Lovecraft Influences in Games Options

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Okay, Sister Wolf it is. I absolutely love I can call you Sister Wolf.

Yeah, New England I had figured. Elder folks up there might still say "ayuh" instead of yeah or even "yes". So that's why I expected that region.

Probably I'll read another Lovecraft tale this weekend, I know y'all are dying for my opinions & insights! (kidding)

I’m interested. I remember when I first discovered Lovecraft, nobody I knew was reading his work, so I had no one to discuss it with.

[Renee]

Well you've come to the right place, Khajiit. I'm a Lovecraft neophyte. Eager to learn.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Well you've come to the right place, Khajiit. I'm a Lovecraft neophyte. Eager to learn.

What are you thinking about reading next?

[Renee]

Next in my real-life book is The White Ship. I read it the other day, but didn't have many insights. A man spies a ship which comes by the waterway near where he lives, and one day gets invited onto the ship. From there on the story gets pretty trippy & dreamlike. But I didn't feel inspired to discuss too deeply.

If you'd like, sure, you can provide any insights you might have!

One thing. Stephen King's Duma Key has a ghost ship which the protagonist enters several times if I remember correct. I believe King drew some inspiration from The White Ship because the main guy (an artist) in Duma Key also experiences dreamlike, trippy stuff in King's story. King goes way beyond what Lovecraft was able to write, but only because it's a novel versus a short story.

[SubRosa]

There is a map of Lovecraft's Dreamlands that was released in one of the Call of Cthulhu RPG supplements. You can find pics of it online. Here is a link to a picture of the areas that I believe are involved in the White Ship. It makes it feel a little less random and like stuff just thrown against the wall, when you can see it laid out on a map like this.Click on the map to zoom into it.

Here is the full map of the Dreamlands Again, you probably need to click to zoom in to full size.

[Renee]

A map! Yes, that helps a lot. So it's not just random names being picked out for locations then, there is a landscape where this all takes place.