Tuesday, 22 March 2016

Cheap Lovecraft knockoffs

I had a whimsical surge while getting an international flight, and thus I present the works of Lovecraft on a reduced budget (with apologies to I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue).

  • The Chemist
  • Azathoth - Gesundheit!
  • Beyond the Wall of the Back Garden
  • The Morning Call of Cthulhu
  • The Suitcase of Charles Dexter Ward
  • The Collar out of Space
  • The Curse of Pig
  • The Dairy of Alonzo Typer
  • The Train That Came to Sarnath
  • The Dreams in the Beach House
  • The Dunwich Haulier
  • Fax concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
  • From Behind
  • The Haunter of the Park
  • Herbert West—Animator
  • In the Walls of Eric's
  • The Lurking Beer
  • Out of Ian's
  • Pickman’s Model Railway

This is actually more difficult than I envisioned, because so many of the titles are pretty mundane to begin with. There are some you could easily treat as low-budget puns (The Shadow over Innsmouth, for example; and indeed The Case of Charles Dexter Ward I only tweaked for clarification) but obviously people won't necessarily get what you're talking about...

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  1. At the Foothills of Madness
    The Unsold House
    The Translation of Juan Romero
    Under the Pyramids Casino
    The White Dinghy

    "From Behind" is probably a Lovecraftian porn parody.

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    1. My goodness, so it is!

      Those are pretty nice. You know, I'm sure "The Unsold House" and "The Translation of Juan Romero" could be actual Lovecraft titles. They've got that slightly offbeat-yet-not-egregiously-weird vibe to them.

      (Everybody's Doing The) Nyarlathotep?

      and of course, how could I have missed...

      Polari

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    2. Re that last: "I'm Julian, and this is my friend Tsathoggua."

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