![]() ![]() But in the end I think the power of his writing rests in the language, in the constant layering of increasingly frantic prose as each story reaches its denouement. His descriptions of, for example, the Great Old Ones in At the Mountains of Madness (1931) and the Elder Things from The Shadow out of Time (1936) are pretty specific. Lovecraft dwells in great detail on appearances – colours, textures, writhing abysses filled with amorphous horrors etc. On the surface you get the impression that the originals are highly visual. ![]() Yet at the same time it highlights a lot of the issues that emerge when anyone tries to film the Cthulhu Mythos stories. It’s a great movie and by and large it does a good job of rendering a classic Lovecraft tale in the style of ‘40s film noir. P Lovecraft Historical Society’s film of The Whisperer in Darkness. ![]()
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