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🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | He defined the themes and obsessions of 20th century horror and as we chugged on into |
0:17.5 | the 21st century it hasn't seemed to be going away. |
0:20.7 | He let drop away all the trappings of what is called horror and he moved into some narrative |
0:26.9 | to kill yourself and invented his own genre really. |
0:30.6 | Lovecraft tells you about the scale of man in the cosmos. |
0:36.1 | So he is really the most articulate about saying there is an indifference from the ancient |
0:43.5 | gods to man. Lovecraft takes that and up the ante to the cosmos. |
0:48.4 | If you can think of a kind of supernatural horror fiction it's almost certain that at some |
0:53.0 | point in his career, Lovecraft applied himself to it and when he got it right he often |
0:59.0 | did, nobody could beat him. |
1:06.0 | Today we're going to talk about HP Lovecraft. |
1:09.4 | You know him, you love him. |
1:12.8 | He is the infamous writer from the early 1900s known for his contributions to the world |
1:20.8 | of science fiction blended with horror. |
1:26.6 | The Kutulo mythos is probably the most well known works and we've seen his influence in |
1:34.1 | many films that show us nihilistic type futures with demonic aliens stripping humans down |
1:42.2 | to their basic functions before obliterating them into the nothingness. |
1:51.1 | Films like Color Out of Space, Dunwitchhire, Mouth of Madness, they depict such a future. |
2:01.0 | But one influenced HP Lovecraft. |
2:05.2 | We'll discuss who he was, the type of stories that he wrote, the occult influences. |
2:13.4 | We're going to go through some occult concepts, the Necronomicon, ancient aliens, racism, |
2:21.8 | magic creating reality and connections to Alice to Crowley of course. |
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