![]() Very few of these, however, took the same kind of lore-accurate approach that the Mythos’s original 20th-century authors did. It’s touched Dark Souls, Bloodborne, World of Warcraft, Torchlight, the Frogwares Sherlock Holmes series, and hundreds of other games throughout the years. In games, however, the Cthulhu Mythos has remained mostly an aesthetic inspiration. Whether it’s a noble tradition is definitely up for debate, but it’s definitely a long one. ![]() They borrowed his monsters, added a bunch of their own, started classifying them into factions and elemental categories, dug into the lore to make lists of alternate dimensions and ancient civilizations, and helped to congeal Lovecraft’s weird, ever-changing, often-racist output into the horror aesthetic we now recognize as “Lovecraftian.”īasically: within his lifetime, Lovecraft became the object of a pastiche subgenre, and authors have been writing stories which extend his patchwork universe for the last ninety years. ![]() The “Mythos” contains the work of other authors who, inspired by Lovecraft, started to write basically the same kind of stuff. Even before his death, Lovecraft’s particular type of bizarre, cosmically-miserable existential tentacle-horror began to grow into something bigger than himself. If you’re a huge HP Lovecraft fan– the kind of person who has looked up the names of specific “elder gods” on Wikipedia, for example– you’ve probably seen the phrase “Cthulhu Mythos” before. It’s got accurate Elder Things! References to mythology and the occult! Language patterns and foibles drawn precisely from HP Lovecraft’s writing style! A protagonist who exclaims hopeless statements of despair to himself between questions in a conversation with a messed-up robot which believes it’s a human! As developer Galip Kartoğlu led me down to the scary basement in his game’s extremely genre-appropriate, occult-artifact-filled, abandoned, candle-lit Victorian mansion, he informed me: “It’s very common in Lovecraft’s stories that there’s always SOMETHING in the cellar.” I can assure you: there was definitely something “Lovecraftian” in this spooky cellar. If Conarium can claim anything, it can claim that it’s accurate to the HP Lovecraft Experience.
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