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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.” ...

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 ...

Lovecraft again. The devouring Shoggoths from ... But if you hold your sanity lightly, here is a brief guide to the man, the monsters and the popular culture slime trail his works have left ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The finale of Lovecraft Country landed last night with ... politics and winding plot some of the biggest delights of the show are the monsters and monstrous effects within the show.

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 ...

Cthulhu features prominently only in the short story of Call of Cthulhu, however, Lovecraft makes some references to the creature in his later works. At the Mountains of Madness is a science ...