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|[[The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets]] || Various || Various || Many of the band's songs reference Lovecraft's work.<ref>{{cite news|title=Don’t Tell the Jocks: GeekDad Interviews Toren Atkinson|url=http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2008/09/dont-tell-the-j/|accessdate=24 September 2011|newspaper=Wired|date=10 September 2008}}</ref> |
|[[The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets]] || Various || Various || Many of the band's songs reference Lovecraft's work.<ref>{{cite news|title=Don’t Tell the Jocks: GeekDad Interviews Toren Atkinson|url=http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2008/09/dont-tell-the-j/|accessdate=24 September 2011|newspaper=Wired|date=10 September 2008}}</ref> |
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| Cradle Of Filth || ''[[Midian]]'' || ''[[Cthulu Dawn]]'' || One of many songs by COF based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://http://theorderofthedragon.com/ }</ref> |
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Revision as of 13:11, 8 October 2011
This article provides a list of cultural references to H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. For works that are stylistically influenced by Lovecraft, see Lovecraftian horror.
Film
Title | Date | Writer | Notes |
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Dagon | 2001 | Dennis Paoli | An adaptation of the Lovecraft short story The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936), set in Spain.[1] |
The Call of Cthulhu | 2005 | Sean Branney | A silent film adaptation of the H. P. Lovecraft short story of the same name.[2] |
Cthulhu | 2007 | Daniel Gildark | Loosely based on "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".[3] |
Template:J | 2009 | Devin McGinn | A comedy-horror film about the last of Lovecraft's relatives.[4] |
Games
Game Title | Notes |
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Arcane Mystery Serial | Sarbakan, PC, 2010. Online serial game pitting human investigators against the creatures of the Mythos.[5] |
Arkham Horror | A board game originally published by Chaosium (1987). The license was later acquired by Fantasy Flight Games, with a revised and expanded version of the game republished in 2005.[6] |
Call of Cthulhu Collectible Card Game | Fantasy Flight Games (2004). Collectible card game based on the Mythos.[7] |
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth | Bethesda Softworks/2K Games, Xbox/Microsoft Windows 2005. Loosely based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth, with references to other Mythos works.[8] |
Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land | Mobile games based on various Lovecraft stories.[9] |
Cthulhu Nation | Web-game grounded in the Cthulhu Mythos.[10] |
Cthulhu Saves the World | Zeboyd Games, 2010.[11] |
CthulhuTech | Catalyst Game Labs, 2008. A futuristic roleplay game that features elements of the Mythos.[12] |
Dungeons & Dragons | Games company TSR included an entire chapter on the Cthulhu mythos (including statistics for the character) in the first printing of Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook Deities & Demigods (1980). TSR, however, were unaware that Arkham House - copyright holder on almost all Lovecraft literature - had already licensed the Cthulhu property to the game company Chaosium. Although Chaosium stipulated that TSR could continue to use the material if each future edition featured a published credit to Chaosium, TSR refused and the material was removed from all subsequent editions.[13] |
Elder Sign | Fantasy Flight Games, 2011. A dice game involving a team of investigators attempting to prevent the "Ancient Ones" from awakening.[14] |
Illuminati | a card game with an expansion supplement, "Servants of Cthulhu".[15] |
Lost Souls | Online game with direct references to the Mythos.[16] |
Munchkin | (Steve Jackson Games, 2001), a card game that features a series of parody expansion sets based on the Mythos.[17] |
Super Scribblenauts | 5th Cell, Nintendo DS, 2010. Cthulhu can be summoned during gameplay.[18] |
Mansions of Madness | Fantasy Flight Games. Board game involving one player in the service of malevolent deities and other players attempting to stop them.[19] |
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened | Frogwares, Windows, 2006. Features an investigation into a number of disappearances believed to be the work of a Cthulhu cult.[20] |
Music
Band | Album | Song | Notes |
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Metallica | Ride the Lightning | The Call of Ktulu | An instrumental inspired by "The Call of Cthulhu".[21] |
Metallica | Death Magnetic | All Nightmare Long | Described by vocalist James Hetfield as being about the Hounds of Tindalos.[22] |
Nox Arcana | Necronomicon | (all 21 songs) | An album entirely about the Cthulhu Mythos.[23] |
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets | Various | Various | Many of the band's songs reference Lovecraft's work.[24] |
Cradle Of Filth | Midian | Cthulu Dawn | One of many songs by COF based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.[25] |
Title | Notes |
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A Study In Emerald | Neil Gaiman, 2003. A Sherlock Holmes pastiche with several references to the Old Ones of the Mythos.[26] |
And Another Thing... | Eoin Colfer, 2009. The final installment in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, and in a humorous vignette features Cthulhu interviewing for the position of god of the planet "Nano".[27] |
A Colder War | Charles Stross, 1997. A novella that blends the hacker culture and the Mythos.[28] |
Crouch End (short story) | Stephen King, 1980. A short story concerning a young couple lost in the London suburb, featuring several references to the Mythos.[29] |
Green Lama Unbound | Adam Lance Garcia, 2010. The Green Lama, a pulp hero from the 1940s, battles Nazis as they attempt to raise Cthulhu. Features strong elements from the Mythos.[30] |
The Crawlin' Chaos Blues | Edward Michael Erdelac, 2010. A blues singer in 1964 who makes a deal with Nyarlathotep for fame and fortune.[31] |
I, Cthulhu | Neil Gaiman, 1986. A short story on Gaiman's website featuring Cthulhu dictating an autobiography to a human slave.[32] |
The Illuminatus! Trilogy | Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, 1975. Features several Mythos references.[33] |
The Midnight Eye Files: The Amulet | William Meikle, 2008. Set in modern day Glasgow, the worshippers of Cthulhu attempt to revive the god.[34] |
The Philosopher's Stone | Colin Wilson, 1981. Two scientists, now possessing heightened consciousness, discover mankind is the creation of Lovecraft's Old Ones.[35] |
Resume With Monsters | William Browning Spencer, 1996. A humorous novel about a worker who battles a series of bad jobs and Lovecraft's Elder Gods.[36] |
The Adventures of Samurai Cat | Mark E. Rogers. 1984. The character Samurai Cat traverses time and space on a mission of revenge, and at one point wreaks havoc in H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".[37] |
Television
Title | Notes |
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The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy | The Season 1 episode "Big Trouble in Billy's Basement" and the Season 5 episode "Prank Call of Cthulhu" feature Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu respectively.[38] |
Rod Serling's Night Gallery | The Season 2 episodes "Pickman's Model"[39][40] and "Cool Air"[39]
[41] are based on the original 1926 Lovecraft short stories of the same name, while "Professor Peabody's Last Lecture" heavily references the Mythos.[39] |
The Real Ghostbusters | The episode The Collect Call of Cathulhu references the Necronomicon and an attempt to revive, Cathulhu, described as one of the "Great Old Ones". |
Sealab 2021 | The Season 4 episode "Isla de las Chupacabras" features a narration that describes the fictional creatures the Chupacabras as having been created by Cthulhu.[43] |
South Park | Features Cthulhu as a character in the Season 14 episodes Mysterion Rises and Coon vs. Coon and Friends.[44] |
Supernatural | In the episode "Let it Bleed", it is revealed that Lovecraft discovered a way to pierce the veil between worlds, opening a hole into Purgatory.[45] |
References
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- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1522262/
- ^ http://pc.gamezone.com/products/item/arcane_online_mystery_serial_pc
- ^ http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/15987/arkham-horror
- ^ http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=11
- ^ http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/703/703445p1.html
- ^ "Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land". Retrieved 2011-06-05.
Developer's site about the game
- ^ "Cthulhu Nation MMORPG in the World of Lovecraftian Mythos". Retrieved 2010-03-22.
Loosely based upon H.P. Lovecraft's stories of Cthulhu and other Mythos creatures, the game is set in the 1920s against a backdrop of Earth recovering from the First World War.
- ^ "Cthulhu Saves the World Press Release » Zeboyd Games". Zeboyd.com. Retrieved 2011-07-30.
- ^ http://www.cthulhutech.com/
- ^ "Deities & Demigods, Legends & Lore". The Acaeum. Retrieved 2010-05-10.
- ^ http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/100423/elder-sign
- ^ http://www.sjgames.com/inwo/strategy/aaron2.html
- ^ http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_3535.html
- ^ McElroy, Matt (May 12, 2008). "Munchkin Cthulhu Review". Flames Rising. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
- ^ http://www.bloodygoodhorror.com/bgh/blogs/10/08/2010/summon-a-cuddlesome-cowlike-cthulhu-in-super-scribblenauts
- ^ http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=2333
- ^ http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/819/819820p1.html
- ^ "Metallica Lyrics Index - MetalliNote: Cthulhu". Sodabob.com. Retrieved 2011-07-30.
- ^ "CANOE - JAM! Music - Artists - Metallica: Interview with James Hetfield". Jam.canoe.ca. 2008-12-08. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
- ^ Nox Arcana's Necronomicon
- ^ "Don't Tell the Jocks: GeekDad Interviews Toren Atkinson". Wired. 10 September 2008. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
- ^ {{cite web|url=http://http://theorderofthedragon.com/ }
- ^ http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6599565-a-study-in-emerald
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7619000/7619708.stm
- ^ http://www.sffaudio.com/?p=679
- ^ http://www.stephenking.com/library/short_story/crouch_end.html
- ^ http://pulpfactory.blogspot.com/2010/07/green-lama-unbound.html
- ^ http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/?p=10131
- ^ http://scififantasyhorror.blogspot.com/2010/09/i-cthulhu-by-neil-gaiman.html
- ^ http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Illuminatus
- ^ http://www.chizine.com/amulet_review.htm
- ^ http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/715738.The_Philosopher_s_Stone
- ^ http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1091193.R_sum_with_Monsters
- ^ http://people.eku.edu/keefet/kevin/samurai.htm
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0292800/episodes
- ^ a b c http://www.nightgallery.net/index.html?title.html&0
- ^ http://www.cthulhucoffee.com/summaries/pickman.html
- ^ http://www.cthulhucoffee.com/summaries/coolair.html
- ^ http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/rgb_ep_cathulhu.htm
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278877/episodes
- ^ "H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Rises on South Park Part 1 of 3". CthulhuWho1's Blog. 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2011-08-07.
- ^ http://www.tv.com/supernatural/let-it-bleed/episode/1381030/recap.html
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