Horror author H.P. Lovecraft's monsters—collectively known as the Cthulhu mythos—are sometimes frustratingly formless. They're often described as asymmetrical, shapeshifting creatures ...

Regardless, Lovecraft’s writing is evocative, and descriptions of the monsters is always amazingly evocative. The other writers who have sought to expand Lovecraft’s universe have made ...

Along the way, they encounter the terrors of Jim Crow America and nightmarish creatures called Shoggoths, pulled from Lovecraft’s pulp stories. Atticus is a fan of Lovecraft, who was notoriously ...

Adapting Matt Ruff's 2016 novel of the same name, it plays around with the creatures popularized by writer H.P. Lovecraft, who was notoriously racist. Lovecraft Country, in part, reveals how ...

John Carpenter made the best Lovecraftian Eldritch horror movie, and the director followed it up with a trilogy that followed ...

And those dangers include both racist white people and the supernatural monsters you might find in the horror novels by H.P. Lovecraft. While the TV press tour that ordinarily happens in Los ...

3. Shoggoths. Shoggoths, of course, are creatures imagined by writer H.P. Lovecraft — blobs covered with eyes that continuously arise and dissolve back into their putrid, pulsating flesh.

It’s a scene as enlightening as it is frightening. Lovecraft pulled back the veil to show us his racist monsters; LaValle pulls back the veil to show us how the monster of racism dooms us all.

The trailer, with its looming references to racism, segregation, and police violence, gives us our first indication that many of the monsters in Lovecraft Country are actually human — a theme ...

Tanabe's main achievement is making Lovecraft's monsters look suitably awesome. Even if you're not particularly impressed by the idea of 15-foot spheroids ... Tanabe's renderings still prompt a ...

“Lovecraft Country” wasted no time in showing where it’s headed. The HBO series set in 1954 started Sunday night with a face-off between a tentacled monster and Jackie Robinson in his ...

H.P. Lovecraft first wrote about blob-like creatures called Shoggoths in the late ’20s in a series of sonnets, and they appeared in his 1936 novella “At the Mountains of Madness.” ...