Had to leave the WoW classic cave to make a video, I'm going back now. See you next year.
@kingkuroneko72535 жыл бұрын
Yo
@wesleymok75325 жыл бұрын
I’m glad to see Hyperborea mentioned. One of my favorite Lovecraftian settings. One interesting detail not mentioned is the location’s connection to Lovecraft’s contemporary, Robert E. Howard who’s character Conan (the barbarian) often adventured in Hyperborea. For anyone interested, a third of Brian Lumley’s Titus Crow trilogy takes place in Hyperborea and heavily features Ithaqua. Moves away from the horror and approaches it with a protag that is more akin to Dr. Who, dealing with the mythos creatures armed with knowledge/witts.
@josephbakeman62695 жыл бұрын
Please do more Cthulhu mythos, it's an underrated subject that has so much potential
@FREdmaN1o75 жыл бұрын
What server?
@0verthinker4625 жыл бұрын
Mythology & Fiction Explained Make a fast video about Journey to the West
@wesleymok75325 жыл бұрын
This is why I love the Lovecraft genre. Even after H.P.’s death many writers have taken inspiration not just to make separate works but to create work that is intended to be woven into and expand Lovecraft’s worlds. In some ways it’s like the pre-internet precursor to fanfic fandom communities.
@StarboyXL95 жыл бұрын
I think it is. To me the Lovecraftverse was the grandaddy of internet fanfic communities.
@HiDefHDMusic4 жыл бұрын
I'm no expert, but he published most of his works in sci-fi magazines back in the 30s, before comic books really took off, so in a way they were kind of a precursor to horror comics that became popular in the late 40s. The comic book industry has always relied heavily on creating a story within a mythos created by somebody else, so it wouldn't surprise me if it worked in a similar way for sci-fi stories in the 30's.
@TheThreatenedSwanАй бұрын
But seemingly they're similar in form only
@mai20155 жыл бұрын
I've fallen down the Lovecraft rabbit hole and I have no plans to crawl out
@KostitosConQueso5 жыл бұрын
Pfff... like the nameless horror woulda let you...
@johnivanoplimo51725 жыл бұрын
Give my regards to Yoggie for me, eh?
@andrewfornes54585 жыл бұрын
Welcome. Stay away from Shug.
@luapchalos5 жыл бұрын
just make sure you choose the right tunnels take a wrong turn and you'll end up in a pitch black room filled with people chanting "lovecraft was racist and therefore no one can enjoy his work. time and history are not relevant. ruin all that is good with all that is mediocre."
@tarantulaclan50254 жыл бұрын
Have any wild dreams yet!!
@douglasphillips58704 жыл бұрын
I grew up in New England, and Lovecraft towns have a very New England feel. I especially like Dunwich. There are dozens of small communities that remind me of that.
@johnoneil91885 жыл бұрын
From those places Arkham and Dunwich are probably my favorite locations. There is something fascinating and eerie about places set in our world that are not that far away from other real cities but which just drip with secrets and an atmosphere that makes you both want to look for it and stay the hell away at the same time.
@lordodysseus5 жыл бұрын
Like Willy Wonka's factory or a giant Gingerbread house. They look good, but once inside, you'll be cooked, then killed, then eaten alive by creepy monsters.
@terryr90524 жыл бұрын
I'm a Kingsport fan myself... Love the dreamy atmosphere!
@DavidLMoran19545 жыл бұрын
Ambrose Bierce and Robert W. Chambers wrote about Carcosa before Lovecraft. He didn't inspire them, they inspired him.
@MythologyFictionExplained5 жыл бұрын
Very true considering Bierce died before Lovecraft even had a story published.
@williamwood66165 жыл бұрын
More on bierse would rock
@WickedWicka5 жыл бұрын
The King in Yellow is also likely the inspiration for the Necronomicon--a book that seemingly brings ruin to whomever reads its pages.
@Friendship1nmillion5 жыл бұрын
@@MythologyFictionExplained Just discovered your channel. Watched 1st your video mentioning Heltra and that mentioned "The Yellow emperor" . Not much of a reader, So I've never heard before anything about "Lovecraft" or any other authors you mentioned. The seamless transition of some of the visuals in this video were spooky. I've for a while been wanting to start writing a novel to get published, but been having doubts about IF i have the talent to *EVEN BEGIN* getting started writing a novel. *PLEASE* {if it were to okay with you} when you return to make more videos, you film an interview with an author {of popular fiction} to talk about how to get started writing a novel {including how to know how to start your story from a blank page & how to get inspiration to expand on your ideas}. A live recorded interview with the person sitting in an armchair facing the camera is what I was thinking without your face being shown & just only your voice being heard. *IF* you accept my request do the video however you see fit. 👏📚▶️🎭
@notablegoat5 жыл бұрын
@@Friendship1nmillion If you'd like to become a writer and get published, you should probably consider becoming an avid reader
@timestarmagician86545 жыл бұрын
Spider with human face? Spinning a thread that connects the waking realm and the dreamlands? Ah Miyazaki, I see you.
@yasminegelbman87065 жыл бұрын
Fear the old blood... FEAR IT LAWRENCE!
@mathieuleader86015 жыл бұрын
or Derry
@ronin60335 жыл бұрын
Thats fucked...I seen something like that before in the clouds...Wtf
@ronin60335 жыл бұрын
Whaaaaaat.....
@johnivanoplimo51725 жыл бұрын
Also, Koh the Face Stealer from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
@GanarfGeorgie4 жыл бұрын
A few years back I was surprised to hear of a city in India called "Sarnath", and "The Doom that came to Sarnath " has always been a favorite Lovecraft story of mine. I wonder, did Lovecraft know of the Indian city?
@GentlemanLife-Beyotch Жыл бұрын
I wouldn't be surprised.
@jamesgorman56925 жыл бұрын
Props to the artwork! It really adds to the atmosphere.
@zvonimirtomac78965 жыл бұрын
(hears Arkham) Must. Not. Make. Batman jokes.
@Udgrasil135 жыл бұрын
"Just don`t forget, if it ever goes too tough...there is always a place for you here." - Joker to Batman in "Arkham Asylum. A Serious House On Serious Earth" by Grant Morrison.
@MartinsGarage975 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same. How to insult lovecraft, but still laughing. Serious question though, is this where they got the name for the prison?
@gamingdemigodxiii56305 жыл бұрын
@@MartinsGarage97 Yes, actually.
@tomkerruish29825 жыл бұрын
@@MartinsGarage97 Yes, and it's not a prison, but an insane asylum.
@johnnyruttley15985 жыл бұрын
In Silver Age DC the Necronomicon also shows up
@Stormkrow2804 жыл бұрын
The deep ones also worship Cthulhu, and there’s a theory that “Dagon” is just the deep ones name for Cthulhu
@orangensafttee45983 жыл бұрын
theres also a theory wich said that the daughters of cthulhu made hin strong
@171QA4 жыл бұрын
It’s amazing to see how many of these locations influenced other fictions and at the same time were inspired by real life.
@dannyavarice5 жыл бұрын
I love the classic locations (Arkham, Dunwich, and Innsmouth mostly), but I've always been intrigued with the murkier and more ambiguous locales of Lovecraft. Some of them towards the later part of the list were refreshing to get a vague look at how the location may appear. I'd like a part 2 to this. The more mysterious the location, the better in my opinion.
@midimusicforever2 жыл бұрын
Innsmouth is the most interesting one I think. It's eerie, weird, but not as foreign as the others.
@elirien42645 жыл бұрын
I was never that big into Lovecraft, but this video has me wanting to buy a collection of his work.
@wesleymok75325 жыл бұрын
Because Lovecraft’s works are written with an older style of prose than modern writings it can sometimes create a ‘barrier to entry’ for new readers. Kind of like reading Shakespear for the first time. You can read the words but you don’t quite grasp what’s being said. Just go into it knowing that some of it will go over your head. Just enjoy the atmosphere and follow up any story you read by watching YT vids to pick up stray details and it should be a good time.
@MaxCadyS4 жыл бұрын
His prose is beautiful, it's part of what makes Lovecraft a joy to read
@fleetcenturion3 жыл бұрын
6:36 - The "seal" description refered to the fact that they were mummified, with their lower limbs wrapped with a single layer of cloth.
@zanka535 жыл бұрын
Anglophile is a very generous description of Lovecraft
@mackereltabbie4 жыл бұрын
Sounds nicer than "rabidly xenophobic against practically everything and everyone else" I guess :D The guy had issues.
@connorholt29794 жыл бұрын
@@mackereltabbie it seems that Lovecrafts racism mellowed in his later years as his world view and knowledge expanded. In letters he writes about how his beliefs stemmed from ignorance and that he recanted a lot of his harsher beliefs from his younger days. By the time of his death, I think Anglophile might be an appropriate description as he still held many of the beliefs about English superiority and whatnot, but was far less egregious otherwise.
@lilacpen86783 жыл бұрын
Anglophile just means possessing a love of Brittish and related cultures. Nothing to do with race.
@donaldhyattthe3rd5243 жыл бұрын
@@lilacpen8678 while that is true the two are not mutually exclusive-Lovecraft was both.
@ShadeDraws2 жыл бұрын
There are innumerable openly Anglophobic people in society now, and their phobias are publicly celebrated and encouraged. Let's not be hypocrites.
@hexir83595 жыл бұрын
Can you please do more videos on Exploring Magic? 😊 Some of my favorites!!
@bloodraptor4 жыл бұрын
Imagine being the 69th King in Yellow. *Noice*
@merlapittman50342 жыл бұрын
As a fan of Lovecraft and August Derleth for DECADES, I've been enjoying these Lovecraft videos immensely. You can't do better than Lovecraft for Halloween!
@sense70745 жыл бұрын
Twas a dark night upon Arkham. I couldn't help it, I'm sorry.
@MaledictGaming5 жыл бұрын
You are forgiven :)
@user-mx4up3zk2m3 жыл бұрын
Where Plum Island is located, there is a place where the insmuth was allegedly located. If you look from a satellite, you can see a map-plan of the city. There are also destroyed buildings and square-shaped lakes.
@diegos73375 жыл бұрын
Lovecraft´s Lore is fascinating!
@demonoids22173 жыл бұрын
Ouuuuu!!! Location location location....these stories would be nothing without the intriguing locations they are depicted in.
@robbabcock_3 жыл бұрын
There are so many classic locations! I would say that Innsmouth is fascinating as is the Nameless City. And of course, Arkham is the gift that keeps giving to many authors that came later.
@justalittlecreacher3 жыл бұрын
I had no idea Arkham was related to the C'thulhu mythos. I always assumed it was just a cool name for the city in Batman
@Fucoc5 жыл бұрын
When I played The Secret World, cthulhu mytos were my favourite part of the game
@jamesbaxter72274 жыл бұрын
Ambrose Bierce and Robert Chambers pre date Lovecraft, so it would be accurate to say Lovecraft drew inspiration from them instead of the other way around.
@nickakaisuki18393 жыл бұрын
Could you have a video explained about Yhoundeh? or because the information about her is lacking?
@dareka94255 жыл бұрын
I just realized that the recent Godzilla King of Monsters movie could easily have a Lovecratian end. Those sleeping monsters were pretty much worshiped by ancient people while modern humans are ready to sacrifice billions to wake them up and reset the world.
@gomro4 жыл бұрын
I'm sure someone has already said it, but Lovecraft borrowed Carcosa, not the other way around.
@michaelwills19265 жыл бұрын
I’ve drawn pictures of all these places in my mind and play over them when re-reading these stories over the years. The accompanying art is spot on.
@kenajones91702 жыл бұрын
one thing i will say in all the videos the artwork is amazing! i love the videos
@thomaswillis85653 жыл бұрын
Love the under ground location/race in The Mound
@haillobster71545 жыл бұрын
Love Lovecraft's craft.
@marcusharton54634 жыл бұрын
Chambers influenced Lovecraft I thought, not the other way around. King in Yellow mad old, and Lovecraft references it in his work.
@arnoldrivas45903 жыл бұрын
When I heard the music playing after the intro, I half expected to have Quinn from Quinn’s Ideas of Ice and Fire come in and help narrate with you.
@Arkie804 жыл бұрын
You've probably seen this by now but I'd have liked to have heard about the Elder Things' city in the Mountains of Madness.
@tylercraig56334 жыл бұрын
Innsmouth: Home to the Orphan of Kos
@WickedWicka5 жыл бұрын
It was actually the White Sybil who foretold of Commoriom's downfall, but another of Clark Ashton Smith's stories "The Testament of Athammaus" claims that Commoriom was doomed by Knygathin Zhaum, a wicked descendant of Tsathoggua. Perhaps both stories are correct, perhaps neither. Either way, Commoriom fell.
@ukmediawarrior5 жыл бұрын
I think you could do a whole show on Arkham alone, lol, especially if you use the Cthulhu role playing game material which really broadens the towns history and has been stamped approved by those close to Lovecrafts work. As for Innsmouth, I think the authorities launched torpedoes at Devils Reef rather than set explosives, but tomato, tomatoe I guess.
@demongo20073 жыл бұрын
How about the Great Race of Yith's library-city in Australia? Or the city of the Elder Things in Antarctica? Or the Plateau of Leng?
@azipoor34684 жыл бұрын
I look forward to seeing more mythical and spooky videos for Halloween🎃
@gangpardos38334 жыл бұрын
You can make the first sound of the Cthulhuian language by pressing your tongue to the roof of your mouth in different orientations while pronouncing the syllable of the word. Cth'ulhu would be said cth sounding like kruth but barely saying the u and raising the front part of your tongue to the roof of your mouth and then lu.
@christopherchase8253 Жыл бұрын
Excellent show and beautiful art !
@albanyacosta5 жыл бұрын
I love your videos! Keep up the awesome work man
@apainter35865 жыл бұрын
I love listening to all of your videos.
@MichaelLaneMonkeywrench5 жыл бұрын
Erm, yeah Bierce predates Lovecraft, Carcosa is his. Chambers also predated HPL. Hyperborea was a setting used by CA Smith and RE Howard (both HPL buddies, though Tsathoggua appears to be a RE Howard invention, though no doubt he corresponded with HPL about it) It all gets pretty involved as all three were writing shared mythos stuff at that point.
@zacharyjohnson46255 жыл бұрын
Love your videos and always excited when it's Lovecraft related! A video detailing Lovecraft's ghouls would be very interesting I think.
@Drp_br_4 жыл бұрын
Lovecrafts stories are so cool! My fav place in the mythos he’s created is the “lost city”
@Kholan953 жыл бұрын
K'n-yan is another Lovecraft location I really enjoy
@bulletsheppard99775 жыл бұрын
I think Hyperborea was mentioned by Robert E. Howard in the Conan series, but I could be mistaken.
@rikusschulze62495 жыл бұрын
nah, you're right. Howard and Lovecraft were penpals and contributed to each others works.
@Dubrichius5 жыл бұрын
I believe that there's enough overlap in the two author's works that it could be argued that they were writing in a shared universe, just at different points in time.
@WickedWicka5 жыл бұрын
He did mention that the Greeks came up with Hyperborea, and many authors at the time were classically trained, so they were all aware of Hyperborea. Clark Ashton Smith's version of Hyperborea is actually pre-frozen Greenland.
@rikusschulze62495 жыл бұрын
@@Dubrichius it doesn't have to be argued. It's proven. Howard used mythos gods in his work and they were penpals. Or real pals? Something like that.
@zacharyjohnson46255 жыл бұрын
@@rikusschulze6249 Pen pals. They never met in person, but they admired and respected each other's work. Lovecraft wrote a glowing obituary for Howard after the latter's suicide.
@everythingawesome8874 жыл бұрын
That tunnel in dunich reminds me of the sleepy hallow movie. Johnny Depp has an encounter with the headless horseman in a similar bridge.
@lilymonster07134 жыл бұрын
I just randomly found your channel and now I can’t stop watching it I love all of this so much
@tobypack63283 жыл бұрын
Imagine a movie or comic book wherein Robert E Howard’s characters( Conan, Kull, Red Sonya, Cormac ,El Borak ,Solomon Kane, Conrad&Kirowan, Bruhl, Bran Mak Morn, Kirby O’Donnel,etc) in an “Avengers “ type scenario,are thrust into “the Dreamlands” of The Cthulhu Mythos & have to battle Lovecraftian monsters 🤓
@jackiesantos21215 жыл бұрын
That finally you went back to the HP Lovecraft Mythos I like to talk about other creatures or places in this universe
@cuthulux5 жыл бұрын
Bierce and Chambers inspired Lovecraft, not inspired by Lovecraft. I'm know Bierce was dead before Lovecraft was even born and I'm pretty sure Chambers was the generation before Lovecraft. Still, a great video as always!
@babyboomer62724 жыл бұрын
HP Lovecraft & Steven King were making cinematic universes even before Marvel started doing that shit.
@majorgrubert58873 жыл бұрын
Wonder what lovecraft stories have secret cities in em… I listen to ; “The Mound” and it was really good: I what to find more like it with perhaps ancient cities of pharaohs or other bizarre races
@katelillo19324 жыл бұрын
Will you do a video about Gaia? I’ve recently stumbled upon this channel and started binging videos lol but haven’t seen one for her. Thanks for all your hard work 💚
@MythologyFictionExplained4 жыл бұрын
It's a topic that I'm sure I'll cover soon.
@James-yv8nk4 жыл бұрын
You should do a TED talk on lovecraft
@Queenhaylihill3 жыл бұрын
MAFE: *mentions Arkhum in a Lovecraft videos Me: *thinks Batman and the Arkhum Asylum*
@victorkhor91595 жыл бұрын
cool!man ,Please dive deep in cthulhu Mythos
@dc42965 жыл бұрын
was fully expecting to hear abot 'Yarhnam'
@ItsFreeRealestate02 жыл бұрын
Id love to see a video jus about the language of the great ones or great old ones
@syguzman57395 жыл бұрын
💚 The artwork is amazing! 💚
@princessdarknezz5 жыл бұрын
Please do a moon special especially covering the Harvest moon topic in honor of the upcoming harvest moon... The next one will happen after 30years...
@weirdreportt5 жыл бұрын
Yes the Cthulhu mythos are back!
@trailerparkninja68344 жыл бұрын
Great work love the hp
@silverwolf10344 жыл бұрын
i remember hyperborea being mentioned in some of the conan the barbarian stories
@jackiesantos21213 жыл бұрын
Yeah then the hyperborean age and Conan the Barbarian universe
@demongo20073 жыл бұрын
@@jackiesantos2121 Hyborian Age; Hyperborea was a country in the northern part of the continent, east of Asgard and north of Brythunia.
@jasonsantos30373 жыл бұрын
The hyperborean age In the same universe den the great old ones are
@amayia43615 жыл бұрын
I’m too excited for this and it hasn’t started yet
@auroramariealmeara86222 жыл бұрын
Great video, as always it seems. Just can't believe you left out Ling.
@FirstNameLastName-okayyoutube Жыл бұрын
In real life I've been to places where the locals just cannot see the strangeness of some City Planning. It's sensible why they don't care but they still don't care that they have no idea what's inside. The most dramatic I've ever found was a hidden garden. Everyone just thought it was part of some building but it was actually part of a old public park. So I can't remember the name what the story where that guy was playing the violin. I like that one because it seems very believable that you would have people that live in a city that they don't even understand its borders despite the intimate understanding of so many things
@MintyCow1013 жыл бұрын
Perfect places for around the world vacation!! Where did i put mah suncreen?
@faithl96145 жыл бұрын
Thank you mythology and fiction for video
@unheardstingray70485 жыл бұрын
now i have a need to hear about hyborea in the conan world
@ronnibech33763 жыл бұрын
May I recommend you the animated movie called "Fire and Ice" Ralph Bakshi as to me it fit perfectly with Hyperborean myths and the ruins in it reminds me of Commoriom and the "subhumans" reminds me of the voomies.
@cthulhu57024 жыл бұрын
These places all seem pretty normal to me.
@DoctorButh19765 жыл бұрын
I'm subscribing simply because you worked the jedi code as an ancient book in the intro. Well played. Ok, the video was really good too ;-)
@johnanderson55005 жыл бұрын
I'd love to hear about the mountains of madness!!! Please
@Tgernos3 жыл бұрын
Love your videos so much!!
@glass4breakfast4 жыл бұрын
hmm..that's a hard one but i think Carcosa is my favorite. mostly for the fact that it embodies cosmic horror more then any other location since it is so unknown n of of the few things we do know about it is that it can serve as a link to our reality like a portal or glitch in the matrix, it is both very real n competely unreal n impossible as well as a dream land n a physical material place. edit: also i love the way its spelled n pronounced. i love the way it rolls off the tongue n sounds like a curse or a word embued with dark magic.
@BornStellar-yp5st4 жыл бұрын
Do you plan on making a video on Clark Ashton Smith's Colossus of Ylourgne?
@sulmage99262 жыл бұрын
9:00 something tells me that he is a nice emperor
@taycarroll11244 жыл бұрын
Could you do videos on African gods such as Anansi?
@vishalthakur36714 жыл бұрын
Arkham and innsmonth sounded interesting.
@609collector4 жыл бұрын
HBO is making a show called Lovecraft Country
@demongo20073 жыл бұрын
IMHO it sucks. Less about Lovecraftian horror conspiracies and more about gross-out effects, characters and situations that have little or nothing to do with Lovecraft's stories, and a bit too woke for my tastes (perhaps in a backlash to lovecraft's quite awful and inexcusable racism). Not against the characters and racial situations per se, but it comes across as a bit on the nose and takes the focus off of the weird/cosmic horror of lovecraft's universe and places it on modern racial conflict. YMMV.
@karenthompson94924 жыл бұрын
Excellent
@quintonphelan75425 жыл бұрын
Love your videos!👌
@mathieuleader86015 жыл бұрын
Arkham is the spiritual ancestor to Stephen King's Derry
@TsulaAngenati22925 жыл бұрын
Please do Sedna, Inuit myths are under appreciated.
@partyman57975 жыл бұрын
More Lovecraft contest please. Always great. 🤟🏻🤟🏻
@Nishom09264 жыл бұрын
Dark magic always requires heavy price A price which nobody can pay
@usernamexax83844 жыл бұрын
Are you challenging me?!??!
@holtzappledalton21535 жыл бұрын
Your intro is one of the best
@juliankirby98805 жыл бұрын
Carcosa is also the name of a metal song by high on fire.
@user-mg1qh4kr5o22 күн бұрын
You should do More Lovecraftian Creatures.
@jakeblackhurst242 ай бұрын
Innsmouth & miskatonic university are locations to be explored in the PC game, named Secret World Legends
@williamwood66165 жыл бұрын
More on carcosa would rock, I'm a bueirse
@crsmyth44285 жыл бұрын
One of those books in the opening of this video looked like The Will of The Force (or whatever its called) from the Star Wars lore. Or am I mistaken? Looks a lot like something else....and that book with the tree with the interweaving roots, was that from The Never Ending Story?
@Sleepy.Time.5 жыл бұрын
more Lovecraft lore videos please
@jasonsantos30374 жыл бұрын
Laz Alonso weird City in lovecraftian universe Grand Lodge at 4 World guitar about different alien races