by Lovecraft. To what extent is unknown, but probably a lot.

Each story with its own take.

The stories presented here are:

0:00 Introduction

1:04 The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long

40:54 Dig Me No Grave by Robert E. Howard

1:17:46 The Curse of Yig by Zealia Brown Reed

2:04:33 The Secret of Kralitz bu Henry Kuttner

2:27:06 The Tree of Life by C. L. Moore

Selected and read by myself, Tom Trussel.

Which of these stories is your favorite? Share your thoughts below!

Stories of Futures Past presents a set of vintage Science Fiction short stories, narrated by myself, Tom Trussel.