![]() "Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world." This is a great question, and one very near and dear to my heart. I don't think all of the meditation in the world could prepare a human for it. Tens of thousands of years worth of information never meant to ever be written onto a human's brain, pushed into it, rewiring it, and perhaps entirely overwriting even base nervous system functions in order to make room for it. This is injected like a wasp putting its eggs into a spider. This awareness isn't just transferred like Neo's brain-to-machine USB. Knowledge from the perspective of a thing hundreds of millions of years old, that may not even have "emotions"or patterns of thinking that correlate to the map of your mind. Now imagine a being that emanates a field that pushes the sudden, and violent knowledge of things that were not meant to ever fit into a human brain, into one. Neo could spend hours in this machine and learn subjects like martial arts, small arms use, and many others. You learned subjects that were applicable to human life, with a human mind, with a human body. It was designed to put knowledge of human origin into a human brain. Think about the learning machine from The Matrix. I like a lot of the analogies here, and here's another for you to consider. ![]() If you feel that you have been touched unnecessarily by eldritch forces, find a sanitarium near you that can restore 1d4 SAN per week.įor information on art used in the sidebar please check the wiki. Content not related to Lovecraft should not be posted here. Please note that this is not the place to post your own personal glimpses of insanity. Reviews of Lovecraftian games by /u/Avatar-of-Chaos The Complete Works in various eformats here. Spreadsheet for help determining which physical collection to purchase. ![]() ResourcesĪll Lovecraft's stories can be found hereīrown University's HPL Collection (manuscripts, letters, etc)Ĭomplete archive of Weird Tales magazine by /u/legofan94 The most popular collections are generally the Knickerbocker edition and Barnes and Noble varieties. Please consult the spreadsheet for an overview of a large number of physical books. With very few exceptions, Lovecraft's entire body of work is in the public domain and can be read online for free from numerous sources. If you really just want to read the 'greatest hits' then you can browse the subreddit's top picks. However for the best experience it's recommended that you read them in chronological order by date written or in most cases, just pick up a book and read left to right. Technically speaking you can read them at random. ![]() HP Lovecraft wrote short and unconnected stories. If you have any questions about the rules, please don't hesitate to message the moderators.įor the full list of rules please check the wiki New to Lovecraft? It helps to report instances of spam and posts/comments that break the rules. Violation of the rules will result in post removal and in some cases bans. Selling artwork, merch, or similar items is prohibited. Please read the sidebar before asking where to begin reading.Īll self-promotion must be disclosed and kept within reasonable limits. Submissions must be directly related to Lovecraft, his work, and contemporaries.Īrtwork posts are only allowed to be posted under certain restrictions. No restricted content such as: memes, tattoos, jokes, apparel, AI images, etc. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Lovecraft, this is your stop for all of his outstanding works and weird fiction in general!
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