44 (Every) Lovecraftian Monsters - Backstories And What They Are? Explored

[@CarlosEduardo-yn8ny]

Since Shoggoth can shape shift and was discovered in The South Artic can we assume The Thing, from John Carpenter, is a shoggoth?

[@revposton]

I ship this. It is now cannon

[@sage1682]

Nahh

[@robando2922]

Why would he need a spaceship then?

[@owenshebbeare2999]

"South Arctic"? There 8s a proper name for that: Antarctica.

[@johnathonsnape-mclean3457]

No.

[@rinkutsuki3382]

I love how lovecraftian horror truly embodies the idea of humanities fear of the unknown, probably the greatest fear of all. It puts into perspective how creativity might be our own downfall through the creation of the we dont understand. And all of it was said by the mind of an insane, broken man who feared his own shadow. And just from what he wrote and how impactful its been, his fears might have been justified.

[@andrewamidon1778]

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown" - HP Lovecraft

[@Aaron-zu3xn]

it sucks though because you can't do it in a movie they wanted to make a movie out of "at the mountains of madness" and the shoggoth was gonna literally be a guy dressed as a zombie instead of a mass of eyeballs and slime/bubbles/tentacles

[@blingbling2841]

Perhaps there was more to his shadow after all. Otherwise why would such a deeply enriched imaginative mind be afraid of it as if he sensed something in it , something timeless, formless and lifeless. Perhaps that thought first emanated when he was creating the most insane ideas out of his mind, and perhaps his mind was merely a conduit and the words were coming to him through whatever lied beyond his shadow.

[@jamesbaurus5928]

The old and strongest fear of Lovecraft was fear of black and brown people 😂

[@blingbling2841]

@@jamesbaurus5928 came true with the horror that was Lovecraft Country tv series.

[@randomheraldofnurgle1284]

Azathoth is misinterpreted a lot in general by those who haven't read Lovecraft's works and trust everything they read on wikis or Chaosium. Azathoth dwells in the "Ultimate Void of Chaos", a realm that is outside all dimensioned space and reality, even higher dimensional spaces we can't comprehend. In these "spiral black vortices" of Chaos reside the Ultimate Gods aka the Other Gods, which is what most people call "the Outer Gods" (a term never used by Lovecraft). The Other Gods as well as Azathoth are described only in vague terms, "blind, tenebrous, voiceless, mindless" and dance "slowly, awkwardly and absurdly" to the sound of a thin monotonous whine from blasphemous flutes and the pounding of vile hellish drums. Nyarlathotep is described as the "Soul and Messenger" of Infinities Other Gods, being a hatchetman of their insane will. Azathoth is described most often as the "Daemon Sultan" and also the "Nuclear Chaos" as well as the Blind Idiot God. Azathoth is described in the same manor as the Other Gods (blind, mindless etc) which shouldn't necessarily mean "low IQ or dumb" but more in the context of them being uncaring, acting seemingly insane and nonsensical and chaotic (they are the gods of the outer Chaos after all). Azathoth is mentioned to "gibber, blaspheme, bubble" in the centre of the ultimate blackness of Chaos, sprawled on a Black Throne surrounded by the flute and drum-playing Other Gods and their mindless dancers. He is also described as "Lord of All, Lord of All Things" and that he "rules all time and space". He also is said (in a poem) to mutter the contents of his dreams, which he can't understand (which I think is a poetic way of saying he is the generator and source of chaos) and that the flute-players, through "chance combining, give each frail cosmos its eternal law). To our perspective, nothing in this terrifying outer void of ultimate blackness and chaos make sense to us, and the Other Gods and Azathoth are too alien and insanely chaotic to interact properly with lower beings, so their "soul" and "messenger" is sent as avatars to the lower realities to fulfil their untranslatable will.

[@sage1682]

"Sent" and "messenger" is strong verbiage but overall I agree

[@scaleworksRC]

Now, learn the Bible.

[@sage1682]

@@scaleworksRC Just as real as biblical stories arguably lol much like greek mythology the stories convey a moral or life lesson, what to do or what not to do. Greeks don't actually think Zeus is sitting up there in the clouds, just as a Lovecraft reader doesn't think we exist in an ancient formless alien's dream😂😂

[@scaleworksRC]

@Sage good luck porving that. You know its real.

[@sage1682]

@@scaleworksRC Porv what? Lol all of the above are very loosley based on reality one of which are older than your books altogether so you can't say because it's older that it's correct. Do you think it wasn't tampered with heavily by kings? It was so you essentially have a scrap book of what it once was

[@vladimircreast9228]

Lovecraft will forever leave an impact for the genre of horror. Love this vid.

[@Auron1Roxas2]

As a racist.

[@PHAToregon]

@@Auron1Roxas2 his cat’s name

[@Auron1Roxas2]

@@PHAToregon Racism.

[@yotpaulski6196]

Not really, with time he changed his mind, an example of this was "the mountain of madness"

[@Auron1Roxas2]

@@yotpaulski6196 No he remained a racist.

[@dracotoy]

ive never liked the change of lovecraftian gods into actively actively antagonistic. they a arent evil, they simple do not care about us at all and dont care what happens to us

[@Issengan]

Wouldnt their attitudes be the same as children are with legos in that regard? Having fun both building us up in moments but taking us apart in others?

[@dracotoy]

@@Issengan the original viewpoimt of the outergods was more akin to people and ants. So miniscule that they dont care at all what happens to them, sometimes not even acknowleding. The lego analogy is more akin to changed, more active versions

[@iaincureton5775]

Ahhh yes that is true but from time to time even people notice ants and they are either kept and built up like pets or destroyed in a blazing rain of fire as annoying pests.

[@Issengan]

@@iaincureton5775 most of the time i think its the second option

[@ghoulishgoober3122]

A creature can be antagonistic without any concept of antagonizing. Especially if we don't actually matter to them. We are simply sacks of flesh to cut open and examine.

[@goldbyrd3667]

The idea of the Dreamlands being an actual place you go to when you sleep to assume the role as a person in some places in history or alternate dimension is an awesome concept

[@aliservan7188]

See, this is why I love this channel... they can acknowledge an author's shortcomings without feeling the need to virtue signal. Intelligent criticism without judgement. Wonderful video.

[@varanid9]

Yeah, I noticed a conspicuous lack of agenda pushing in this channel, which is why I don't mind subscribing.

[@antonkovalenko364]

Same.

[@ExtremelyOnlineGuy]

Big facts. Like dude was white in a pretty contentious time in history. Chances are he had some strange opinions. He was a product of the times, and his strange imagination. Amazing author nonetheless

[@slyfer60]

Blah blah blah.

[@aliservan7188]

@@slyfer60 are you unwell? Unloved? A little soft in the head? A cellar dweller perhaps or maybe just a sad little loser with nothing to live for? Do you need a hug?

[@metatrontumultum1860]

I really like the fan theory that Nodens is secretly Nyaralthotep who takes that form in order to give people false hope that someone could save them from the old ones by fighting them back. Which I can totally see him doing just for a laugh.

[@garytaylor1366]

Nodens are a slave race

[@thedango6890]

He was a fearful person. Those who are fearful are capable of creating the most terrifying stories for they divulge their own fears

[@ItsHollowfied]

So he's afraid of Japanese tentacle porn and foreign people. edit: and space

[@pariah_carey]

That’s why I’m so good at coming up with Conspiracy Theories, because I am a Paranoid Person. 😉

[@obsidion1295]

Fear of the unknown is universal.

[@AshesOfRevenge]

Yeh, fearful of black people

[@StevenMichaelCunningham]

He had acute anxiety disorder & projected instead of interacting as if it were somehow him "telling on those who were harmful" be they known to him or not.

[@WhitecollarZombie]

Actually Cthulhu is seen in Lovecrafts stories. In Call of Cthulhu norwegian madlad Johansen drove a steamship through Cthulhu's head. Cthulhu got better though, apparently steamship piercing through noggin is not enough to kill Cthulhu.

[@ShadeMeadows]

Implies that Cthulhu can have a physical form, and that he regenerates!

[@NWolfsson]

It's been a while since I've read the novel, but IIRC the ship met a bit of resistance, before Cthulhu poofed as a cloud, said cloud rapidly reforming his shape behind the poor survivor. I think saying they "can have a physical form" isn't completely wrong... But it's not like having a concrete body will actually make him act as a biological being.

[@CuSolais]

Not to mention they completely pass over seeing cthulhu is supposed to drive humans mad. Also cuttlefish not octopus wtf.

[@talkingdomination1928]

“If you could kill an elder god the same way you kill a rampaging Disney villain, lovecraft’s stories would have much different tones” -OSP Red

[@jakeperkins9817]

@Cu-Solias not always. It didn't drive Johansen mad, and he had to stare right at it in order to have the Emma smash into Cthulhu's head

[@grahamcann1761]

I’m reminded of: “Night Gallery: Professor Peabody’s Last Lecture”, first aired November 10th, 1971, Season 2, Episode 8, Staring Carl Reiner as Professor Peabody. In which Professor Peabody (Carl Reiner) scoff’s at the Elder ones, you’re not supposed to name, and then names them… As always, thank you so very much for your video.

[@varanid9]

Hmmm, I recently got the Night Gallery collection and watched that installment. I never realized that the show used Lovecraft in more than one episode, the most memorable being their rendition of "Pickman's Model".

[@sage1682]

In Lovecraft universe, all is within the dreams of Azathoth. When he wakes up it's said that all of reality will vanish. This fact causes cults to diverge into two classes, those who seek to perform rituals that wake Azathoth up and those who perform rituals to keep him dreaming. There's a being that plays a whining fiddle near the sleeping god so atleast there's that😅 Same goes for Cthulhu but the consequences aren't as dire. Yes the world goes insane if he awakes but the universe as we know it wouldn't perish. As Azathoth is dreaming, he has no will or motive, he instructs no one. That's why he's the blind idiot god, so Nyarlathotep getting orders from him is quite impossible. If this phenomenon is in a story then I'm sure it was written not by Lovecraft and was probably by a contemporary after his death, as it wasn't corrected or challenged. Edit: Seems to be a popular hypothesis that Nyarlathotep is a shattered shard of Azathoth's own mind(a nod to Skog) and is one of the only Gods to not only notice mankind but also has the capacity to insert themselves into an individual's life to cause mental turmoil and chaos. So in the way that he is a sentient piece of Azathoth's mind and seems to have a motive, he's personified as their messenger but to say he gets direct messages or contact from Azathoth is absurd and that's the point I was driving at

[@phatmantv]

You would like Angel season 4/5. They get real cosmic horror at one point!

[@nellyk797]

true its said the only true being is azathoth the only surviver of some forgot cosmic war there is only azathoth and everything else is his dreams

[@joshwright4799]

Who will win the fight saitama ( one punch man ) or nyarlathotep and why?

[@sage1682]

@@joshwright4799 One punch man doesn't seem to be able to shape shift, change avatars, access other dimensions, or cause insanity so I'd say the latter would win. Probably rendering one punch man mindless or opening a dimension and leaving him in there but one on one, I'd say one punch man would annihilate Nyarlathotep's current avatar(if in solid form) but I doubt that'd be the end of the fight

[@randomheraldofnurgle1284]

@@sage1682 The thing about Nyarlathotep, he doesn't have a single avatar operating only at once. His avatars exist throughout every level of reality and there can be an infinite amount of them operating at any given time. He maybe a dark pharaoh sent to mock Randolph Carter, or a pitch-black three-lobed-eye terror, or a faceless god howling in the centre of the earth.

[@roderickmauk2146]

This is great content! Been wanting to get into lovecraftian literature for a while now.

[@varanid9]

It's easy to binge-read Lovecraft. While some people ridicule his writing style, that's what actually makes his stories.

[@isaacfisher2482]

@@varanid9 what's best to read first? As someone who hasn't read any Lovecraft

[@sage1682]

What about a horror movie where the protagonist is a Lovecraft reader so they avoid the horror and the movie ends 20 minutes in lmaoo. Someone mentions research papers or strange disappearances and they NOPE right out of there

[@MrLekorrigan]

@@isaacfisher2482 The color out of space is one of my favorites, and a great introduction to the genre

[@thewillow6345]

@@isaacfisher2482 Necronomicon is good, you have chronologically ordered all stories related to Cthulhu mythos but it is thick book, 894 pages is edition I have :'D

[@maxthereapernephilim2416]

Howard Phillips Lovecraft? Huh. I never knew his full name. You learn something new everyday.

[@NotsoHero5101]

Watching this while fighting for your life in a porta potty really puts into scale how small you are in this universe

[@synphilia4776]

Did you survive the porta potty?

[@NotsoHero5101]

@@synphilia4776 I did not

[@synphilia4776]

@@NotsoHero5101 RIP (rest in potty)

[@DekkarJr]

That's intense, did they catch the guy who attacked you in there or did he get awaay?

[@matthewweng8483]

The creepiest thing about Rhan Tegoth isn’t that bug-body, it’s those thousands of slimy little tentacles that run the length of it’s underbelly. They pierce whatever prey is captured (or offered) and suck out all the juices, leaving an almost unrecognizable pile of shredded meat… pretty gruesome.

[@goldbyrd3667]

My favorite moment is in Silver Key where Yog Sothoth reveals to Carter that every living being is in some sense a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the essence of Yog Sothoth itself

[@carolheward6479]

The old ones defeated the shoggoth uprising in mountains of madness. The story refers to weapons used against the shoggoths and the statues showed the victorious old ones. There was a surviving shoggoth at the entrance the the old ones underground city

[@GRAYR189]

Yes, but the shoggoths eventually overpowered and destroyed the Great Old Ones, annihilating them utterly and conquering the vast subterranean city they built on the shores of that Stygian lake under Antarctica. At least, that was the conclusion I arrived at from reading Lovecraft's description of those final few Old Ones' tragic homecoming to a city that was to them 50 million years dead.

[@kyle857]

@@GRAYR189 Probably a giant super shoggoth seen by the one guy at the end

[@jiffyjeff612]

Actually the realization at the end of mountains of madness was that the shoggoths rose up once again and we're victorious. Hence the lowest levels of the city are covered in the shoggoths inferior sculpture hieroglyph

[@carolheward6479]

@@jiffyjeff612 well you could be right but the old ones went deep underground where they could be sure of warmth. They abandoned the surface and a shoggoth took over but the old ones were still ok just deep underground. The shoggoth was just one that was left behind. I dont think its guarding the entrance to the old ones undercity because of what it did to the area so it was not under the control of the old ones but theres no reason to think there was another successful shoggoth uprising.

[@jiffyjeff612]

@@carolheward6479 that's true it's only an assumption of the characters and there is no knowing, which is Lovecraft's favorite method of inspiring horror.

[@Heevan]

You know what really scares me? The fact that she only describes *some* of the creatures as "fictional".... What does she know? What is she trying to tell us...?

[@number1enemyoftheuseless985]

Read the king James bible you'll see why she says this.

[@Randy_Flamethrower]

go outside

[@sworddragonsliege]

Exactly what I thought.

[@blazetheplaneswalker]

Reality's veil is thin careful should you look past it something might look back

[@Jester4460]

Well I had a eldritch friend Apparently they played with hp love crafts mind for shots and giggles Too bad I’m forever dammed to worship and serve them

[@RobCrowley85]

If you think Wilbur would be a terrifying opponent, remember that he was killed by injuries sustained from guard dogs.

[@paininthebox1291]

guard dogs be wild tho

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

I mean yeah. You ever been bit by a guard dog? It’s like a living bear trap

[@ragdollcatledaandherbutlerstef]

Wilbur was Nowhere near as strong as his Brother

[@skeletorgames8641]

@@ragdollcatledaandherbutlerstef but he was still a 9 foot wizard with dinosaur legs.

[@clique7386]

I wouldn't wanna throw hands with a Rotweiler either

[@BudravenOG]

I can totally see the influence of Yog-sothoth in Hermaeus Mora from The Elder scrolls series. Also Yig's influence in Eiglay, the god-devouring serpent in Elden Ring, which is basically just influenced by Quetzalcoatl.

[@seekervaltriz9447]

Don't forget the Void in Warcraft lore Even literally sending minions into Reality to corrupt planets, distinctly based on lovecraftian horrors, called Old Gods. Four of those landed on the planet Azeroth (maybe coincidentally named, I don't remember), and these four were known as C'thun, Yogg-saron, N'zoth and Y'shaarj. Tentacles and eyes and all.

[@raicudona6395]

Let's not forget the obvious Daedric Prince of Madness: Sheogorath whose naming clearly is Lovecraftian.

[@1man_crowd]

Fantastic video. The abundance of artwork is just overwhelming.

[@tunguskalumberjack9987]

Please, Marvelous Videos- keep this narrator! She’s actually got a grasp of the English language and most of the pronunciation- which many of your other voice talent do not. She’s great! Usually by 3 minutes into one of your videos, I have to make the decision as to whether I can listen to it without screaming at my computer or not. I’m exaggerating, of course - however, when I say that she’s been the best storyteller that I can remember on this channel, I’m not. Please- keep her………. …..and give her a raise. 👍🏻

[@rockharddock1711]

Gn he cut tiff FYI ur he

[@backlogduty]

The narrator is good, indeed. The problem is that I think her voice is way too girly and cute to be presenting cosmic horror entities. It's like casting RuPaul for the next Terminator.

[@jjcn4359]

@@backlogduty get a load of this guy

[@zealtheeternal8828]

@@backlogduty Jokes on you, cause she is into that shit. Lures in mortals with her fake, hearts and rainbows persona, but inside she is cold as ice. Absolutely a high ranking member of the Cult of Cthulhu.

[@backlogduty]

@@zealtheeternal8828 thanks for showing me the light brother!

[@smlowe5637]

Thank you, so much, for this video. I have been searching haplessly for a concordance or some other document that lists all the creatures of the Cthulhu Mythos that names which stories they appeared in, who the author was, what the creature did, and their genealogy, allies, enemies, and what other creatures are part of its ecosystem. Thank you for the great piece of work. I now need to get out my notebook and begin taking notes.

[@GothPaoki]

Mi- go probably my favourite Lovecraft creatures. Nothing like bugs playing scientists experimenting on humans.

[@varanid9]

Are they the crab-like entities from Yuggoth?

[@funkyweapon1981]

@@varanid9 They're not bugs, they're more like mushrooms.

[@varanid9]

@@funkyweapon1981 yes but they look insectoid

[@jaimemorales272]

This is amazing. As a long time fan of the Soulsborne series I can see where the inspiration came from for so many enemies and bosses. I want to read the books now!

[@coolkid9967]

Fear the old blood

[@SamuraiMujuru]

Excellent vid! My only complaint is it uses the Derleth good vs evil approach to the Mythos, which I've always felt kinda defeats the whole purpose of cosmic horror

[@helpmi9370]

yea i think its because the person who wrote the script didnt read the books and just copy pasted from a wiki

[@nolalookenbill7053]

Of course, Lovecraft intended it to be entirely amoral

[@OverlordZenith]

I'd love for a follow up video that touches on some more of the great old ones and outer gods like Nagoob, Tulzcha, Ithaqua, and Shudde-M'ell

[@chynnavindiola58]

💚💚💚💚Tulzcha, my green flame goddess

[@ThePrimordialJunction]

This might be one of my favorite videos. That I've ever come across on KZbin. I really enjoy learning about Eldritch horrors. Currently, what I am writing about, are beings inspired by eldritch horrors. Though I've came up with quite a twist. Which helped me to veer away from norms in the genre. These entities I've decided to write into being are not made of Matter. They come from between realities like many cosmic horrors and have terrifying power. I decided to watch your video too see if any of these entities you describe share similarities, with the beings I've written about. So far, none have yet!

[@LCMM2150]

My gosh! The list never ends!

[@varanid9]

And growing almost yearly.

[@jademoon7938]

I think Lovecraft found people's impulse to read every t followed by an h as "th" as in this to be amusing, because he named his fictional university Miskatonic University, a phonetic spelling of the word "cthonic" or of the earth, earth gods, particularly underground/underworld gods, are called cthonic gods. And yet people still read his gods as "ka-thoo-loo" and "nee-arlath-otep". Cthulhu, like Miskatonic, is also named for cthonic gods, so it's "Cuh-too-loo". I think we all learned about Ancient Egypt in school, so the suffix -hotep is likely to be at least vaguely familiar, and that's what Lovecraft used. Though I think there's still debate on how to pronounce the first half, nee-arlat-hotep or nai-ar-lat-hotep, but given it's Egyptian based, I think the former is more likely. Nee-arlat-hotep. No th sound. I'm about 70,000 words into a novel about an extremist Christian cult that go undercover into a Satanic Church because the leader thinks they were chosen to raise the Antichrist and they steal a book to do one of the rituals thinking they're doing it but it turns out the satanic cult is actually a cult who worships Lovecraftian gods. So the cult do the ritual and it ends up summoning enough power for Nyarlathotep to unleash hell on earth, and he opens a portal that he throws the cult leader through, and he ends up in space and sees Azathoth wake up just before he dies. It's fun to write. I was thinking of including that happens next but if I could manage to publish it somehow, and get any readers, picking up a second book right where that leaves off would be cool.

[@spidmadjarski4234]

Would be cool to see your novel

[@drawingdragon]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the wording here but... the "extremist Christian cult" is trying to... raise the Anti-christ....?

[@danielhuszar2248]

You got at least one reader in me

[@TheMaibus]

Awesome, i love this stuff and need to read to the rest of the stories, very cool video.

[@BensentheLens]

2:10 ~Shoggoth 3:51 ~Azathoth 5:33 ~Cthulhu 7:31 ~Nyarlathotep To be continued...

[@mho...]

pro tip:unfold the details bar ;)

[@teyanuputorti7927]

Y’all did a great job with this one thank you

[@Nsmnsd197]

Literally like who the fuck even cared

[@alexv3357]

I like to imagine that Azathoth is a supermassive black hole, blind and insane, eternally screaming chaos into the void

[@RoemDaug]

Now HERE'S the kind of video I was looking for to accompany me on my biweekly shave.

[@lovelyoblina]

One of the best videos on this topic that i have seen. Very well done

[@GothPaoki]

I don't know how accurate it is but shoggoths bare an uncanny resemblance to john carpenters the Thing. Amorphous things that can transform into other organisms and replicate their characteristics.

[@timcanuti5697]

not sure if Chambers intended the comparison to AtMoM when he wrote "Who Goes There?", but it is nearly certain that Carpenter, who has spoken of HPL's influence on his work in interviews, did.

[@colinp.4638]

Because the thing is John carpenter's touch on Lovecraft. It's okay of the apocalypse trilogy. Check out "at the mouth of madness" if you want another Lovecraft-esc movie

[@lonniedwayne9549]

"And with strange eons, even death may die"... I wrote a song in highschool that had the lyrics: Spiders' web Blown out head Death's realized he is dead What that meant to me is, like, once the world ends and no one else is left to die, then death is basically also dead. But I started reading H.P before I wrote it and kinda got the song from that. Wish I could remember all the lyrics. Just came across this in my recommended and I remembered it.

[@eertikrux666]

You’ve subconsciously contacted the great priest of the old ones, or should I say, he manifested in your mind without you knowing

[@varanid9]

Some famous horror movies heavily influenced by Lovecraft: The Blob, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Rosemary's Baby, The Thing, Alien.....

[@grumpymonk2460]

Etc etc…

[@austinlocher1776]

While the book is heavily influenced by Lovecraft The Thing is actually based on the book "Who goes there?"

[@spiritualanarchist8162]

I believe Rosemary's baby belongs to another genre entirely . That's It's Christian horror .Satanism, devil, the anti -Christ etc . Not so much Lovecraft .

[@Ponkan45]

The Kardashians always reminded me of eldritch horror personally....

[@vylbird8014]

It occurs to me that Yog-Sothoth may be very tentacly indeed: A 'series of spheres' are exactly what a mere human would observe were a tentacled creature existing in four or more dimensions to intersect our universe. This would also fit the description of being omniscient (for such a creature would be able to easily observe any event in the three-space universe) and yet still being trapped outside of the universe.

[@kylebrooks338]

It feels so wierd that HP was able to come up the things that he did, especially at his time. Pretty sure the gods recognized HP and then used him to tell their stories so they had some way of getting into our lives.

[@blazetheplaneswalker]

In a letter to an editor he stated that he never created these creatures but saw them in his dreams

[@blackshogun272]

@@blazetheplaneswalker dude saw some shit. Half of our dreams are bullshit and simulations for future potentialities while the other half is (probably) us experiencing our strange lives in another universe or subject to nightmarish invaders.

[@mho...]

The gods where relived to FINALLY find a human that didnt go all bonkers, when they contacted him! ... no wonder they made him tell their storys, what other option did they have?! some crazy nutjob priest?! who would have listened to to those guys?... but a dark scifi author?! ppl can easily accept that!

[@HarleyQuinnSoldier]

​@@blazetheplaneswalkerdrugs or hallucinogenics

[@divinefallfromgrace]

Ahhh, B'Gnu Thun, the Frosty Lad himself. I always imagine that, wherever he strides, everything freezes into crystalline spikes. 😁

[@kennyhagan5781]

There were two batches of "gods ", the first batch was summoned into being by the Unknown and Unnamed being. The first batch spawned the second, and the fighting began.

[@maxmatson1578]

I was hoping they would talk more in detail about the "shadow out of time" creature, my favorite story of his

[@codybk91]

"Night gaunt. This one is quite horrifying because of its grotesque appearance." Doesn't that describe all of the monsters on this list? 😅 Also, which video game did they keep showing?

[@Will-dn9dq]

Never saw a video w so many chapters available on KZbin like 50. I'm probably going to finally watch lovecraft Country after this.

[@youremakingprogress144]

I've been playing Eldritch Horror lately, and I've been wondering about the mythology of many of the monsters in it. I'm looking forward to watching this video and getting some answers. Thank you!

[@LadyNikitaShark]

Go read the stories. The writing is trully amazing and mind bending

[@RogersGirl88]

Warning, many of the arkham files games use monsters from more than just lovecraft. For example, the king in yellow material is from a book that came out 20 years before lovecraft became published. Many other monsters are from arkham press stories that were released after lovecraft died.

[@TheTideKing004]

Eldritch horror and lovecraftian horror are not the same.

[@youremakingprogress144]

@@TheTideKing004 Eldritch Horror is a board game that's based on the Cthulu mythos - so the name is a bit misleading, yeah.

[@xxAmandaMoisellexx]

I love this! Any time I'm feeling low I'll come back to this video 🥰

[@HeromakerJB]

Wow! Lovecraft's work is incredible. I wonder where he got his ideas from?

[@GRAYR189]

Mainly his own nightmares and dreams. He was also influenced by the great decadents, as well as by Poe.

[@HeromakerJB]

@@GRAYR189 Again all I have to say is wow.

[@UnderCultures]

Nightmares, the man had pretty severe anxiety

[@theFunkyThumb]

@@HeromakerJB the man was essentially terrified of anything outside his home, and had a deep hatred for the ocean and anyone who didnt look like him. Definitely an aspect of enjoy the art, not the artist

[@nicholascarter9158]

In addition, Lovecraft was one of the editors of what was, at the time, America's best horror story magazine.

[@jamesfield1674]

Wow what a brilliant video, HP was such a visionary

[@thebatmanwholaughs-66]

The Sinking City is an AWESOME game!Nice use of the game footage

[@Unluckiestofthemall]

it was ehh :/

[@Pridefallen975]

Of course it is

[@filipkolasny908]

It isn't very good. But i'm glad people like it

[@suppmydiff3257]

The game highkey sucked but people are willing to overlook that in favour of how well it depicted the Eldritch horrors

[@Pridefallen975]

@@suppmydiff3257 of course eldritch horrors rocks LoL

[@irishspartanstudios]

Have to give a round of applause for actually using Shub's full name.

[@patrickwentzell4638]

exellent compilation of horrific monsters please make a list of them all I'm very interested to remember every one of them love this video too.

[@lordfizzz]

I'm so damn glad I landed on this channel what a gold mine

[@malcire]

Would be nice to have a list of the games and media used in the video. A lot of them look cool.

[@varanid9]

That might be a tall order, considering all the various writers, publications, games, film, etc. that contributed. The basics of everything presented here is Lovecraft himself, though.

[@briancrooks5982]

I can name a few for you……Lovecraft Country on HBOMax….the Dunwich Horror which stared Dean Stockwell, all though, it’s not very true to the story, outside of the names used…two games that I recognized (and own): The Call of Cthulhu and the Sinking City. Another game, though a bit older, is The call of Cthulhu: Dark corners of the earth….it is based on the story, The shadow over Innsmouth…it was available on the Xbox and PC…hope that helps you a bit

[@malcire]

@@briancrooks5982 thanks.

[@rlsxs4ever]

@@malcire the game that shows nyarlathotep is dusk. call of cthulhu: dark corners of the earth is available in steam

[@keuschkacey]

The movie Color put of Space with Nicholas Cage is based on a H.P. Lovecraft story of the same name. It's a pretty decent adaptation to the "creature" of phenomenon. But otherwise all the characters are added in.

[@dyrocecto541]

did not expect to see dusk in here, cool video!

[@Bloopel720]

Every lovecraft monster we can think of? Pretty sure the whole point is that they are unthinkable and unknowable

[@CarlosGonzalez-ll6xx]

you can think about them but not define or understand them, you don't have a good level of comprehension or writing yet

[@ghoulishgoober3122]

You people really like to take fictional words seriously. Yeah, in the universe they're unthinkable and unnameable, in our world, no. Otherwise Lovecraft wouldn't have been able to write anything, being unable to think or name these ideas. In Lovecraft's work, the characters have a very different understanding of the universe, literally because Lovecraft says so, and because of their understanding they're driven mad when met by the creatures he wrote into it, who can only do so *because he said so*

[@andreaholcock8992]

give yourself a pat on the back for being pretentious wrong

[@Ponkan45]

A simple way to explain it is like people trying to describe an object with 4 spatial dimensions. We could see that it was "different" but it'd be more or less impossible for us to explain or entirely comprehend....or the idea of picturing colors you've never seen before.....

[@jerichohill487]

Well done. I do wish though, since you talked about other places you had discussed The Plateau of Ling

[@maccurtis730]

Shoggoth looks like the Thing. B'Ghu-Thun sounds like Ice Giants. The Formless is like the Blob. Dimensional Shambler the creature from Stranger Things.

[@DeepFriedKangaroo2]

Speaking of Stranger Things, I'm just watching it for the first time now. It's seriously good shit,

[@suppmydiff3257]

@@DeepFriedKangaroo2 you should stop watching after season 2. They drop most of the interesting monster/horror concepts and it just degenerates into generic Netflix tripe

[@dmin5782]

@@suppmydiff3257 I thought Season 4 was pretty great.

[@ericokonkwo7771]

Imagine Cthulhu (Underwater 2020 film) vs. The Kraken (Clash of the Titans 2010 film), interesting Fight/Battle!

[@AlyRoad]

or the OG Kraken from the original Clash of the Titans and not the 2010 garbage lol. Seriously though, it's a very well done creation in the original film.

[@robpatterson3133]

That would be awesome 😎

[@finn_in_the_bin5263]

Question- is the kraken sentient/intelligent? Cause idk enough about that mythos but I feel like that would determine whether this would even be a fight or not

[@nothomelessonyoutube]

I got to admit it's really funny re-reading his work knowint how much he was afraid of everyone who didn't look just like him.

[@jakelongstaff4102]

but he wasnt lmao. did your read the silver key???

[@tbone9474]

I love how the most popular elder god Cthulhu is actually one of the "weakest" of the deities

[@pennyc11]

Great work. I learned about Lovecraft from an Avengers Comic book. I've been facinated by his imagination ever since. Loved the movie references and history. You have woven his creatures together for me. Thank you!

[@scottbubb2946]

I have read all of Lovecraft's works (that I know of) and I've read many of the Cthulhu Mythos stories of other authors, so I am able to follow along with this well enough. I can't even imagine what this would sound like to someone completely unfamiliar with his works. It must be like someone speaking in a different language that they've never heard before.

[@johnpayne5590]

I think cosmic horror doesnt work as well in movies, because in a book if it describes something as a mass of writhing limbs, your mind fills that in. But in the movies, it is there seen. It's not as bad with normal monsters like fish people though

[@francescoaccomando7781]

bird box?

[@johnpayne5590]

@@francescoaccomando7781 You mean that movie that forced hundreds of real life kids to kill themselves by making them drive with a blindfold on?

[@francescoaccomando7781]

@@johnpayne5590 no I mean that movie that does what you said movies can get right because depicting something incomprehensible is immediatly ruined by seeing it in a comprehensible manner. Also, how does the movie 'forced' anything? I just checked this thing you have said because I never heard it, and the first thing I saw was a challenge by Jack Paul. So are you sure is the movie that 'forced' people by doing that? Or maybe is because millennial look for anything stupid to do on tiktok? Like I don't... going to the hospital for pulmonary infection because of the cinnamon challenge? Is that 'forced' from another movie?

[@suppmydiff3257]

@@francescoaccomando7781 that movie was terrible and the concept quickly fizzled into nothing. There is literally absolutely zero stakes for everything after the river scene That's....half the movie. You spend the second half of the movie completely secure in the knowledge that no one could possibly be hurt Bird box is an embarassingly poor example of cosmic horror in film

[@francescoaccomando7781]

@@suppmydiff3257 that's debatable. But anyway I was referring how the "monster" is portrait it was good. Do you have a good one to reccomend me?

[@peterratter6603]

Very nicely done; thank you

[@bgradeschmeat4987]

I think it's funny azathot is banned in Yu-Gi-Oh and the most common way to make it was by sacrificing nyarlahotep (just nyarla in Yu-Gi-Oh)

[@motxmod]

Nyarlahotep was Konami's initially designed way to summon Azathot. It was the use of Time Thief Redoer with The Phantom Knight's Rank-Up Magic Launch that got it banned.

[@TiroDvD]

Wow the crystla and lizardmen of Venus was a nice treat. It's pleasant to see Lovecrafts sci-fi forays, and sci-fi in the realm of weird rather than futurism.

[@LoneWolfOtaku]

Bloodborne and Berserk greatly inspired by these cosmic horrors

[@killaDBZfan101]

Openly inspired by it as well. Which adds to the fact that HP wanted to lore open so it could be expanded on. Bloodborne more so, since it directly speaks about the madness the Gods bring and their effects on humanity. Great game, pisses me off to this day lmao

[@radagast7200]

So is everything from Terreria to Stranger Things, from Conan to Cabin in the Woods. It's so embedded in our culture that you can see it everywhere, even the flood in Halo seem to be inspired by it. D&D was pretty much half Tolkien high-fantasy and half Lovecraftian horror, and that stuff was integral to a huge number of people that would go on to carry the torch.

[@bomcstoots1]

@@killaDBZfan101 yeah. ACTUAL lore. Not random bs

[@killaDBZfan101]

@@bomcstoots1 A game thats has one of the best stories is bs? I’m confused by the statement.

[@GRAYR189]

One of Lovecraft's entities I would have liked to have seen you cover is the Haunter of The Dark. Maybe next time!

[@tikkidaddy]

The Haunter is an avatar of Nyarlethotep, so he was covered, but there isn't a direct reference to this in the video

[@GRAYR189]

@@tikkidaddy In Robert Bloch's follow-up story "The Shadow FromThe Steeple", the mysterious and fanatical Dr. Dexter, who threw the stone pillar and the box with the Shining Trapezohedron into "the deepest channel of the Narragansett", was revealed in the ending to be an avatar of Nyarlathotep, but no such connection was made to the Haunter. What source gave you that information, if I may ask?

[@tikkidaddy]

@@GRAYR189 A simple Google search of the question lists 5 separate sources confirming this....

[@GRAYR189]

@@tikkidaddy I was unaware of this. Thank you for the information. I shall check for myself.

[@tikkidaddy]

@@GRAYR189 Dr. Dexter tossing the Trapizohedron into the depths of the bay would of course provide huge advantage since the Haunter was stated as being banished by light of sufficient brightness, right..?? Nyarlethotep appears in a plethora of avarars, and was capable of transferring his consciousness thru the stone..."win win" as they say...I am by no means an expert on HPL , just an old metalhead who started reading years ago because of...Metallica. Their former bassist Cliff Burton was a huge HPL fan and a number of their songs were written along this line including the instrumental "The call of Kthulhu", of which the version performed in concert with the SFSA, Michael Kamen conducting is my favorite. I once owned a large Burmese Python and would play the song when I fed her. She was near 18 ft. long and weighed 175 pounds. 😁Youre most welcome and I hope my reply was helpful, it was not meant to be sarcastic.

[@monkeybrain0212]

What are the sources for all the animations/action sequences in this video? They look so cool! Would love to check them out weather they're movies or games

[@ShadeStormXD]

lol we'd be here all day just in the intro and first 3 i saw, clash of the titans, call of cthulhu game, sinking city, underwater, the mist

[@goldbyrd3667]

The Mound really shaped my idea of Yig as a cruel yet benevolent deity

[@zionleach3001]

Question; How would someone pull of a lovecraftian action horror comic series. Like Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International? Maybe like the fantasy tropes where less people worship the Old Ones and maybe they aren't as powerful, they'll still drive people insane and are still a threat. But they don't have the power they once did.

[@AlyRoad]

August Derlith wrote some stories that could be a basis for this such as his spin where Hastor is using his children to attempt the murder of Cthulhu. The Tidus Crow Series is like this too, where it's about a kindof Indiana Jones Character that hunts down these creatures or finds cursed artifacts.

[@zionleach3001]

@@AlyRoad Really? Never heard of them. I just know Larry Correia and Mike Mignola who do that kinda stuff.

[@fafnirdragonbane3625]

Check out Robert E Howard's stories. Part of the original Lovecraft Circle, also arguably invented Sword and Sorcery. His Solomon Kane stories are action-horror stories with elements of Cosmic Horror involving a witch hunter in the modern day, and some of his Mythos stories have elements of this (though even a dead old one's psychic remnants can be dangerous). In some of the original publications of his more thoroughly Sword and Sorcery stories some Lovecraftian entities supposedly got name dropped (I've only read reprints).

[@zionleach3001]

@@fafnirdragonbane3625 I know Dark Horse has made some comics.... But they really haven't done anything with it. I think Marvel made some too.

[@fafnirdragonbane3625]

@@zionleach3001 I meant the original short stories (honestly more anything other than Conan, since of the Howard stories I've read Conan has the fewest Lovecraft elements). They'd at least give an idea how to do the action horror elements and create the balance. The Solomon Kane movie has 0 to do with the stories from what I remember of both (been like a decade since I watched/read either).

[@notadrawer7261]

I was watching some Ninomae Ina'nis and have no idea how I got here. All I can say is wow, what a MARVELOUS VIDEO. Wah

[@yaeldragwyla8170]

"Shamblers come from a *dimension* lower than ours." Taken literally, that would mean that they are two-dimensional beings. Instead of saying "dimension," you should use "universe" or "plane of existence." (The latter is also problematical when taken literally, but it's a bit closer to reality than "dimension."

[@StickySauce101]

people who demand "realism" in works with giant madness-inducing space-monsters are the ones who need to just be silent, Mystery Science Theater said it best: "if you wonder how they eat and breathe and other science facts, tell yourself "it's just a show, we really should relax"!"

[@lunamaria1048]

Always amazing content.. Liked and subbed!

[@kazeem6419]

Loving the artwork through the video except at 26:50 where you decided to put in a child's MS paint drawing???

[@ShadeMeadows]

Lovecraft gotta be my biggest inspiration 🐙

[@GothPaoki]

Just in time as I'm finishing Arkham horror the dark waters trilogy.

[@ronbird121]

i love the connection with molag bal in the elder scrolls. fitting design and on the searche of wisdon of everything. not only death and destruction.

[@jasonsantos3037]

You've forgotten other monsters in hp lovecraft myths but I'm near some creature have connections with Robert E Howard's hyborian age I will like you make a second one about that

[@ekkocjm]

Robert E Howard was Apart of Cthlulu circle writers, and H.P lovecraft encouraged him to use his work & such. They are set in the same universe 😁

[@justsayin._.]

That barking noise between each monster is so jarring

[@Joar.Osterberg]

Don't forget everything is basically Azathoth's dream. If Azathoth doesn't want something to exist, Poof it can make it dissapear. Azathot is unkillable and untouchable. Literally everything is a dream of azathot itself

[@jakelongstaff4102]

when is this established. I've read every Lovecraft work and this is never said. it's insinuated to a degree about different gods in kadath I believe but I can't remember that being confirmed. it'd make sense though.

[@BandyAndysExcellentEssays]

The cute, cheery voice kinda takes the horror out of this lol

[@brll5733]

All these "children" of Chtulhu aren't canon but later fanfic inventions. The eldritch gods are way to alien for simple, human like family relations.

[@killaDBZfan101]

The universe was left open on purpose so stories could be approved and the lore could be expanded. Its all additions to fill in blanks that were left and add on. It’s as canon as it can be with that context.

[@lapio8222]

Indeed. It really ruins the mystique and cosmic fear when you start talking about eldritch god babies. The whole point of cosmic horror (for me atleast) is that these "things" are unimaginable, so foreign, and so non human that men can't even look at them without going crazy. They are chaos that humans cant fathom. Then when you start talking about these beings having "children" and knowingly doing things, you have kinda ruined the whole point. It removes the whole root of the unkown fear that really makes these stories.

[@ghoulishgoober3122]

It's just an easy way to categorize everything. Lovecraft did it, even if as a joke.

[@bomcstoots1]

But not human souls/spirits. They're made of cosmic energy.

[@walsallmatt]

40:19 whats that piece of music? LOVE THIS VIDEO SO MUCH!!!

[@adr.k8676]

Probably my favorite horror genre.

[@Westkane11]

Thanks you, great video.

[@atrumblood]

Everybody gangsta until Azathoth starts stirring in his sleep.

[@Darkassassin505]

I’m glad you covered shub- niggurath. He got defeated by kids in South Park

[@maxxor-overworldhero6730]

Honestly, hearing details of creatures like the Night-Gaunts in conjunction with what I know about H.P. Lovecraft, I really think that the contention around him is a bit unwarranted. I personally have concluded that Lovecraft was the real life equivalent of Dr. Jonathan Crane, the Batman villain Scarecrow. Like Crane, I believe that Lovecraft was deeply terrified of everything. And I mean everything. People tend to just label him as racist right off the bat, when the Terror that he was tormented makes it significantly more complicated than that.

[@joshualee6200]

This guy gets it.

[@WarhammerSanji]

Bruh, man named his cat the n-word.

[@maxxor-overworldhero6730]

@@WarhammerSanji His _uncle_ did. And he gifted it to him, the kind of gift that renaming was considered an extremely rude faux pax.

[@philgreen8101]

@@WarhammerSanji The black labrador that got run over in The Dam Busters was called that as well. Not that you'd necessarily know, as the lines of dialogue with the name in have been cut from TV edits. Now he's just a nameless dog who gets killed just as the success of the raids is reported, if there's even any footage kept about him at all...

[@violeth2255]

The two aren't mutually exclusive. Lovecraft was clearly terrified about anything he either didn't understand (dude wrote a horror story about air conditioning) and/or wasn't "well-bred" white New England culture. All that said, HP was also ludicrously racist with his feelings regarding poor/deformed people or most things science and math largely serving to season his racism as needed for each story and only occasionally taking the center stage position. Part of his racism can quite likely have been influenced by undiagnosed mental illness, but part of it was entirely Howard's own fault as he actively avoided learning enough about math to develop more than distorted glimpses of the sciences he refers to in his stories. Keep in mind that Lovecraft was incredibly racist (even by the standards of his time) and also anti-Semitic, and only really "softened" on these views when he learned that he might have some Celtic ancestry and when the NAZI party rose to power respectively. Acknowledging this, it'd be disingenuous to attempt to ascribe or excuse the more problematic aspects of his character to his potentially many neuroses especially when we remember that paranoia and/or other mental illnesses don't intrinsically make people racist and shouldn't generally be accepted as an excuse for somebody actively being racist/anti-Semitic and promoting racist/anti-Semitic views.

[@RBEO22]

You forgot his cat.

[@thedango6890]

When you think about it, and know more of the lore, pacific rim is a lovecraftian story

[@cats77364]

the great old ones' appearances actually don't drive you insane or kill you or anything

[@bill9068]

Love the footage from call of cthulu that game was so good.

[@JTKatz07]

Great video!

[@daniellewillis2767]

Actually hairy reptiles were extant In the Permian, particularly among the synapsids......

[@varanid9]

Yes, or, actually, "hair-like fibers" of the same collagen as in birds' feathers.

[@geraldballinger6428]

Cthulhu is often a villain, yet according to most dnd great old one warlocks he is a chill guy who would happily give you extra spell slots and spells. The only cost? 1,000 gp a year, or a life time of servitude if you meet him on a bad day.

[@sammywatokohom172]

Even his cat is so scary that no one is willing to say its name.

[@beCoCOi]

I know why.

[@atrumblood]

Ngl, his cat's name was a shock. I'm used to it now as I've read his stories many times.

[@Zalanes]

The cat that dare not speak its name