HPLHS Lovecraft Fan Survey
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The H.P.Lovecraft Historical Society
Fan Survey
In an attempt to gather demographic and marketing information from the
target audience for a new Lovecraftian role-playing game then in development,
the HPLHS launched an on-line survey on October 26, 2001. Although the
Society never doubted the size or the nature of the market for the game,
potential corporate partners in the enterprise wanted to see some actual
numbers, so we endeavored to collect some. The survey was available on-line for
ten months, during which time just over 500 people answered our lengthy
questionnaire.
A prominent link to the survey was placed on the home page of the HPLHS,
and all site visitors were encouraged to take it. In addition, specific invitations
to take the survey were posted to the CthulhuLive yahoo group and sent via
email to numerous people. The survey respondents do not represent a truly
random sample of the population: they are a self-selected group of Lovecraft
fans and gamers.
The survey is now closed, and a complete report of the results follows. The
picture of the typical Lovecraft fan that emerges is not far from what we
expected, but there are a few interesting surprises in the details.
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BASIC DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Respondents were asked to provide some basic demographic information about themselves:
gender, age, nationality, ethnicity, marital status, level of education, & level of income. Some
chose not to answer these questions, but most replied.
Results Summary: The majority of respondents are single white American males between
the ages of 25 and 40, with a college education, making twenty to fifty thousand dollars per
year.
What is your gender?
Sample "Other" responses:
Male
Female
Other (please specify)
85%
13%
2%
Tenticular
Androgynous preferring female companions
Ghuloid
transmuting and possibly budding as we speak
hermaphrodite having lost womb
Seraph
What is your age?
Under 18
18 - 22
22 - 25
25 - 30
30 - 40
40 - 50
over 50
Other (please specify)
Sample "Other" responses
7%
18%
13%
22%
30%
6%
1%
2%
Undead
over 150
173
After drinking that potion in '64 I became immortal.
I have lived for an eternity and may only be sent to Hell
by Death herself
hmm...how long have there been storms?
648,972
In what country do you live?
United States
Canada
United Kingdom
Finland
Sweden
Australia
France
Mexico
New Zealand
Norway
Other (please specify)
Poland
73%
6%
6%
2%
2%
1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
Other countries were named by respondents
to the survey, but they form less than one
percent of the total. We know from HPLHS
website logs that Lovecraft fans live all over
the world: we have had visitors from Spain,
Uruguay, Malaysia, Estonia, Greece, Turkey,
Morocco, Italy, Hungary, Brazil and
numerous other countries.
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What is your ethnicity?
Sample "Other" responses:
European
Asian/Pacific Islander
Mediterranean
Latin American/Hispanic
Other (please specify)
74%
1%
2%
2%
21%
Other ethnicities, such as African, were given as
options in the survey, but less than one percent of
respondents claimed them.
White
Honkey
Native American
Irish/ Native American
Human... more or less.
White/Asian
Vaguely hispanic.
My people came from space before time
Atlantean. No, just kidding, European
Gryphon
Canadian
Test results not in yet
Space Alien
A bit of bloody everything.
Caucasian/Hispanic
Asian/ European
Earthling
African-Scottish?
does it really matter
Icelandic
basic white boy little this little that
scandinavian
White/Asian/American Indian
Pound Puppy
I'm green and i glow in the dark
Ghouloid
new zealander
1/2 Asian, 1/2 American Redneck
Child of Yog-Sothoth
Ghostly White Ass Canuck
Sample "Other" responses:
What is your marital status?
Single
Domestic Partner
Married
Divorced
Widowed
Other (please specify)
49%
14%
28%
4%
1%
4%
Very happily divorced
Embittered
seeking co-initiate with whom to spawn
Engaged
Married to Mary palmer and her five sisters
single but looking
NOT LOOKING
my gf is so far away and I miss her (sob)
I'm a kid! D'oh!
marriage is for mortals
domestic partner with children
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What is your level of education?
High School only
Some college
College graduate
Master's Degree (or equivalent)
Doctorate
Other (please specify)
Under US$20K
US$20K - US$30K
US$30K - US$40K
US$40K - US$50K
US$50K - US$100K
Over US$100K
Other (please specify)
Sample "Other" responses:
12%
35%
30%
15%
2%
6%
What is your yearly
household income level?
4
dropped out of university in my final year because someone
offered me the dream job i was going to university to get. so
sod em.
I am currently enrolled in college...but am pending an honorary
doctorate on Comparative Religions...yes I did use Mr.
Lovecraft's stories as an aide to my thesis...hehehe
the bus took me to the scoll wit the flag pool in front.
Currently pursuing masters in history
High School and many hours of occult research
Don't exactly know how it translate in English. I've studied for
13 years anyway ;-)
Many years of college but most of my education I'm not
supposed to talk about.
Omniscience
College grad and in the military
i learnt all i no from movies
University of Odd and Illegal Activities, Master of Absurd
Crime
High school plus a lot of self researching
Sample "Other" responses:
20%
23%
16%
10%
19%
5%
7%
It used to be about 80K, since I went freelance I have no idea
Only Me, the IRS, and Azathoth know
in my homeland we use tooth and stones as official money
I don't work.
I'm at college, lucky to make about 5,000
I'm not sure the exchange rate of sterling to US dollars.
3 dead fish and deep one claw
We create it as we need it.
i do not work and therefore earn no money
I am a student I have no job yet!
i don't friggin know...?
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WHAT FANS LIKE
Respondents were asked to name their favorite authors, artists, stories, movies,
websites, and magazines. After Lovecraft himself and J.R.R. Tolkien there
was little unanimity, and the range of answers was quite broad.
Authors/Artists
Respondents were asked to name their five favorite authors/artists. The numbers in the
chart below reflect the aggregate preferences of the fans. (For example, 75% of respondents
say that Lovecraft is one of their five favorites, but not necessarily their most favorite
author.) Respondents named 697 different authors and artists: the top twenty are
presented in the chart below.
H.P. Lovecraft
J.R.R. Tolkien
Stephen King
Neil Gaiman
Edgar Allan Poe
Terry Pratchett
Clive Barker
H.R. Giger
William S. Gibson
Douglas Adams
Philip K. Dick
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert E. Howard
Neal Stephenson
Brian Lumley
Anne Rice
Alan Moore
William Shakespeare
Robert Jordan
Michael Moorcock
75%
33%
19%
15%
12%
12%
11%
7%
7%
6%
6%
6%
6%
6%
5%
5%
4%
4%
4%
4%
Other favorite authors included Dr. Seuss,
Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, Truman Capote,
Michael Chabon, Michael Crichton, Aliester
Crowley, Roald Dahl, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
Umberto Eco, T.S. Eliot, Barbara Hambly,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Franz Kafka, Jack
Kerouac, Ursula K. LeGuin, Anne McCaffrey,
George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, Ayn Rand, Mark
Twain, Jules Verne, Kurt Vonnegut, H.G. Wells,
Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse, and Roger Zelazny.
Favorite artists included Hieronymus Bosch,
Salvador Dali, Albrecht Dürer, M.C. Escher,
Pablo Picasso, Brian Froud, Pieter Bruegel the
Elder, René Magritte and Man Ray, among
others.
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Books/Stories
Respondents were asked to name their five favorite books or stories. Over 1100 individual
works were named, spanning a vast range of genres and styles. Lovecraft fans like comic
books and huge sprawling epics like The Chronicles of Amber and The Chronicles of
Narnia. They seem to like comedy almost as much as horror and science fiction. They like
philosophy, poetry, and the classics. Several even claimed the Bible as one of their favorite
books: “more sex and death than the Whitby Festival.” The top twenty books/stories named
as one of five favorites are presented in the chart below.
The Lord of the Rings, novel by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Sandman, comic book by Neil Gaiman, et al.
At the Mountains of Madness, story by H.P. Lovecraft
The Call of Cthulhu, story by H.P. Lovecraft
The Hobbit, novel by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Dunwich Horror, story by H.P. Lovecraft
The Shadow Over Innsmouth, story by H.P. Lovecraft
Dune, novel by Frank Herbert
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, series of novels by Douglas Adams
The Illuminatus Trilogy, novels by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Neuromancer, novel by William Gibson
Snow Crash, novel by Neal Stephenson
The Stand, novel by Stephen King
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, comic book by Jhonen Vasquez
Batman, comic books by Bob Kane, Frank Miller, et al.
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, story by H.P. Lovecraft
Ender's Game, novel by Orson Scott Card
Preacher, comic book by Garth Ennis, et al.
Watchmen, comic book by Alan Moore, et al.
The Colour out of Space, story by H.P. Lovecraft
27%
11%
11%
11%
6%
5%
5%
4%
4%
4%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
2%
Other favorite books/stories included 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell, 20,000 Leagues Under the
Sea by Jules Verne, A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust, Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark
Twain, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Beowulf, Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe, Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Catch-22 by Joseph
Heller, Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Complete
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Cruddy by Lynda Barry, Delta Green by John
Tynes, et al., The Divine Comedy by Dante, Dracula by Bram Stoker, Essential UNIX System
Administration by Aeleen Frisch, Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, Finnegan's Wake
and Ulysses by James Joyce, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, Foucault's Pendulum by
Umberto Eco, The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer, Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry
Pratchett, The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake, Hannibal and Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, the
various Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Hellboy comics by Mike
Mignola, The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy, I Claudius by Robert Graves, I Robot by Isaac Asimov,
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, It by Stephen King, The
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, The King in Yellow by R. W. Chambers, The
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, Lord of the Flies by William Golding,
Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Naked by David Sedaris, Necroscope by Brian Lumley, The Once and Future
King by T. H. White, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Origin of
Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes, The Picture of Dorian Gray by
Oscar Wilde, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, Steppenwolf by
Hermann Hesse, the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Waiting for Godot by
Samuel Beckett, and the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
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Movies
Respondents were asked to name their three favorite movies. In the early months of the
survey, various different films jockeyed for second position behind Star Wars. But once The
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was released in December of 2001, it quickly
rose to the top of the list and has remained there.
Curiously, none of the top ten movies is a horror film, and one of them is a fairytale comedy.
And none of the films in the top twenty is an outright Lovecraft adaptation, although
several films on the top-twenty list have clear Lovecraftian influences. Several of the
favorite films share a bleak vision of human society and a dystopian future, which is in
keeping with Lovecraftian themes. Respondents named 579 films: the top twenty are shown
in the chart below (sadly, Raiders of the Lost Ark did not quite make the list).
Star Wars, A New Hope: George Lucas, dir.
The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring: Peter Jackson, dir.
Blade Runner: Ridley Scott, dir.
The Matrix: Andy & Larry Wachowski, dir.
Aliens: James Cameron, dir.
Fight Club: David Fincher, dir.
The Princess Bride: Rob Reiner, dir.
Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back: Irvin Kershner, dir.
Alien: Ridley Scott, dir.
A Clockwork Orange: Stanley Kubrick, dir.
Casablanca: Michael Curtiz, dir.
Army of Darkness: Sam Raimi, dir.
In the Mouth of Madness: John Carpenter, dir.
Apocalypse Now: Francis Ford Coppola, dir.
Brazil: Terry Gilliam, dir.
The Thing: John Carpenter, dir.
Evil Dead 2: Sam Raimi, dir.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, dir.
Big Trouble in Little China: John Carpenter, dir.
Braveheart: Mel Gibson, dir.
Other favorite films included 2001: A Space Odyssey & Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick), An American Werewolf in
London and Animal House (Landis), Angel Heart (Parker), Being John Malkovich (Jonze), The Blair Witch
Project (Myrick & Sanchez), Blue Velvet (Lynch), The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8 th
Dimension (Richter), Chinatown (Polanski), Citizen Kane (Welles), Conan the Barbarian (Milius), Contact
(Zemeckis), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Lee), The Crow (Proyas), The Dark Crystal (Henson & Oz), Die
Hard (McTiernan), Dracula (Browning), The English Patient (Minghella), The Exorcist (Friedkin), The Fifth
Element (Besson), Fright Night (Holland), Galaxy Quest (Parisot), Ghostbusters (Reitman), The Godfather
(Coppola), Heathers (Lehmann), Henry V (Branagh), Independence Day (Emmerich), Interview with the
Vampire (Jordan), Jacob's Ladder (Lyne), Jaws & Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg), Jesus Christ
Superstar (Jewison), King Kong (Cooper & Schoedsack), Lawrence of Arabia (Lean), The Maltese Falcon
(Huston), Mary Poppins (Stevenson), Miller's Crossing (Coen), The Mummy (Freund), Night of the Living
Dead (Romero), The Nightmare Before Christmas (Selick), Out of Mind (Saint-Jean), Pi (Aronofsky), Pulp
Fiction (Tarantino), Raging Bull & Taxi Driver (Scorsese), Rear Window (Hitchcock), The Road Warrior
(Miller), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Sharman), The Silence of the Lambs (Demme), The Sixth Sense
(Shyamalan), Strictly Ballroom (Luhrmann), Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Cameron), This is Spinal Tap
(Reiner), The Toxic Avenger (Herz & Kaufman), Tremors (Underwood), The Usual Suspects (Singer), The
Wicker Man (Hardy), & Young Frankenstein (Brooks).
15%
10%
10%
8%
7%
6%
5%
5%
5%
4%
4%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
2%
2%
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Websites
Respondents were asked to name their three favorite websites. There was very little
unanimity among fans, who named 659 sites. Although there was huge variety in the kinds
of sites named, many of them were sci-fi/fantasy, gaming, or comedy sites. There were also
a lot of science and technology sites, and news sites of various kinds. Some people also
plugged their own personal web pages. The top twenty websites are listed below.
The Onion: (news satire) theonion.com
Google: (search engine) google.com
EBay: (online auctions) ebay.com
Amazon: (shopping) amazon.com
Portal of Evil: (clearinghouse of web weirdness) portalofevil.com
The H.P.Lovecraft Historical Society: (fan site that ran the survey) cthulhulives.org
Chaosium: (Cthulhu game publisher) chaosium.com
Yahoo: (search engine) yahoo.com
Internet Movie Database: (internet movie database) imdb.com
Wizards of the Coast: (game publisher) wizards.com
The H.P. Lovecraft Archive: (fan site) hplovecraft.com
Rotten Dot Com: (archive of disturbing imagery) rotten.com
RPGnet: (resource for roleplaying gamers) rpg.net
Slashdot: (news for nerds) slashdot.com
CNN: (network news) cnn.com
SPONGE: (Lovecraftian roleplaying) s-p-o-n-g-e.com
Sluggy Freelance: (comic strip) sluggy.com
White Wolf Online: (game publisher) white-wolf.com
The Brunching Shuttlecocks: (comedy and reviews) brunching.com
The Force.net: (Star Wars fan site) theforce.net
Among other websites/URLs named were adbusters.org, aintitcool.com, airsoftzone.com, apple.com, arkhamchronicle.de, The Astounding B Monster, audiogalaxy.com, badastronomy.com, bmezine.com, brucecampbell.com, Campus Crusade for Cthulhu, celticcrow.com, Chainsaw Warrior, chud.com, Church of the
Subgenius, consumptionjunction.com, crackbaby.com, creature-corner.com, the Cthulhu Web Ring,
cthulhulive.com, dagonbytes.com, Dark Age of Camelot, Dark Horizons, Darwin Awards, Digital Blasphemy,
dilbert.com, dogpile.com, Dork Tower, the Drudge Report, The H.P. Lovecraft Library, elderscrolls.com, Ernie's
House of Whoop Ass, erowid.com, Everquest, exhumedfilms.com, fark.com, fileplanet.com, findagrave.com,
freemason.org, fullcircle.net, fusionanomaly.net, gamesworkshop.com, gamesdomain.com, gamespot.com,
gamespy.com, gamingguardians.com, glorantha.com, gongoozler.com, gorezone.com,
groups.yahoo.com/group/cthulhu-live, grudge-match.com, gryphonguild.org, gunbroker.com,
gundamofficial.com, Project Gutenberg, half.com, harbingerofdoom.net, hash.com, historychannel.com,
holycow.com/thickets/, horrordvds.com, horrorfind.com, hotmail.com, hotornot.com, howstuffworks.com,
HyperDiscordia, ianfleming.org, idrink.com, ign.com, indymedia.org, inktank.com, interactivitiesink.com,
irminsul.org, jesus.com, johntynes.com, Jump the Shark, kenzerco.com, landoverbaptist.org, larpa.org,
live365.com, livejournal.com, loompanics.com, lordofthe.net, lotr.com, lupusgrex.org, mayhem.net,
megatokyo,com, memepool.com, Propping Up the Mythos, monstersinmotion.com, montecook.com,
moritorium.com, mp3.com, mudconnector.com, nakednews.com, nerve.com, newgrounds.com, npr.org, Oxford
English Dictionary, Pagan Publishing, penny-arcade.com, pigdog.org, poisonedminds.com, Pulp and Dagger,
randi.org, realmsofevil.com, redmeat.com, religioustolerance.org, salon.com, seanbaby.com, shoggoth.net,
sinfest.net, sixsixfive.com, sjgames.com, skepticnews.com, skotos.net, skullsunlimited.com, straightdope.com,
tarot.com, tattoos.com, Temple of Lore, thespark.com, thelurker.com, themodernword.com, thingsihate.org, Top
100 Mythos Sites, truthorfiction.com, weirdlinks.com, and yog-sothoth.com.
10%
6%
6%
5%
5%
5%
4%
3%
3%
3%
2%
2%
2%
2%
2%
2%
2%
2%
2%
2%
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Publications
Respondents were asked to name three magazines, newspapers, or publications that they
regularly read. There was a marked decrease in response rate to this question: only 87% of
the people who took the survey gave an answer, and only 76% provided all three titles. A
number of people who did answer went out of their way to say that they don't read
traditional publications. There was also a marked number of international titles mentioned,
especially from Scandinavia. Of the 524 publications named, the top twenty are below.
Dragon: monthly fantasy gaming magazine
Time: weekly news magazine
Fangoria: monthly sci-fi/horror movie fan magazine
Maxim: monthly pop culture, fashion, and titillation for straight men
White Dwarf: monthly fantasy gaming magazine
The Onion: almost weekly news satire
National Geographic: monthly world natural history and human culture magazine
PC Gamer: monthly computer gaming magazine
Newsweek: weekly news magazine
The New York Times: daily newspaper
Fortean Times: monthly British journal of strange phenomena
Playboy: monthly "entertainment for men"
Wired: monthly technology and pop culture magazine
Wizard: monthly guide to comic books
Scientific American: monthly science news and features magazine
The Washington Post: daily newspaper
Discover: monthly science news and features magazine
Dungeon: bimonthly fantasy gaming magazine
Entertainment Weekly: weekly pop culture magazine
Spin: monthly pop music magazine
Among other American titles named were Adbusters, The Advocate, Alternative Press Magazine, Analog,
Archeology, Baseball Digest, Bizarre, Business Week, Cigar Afficionado, CMJ New Music Monthly, Comic
Buyers Guide, Computer Gaming Monthly, Consumer Reports, Cooking Light, Cosmopolitan, Creative
Screenwriting, The Economist, Esquire, Fate, Foreign Affairs, GamePro, Gear, GQ, Guitar World, Guns &
Ammo, Heavy Metal, High Times, InfoWeek, Juxtapoz, KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, Mac
Addict, MaximumPC, McSweeney's Men's Health, Mephisto, Millimeter, Mother Jones, Muscle & Fitness,
Nature, Omni, Outburn, Pagan Dawn, Paintball Monthly, Parabola, Parkett, PC World, People, Premiere,
PSM (Playstation Magazine), Psychotronic Video, Record Collector, Rolling Stone, Saveur, Scrye, Skeptical
Inquirer, Smithsonian, Soap Opera Digest, Star Wars Insider, Tattoo Planet, TV Guide, The Unspeakable
Oath, USA Today, Utne Reader, The Weekly World News, and Weird Tales.
Among the international titles named were Dagens Nyheter (Swedish newspaper), ETC (Swedish political
magazine), Fantastyka (Polish sci-fi/fantasy magazine), Le Figaro (French Newspaper), Globe and Mail
(Canadian newspaper), Göteborgsposten (Swedish newspaper), The Guardian (British newspaper), Haagsche
Courant (Dutch newspaper), Helsingin Sanomat (Finnish newspaper), The Independent (British newspaper),
Information (Danish newspaper), Jane's Defence Weekly (British magazine), Le Journal de Montreal
(Canadian newspaper), Landstidningen (Swedish newspaper), Le Monde (French Newspaper), Magia I Miecz
(Polish fantasy/gaming magazine), New Zealand Herald (newspaper), New Zealand Listener (newspaper),
Nieuwe Revu (Dutch pop culture magazine), Ordfront (Swedish magazine), Pelit (Finnish computer gaming
magazine), Portal (Polish RPG magazine), La Presse (French newspaper), Red & Black (Irish political
magazine), Science & Vie (French magazine), Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish newspaper), Sverox (Swedish
gaming magazine), Toronto Sun (Canadian newspaper), La Voix de Luxembourg (French newspaper),
WeekendAvisen (Danish magazine), and Ylioppilaslehti (Finnish magazine) .
7%
6%
6%
6%
5%
5%
5%
5%
4%
4%
3%
2%
2%
2%
2%
2%
2%
2%
2%
2%
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Lovecraftian Favorites
Who is your favorite Lovecraftian "hero"?
Randolph Carter
Henry Armitage
Herbert West
Abdul Alhazred
Edward Pickman Derby
Other (please specify)
Zadok Allen
Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee
Walter Gilman
Daniel Upton
Harley Warren
Nahum Gardner
27%
15%
14%
13%
12%
7%
3%
3%
2%
2%
2%
1%
Who is your favorite Lovecraftian
"villain"?
Wilbur Whately
Herbert West
The Terrible Old Man
Asenath Waite
Obed Marsh
Keziah Mason
Other (please specify)
Crawford Tillinghast
Arthur Jermyn
That poor mentor-guy from "Hypnos", if he even
counts as a hero. If not, I'll settle for Walter Gilman.
The main character in "At The Mountains Of
Madness" whose name, I believe, is never revealed.
Harry Houdini
Professor William Dyer
The guy in "The Lurking fear"
Jervas Dudley comes to mind
The old man in "The Strange High House in the Mist"
there are no heroes, just victims who live
Sample "Other" responses:
27%
16%
14%
11%
11%
8%
7%
6%
1%
What is your favorite Lovecraftian
"monster"?
Deep Ones
Shoggoths
The Colour out of Space
Elder Things
Ghouls
Nightgaunts
Mi-Go
Penguins of Leng
Yithians
Byakhee
Brown Jenkin
Other (please specify)
Sample "Other" responses:
Nyarlathotep as the Black Man
all those people who keep him from coming back
The Sorcerer from Lurker at the Threshold
Sample "Other" responses:
21%
17%
11%
10%
9%
8%
7%
4%
4%
4%
2%
2%
Cats of Ulthar vs. Hounds of Tindalos
Wilbur's brother
Dimensional Shamblers
Neanderthal monkey/beastmen horde
one of everything with fries please
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Who is your favorite Lovecraftian "god"?
Sample "Other" responses:
Cthulhu
Nyarlathotep
Yog-Sothoth
Azathoth
Shub-Niggurath
H----Other (please specify)
Dagon
The King in Yellow, Hastur's avatar
Daoloth
Hypnos
Ithaqua
Gatanathoa
Yig, Father of Serpents
38%
24%
13%
9%
6%
5%
3%
2%
What is your favorite Lovecraftian
locale?
Arkham
Innsmouth
R'lyeh
Other (please specify)
Leng
Y'ha-nthlei
Dreamlands
Miskatonic
N'Kai
Dunwich
Sample "Other" responses:
39%
26%
18%
9%
4%
2%
2%
2%
1%
1%
Carcosa
Egyptian Tomb
Kadath
Kingsport
Red Hook
The Antarctic City of the Elder Ones
the inside of Lovecraft's head
The Mountains of Madness
The Witch House
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The Hobby
We wondered how much time and money fans spend on their Lovecraft hobby, and how big
a part it is of their social life. For some it is something they enjoy occasionally, for others it
is almost a way of life. Well over half share their interest in Lovecraft with their friends.
83% of respondents report that they play role-playing games, and 55% play live-action roleplaying games. 90% play computer games of one kind or another, with 88% playing
computer RPGs.
Is your interest in Mythos/horror genre stuff something you do on your own or something
you share with friends?
It's something I do on my own.
It's something I share with friends.
I have no friends and live isolated in a bizarre world of morbid imagery.
Everyone I know is into horror/Mythos stuff.
Other (please specify)
23%
54%
10%
8%
6%
Sample "Other" responses:
I enjoy horror mythos stuff..friends and family usually become addicted after I let them borrow from my
libraries.(even if it was a genre they hated previously)
used as a basis of comparison against numerous other mythos to which the artist in question feeds to create
his own synthesis of aesthetic realities
we would start clan and take over
Online friends, no one in person shares the interest though.
I spread constantly the sacred word of Cthulhu ( and Lovecraft sure!) into everyone who ask about my
interest XD
Sometimes my friends get the ropes loose enough that I don't have the opportunity to "share" my interests w/
them.
I do it with some of my friends play Cthulhu larps and rpg's.
I'm the roleplay co-ordinator for my area.
I'm not allowed to speak of the groups activities.
Its a way of life
with a few friends - limited to books a little ghost-hunting
A shared interest does not make my fellow cultist my friends.
not all my friends are into the Mythos, but they'll occasionally play in Mythos-flavored games I run anyway
Some friends know about it but do not share my interest.
My friends are only "into" HPL if saying so means I'll be the GM for Call of Cthulhu. My sister sort of likes
Lovecraft loves horror and has a giant crush on Jeffrey Combs so that works out OK.
My husband is a Mythos fan.
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In addition to books and movies what other kinds of horror/gothic/supernatural genreoriented products do you like/buy/participate in?
Comics/Graphic Novels
Action Figures
Other Toys
Art/Posters
Magazines/Fanzines
Conventions
Unholy Rituals
Will do without
Think they're a Think they're cool Spend money on Spend money food in order
to spend
stupid waste
but don't spend
them
on them
of time
money on them
occasionally
frequently money on them
5%
29%
44%
15%
7%
26%
42%
23%
7%
3%
18%
41%
31%
8%
2%
4%
33%
47%
13%
3%
6%
29%
42%
19%
4%
12%
40%
36%
8%
4%
27%
32%
10%
6%
24%
How much would you estimate you spend on Mythos genre-related items per year?
Include movie tickets, video rentals, comic books, toys, games, books, apparel, conventions, etc.
Less than $100
$100-$250
$250-$500
$500-$1000
$1000-$2500
$2500-$5000
Over $5000
Other (please specify)
27%
28%
22%
11%
7%
2%
1%
2%
Sample "Other" responses:
i will sell my soul for anything (any good price and cool aspect thing XD)
about cthulhu or the mythos
Pretty small amount actually, as I seem to have all the good stuff!
um... not really anything - put out another movie and i'll go
I'm really only just getting into this stuff. Really.
i steal and borrow
if I had the money it would depend on what it was
Please tell us what kinds of games, if any, you like to play:
Tabletop RPGs
Live-action RPGs
Board games
Card games
Video/Computer RPGs
Video/Computer Strategy games
Video/Computer First-Person
Shooter games
MUDs
MMORGs
Play Often
26%
9%
8%
9%
24%
23%
18%
3%
5%
Play as Often
Play
as Possible Occasionally
26%
15%
11%
13%
12%
43%
9%
37%
19%
26%
21%
30%
15%
22%
3%
3%
9%
7%
Play Seldom
15%
19%
28%
28%
17%
15%
25%
Never Play
17%
45%
8%
14%
12%
10%
18%
19%
15%
64%
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General Lifestyle
Apart from specifically Lovecraftian pursuits, we wondered how fans live and what they're
into. They appear to be fairly voracious readers, and tend to buy their books new. They own
IBMs, cell phones, and DVD players. They own and use power tools and art supplies, which
suggests a bit of creativity. They like black leather coats, but not jewelry with skulls on it.
They tend to like knives and swords, but they're not big on handguns or explosives. 28%
claim they don't even want a jet pack, which I personally find baffling.
How many books of all
kinds would you say
you read each year?
Fewer than 10
10 to 25
25-50
50-100
More than 100
5%
22%
26%
27%
20%
How do you acquire the books that you read?
Buy new
Buy used
Borrow from a friend
Borrow from a public library
Download
Body modification. Do you have
any of the following?
Tattoo(s)
Pierced ear(s)
Other body piercing(s)
Decorative scarification
Other (please specify)
21%
23%
10%
6%
14%
All
4%
-----
Most
33%
16%
2%
8%
1%
Many
26%
23%
10%
12%
3%
Some
23%
27%
26%
18%
9%
Few
13%
21%
40%
32%
28%
None
1%
8%
15%
23%
51%
Sample "Other" responses:
monkey on my back
occasional temporary piercings
cybernetic devices
artificially elongated fingers
zoomorphic features (e.g. cat's eyes)
embedded electronics (nifty)
Gene-engineered nasal mutations.
A brand new Mi-go brain
self enhanced deformity
Tattoo of eye-in-pyramid . . . but not until next April. There are
better boats to rock.
Physical birth defects (not mental)
I have gained weight as a statement. (of my love of tacos)
I have a scar where Jimmy Singleton butt stroked me with his
plastic ray gun in first grade
video capture card linked to optic nerve
gills bracycephalic cranium. some scales
One hell of a shaving rash...
Probably i will agree to any modification if it includes some pain
and is mythos related
a cluster of birthmarks on my inner thigh in the shape of the
yellow sign
"scratch me" written in permanent marker on my balls
prehensile tail
NEVER NEVER NEVER
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Do you own your home or do you rent?
Own
Rent
Live with parents
Live rent-free in subterranean crypt
Other (please specify)
21%
49%
15%
7%
9%
Sample "Other" responses:
rent town house, own beach house
rent with roommates
Crappy Dorm Room
US Army Housing
lease with option to buy....but converted crypts would be supah-keen
College student--yay for dorms!
Brain lives in shiny metal cylinder
Own home and subterranean crypt (no bullshit)
I'm a nomad who lives from the appletrees i find in my way XDDDD
Cave/tunnel/crypt complex in abandoned seaport in N.E. Massachusetts
Required by law to live with parents
Subterranean crypt yes but the rent is killer around here
sugardaddy
I live in a 5 ft. deep hole in Ethiopia
live in my wife's house
Process of moving to own apartment, still use parent's computer
Live free with Girlfriend so first one is correct in a way
I have no home; I work out of motels across the country and occasionally visit my things in storage.
Live with sugar momma
manifest myself in the form of animals when needed
noncorporeal beings do not need homes
mom owns it I help pay for it
i own a house that i rent to someone and live in a rent
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Your stuff. Please indicate whether you own any of the following items and how much you
might use them.
Macintosh computer
IBM computer
Handheld computer (e.g. PalmPilot Visor)
Cell phone
Fax machine
Digital camera
Video camera
Scanner
DVD player
Video game console (e.g. PlayStation)
Video editing software
Sound editing software
Night vision apparatus
Musical instrument(s)
Power tool(s)
Art supplies
Military surplus
Ninja outfit
Jewelry with skulls on it
Black leather coat
Personal stationery
Hearse or vintage automobile
Scuba gear
Chemistry set
Paintball gun
Exotic pet(s)
Alien technology
Jet pack
Explosives
Bladed weapon(s)
Handgun(s)
Vintage clothing
Antique(s)
Authentic pulp magazine(s)
Library of the paranormal
Original work(s) of art
Own and Own and use Own just for Wish I
use occasionally the sake of owned
often
owning
16%
3%
1%
18%
78%
7%
2%
5%
15%
5%
2%
43%
42%
16%
4%
16%
7%
11%
7%
20%
14%
16%
3%
58%
8%
20%
5%
52%
19%
35%
7%
38%
38%
13%
2%
33%
18%
23%
4%
20%
8%
12%
7%
45%
14%
18%
9%
32%
2%
15%
2%
67%
19%
28%
11%
16%
16%
41%
8%
10%
25%
38%
8%
9%
9%
22%
13%
18%
2%
6%
5%
27%
7%
14%
8%
13%
28%
17%
4%
23%
7%
12%
9%
22%
4%
2%
1%
53%
1%
6%
1%
35%
3%
8%
8%
30%
3%
10%
4%
35%
10%
2%
5%
30%
12%
3%
3%
67%
4%
1%
1%
65%
3%
8%
6%
30%
15%
22%
24%
15%
3%
11%
7%
23%
11%
21%
11%
20%
12%
22%
23%
22%
7%
10%
8%
42%
23%
27%
5%
35%
16%
21%
15%
36%
Do not own
and do not
want
67%
16%
37%
30%
56%
9%
15%
6%
5%
28%
29%
30%
26%
25%
23%
19%
37%
59%
57%
27%
49%
39%
56%
50%
48%
52%
15%
28%
51%
23%
55%
36%
20%
33%
9%
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Activities. Please indicate the frequency with which you participate in the following
activities.
Skateboarding
Hang gliding
Scuba diving
Rock climbing
Skydiving
Bungee jumping
Spelunking
Going to art museums
Going to natural history museums
Going to live theatre/opera/ballet
Going to concerts
Surfing
Parasailing
Nightclubbing
Bar hopping
Vadding/urban exploration
Daily Once/twice Once/ A few Rarely
Tried it Not yet but Never
per week twice times
once and will one day
per
per
will never
month
year
do it again
1%
1%
1%
3%
15%
21%
4% 53%
--1%
1%
3%
1%
33% 62%
--1%
4%
13%
2%
37% 40%
--2%
11%
24%
4%
15% 42%
--1%
1%
5%
1%
34% 56%
--1%
6%
2%
25% 64%
1%
-1%
7%
21%
5%
29% 34%
-1%
11%
51%
28%
2%
3%
5%
-1%
7%
49%
34%
2%
3%
4%
-1%
7%
39%
33%
3%
5%
11%
1%
2%
14%
44%
31%
1%
4%
3%
--1%
2%
6%
5%
19% 65%
----6%
2%
31% 59%
1%
8%
13%
21%
24%
8%
6% 18%
3%
13%
15%
13%
21%
5%
5% 23%
2%
7%
10%
19%
18%
2%
13% 28%
Please indicate how much you use the internet for the following purposes:
Getting quick information
Doing more complicated research
Communicating with other people
Buying stuff
Entertainment in general
(not including porn)
Playing games
Creative self-expression
Wasting time
Dude it's my job
Constantly
48%
27%
40%
6%
23%
Daily
35%
21%
37%
2%
39%
Once or
twice
a week
14%
27%
13%
14%
28%
14%
15%
48%
20%
12%
13%
29%
9%
21%
19%
13%
7%
Do you pay for any subscription-based internet sites/services?
(Not including basic internet access.)
Yes
No
20%
80%
Once or
twice a
month
2%
16%
4%
33%
4%
Rarely
1%
8%
4%
33%
4%
N/A
0%
1%
1%
10%
1%
12%
17%
4%
3%
32%
24%
4%
5%
8%
11%
3%
54%
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Please name websites/services for which you have a paid subscription.
A few adult checking services
a porn site that shall remain nameless
Asheron's Call
carfax
Cix Conferencing
CompuServ
Cyber Playboy
Dark Age of Camelot
dragonrealms MUDD
Driveway.com
EA Games (Monthly)
ediets
EverQuest
Live365 Radio (Internet Radio)
LiveJournal
MSN Gaming Zone
newsgroup service
ONE specialty porn site (none of your business which one)
Online Encyclopedia
Otakuworld
Pyramid (Steve Jackson Games)
skotos
Ultima online
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Beliefs & Affiliations
Lovecraftian fiction features themes of the supernatural, of alien creatures, of gods, and of
ancient civilizations. We know that Lovecraft fans enjoy these themes in their reading and
entertainment, but we wondered how seriously they take such matters. Turns out the only
two things a majority believe in completely are evolution via natural selection, and that Bill
Gates is evil incarnate.
Please indicate to what degree, if any, you believe the following phenomena might be "real."
Heaven
Hell
Intelligent extraterrestrial life
UFOs visiting earth
Time travel
Parallel dimensions
Reality itself
Atlantis
Sasquatch
Yeti
Loch Ness Monster
Ancient civilization a la Graham
Hancock et al.
Reincarnation
Past lives
ESP
Psychokinesis
Voodoo
Hollow earth
Creationism
Bill Gates is evil incarnate
Vampirism
Lycanthropy
Demons
Magick
Ghosts
Government conspiracy
New World Order
Evolution via natural selection
Big Bang theory
Organ theft
Snuff films
Satanic ritual abuse of children
Demonic possession
Do not believe in
it at all
31%
35%
3%
11%
16%
5%
11%
20%
18%
18%
22%
19%
Very much
doubt it
15%
16%
3%
22%
24%
11%
16%
18%
23%
21%
27%
16%
21%
20%
10%
13%
16%
57%
48%
19%
33%
34%
22%
19%
12%
7%
18%
1%
4%
14%
10%
23%
24%
19%
19%
9%
12%
16%
22%
11%
14%
23%
26%
17%
14%
13%
13%
18%
3%
5%
23%
16%
25%
18%
Don't know Am inclined to
believe
21%
16%
18%
15%
12%
48%
19%
34%
27%
23%
23%
41%
21%
29%
25%
29%
26%
26%
28%
26%
23%
23%
36%
19%
26%
24%
17%
21%
20%
14%
21%
12%
17%
14%
17%
21%
16%
13%
32%
10%
15%
20%
23%
20%
20%
20%
25%
41%
36%
36%
5%
13%
18%
19%
18%
24%
23%
34%
39%
20%
37%
51%
28%
34%
19%
23%
Believe in it
completely
15%
16%
34%
14%
9%
20%
23%
7%
7%
7%
6%
8%
14%
11%
22%
17%
12%
1%
6%
36%
8%
8%
19%
22%
25%
28%
11%
48%
25%
14%
15%
12%
15%
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Do you consider yourself to be religious?
Yes it is the core of my life.
Yes I attend worship services of some kind on a regular basis.
Yes but I don't attend any formal services.
No but I would say that I'm spiritual.
No I don't really think about it.
No I think religion is a very bad thing.
Other (please specify)
5%
10%
21%
27%
10%
14%
13%
Sample "Other" responses:
Agnostic.... Don't care
All I can say is that I have read Lovecraft during services many times.
Not really, but the concept is interesting.
religion is dangerous
Transhumanist - seeks to become a god
cthulhu is my only god
Simply No
i have attained paranirvana
No. Atheist/Skeptic: I do not believe in any divine consciousness to the universe but religions are very
entertaining!
Agnostic, but paranoid
i think religion is good for some but i don't need that in my life
not organized i think on my own terms
pagan :) very much so.
I have a personal philosophy that encompasses everything that a more traditional religion deals with, but is
inclusive enough to encompass my many theories about life.
worship great Cthulhu
Ordained Minister
eclectic pagan with sumerian base
No, I wouldn't be caught dead in church, Christian, satanic, or otherwise and god is a whore
Free-thinker
magick is personal faith - sheer faith!
Hardcore Atheist
Distrustful of organized religion; I am an ordained minister and have performed marriages for some like
minded friends
I am a religious as well as physical deviant.
An a Sophist/Nihilist/Zen sorta way
i have no religion, but do not judge others
I have been unable to undo the childhood programming from my parents.
I'm in between belief systems...
I deal with religion in my own way
Hate religion and all it stands for---ignorance
usually don't think about it except as scholarly topic; consider myself agnostic
I attend church then go home to perform unholy rituals.
I have religious beliefs but live in an area where my religion is not catered to.
I grew up in the church..its no longer what i do..but i still feel ramifications from it mentally
No, but I think and read about it a fair bit
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Please indicate if you belong
to any of the religions
indicated below.
Roman Catholicism
Other Christianity
Judaism
Islam
Buddhism
Hinduism
Pagan/Wicca
Church of Satan
Scientology
Thelema
Universal Life Church
Other (please specify)
8%
14%
1%
-1%
-9%
1%
--2%
21%
21
Sample "Other" responses:
Bahai
Church of Bacchus
Church of the SubGenius
Forming Cult
I have a wide system of belief
i visit christian cemeteries
I was baptised as Orthodox but I did not wish to, I do not believe in this
religion.
Jedi
Mechanism ( not an official name. naming a religion is like naming a pet.
they don't care, its just to make you feel better)
MORMON
Pagan Heretic
Secular Humanism
Sort of Zen Buddhist
taoism is the only that even interests me
The growing 'I make it up as I go along and choose what feels right'
Unitarian Universalist
Wicca(following Zen, Buddhist, and Jedi codes, Greek pantheon mostly)
A sort of philosophical Daoist/Stoic blend.
Asatru
Avid fan of 'Yes I'd love to attend your church service'.
Cat Worship
Cult of Cthulhu
CULT OF THE MACHINE
Discordian
druid
eh... i've got lavey's book... my ex was a wiccan (at least she liked to say
she was)
Eschatological Zentaoist Discordianism
Existentialist
Fellowship of Isis
I am a Satanist but not a member of the Church of Satan though I
follow its practices.
I'm not supposed to talk about it in public due to the 'incident' and that
'court-order' thing. (j/k...it was never really brought to court)
New Church of the Great Old Ones
Reformed Church of Yog-Sothoth
satanism to be a true satanist you never belong to any organization
Second Church of the Pop Up Toaster
Shamanism
Sorority of the Sacred Heart
sort of a Neo Pagen Post Quantum Spirituality
Sumerian Tradition
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Do you belong to any political organizations such as the ACLU, NRA, Human Rights
Campaign etc?
Yes
No
24%
76%
Sample political organizations named:
AADA
ACLU
ADA
Advocates For Self Government
Amnesty International
Anarchy International
ASPCA
Attac
Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
Cascade Foresty
Center for Democracy and Technology
Church of Euthanasia
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
Committe To Invaginate Leonard Maltin
Conservative Party of Canada
Democratic Party
Earthwatch
ELF
Environmental Defense Fund
Green Party
Greenpeace
Human Rights Campaign
I am a member of environmental party here in Finland
International Campaign for Tibet
JEWS FOR THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
Libertarian Party
N.A.S.S.C.
Non Commissioned Officers Association
NORML
NOW
NRA
NZ Labour Party
Ordfront
Pacific Green Party
PETA
Political Organizations are evil
Political organizations go against the teachings of the
old ones.
Republican Party
Sierra Club
Socialdemokratiet (Danish Social Democrats Party)
SPCA
The Australian Democrats
US Capital Historical Society
Various Animal Rights groups
War Resisters League
WARD
Young Republicans
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Do you belong to any academic or professional organizations such as CSICOP,
Earthwatch, the AMA etc.?
Yes
No
22%
78%
Sample academic/professional organizations named:
IEEE
AACC (french advertising association)
Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Sciences
ACF
ACIPA
ACM
AESE
AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics) student branch
Alberta Motor Association
Alpha Psi Omega(National Theatre Honors Society)
American Astronomical Society
American Classical League
American Institute of Conservation
American Libraries Association
American Planning Association
American Society for Quality
American Society of Plant Physiologists
American Sociological Association
APA
ARLIS
ASCAP
ASME
Beta Phi Mu
Biblical Archaeology Society
Classroom Teachers Association
CSICOP
Fellowship of the Rhine Institute Duke University
Department of Parapsycholoigy
Greenpeace
Imechee
Int'l Society of Geographers
IOUGA
ISPI
James Joyce Society
Lambda Alpha Anthropology Association
Linguistics Society of America (LSA)
Live Action Roleplayers Association
Local Union 666
Medieval Academy of America
Ms Professional educators
Nat'l Senior Classics League
National Education Association
National Educators Association
NATIONAL PHARM TECH ASSOC
National Thespian Society
Phi Beta Kappa
PHI SIGMA ALPHA
Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society
Planetary Society
SCA
serapiens bruder
Seti@home
SHS
Society of Cable Televion Engineers
Swedish Society of Learning Systems and Neural
Networks
The World Council of Despotic Dictators
UFT/NYSUT (teacher union in NYC)
University of Durham
University of Gothenburg
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Do you belong to any social organizations such as Mensa, Boy Scouts, Loyal Order of
Moose, etc.?
Yes
No
31%
69%
Sample social organizations named:
AAONMS
AFK
Aikikai Foundation of Delaware
Allied Fools
Alpha Psi Omega (theatre)
AMORC
ASF
AU Roleplaying club (AMERICA)
Beta Phi Mu (Honors Society)
Boy Scouts
Camarilla
Camp of the Iron Ring
Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
Church of the SubGenius
Cincinnati Bulldog Club
Circle of Salgion Church of Wicca Inc.
cooking club of america
Cub Scouts
CyberFiends
Denver Orioles
Du coeur l'ouvrage french charity association for
Bulgaria
Freemasons
Gaming and Mindless Entertainment Society
Gaylactic Network
GSA
Guam Boonie Stompers
hack.pl
Hogbutler Nation
howl2000
International Thespian Society
io-gusffs
knights of the round table
LARP/RPG society Eru
LARPA
local chess club
Many roleplaying organisations and Larporganisations
Many uni societies
Mediaeval Society.
Mensa
Military Interests and Games Society
MOAV (Mystic Order of Arachnid Vigilance)
National Geographic Society
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Orange County Slouch Society
Order of the Arrow
Phi Beta Kappa
Proud member of chud.com discussion boards
Queensland role playing society
RHPS Fan Club
Royal Canadian Legion
RPGA
San Francisco Cacophony Society
SCA
Science Fiction & Fantasy Assn of NZ
Special Forces Assn
Swedish Transhumanist Association
The House Rabbit Society
TOASTMASTERS
University of Oregon Gaming Club
venture scouts
Vereniging Fae-Tir (Larp)
VFW
wargames clubs
Wayward Gamers Association
Writers Anon
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WHAT FANS DON’T LIKE
Please tell us briefly what complaints you have, if any, with the genre stuff
that is already available. What's lame? What's insufficient?
Existing commercial Halloween haunted houses are lame. They copy from lame horror movies that the public is
familiar with and no longer scared by. They would be much scarier if they were Lovecraftian in theme and
content.
The lack of other people in my area willing to play the rpg with me.
the problem is that as soon as you make lovecraftian stuff visual it tends to become silly (at least anything
high-power mythos. witness various crappy rubber-monster movies).
My biggest complaint is the fact the all the mythos stuff released that is not associated with a table top
RPG is dumbed down to the masses. The terror and horror that should be there isn't. It all ends up being a
horror glorified Quake or Doom game with mythos monsters scattered about so they can put the name
Lovecraft on the package.
The "Cthuhlhu Cycle" "Hastur Cycle" et al generally seem assembled out of desperation rather than a quest
for great content.
There's too much of the same stuff being reprinted or created. There needs to me more variety. Again
there is not enough emphasis placed on Fear and too much being placed on Horror/Gross out. I'm *really*
sick of the "Dark" Stuff and wish that people would understand that there is a difference between "dark"
and "serious"
Chaosium puts together cool sourcebooks but their modules aren't all that great. Pagan on the other hand
really knows how to get under your skin. It's the psychological aspect that's fun the giving your players the
willies even though they know it's just a game.
all the necronomicon movies..
What's lame? Halfwits who create entire websites to "prove" The Necronomicon is real. What's insufficient?
The flow of money in the rpg market into substance gaming (like Chaosium) which goes instead to ccg
markets and stylised crap like Pale Puppies cliche monster games.
Too much of the cool stuff is out of print... or too expensive!
Chucking the Necronomicon or a generic big tentacley thing into something doesn't make it Mythos
It all good there's just not nearly enough "Gaslight" stuff out there.
A lack of variety I'd like to see more third party Mythos publishers on the market. Chaosium and Pagan
produce teriffic work but I'd love to see what the broader population of current designers can come up with.
Most Lovecraftian fiction is too long and poorly written.
the improper outdated vulgar portrayal of witchcraft especially in things that are based on the mythos but
set in present day the use of the five-pointed star as an evil and ominous symbol... *sigh* it's mostly a
complaint i have with all horror stuff
The fact that MYTHOS the CCG is out of print sucks. It was never really availible here when it was out and
now that I got some cards from online it's hard to find more.
Ahh I crave I crave . . . but I'm not heavily in a position to complain since I don't have most of what's out so
far. That whole money thing. But see above.
Mostly that its hard to play a long term campaign since the sanity goes down. Also the game quality depends
highly on the storyteller.
Here in France everything is insufficient concerning the Mythos... )
1. The reach of it all. Not enough marketing to pull in new victims..er..people. 2. Need more computer games.
3. Need a weekly Lovecraftian TV show that doesn't suck.
I'm kind of in that isolated part of the world where there are no friends ... so part of it would involve an
ACTIVE community directory not these dead wastes of bits that are out there on the web already
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My main game of interest is the table-top RPG Call of Cthulhu. My main gripes with it are mistakes in the
text (poor proofreading) and a tendency to be overly apologetic in regards to HPL's political incorrectness. I
don't like social agendas creeping into my games.
The paperbacks are all over the place and you never know if you've got the set or not or what's reprinted in
what volume and the like
I find that there is too much humor mixed in with the mythos-themed products I've come across. I will never be
interested in a "plush Cthulu doll" as is widely linked to online but I'd pay hundreds of dollars for a genuinely
cool-looking statue of ole tentacle-head. Believe me - I see the genius in marrying the mythos with laughs but
it was NOT what originally attracted me to Lovecraft's work or the mythos in general. What attracted me
was the horror the unknown the twisted.. oh you know what I mean. It was the SUSPENSE and FEAR. I could
also use a cool mythos-themed t-shirt whose main graphic wouldn't fade off completely after ONE FUCKING
WASH.
Where can I find any of it? Availability is the biggest problem.
The PC games I've seen in the past like Alone in the Dark were fair attempts but it's impossible to capture
the psychic horror of the Mythos in a visual/auditory computer game. Tabletop RPGs and interacting face-toface with a group of friends is infinitely better.
the movie "From Beyond" sucked the big one.
There has been I think too much emphasis on the beasties of Lovecraft's fiction and not enough on his
central themes. The monsters were merely symbols to point our minds towards HPLs philosophical concepts.
It's too often a monster hunt rather than true horror. In the literary Lovecraft mythos the protagonists
either went insane or were lucky to escape with their lives. In games they get big guns and big spells and
blow away the horrors. It betrays the whole basis of the genre.
The old CoC material such as at the Mountains of Madness and other stuff is the best material that has
ever been produced for an RPG. What seems missing at least in the RPG mold is actual advice on how to
induce horror in your players. I find the games are generally not horrific just a strange version of an action
game.
I liked the original Call of Cthulhu but it was too limited for every week. I used background from Bureau 13
(remember that?) and the Chaosium system. I would have preferred a more cinematic faster system. Chill
was better for me system-wise. And I liked the barrage of classic monsters even if I often had problems
with the writing and the source.
No real sense of horror. We've become so de- sensitized that it takes much more to achieve the same effect
as 100 years ago.
Alone in the Dark 1 - Cool Alone in the Dark 4 - Lame
horror games films etc with straight line plots LRP that are badly proped. ie deep ones in jeans and t shirts
etc.
I have no idea what you are talking about I just was looking for HP Lovecraft music!
It's expensive to buy in US dollars because of the exchange rate. More Australasian stuff please!
Splatter is in abundance but that's not really Cthulhu. The creeping horror and the dread feeling of
something obscure being just about to get you... That's what the world needs.
I like the majority of the products but I'd like to see more serious decor (wall hangings artifact replicas etc.)
instead of more "humor".
I personally do not like Lovecraft. Blasphemy! However I find in games the horror to be greatly lessened when
everyone goes "oh Nyarlothep. That's kinda cool." You lose the "what the hell is that" reaction and instead
get "oh it's a deep one." It is very hard to fear what you already know. I much prefer seeing horror spring
from the mind of the author or at least be a blend of things. I am tired of GMs explaining how clever they
were at game wrap for having constructing a storyline we had no way of influencing or discovering the truth
behind. I note you have not asked for gender. Presumably you assume most of your target audience is male.
You are right. However it might do you well to know your male/female ratio. At this point you shouldn't be
surprised to know I'm female. :)
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Too many of the most recent anthologies I've seen seem to have only peripheral or tongue-in-cheek connection
to the actual Cthulhu Mythos. The comics and graphic novels have generally suffered poor art &/or writing.
not enough
I think the game system for CoC is inadequate. I've only played a little with the system but everything is
geared towards insanity and running away. I assume the Delta Green is more big gun nuke the space squid
kind of action but I haven't checked it out yet.
Elder Being swimsuit calendars. I can't find any. Seriously though I'm not in a position to comment.
its all creative and fun to have but the best stuff i make myselve. ( brag brag )
CoC RPG is great - I would like if that was turned into a computer game (as would others I reckon) There
are far to many vague attempts to make horror games but often (like Blair W 1&2) they fail miserably due to
bad programming and lame ideas
Everything's quite fine.. but hard to get our hands on in hobby shops (in Montreal).
price mostly the really cool stuff is really outrageous in price.
Most of the t-shirts are tacky.
All the movies adapted from the books are lacking in the "feel" of the stories. The only movie I've seen that
actually captured the "Lovecraftian" feel was "The Ninth Gate" and it isn't even a Lovecraft story.
There are tons of fanzines on the market that I've seen (Stars My Destination in Chicago has a rack full) but
the quality of some is incredibly low.
Too much gore and formulaic (no pun intended) solutions to storylines. Too little ties to real world events and
philosophies.
Do something about all the August Derleth shit that's marketed as Lovecraft's own work.
no complaints(they ARE listening you know)
What's LAME about it is that the protagonists LIVE. What kind of candy-ass bullshit is that? Evil should
always conquer. There is no movie or story that could not be drastically improved by having all the
characters dragged off and gobblingly devoured by hideous demons at the end. For 10-15 minutes. Name an
Anthony Hopkins English-People-Sitting-Around movie that would not be improved by this.
The CoC RPG's rules kinda suck most notably in the character creation department.
the movies suck
Well I have found that a number of writers 'attempts' at Lovecraftian tales are pretty...well...'not so good'.
Alot of the chronicles written by his friends and correspondants are wonderfull...as much as they can be. I've
tried playing a few of the Die-20 games based on the mythos..they were ok in my opinion alot of the stories
boxed with them were a little cheesy- but I found that many of those previously mentioned attempts work
great! Now Live-Action sounds like it would be a blast...but I imagine it would be a very delicate game to
establish...suspending dis-belief and giving a feel of Cosmic Evil can be no light chore I'm sure...but if one
came along- I would try it for the sake of it(If there were any ways I could help in the creation process I would
sell valuable organs...my own even...) Any Lovecraftian-based PC or console games I've come across are
sheer Poo in my book. (but I'm very picky and expect no one to take my opinions too seriously)
Azathoth is not generally depicted as the leader of a soka band.
No it's cool.
no atmosphere hate first person comes off as shallow..
there is no war in heaven . no elder gods to save us from the antedeluvian horrors that lie beneath.
There isn't enough. I want more CRPGS especially but more Lovecraft-related books and movies would be
welcome too.
I used to play the dice version of Call but it got way to frustrating way to early.
There is a lot of "cute" stuff like the plush Cthulhus. That's silly.
Call of Cthulu RPG isn't a terribly good system. We usually adapt other RPGs to the Cthulu "world"
I'm fairly satisfied with the reprints I'd like to find some sort of biblography for HPL.
Badly done mythos fiction. Too many writers out there trying to imitate the style; very few can pull it off.
THE COMPLETE H.P. LOVECRAFT FILMOGRAPHY by Charles Mitchell is 1) Certainly *not* complete 2) Has
some bad judgement calls 3) Has a *lot* of mistakes and wrong information and 4) Is way way overpriced
at $76(US) for the little it offers.
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Lovecraft-based computer games largely suck. Computer games certainly can be scary (Alone in the Dark
Thief) but those who have invoked the name "Cthulhu" most;y haven't done very well.
I have yet to see a horror game that is inspired by Lovecraft's fiction and pulls off the sort of honest detail
that a Fan of his writing would appreciate. The same goes for films too. There simply aren't any faithfully
done products out there that incorporate either Lovecrafts actual material faithfully or even really his
concept of other-worldly horror... or do it in the 20's!
Too many people produce Lovecraftian works in which humans seem quite able to compete and control the
'elder' forces somewhat destroying the 'magic' of Lovecraft's work in which we as humans are
insignificant.
Most of it is geared toward the male 14-19 age group which yes is the largest fan base; but what the world
really needs is a good set of high-quality queen-size Cthulhu bedsheets. ;)
I like the Cthulhu stuffed doll.. . it was kinda cute. . .
Much out of print
the ccg was a waste of money the art was crap
i would like to see more books giving details about the fictional chronology of the cthulhu mythos
I really hate it when they bring in "White hat"Wizards at the last moment. I hate those guys!
The Mythos CCG rules. Call of Cthulhu is excellent if you get the right people to run the game. The only real
complaint I have is that it doesn't get good marketing. I think there's probably a lot more people who would
be very interested in it if they knew about it.
Too many anthologies with the exact same stories I'd like to see more 'new' or rare stories in the Mythos
Almost everything that have been written to CoC is very good. And that is mayby the problem. Everything is
good but at the same time very much alike.
Most of the clothes look too cartoony. Hell I'm out to scare the straits not entertain the kiddies!
Insufficient materials low qaluty of most products high prices
I am tired of seeing mass market Necronomicons. Novelty items are also a pain in the neck. How many more
plush Cthluhu's do I need to see.
There are many awful stories there should be a website that only publishes quality works.
My "problems" (next to spelling) are very minor and insignifigant at best. Recently with the arrival of the third
edition of Dungeons and Dragons I've gotten hooked on the d20 system. It's so easy. When I roleplay with my
friends we switch back and forth between the percentile and d20 system. It's just frustrating when you roll
a high number and say " Hell yeah that guys going down. I just rolled a 100... (realization) oh crap. That means
I failed." In d&d that would be an insanely good number to hit. To me it makes sense that when trying to
succeed in a task the difficulty level should be different for each situation. With percentile it's not. Your
base skill point determines everything. In the d20 system the difficult level chages. Example of where it can
be bad. A beginning character is trying to shoot at a stationary object of a large proportion you roll but
due to being a novice you miss. With the other system your DC changes so that more mundane tasks are
simpilar to achieve while an incredibly hard task requires a better roll.
Too many miserable hackeyed and introspective characters. Too many samey plots... but then that's the idea
isn't it? The genre needs to be reinvented...
I like subtle jokes that only people that are with the Mythos would understand. For instance my car has a
Miskatonic University parking permit. I want more cool stuff like that.
Hard for me to say I can't find a damned person who's interested and wants to play the CoC rpg let alone
anything else. So I can't really complain except for a lack of participation among friends.
I dont' really have any complaints - most of the stuff is pretty much below the pop-culture radar which is
where is should be (seeing Carson daily sporting an Elder Sign t-shirt on TRL would cause me physical pain).
I'm into the games and stuff when I can play them but it's mostly the literature I'm into I guess.
a little cthlhu statue (coooooooooool) some books (cool and low price XD) and in a few minutes some black
metal mp3 about the mythos.
In the classic Call of Cthulhu there is to much adventure and to little psychology. And its not personal inuff. I
want Cthulhu to be more like "Kult" or "De Profundis".
Too many gooby monsters not enough actually scary horror. Both in books and films.
There is a lot of crap out there...
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Cast Metal Gaming Pieces are lame. Need larger Action Figures. More Toys Props and Sculptures. A
realistic fake Necronomicon.
I would like to see more care and attention given to products before they are released. In the case of books
this means more careful proofreading.
Mostly the same stories and artwork...next please.
just not enuff LRP stuff. The tabletop Roleplay is good and well supported. There are plenty of novels and
stuff available.
st joshi editons.....
I cant find hardback copies of any of lovecrafts stuff but then again I live in alaska.
Not familiar with much of it. But what I know is either much to happy and hope filled or the rpg's just don't
cut it for the most part. :)
If I read one more story about a guy who inherits something evil and magical from a long-dead ancestor I will
personally track the author down and kill him/her.
There is a shortage of such things most of the computer games of this sort are rather lame like the
Necronomicon game that came out last year it was a nice try but did not cut it for me too many meaningless
mazes the graphics were nice
No complaints really. If made into an mmorpg though I for one would like to see a very detailed character
creation. All mmorpg's to date have a crappy character creation.
Not enough (quality) games with such themes. Black and White should have a new Cthulhu creature available
for download. Hey...if anyone reading this is a programmer let's get crackin'! Any mythos creatures would be
good of course.
i can rarely find anything Lovecraft/Mythos in bookstores or game shops
There isn't enough Lovecraft/Mythos stuff period. There's the Call of Cthulhu RPG the Call of Cthulhu
card game (I mean c'mon - a _card_ game?) and the stories themselves and that's about it. Also I think
Lovecraft/Mythos stuff needs to be more helpful to newbies.
Not enough of it!
I love the stuff on the market. I just wish there was more.
That it is hard to get.
more blood!! real blood. the guys here (cell block 4 in Folsom) say more blood.
The only Lovecraft movies made to date are ultra cheezy and low budget. I would love to see a big budget
Lovecraft film.
Well all the films that mention the word 'necronomicon' have sucked much ass. Also that they canned that
3D Rpg game that was coming out has pissed me off ( and the werewolf one too). Shadow of the comet ( pc
game ) still isnt abandonware or available to buy anywhere :/ Limbo sucks.
Lovecraft items are virtually non-existant in my area.
Ironic self-aware humorous horror bites the big one. Give me a real scare. Horror movies have started to be
really spooky again in the right hands and Lovecraft's stuff is full of great really frightening ideas so get
to it directors and stick that Scream stuff right into your nether regions!
Everything is pretty cool but hey when are they going to make those inflatable Elder Gods? I heard the
Dark Young is pretty sexy.
ITS PRETTY CHEESY HOMEGROWN STUFF
Cthulhu! This mytho's been overused! Besides people get tired really fast of horrors so horrifying that they
can not be described! Also we need less frauds on black magick... You can't even go to a bookstore without
seeing 50 titles on how to be a great witch/warlock written by nobodies that got their material from fairy
tales and movies.
The only mythos stuff I have bought is the games and the novels. I do dislike the oversize paperback format
that all the Lovecraft books come in now. I much prefer the regular paperback size.
Not enough modern day scenarios.
The movies are seriously lame. Anything that says written by HPL is a cheap knockoff of his ideas not his
actual work. Why throw in characters from other stories that have nothing to do with the original story?
And WHY does it have to be so cheap?
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Dull and tasteless. We always make up the scenarios for ourselves and it's inbelieveble that Chaosium pay
people for the texts they produce as supplements to the game CoC. Anyway had always been more of an
artist that likes to do things for myself and my friends by myself ;-)
CoC has had far too many editions and the game system is hideously out-of-date and overly reliant upon
dice.
Most of it is far too steeped in Derelethian nonsense. Very little of it is frightening on any level.
We need more art work and films about lovecrafts work not just books and stores
D20 Call of Cthulhu....even more evil than Cthulhu himself.
The Lovecraftian movie adaptations you can get at a video store are mostly more horrific than the tales
they are supposed to be portraying. How about giving us better access to the really well-done independent
films that are out there?
We need lilac cuddly Cthulhus... And cuddly Great Race of Yiths..
Deodorant and soap. If I encounter another unwashed body in a bookstore/gaming supply shop/cabal I'm
going to bury the person in bathsalts and then hose them off with sodium hydroxide.
I think is is sufficient expensive but sufficient..
lousy chaosium scenarios
Merchandise!!! Give us elder sign t-shirts and Great Cthulhu POSTERS!
IT CAN BE VERY DIFFICULT TO LOCATE ANYTHING TO DO WITH LOVECRAFT/MYTHOS IN GENERAL
The new mythos material provided seems to be lacking in maturity or true sense of horror. That and
tv/movies/general pop culture seem to dislike anything that deviates from main stream horror (such as
slasher movies). There aren't enough Blair Witch Projects and far too many Screams.
i think the sheer lack of exposure sucks
Any Mythos items are good...even cheesy items!
they often have characters who lose their sanity too easily they don't give mortals enough credit groups of
people are stupid but single individuals are intelligent
Writers who build a career out of hacking out stuff based on Lovecraft's work.
Lame illustrations. They should be more vibrant.
I think that most horror/mythos/gothic/comic fans are total losers and for some reason most of the guys live
with their moms and don't have a car let alone a job.
accessibility
Most Mythos things out there are pretty lame/boring...
There isn't enough sourcebooks available today on the market. Books like Return to Dunwich or Kingsport are
out of print and extremely difficult to find. Also there isn't enough Delta Green material out (but what is out
is fookin' amazing).
It's too optimistic. Also it doesn't feature my picture prominently enough.
CoC RPG is decent but it takes a good gamemaster to pull off. Any idiot can be a DM for AD&D but to run a
good CoC campaign takes real skill. Perhaps better game materials could bring lesser GMs up to speed??
not sure on this one.
There is too much on the market!
Most of the Necronomicons are really lame.
All the supposed evil power stuff and demonic stuff is just giving HPL a bad name. It is all that is played up
anymore. The wizard's attic is full of the most inane things ever. I wish a Shoggoth would destroy whoever
thinks up that junk.
more of everything would be nice
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The films. Pure and simple. Only 2 films stand out as having the Lovecraft touch. That being In the Mouth of
Madness by Carpenter. I also include Big Trouble In Little China because the off-balance and wacky ness of
the film is quite Lovecraftian in nature (altho more in a subdued sense) a plot like that would have possibly
come from HPL himself. (innocent guy getting sucked into a world no one wants to admit exists. demons and
such around every corner wild villians daring heroes etc)
The whole Derleth/Lumley thing corralled the whole thing in and then blasted it to death. I like Lumley but I
can consider him mainly responsible for the loss of any genuine feeling of horror in Mythos tales. And why
don't some of these people try to come up with something original?
Most of it is tailored to the hard-core Call of Cthulhu gamer and not to a casual Mythos reader...I'd wear a
Cthulhu shirt but not a rpg cthulhu shirt
It's hard to gather information on it especially for its history. I've been trying to read up on it for a week now
and get slammed with spam.
Cthulhu plush dolls
So much crap and few orignal ideas. Everyone I've read seems to be parroting Lovecraft or (god forbid)
Derleth or Lumley.
If I think something's lame I don't buy it...
Most campaigns for The Call Of Cthluhu made by Chaosium.
Most of the movies are crippled by insufficent budgets particularly in special effects.
People need to realize lovecrafts dark vision. While most authors out there realize that the characters are
suposed to die or go insane there are a few that want to drag thier sugar plum and lollypop world into his. It
just doesnt fit.
I'm lame and insufficient.
So much stuff is deep into the Derleth bastardization of Lovecraft so little has the propper mood.
Hard to find/locate.
I really wish Mythos movies were better. They seldom resemble the stories that inspire them and inspire more
laughter or disgust than horror. It would be great if one of Lovecraft's tales could get the Coppola
treatment like Bram Stoker's Dracula.
CANNOT FIND AN RPG ON LINE FOR IT
Just not enough out there readily available. I am anxiuosly awaiting the D20 system release.
The d20 mythos game that just came out is a shoddy shoehorned product that I will ignore in favor of the TT
original.
What's insufficient is that damn Cthulhu plushie! I want a Nyarlathotep plushie! And the Cthulhu plushie is too
small! I can't sleep cuddles next to it. It should be bigger! Like those big-ass stuffed animals one wins at
carnivals with staged tricks!
Can't find the stuff in my area.
they cost too much
I would like more pictures. I do not like August Derleth he is very repetitive.
Well..considering Chaosium and Dorks of the Coast hold the market on all things Lovecraftian? It would be
nice to see some competition out there for them...Also maybe once....just once...a decent movie director will
try out a Lovecraft script..and it will be worth watching.
No one I know even knows about Lovecraft and they all say I'm crazy...but they say that anyway. But I think
it's better that way so that good stuff doesn't get into the wrong hands and get made into awful movies
starring special-effects monsters and fake blood. So I guess I'm not complaining though I wish my fiancee
had better taste in literature.
insufficient toys of cthulhu yog sottoth etc
Cthulhu gets all the attention; what about Nyarlothotep? what about Shub Niggrath? where's the slippery
shoggoth soap on a rope? why can't we have fungi from yuggoth action figure play set?
I dislike the trend toward humanocentrism in many of the more contemporary Lovecraftian works.
Not nearly enough. The only thing coming out on a regular basis are the Chaosium fiction anthologies which I
find to be expensive.
The cute-ification of Lovecraft's work. Plush Cthulhu dolls. Geekdom is castrating the Mythos.
not enough access...need an omnibus collection maybe?
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Difficult to maintain a campaign in such a deadly environment.
Not enuf of it in NZ!
Nothing really. Compared to any other horror roleplaying game I have played CoC is the best.
What really peeves me off is the cheesy crappy absolutely blatantly deviated storylines of the Mythos
Movies.
That latest Call of the Cthulhu computer game is crap!
I am a filmmaker intent on creating my own lovecraft inspired cinema (if only for local access stations
etc.)but I feel (with the exception of the brilliant indie producers) that the big budget lovecraft-inspired films
pretty much stink. How hard is it to come up with suspensful psychological horror these days? :)
Too much of it caves in to August Derleth's (lame) attempts to codify and categorize the mythos. Too many
people who claim to write mythos fiction think that all it takes to write like lovecraft is the ability to string
together a few nonesense syllables and call it an outer god. The rare modern masters (T.E.D. Klein are you
hearing me?) do not write anywhere near enough to satisfy my voraciousness. And I got tired of Seeing
Robert M. Price classify one of his own works as central to the mythos in each of Chaosium's Cycle books.
He's a mediocre author at best and including your own writings alongside those of Lovecraft and Thomas
Ligotti is an act of sheerest hubris... Oh and it goes without saying but the larger budget versions of
Lovecraft's work are nightmarish in their collective wretchedness. On the other hand I greatly enjoy many
of the small-budget independent films that have been submitted to the Lovecraft film festival Lurker in the
Lobby etc...
Too much X-Files/Brian Lumley-type stuff.
that I can't summon demons
I just wish that it was more easily available to people other than odd sites on the net.(i.e. the Real World)
There is not enough consideration related to the creation of a far-future cthulhian universe. There is also
not nearly enough genetic information on Cthulhu.
The RPG is expensive and hard to find supplements for...
NOT ENOUGH NYARLETHOTEP!!!
I THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE PICTURES ILLISTRATIONS
Lame: Stuffed Cthulhu Dolls Insufficient: Movies Toys Tomes
Availability - other than a single game store in the area (one that stocks EVERYTHING) the only place to find
Mythos stuff is on-line. This is especially daunting as I've just started a d20 CoC game and I'm trying to
amass a stable of NPC and monster figures.
Quality varies widely so you have to wade through a lot of crap to get to the good stuff.
Not enough RPG peripherals like monster books. more anthology collections like the excellent series from
Chaosium press edited by Robert M. Price. NEED MORE!!!!
The problem is people think Lovecraft is Heavy Metal and he never is. He does not write about excessive
gunnery or gore he does not relish in vapid explorations of pornographic violence and pulp adventure.
Lovecraft was an ethereal horror writer who adored the beautiful and strange.
Not enough
Too many badly done Lovecraft comics. Too many sites/products slavishly follow Chaosiums' RPG view of the
Cthulhu Mythos.
most lovecraft films suck.
Most is good but any scenario for the mythos that takes place in the future or near future is corny. More
people have to keep in in the 20's 30's and before.
just bought the call of cthulhu horror roleplaying book have no other stuff so cant really make a judgement.
the book seems good just need to find some people to play with.
Could someone collect Roger Johnson's stories in ONE book? I'm awfully tired of Robert M. Price's pompous
introductions to otherwise excellent anthologies. I KNOW he's a good anthologist; he's just a dreadfully
boring theologian!
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Just want more of it and more COC oriented horror less 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' type stuff (the good
guys always win and know they are going to)
Not enough background/historical information in campaign descriptions Too many oh no--a haunted house (or
other small-scale B-movie horror)! ---In other words we need more adventures that deal with horror on a
galactic scale such as Masks of Nyarlathotep
Mythos isn't the card game I hoped for. The fighting mechanics are strange. Does the game even need
fighting? Someone could make a new and better game (and I'd buy it).
Aside from RPGs like Call of Cthulhu and a few good websites I haven't seen much worth HOWLING about.
I can do without the direct to video collection of B movies that do little to bring awareness to the general
public.
Too much Derleth Mythos--or at least too much confusion over what were HPL's ideas and what were
Derleth's very different interpretations. In many ways Derleth just didn't get it.
I think that there is altogether too little stuff. Aside from that it's all good. Well a good portion of it.
we need more artwork
I don't really buy Mythos stuff but I do think all the posthumous stories by Derleth and his ilk are pretty lame.
The fact that Lovecraft's works are understated in almost every literature book. He was never given
enough credit for his fantastic imagination and vision.
Okay I'm shameless. Already having every story HPL wrote and quite a few by imitators my purchase are
mostly of knicknacks. I like the goofy little in-jokey items like bumper stickers and t-shirts but I wish there
were more variety. I have a Miskatonic U. class ring that I treasure even though it's kind of ugly and
enormous. If someone came out with say Mythos-themed hot sauce (with a funny label natch) I would be in
line for it. I wish some of the focus would shift off Cthulhu and towards the other characters of the
Mythos. There are three or four different stuffed Cthulhu dolls you could buy but none of say Yig Father
of Serpents. Or a cuddly nightgaunt. While I like respectful additions to the canon and video adaptations
it's really easy to slip from dark and full of cosmic horror to really really pretentious and lame. Humorous
stuff seems to be a lot less cringeworthy.
We played Mythos games from Chaosium for a number of years (many years ago) but no longer partake
much. More so because of time involved than lack of interest. I guess the Internet kind of took away time
from table top RPGs.
I'd like to see more Miskatonic University merchandise.
Too many things picking up on august dereleth without bothering with all the real precepts behind lovecraft...
not enough plausable stuff like statues and such.
I want to see a resurgance in the Mythos CCG.
not enough free e-books of his stories hard to find artwork
Minions sucked. Badly. What a waste of money.
Can't find enough of it
Most of the people that I know that are into this live about 1000 miles away. I'd like to be able to play with
them online.
Well the only complaint I guess i have is tht some of the books out there have repeat stories in them...so when i
buy a book...i already have some of the stories that are in it.
It's hard to find or it doesn't specifically mention Lovecraft-type monsters or changes things slightly to
avoid paying royalties to who ever owns the rights to that work now...
I enjoy the supplements that are available. Finding them is another story! I've been trying to convince local
game shops to have a larger selection of supplements. My only complaint is finding a suitable group of
players. The LARP market in this region is over saturated with Vampire the Masquerade players.
I love THE HILLS RISE WILD! MYTHOS was great but it faded too quickly. CALL OF CTHULHU is awesome
CULTS ACROSS AMERICA is good and ARKHAM HORROR is too much like CoC.
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There's not enough tabletop roleplaying stuff available. I find the Call of Cthulhu sourcebooks available
pretty lame they don't give enough handles to effectively replay a mythos story apart from going in with
guns blazing... Some more background on where to find information when playing a tabletop rpg would be nice.
The basic sourcebooks more or less force you to refer your players to the same sourcebooks over and over
and over and over again.... Referring to the Cthaat Aquadingen for the fifth time in a row is no fun... Most of
the books specified in the rpg sourcebooks are to high powered for my taste...
I like it all though Unseen Masters (while fun to read) would likely be difficult for me to use (except that
first adventure anyway).
The miniatures are low-detail and overpriced.
I can't really think of any games past the first AITD that captured the essence of Lovecraft.
Unfortunately I (and others) will buy ANYTHING with HPL's name attached to it. Publishers know this and
have taken advantage of it. One has to be a smart mythos consumer these days! Many of the new mythos
fiction anthologies really really suck while hard-to-find gems from the 20's and 30's hardly ever see print.
I'm not as much of a fan of the 'survivable' type of stuff Chaosium has brought out more recently; Delta
Green and the new Pulp era where the monsters can generally be combatted with conventional weapons
(more so than the standard anyway).
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WHAT FANS WANT
Please tell us briefly about what you wish was out there "on the market."
What do you want to see next? What's the horror/supernatural genreoriented thing that you're most hungry for?
Call of Cthulhu Computer game series using the same format as The Builders Gate games by interplay.
Live-action major motion picture adaptation of HPL's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
Existing commercial Halloween haunted houses are lame. They copy from lame horror movies that the public is
familiar with and no longer scared by. They would be much scarier if they were Lovecraftian in theme and
content.
I want a nice new comic book that deals with horror and the macabre. Maybe some Lovecraftian action
figures. I really would like some posters of Lovecraftian or some other bad ass horror stuff. These things
must come into existence.
Other people in my area willing to play the rpg with me.
More lovecraft stuff!
i could tell you but then i'd have to kill you in order to spare you the mindfucking insanity
I would love to see an online horror RPG something akin to Everquest. But seeing as how that would be very
difficult I would just like to see an intelligent RPG computer game that incorporates as much Lovecraft into
it with a mixture of puzzles combat and mystery.
Something Genuinely Gothic... not splatter not slasher. I would like to see an emphasis on FEAR rather than
Horror.
more tromaesque movies. more grotesque art.
A lovecraft anthology with everything in it.
A decent film about Lovecraft's Mythos... or a decent terror/gothic/horror film in general. Tolkien's getting
his (most likely) excellent honorifics now it's high time for Moorcock and Lovecraft to come into larger
awareness.
A genuinely creepy/scary movie/book/game. There's not a great deal of it about in any format.
I wish there were more players on the market. Perhaps slaves you could buy to role-play with instead of your
idiot friends who refuse to believe there is life outside of DnD
I can't wait for the Headfirst game "Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth"
More supplements/adventures for "Cthulhu by Gaslight" or D&D 3rd edition conversion for "Ravenloft:Mask
of the Red Death."
More cross-genre horror development. Sci-fi horror Fantasy horror... that sort of thing. Ravenloft is a
perfect example of such.
I'm not really much of a consumer. I've got CoC and don't need anything else really.
More live-action horror/supernatural RPG events that are affordable would be really cool especially ones
set in the 1920's or the Victorian era.
INFLATABLE VAMPIRE MAIDENS!!!INFLATABLE VAMPIRE MAIDENS!!!INFLATABLE VAMPIRE MAIDENS!!! ....
now that i have your attention i think that the horror genre needs more "smart horror" movies no more of this
slasher crap i want to see a major movie studio make an adaption of the Cthulhu Mythos that is not based
on the stories but a filmed word for word remake!
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I'd really like to see a Call of Cthulhu type game for the PC not unlike the VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE REDEMPTION game only of course with all the bugs worked out before it is released with online multiplayer
play-ablity like VtM. but of course I'sd settle for more games like SHADOW OF THE COMET and
Dreamcatcher's NECRONOMICON... Of course more movies and videos is cool like Brian Yuznas movies but
damn it takes so long for them to get released I mean where is DAGON and BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR????
More DARKEST OF THE HILLSIDE THICKETS CDs and re-releases of their old ones (particularly their Great
Old Ones) would make my day and night!!!
Jeez....I have absolutely no idea. I just want a sandwich...is that too much to ask? How 'bout a Lovecraft
cartoon? They're doing some wacky things with animation nowadays.
Good online Cthulhu ROLEPLAYING would be nice. All I can find is a couple of MUDs and I was weaned on
MUSHes so MUDding won't cut it no not at all. Also give me more amusing Cthulhu kitsch
Props. The Mythos-based LARP my wife and I run could do heavily with more Lovecraftian-based props.
Cthulhu Germany Sourcebook
Oddly enuf I have most of what I want in that area mostly more players are what I want.
At last an online game Everquest type
Bizarre and unusual supplements for Call of Cthulhu perhaps taking ideas from other literary sources. I
would also love to see a really well produced and cleverly scripted Mythos computer game -- like an evil Myst.
1. Cthulhu Online! A MMORPG. 2. A movie based on a Lovecraft story but done right for a change. 3. A
monthly Lovecraftian-style comic book. Color. 22 pages. Quality art and story.
an easy to play and to run game system that flows from storytelling and not what do I have to roll to kill the
beastie
I wish there was a well-organized easy-to-play online Mythos game.
The Complete Lovecraft in a numbered orderly series with intros dates notes and an accompanying
authoritative well-written biography PLUS a translation of the French author Houellebecq's book on
Lovecraft
higher quality new post modern literature
The interactivity and visual/storytelling applications that modern PC and console hardware offer are nearly
limitless. More adult-oriented entertainment is sorely needed; stories with subtle complexity quality voiceacting high artistic standards and truly immersive environments with psychologically challenging experiences
and ideas CAN BE DONE. Video games are currently my main form of entertainment and have nearly
limitless potential to continue in such fashion throughout my adult life if only someone would bother trying to
design them for an adult mind. I am CONSTANTLY disappointed at the lack of imagination depth and
quality of experience presented by developers in a medium so rich with possibilities. Many games appeal to
our fascination with 'horror' as a story-telling genre yet their creators seem to have no grasp of what real
horror truly is. Onscreen violence alone is not scary exciting or interesting. I truly wish for more innovation
and attention to craft in suspense-oriented video games aimed at adults. The upcoming Dark Corners of the
Earth Cthulu-based game looks very very interesting..
Something not based almost entirely on vampires/werewolves/ghosts/etc.
Books and Comics and great scholarly web sites such as the likes of the Modern Word
(www.themodernword.com)
The autographed copy of the Necronomicon (personally signed by Cthulhu and the mad Arab) with human skin
cover and written in ink made of blood extacted from the brains of young children.
I'd like to see a more multi-cultural focus and not so much emphasis on European and American culture all the
time. People from all cultures have cool creepy stories to share that are rooted in their own cultural
assumptions and myths. It's educational it creates common ground and it's fun.
Roleplaying that's interactive between players not just us-vs-them or us-vs-IT
More inexpensive quality props for live action horror.
decent movies
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I would enjoy seeing a LARP out there. Not necessarily an ongoing endeavor the genre often doesn't lend
itself to that but something with pregenerated characters and a decent backstory. Something that allows
player actions to affect the story.
How about an Everquest but Gothic modern and/or Lovecraftian? NOT vampire not Anne Rice not
masquerade. But if some vampire elements got into it that would be fine.
a game that requires thinking...kind of like the game HUGO's house of horrors which is really old but it was
cool
A game that has good pacing and a good story. Very important to have a good story.
More props available to a mainstream market for running LARPs! Also good game-space which is pretty rare
due to the nature of the kinds of games we play...
Computer RPGs that put empathis on solving problem not shooting things. Onlinw Larps! See my thoughts
on Larping in Neverwinter Nights: http://www.intercom.net/~bglassco/Never/index.htm
A well propped and written LRP set up. Not find the cultist kill the cultist and save the world stuff. some
thing with real roleplay and depth.
dead-baby-grams
If there was a good online roleplaying game out there I'd pay real money to play in it. This means that the
game should focus on roleplaying i.e. playing the roles not bashing monsters. "Quests" as such are irrelevant
so are experience points. Interaction and feeling through the character are the important things. I think the
people of FunCom tried to do something like this with Anarchy Online -- unfortunately it doesn't really work.
And there should be something to be done about stupid players who just ruin everybody else's game. Like
have separate scenarios several of them being invitation only.
I'd love to see a collection of HP Lovecraft short films by indie filmmakers on a DVD.
I would like to see more full-immersion live-combat horror games. This may involve more period settings which
is great by me. Currently I play in the only one I know of certainly in this region (see xanodria.com) I would
like to see a greater reliance on story and player ability to influence the story. Mostly now I see a reliance on
one or two cool props or costumes and a "line course" where what you do matters little or not at all.
A comprehensive guide to Lovecraftian material. A good reasonably professional (as opposed to purely
fannish) info resource on upcoming "fantastical" film productions & reviews.
more cuddly toys
A Lovecraft film that fully exploits the horror potential that he created. "From Beyond" and "In The Mouth Of
Madness" were good but there's so much more that can be done.
The Necronomicon. Not a prop the real thing. Sanity is overrated.
Toy guns. not the crappy cowboy guns i mean the glory guns of the 70s and 80s. when they were big loud and
could rob 7-11s the kind i had when i was a kid before peacemongers made the world weak.
A Cthullu-mythos-based RPG which one could play off- and online! 3D environment almost a must!! Lots of
dark things that go bump but are rarely seen ;)
More creative table RPG stuff to stimulate my imagination as a GM.
Probably shirts or posters or more local conventions.
Better Comps of obscure stories
Anything zombie related.
A console game (preferably PS2) based on Lovecraftian mythos an online RPG with horror themes also would
be nice even better if based on Lovecraft. Maybe a computer game with good 3D or 2D graphics. Maybe
an old SNES style RPG but Lovecraft. 3D FPS
A horror-oriented MMORPG.
An intelligent combination of the "classic" research oriented Lovecraftian genre with the possibilities of
modern media such as the free-form investigations in the AI movie promotion (see
http://www.cloudmakers.org/).
I guess low-price cthulu t-shirts for the geek chic. But then i suppose i could screen some myself.
Inflatable shoggoths
Exceedingly violent Cyberpunk fiction. Non-splatter psychological horror. There hasn't been a good horror
film in years...
A Horror Movie that's actually frightening.
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better lovecraft movies cthulhu action figures cthulhu art books more cthulhu stuff! horror writer action
figures more horror roleplaying games. monsters
Harry Potter Porn!
Well anything really...From my point of view modern horror is on a serious decline it seems that writers have
gone from at least trying to come up with something original- to spitting out recycled crud for the quick
paycheck it provides. I know originality is hard in such a vast genre but....jiminy couldn't they at least switch
out the cliche's? Just a little? If you're 10-13 and looking for horror the current big names are great until you
read older stuff and realise that its only a repeat of something done years before...and usually the original
is far better. I guess my point is that I would love ANYTHING that could spark some fear or make me want to
sleep with the lights on. Name it PC games...RPG's...Movies...Books...anything that provides the feel I will buy
in massive volumes and force feed to those around me.
Dark brooding games with GOOD scripts and with focus on the story instead of say fighting and shooting..
i would like to see a playable RPG using the d20 system. The problem with the Cthulhu game I had seen in the
past was the host of characters one could play. Inspiration could be derived from the almost defunct Dark
Matter game which the present author playtested and whom appears in the credits. Wizards of the Coast
who have a streamlined system have as a by-product streamlined some of the detail and variety of
background atmospheric content. DM's or GM's should want and need more backdrops which are a
nuissance to story creation and less rule complexity which leads invariably to lethargic games. Cthulhu of
old I'm at a loss for the name of the company who birthed it had characters such as police and private dicks
with revolvers up against Elder Gods! A very difficult prospect indeed. Often times what sounds interesting
to play is often unfortunately better left unplayed. Perhaps a game of this mythos is impossible.
Nothing at this time well...maybe a Hellraiser MUD or a Blair Witch MUD...that would be pretty cool.
I am a college student! I have no money you vile tempters!
I think Hastur needs a variety show.
a mmrpg NOT first person
daeyu automatic shotgun. nymphomaniac lesbian vampires. the old ones to take their places as rightful
rulers of the world iam redy in their service!
I'd like to see more computer RPG games based on Lovecraftian themes. The recent CRPG "Arcanum" was a
step in the right direction---a "Call of Cthulhu" based mod for that engine would be something I'd pay to play.
Giger RPG. Nuff said.
Anything well made. Most of the horror/supernatural stuff out there is so badly concieved and put together
that I wouldent drop a quater in a machine to get it in a little plastic bubble. Just put some time some thought
and some soul into whatever you produce and I think the reaction will be pretty good.
Cheaper Call of Cthulhu special edition leather bound RPG book. More tenticle related pariphanalia.
One of those "How to stage a murder" games with a lovecraftian theme.
A Mythos MMORG would be sweet! A lot of the MMROGs that are out there are pretty steeped in fantasy.
But Mystery/Horror is absent completely.
I would like to see more movies in the horror genre but well done character driven spooky type films not
slasher-jump-out-of-the-bushes-and-startle-you films.
Well-done gothic/dark tabletop RPGs.
I am looking for some pack of handouts for CoC.
Horror films that build on "fear of the unknown" and not special effects. Well-done horror PC games which
truly build on Lovecraftian themes and not just Mythos-references. Shorter-length novels. Sometimes a
story is told a lot better in 200 pages than 400 pages.
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The coolest Cthulhu-related thing I've ever seen were the "Peterson Guide" products that Chaosium released.
I saw them in a bookstore when I was about 11 years old and I thought they were unbelievably cool. More stuff
like that. I don't really know if there's a "hang on your wall" artistic community either but I wouldn't mind
having some depictions of unspeakable horror to put on my walls either.
I'd like to see: 1) A 1920's era in-depth/ultra-detailed Lovecraft world Computer RPG 2) A really decent
1920's era Lovecraft-mythos feature film.
Living in New Zealand really all I would like to see is more of the stuff available in Europe and the States
being sold here...
More pure Lovecraftian-type computer games like Alone in the Dark I
more plush Great Old Ones!
a good and well made collectable card game
more movies and books and games based on the cthulhhu mythos
A good Mythos first person rpg/shooter
H.P. Lovecraft translated into Latin and Greek
another vampire or dark aged occult game
I would love to see more movies made based on H. P. Lovecraft's work. I'm talking about good modestly
budgeted films that don't star anyone we know (that can act). One Swartzenagger and it's war! Besides I
think there's a Mi-go Braincase with his name on it. It hasn't been used because there's still some debate
among the Mi-go's as to whether there's enough to even mess with.
More toys silly stuff.
I like: 1) The hopelessness and the "non-violent-oriented" in CoC 2) The studies of the "inner self" in Vampire
3) The dark erotica of Poppy Z Brite and her collegues. In other word: A mix of Franz Kafka/Emile Zola in the
year 2001!
Short Adventures in the style of the inexpensive D20 products for CoC or the new d20 CoC.
an easier way to travel so that i can get together with my out of town gaming friends more often
I lack good add-on's for Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu Tabletpo RPG licke Orient Express Byond the Moutains
of madness or Delta Green.
Would like to see more fan oriented adventure idea sites for CoC gaming.
A strong comeback of mythos fiction.
I would really like to see more magazines similar to Dungeon or Dragon (d&d mags) that give adventures for
Cthulhu or a Cthulhu-like world. I really dig the macabre 1920's world and enjoy weekly roleplaying sessions
with all of my friends. Please come out with a lot more of the live action books and modules. Playing these live
games is the most fun I've had in ages. This game has given my friends and I so many stories that you have to
tell someone. (Even though most people need a lot of backstory about what the heck is going on.)
I want a pair of Cthulhu slippers. And what exactly are Cthulhu slippers? Well imagine bunny slippers but
not with bunnies but instead with our favourite cephalopod-like being.
An elaborate and thorough web site...
Actually right now I'm more into buying craft items to create my own mythos related trinkets and oddities
but I'd like to see more of that kind of thing for sale. More club-oriented mythos web sites discussions and so
forth.
I personally collect strange and unusual action figures - sleepy hollow btvs stuff like that. If there were
some kind of mythos-based action figures I would sacrifice my own cat to own them. Also a MMORPG based
in the lovecraft mythos would be insanely cool - Like 'Asherons Call' with Shoggoths. For that - yeah selfflagellation in the town square for a chance to play something like that!!!
Hey I'm sure anyone will make a great deal whit authentic necrophlic pseudo satanic and tritualic stuff like
"the mighty sword of darkness for just 11.99$" or a ready-to-death cow.... Nay just something more graphic. I
mean it's hard to find a representation of the mythos like posters statues videos videogames animations
or one of those REALLY COOL cthulhu puppets :)
more gorey things such as toys and busts
A game that would be as REAL as possible. Where there was no difference between player and character
and you could play constantly 24/7
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More supernatural beings from other realms that are discoverd in early 20th century but with historical
connections reaching into the distant past.
I want Tim Burton to film Lovecraft and Poe stories...
Cthulhu - Mythos based Action Figures Masks and Props and Sculptures(large). More Giger stuff: Eg. Alien
Space Jockey Toy Alien Spaceship Toy. Affordable Giger Sculptures (Under $200). A really good fake
Necronomicon with leather binding and metal hasps.
Lovecraftian and similar RPG not requiring purchase of a board game paraphernalia etc. and not requiring
organizing people to be in one place to play together. My friends who are into HPL live all over the country so
live-action RPGs are out of the questin. Anyway the whole D&D lifestyle was always a turn off although
what I read about Lovecraft-based RPGs impresses me with people getting very seriously into period
costume speech behavior etc. That appeals because it becomes a kind of historical reenactment. Never
liked look of games creating fantasy worlds out of whole cloth; a historically accurate online game might
get me to join in. P.S. Leave ALL "Sci-fi" motifs OUT of your game --we don't want to attract the WRONG
SORT OF PEOPLE do we? Hmmm?
Currently I'm most attracted to White Wolf's World of Darkness and the depth of their stories. I'd like to
see more done in the depth and intelligence that WW puts into their creation.
More horror-oriented computer/video games. Not necessarily gore-fests but psychological horror adventure
games.
More info on Mythos style role playing for alternity. I want a stuffed Cthulhu!!!
More LRP options including systems & scripts.
Stephen King's the black tower filmed
mythos porn
I wish for a post apocolyptic genre where mutants run rampant humanity is on the verge of extinction and
combined with HP lovecrafts creatures...mmmm the creamy goodness of it all.
a portal to other dimensions of chaos. Or perhaps a data jack. :) I know twisted but what did you expect?
Cthulhu porn? ah no how about action figures of lessor known monsters like the Mothman or the Jersey devil.
Perhaps a HP lovecraft monsters/gods guides for GURPS or other crossover games so more people who
want to incorporate Lovecraft into RPG games Other than chaosium could.
A nice big hardback coffee-table-book Encyclopedia Cthulhiana with a faux leather cover that says
Necronomicon.
Some kind of online RPG with a good Lovecraft thiem would be worth killing for (lol)
Conversion of a morbid twisted nightmarish world done as an MMORPG. Not the typical imaginary steps up to
the next level just to grind your way to the next with quick leveling etc.. That is what is ruining the market
for MMORPG's. They have forgotten what makes them an MMORPG... Someone needs to put the RPG back in
MMORPG.
I'm just waiting for Call of Cthulhu.
A cookbook would be interesting an electric pet or an inflatable pool toy could be fun and also bed linen but
I fear that only the latter is somewhat realistic.
a Necronomicon CCG
A Call of Cthulhu computer game!!
cthulhu porn!!! Oops sorry slipped out. More reading material games (although the one in development is
looking good) and bring back the mythos CCG!
A full line of Cthulhu Mythos action figures: Characters from Lovecraft Creatures Old Ones
For more real horror movie and for more horror and science fiction stories.
The Call of Cthulhu would make an AWESOME movie!! Why has this not been done yet??
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A good Lovecraft movie maybe? That doesnt have leonardo de caprio or (Marky) Mark Whalberg in it ( unless
he is being devoured by some tentacled unspeakable horror ). How bout a huge MMORPG where lots of people
get to take part in unholy rituals and Quasi-Deamon worship then go postal and waste thier little town as
thier minds cannot cope with what they have unleashed. Damn i could set up an Ultima shard to do that
Anyone interseted?
A back to basics type of Hitchcock type horror film with the proper tie-ins for marketing. Enough stupid teeny
movies.
I would like to see The Thief of Always animated feature that has been threatened for the past several
years. I would also like to see a non-silly Lovecraft film. Something that was genuinely scary minus the
tongue-in-cheek stuff.
I would like to see the Mythos CCG back in action Chaosium was suppose to put out 2 more expansion packs
one of Australia and one of the Antartic those would be cool to see hit the light of day.
3D GAME ON THE HP LOVECRAFT MYTHOS
We need more games that would be terrifying (video games) and that would force people to think in order to
get through the game. Also we lack of culture in the games and most entertainment forms out there.
I would love to see a book that goes into detail on all the monsters of the mythos as well as various other
movie and TV monsters. Sort of a Barlowe's Guide to Horrors and Monsters
A really good Necronomicon/Cthulhu movie would be great.
I wish there was an online game Cthulhu related. I know this would be difficult to do but it would be cool. If
there was a good PBEM service for Cthulhu type games that would be better too. Alot of the PBEM games
tend to suck after awhile bc people lose interest.
I'd like to see more done with Aztec/Mayan themes. There's a barely tapped source for adventures!
LOVECRAFT ACTION FIGURES
A REALLY good/serious Lovecraft boardgame or further expansions to the CCG Mythos. Atlas Games put
out a boardgame called Cults Across America. It's a great game of Cthuloid domination and its absolutely
hilarious but I still wish there was a more recent boardgame that took it all a little more seriously to invoke
real atmosphere and terror.
Reprints of writings of Lovecraft's influences: Machen Chambers M.R. James. More fan video especially
Shoggoth on the Roof and the shoggoth documentary.
Well produced Larps with premade costumes and carachters. A good scenario and a total illusion with good
food nice settings and spanding over a weekend. More 1920 stile it's a cool era.
De Profundis has just appeared which is something I had been wishing someone would invent for a long while.
Immersive LARP - something that would really challenge my perceptions and assumptions.
Id like to see more Music and art on lovecrafts work comics would be great
I think I'd like to see a decent modern day setting online rpg dealing with the horrors. Perhaps a Delta Green
mud or something along those lines.
a really good and scary video game.
A decent Lovecraft movie or even better a literate TV series(on cable..rated R). The Poltergeist show looked
cool but it sucked as far as the story went..
A really good Cthulhu Mythos-based PC game!
I would love to see more games like The Hills Rise Wild on the market. I like high quality tabletop games (sort
of an addiction of mine). I would also like to see more support for Victorian era horror RPGs.
A complete Mythos oriented convention if I see another Trekkie in uniform I'm going to skin him/her alive and
salt their exposed nerve endings. I would also like to see a revival of the classic horror film styles. They just
don't make 'em like The Omen The Exorcist or The Entity any more.
I want HPL movies and games.
A real Lovecraft biography
Serious horror/supernatural genre-oriented artwork!!! I mean SERIOUS!PROFECIONAL WORK
I AM A BIG FAN OF EVERQUEST IF THERE WAS A CTHULU EQUIVALENT I WOULD CHANGE OVER IN A
SECOND
A Cthulhu-mythos-themed breakfast cereal. I'm hungry for it and it's probably hungry for me. Seriously?
Either a movie or a computer RPG would be cool.
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I would like to see tv/movies based on Lovecraftian/mythos themes (supernatural horror handled skillfully).
More Mythos oriented computer games! More mythos oriented clothing and household items!
A more compleat table top rpg and a collection of artwork
A Mythos Related computer game. Well one of those is coming.
An excellent movie adaption of At The Mountains of Madness. A DVD collection of Sienfeld. A DVD collection
of the old Dungeond and Dragons cartoon.
I crave to see more live freak shows
A realy sick gory violent satuarday morning cartoon that will taint all of the little kids in the world. And a
jesus action figure (with posable limbs so you can crucify him)
A life size (about 2000 feet tall) inflatable Cthulhu doll.
International LARP/RPG convetions where US/Europe keepers/players can share their experiences.
Cthulhu mythos halloween masks
More computer games along the lines of Alone in the Dark 1....the follow ups really stunk but the original was
pretty creepy and in line with the mythos.
There needs to be an easier way to get Darkest of the hillside thickets stuff.
I wish there was some game (board/RPG etc) that could combine more horror genres into itself (i.e. Vampire
and Cthulhu or any other connection between these).. Most hungry for?? I think more horror table top games.
solo games
I want to find more COC stuff because I live in this pit of hell calles Tasmania and there is precisely squat
good stuff down here.
Something gory
I want to see a working fully operational Wasp Factory toy for sale in high street stores. The Wasp Factory
comes obviously from Iain Bank's creepy gothic fairy tale The Wasp Factory and is a big mechanical trapmaze for killing wasps in order to predict the future.
Lovecraft computer or Playstation game. A real one. Not a stupid takoff that has no relation to the
product. I hear that Fishtank is doing one but it isn't ready yet.
A fully functional massive gathering of Lovecraftians joined to create worlds and adventures of real time
Cthulhu mythos adventures (and I'm talk'in serious mind altering stuff)but cool ya know always cool
What I would like to see is a comprehensive volume breaking down the Mythos into its components and their
real life cross references. I have worked this out on my own so far (linking aspects of the Mythos to Judah
Kaballah and to Judeo Christianity) but some one with larger resources would be able to generate such a
work more effectivly.
I'd like to finally see all Lovecraft's Mythos stories collected together in one volume. The same goes for
Karl Edward Wagner's Kane stories. I'd like to see Robert E. Howard readily available and given the
respect he deserves.
Put out Cthulhu Mythos action figures and I'm yours...
More information and clearer guides to play.
Mythos and related short stories in chronological order in print or CD-ROM form. The old issues of Weird
Tales and other such magazines in similar format(s).
1.A good comic book. 2.A Lovecraft-inspired animated movie. 3.A McFarlane line of mythos-figures. 4.The
return of decent horror movies with real characters nudity gore and plots!
I just want to keep riding the Haunted Mansion over an over an over an ... wait why not an H.P. Lovecraft
theme park?
Action figures are always my favorite I think more variety would be nice.. maybe some really obscure
characters would be nice.
Am enjoying urban fantasy novels lately; would like to see more of those (Last Call Mulengro) Would also
like to see more globe-spanning adventures for the Call of Cthulhu RPG a la Masks of Nyarlathotep.
since call of cthulhu die 20 is out nothing
Clearly CoC and DG! Currently I am working on a crossover for my own players: Linkage projects from
several classic CoC scenarii to modern DG stuff. Works out good enough I'm told...
A complete Lovecraft-bio. Nice affordable props for RPG and LRPG. Cthulhu underwear. Unspeakable cults.
More how-to's on prop building and illusions.
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A Cthulhu-d20 system is coming soon. So I'd like to see more and better quality movies based on
Lovecraftian and related artists.
More good movies.
I wish I could find pre constructed cthulhu live timelines at my gamestore
Ways to overthrow the government and pitch our generation into chaos. Muaha.
Good Lovecraftian props (e.g. cthulhu statues moldering tomes of eldritch lore etc.) at a more reasonable
price i.e. $20-$50 instead of $200+ when you can find them. A big (18-24'' in height)Cthulhu action figure
could kick ass. Shoggoth in a bottle.
A Lovecraft film made by David Cronenberg.
a decent fucking horror movie for a change!!!!! i started watching them with my dad when i was 8 or so so i
guess i'm jaded though. the necronomicon was horrible by the way. i wish i could buy some art from michael
whelan it's impressive. maybe a mythos-inspired book from s. king (does it exist?)
WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN ON LINE RPG
More computer games that make the player think. Killing stuff is fun but figuring stuff out is more fun. I like
a mix of horror (ghosts werewolves etc) and mythology.
Elder God plush dolls
1.) A L.A.R.P. group in NC..... 2.) Stuff involving unconventional monsters (i.e. vampires that aren't unaffected
by sunlight don't drink blood etc.)
I want something that's actually and genuinely scarey something that isn't too fake to scare people and
that will scare people for years to come. Also it would be nice to see a Wiccan oriented movie that's actually
true to form.
Would like to see George Romero turn stories from the anthology series Book of the Dead into a zombie
movie.
comics books magazines rpgs
A nice rendition of the Mountains of Madness movie. Some really good Lovecraft movies would be swell!!
None of the Dunwich Horror that was out bleh! Really good movies.
The genre could sure use it's own MMORPG or even a decent Lovecraftian RPG...there are a few out there
but they are horrible...It would also be nice to see a full unabridged collection of all of H.P. Lovecraft (and
related authors') work.
I WANT MORE REAL HORROR like Lovecraft and Poe I've had enough of this stupid modern gruesome horror
that aims to make people vomit and have dreams about violent murders. I want true fantasy/horror like
what used to be out there.
I'd like to buy next toys of conan.
shoggoth steaks; live R'lyeh video feeds;
I wish there was a weekly show about the Mythos sorta like an X-Files Delta Green Hybrid...
More adventure modules (horror or not) with the high quality of Chaosium Classics like Masks of
Nyarlathotep or Mansions of Madness.
A Mythos TV show like The X-files.
a decent horror tv series without the added drama and comedy. Don't get me wrong I love buffy but I want
more of a shock more fear... you know...A mythos movie done by a major production company that stays true
to the story
Modules for the new d20 Call of Cthulu RPG
More comprhensive soucrbooks on times other than modern
Inflatable Cthulhu for the sick b'stards out there
Anything with a Lovecraftian theme!!! More books concerning special mythos-tomes would be nice... it would
be neat to have a copy of say The Necronomicon or Nameless Cults. Just some more info on the tomes would
be more then welcome and would certainly add a nice touch to the gaming atmosphere.
What I wish that was out there would be More Mythos\horror related Games\Movies. If done tue to a book or
story pathline Movie would light up the silver screen much better.
A 1890 Campaign Setting for Call of the Cthulhu d20 RPG
I wish you could find more (affordable)reproduction artifacts scrolls etc.- if not used for gaming/film
purposes simply used to decorate one's abode.
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1. A smart moody horror story based on a Mythos idea which not degenerates to stupid splatter but keeps the
wiever captived and makes him/her lose some sanity points. 2. A computer game targeted at grown ups with
a scary unfolding plot with a nice soundtrack to play late nigths lone in the dark 3. A compilation of scary
soundtracks to play during CoC RPG gaming sessions simply to scare the heck out of my players.
A new venue to replace the sadly defunct Propping up the Mythos website so that prrop builders could once
again share their accomplishments. Honestly some cool Lovecraft/Mythos Toys/Action figures would be
really cool. (New! Azathoth with sanity-blasting roiling action)
Boardgames. Lots of boardgames.
Well a real online Call of Cthulhu game would be nice...
Cthulu soup and action figures ;-)
real magic
More movies and games.
Some kind of virtual Lovecraft world on CDROM/web like 3DEE
I am most interested in a proper consideration of Cthulhu-Worship as an actual religion. So far only myself
and my Shoggoths worship him properly. This is critically unnaceptable.
Box o heads. Cthuhlhu action figures. Cool looking lovecraftian art.
More games. Perhaps a Lovecraft themed miniature game? The RPG is hard to find and seems a little
inadequate.
You could always use more Cthulhu-related stuff. There is no such thing as too much of that.
I WOULD LIKE TO ACTION FIGURES DONE BY TODD MCFAIRLANE TOYS AND AN ANIMATED SERIES
Call Of Cthulhu Action Figures and Props Good Lovecraftian Movies Good Lovecraftian Illustrated Novels
A return to old style horror (like The Others) instead of gorefests. I've really been disappointed in what
passes for horror cinema and literature these days. That's the biggest reason I'm re-reading Lovecraft right
now.
Good multi-player RPG
A great horror/supernatural film. Have we ever had one?
COC mmorpg with more emp on roleplaying and discovery than hack & slash
An excellently done COC mud. I would pay to play. Something that really catches the Lovecraftian horror
and RPG. Other than that how about a blanket and jammies? Maybe a night light computer pet mouse pad
or dishes. .... Ok my personal favorite idea has always been magic-eye wall paper of mythos creatures. I'd
paper my kids room in it or the guest bathroom. Since I have never been able to see the pictures it would be
funny watching people try to explain to me that 'things' are on the walls.
More Lovecraft and Mythos based movies that don't look like they were filmed in someone's basement and
that aren't pitched to people who enjoy seeing fake blood applied to the screen with a fire hose. How about
a series on SciFi channel or HBO done a la Tales from the Crypt that featured Lovecraftian and other
Mythos short stories. Perhaps Tales from the Necronomicon? Oh and tons of new RPG material for COC in
classic as well as d20 format.
An Edwardian MMORPG without supernatural elements
More Call of cthulu roleplay
Really good Lovecraftian action figures. More tie-ins with Lovecraftian movies both big budget and small
budget.
cthulhu chat room
Single person roleplaying game based on H.P. lovecraft novels and the Chthulu roleplaying game
another GOOD lovecraft film
The goddam Cthulhu computer game to come out or a movie based on the mythos. Of course if thats to
improbable then just a cuddle plush stuffed Cthulhu.
I need pure copper and a way in which to heat it (enough to melt it) so that i can make a copper dagger
(Dagger of Inana of Calling). I wish that there were some ACTUAL grimoires that were readily available. the
necronomicon is probably completely BS and i'm not about to fast on sweet water for nothing. I could die of
malnutrition. i'm sick and depraved not stupid.
just started getting into the genre was previously more interested in the fantasy genre.
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I'd love to see some genuine HPL-based films! There are his stories really amusing Mythos stories all full of
wonderful ideas.
Just more game stuff in general perhaps covering various eras besides the 1920 and 'modern' times
A Steampunk alternative History involving the supernatural.
Cthulhu by Gaslight Cthulhu plush toys safe for children under 3 (for our niece) More regional suppliments
especially 1920s More straight-forward atmospheric adventures like 'Grace Under Pressure'
More of everything please.
A Board or card game. Not Mythos. Good try but not good enough for my money. RPGs are only good with
people who think RPGs are more than just rolling dice.
I would love to see faithful adaptations of HP Lovecraft movies.
A virtual reality completely interactive impossible to tell from actuality Lovecraftian RPG.
I would really love to have a MMORPG based on teh Lovecraftian Mythos. That would rock the entire genre
to it's core! Nothing could possibly compete with something like that if it were done right.
A multi-million dollar blockbuster movie containing one or more of the foloowing elder gods: 1. Cthulhu 2.
Hastur 3. Shub (you know who)
Cthulhu Mythos LEGO. (They recently produced mutant squid models so are getter closer...)
I'd like there to be a Call of Cthulhu console RPG. Preferrably on the Gamecube but possibly on the
Gameboy Advance. A comic or manga series would be interesting as well.
A Lovecraft movie for the ages
More philosophycly based Horror. Like what Lovecraft is doing in throug the gates of the silver key
I'd like to see more mythos action figures and models
Anime-based Lovecraftian horror! Cute girls with big eyes and little mouths and rampaging Elder Gods!
A true-to-Lovecraft movie by a skilled director or a good Lovecraftian video game.
A HPL series of games (strategy type of game mmorg type of game online DAoC'ish kind of game.) And
maybe a really detailed HPL based LP-mud. Loads of things damnit!
Bring back the Cuddly Cthulhu doll.
I wish there was better independent horror films. Since Within The Woods/Evil Dead there's been a vacum for
the genre in independent film with the exception of shoddy half-assed attempts. I have yet to see a truly
independent horror film that actually scares me.
I'm happy with whatever comes out. The only horror thing I'd like to see specifically is Call of Cthulhu
1990s/Now modules. I like to run CoC but am very very lazy.
I would DEFINITELY look into a MMORG related to horror and especially Lovecraft. I Play a D&Dish one and
enjoy it but am much more into horror stuff. So is my husband.
How about some Lovecraft-themed action figures?
Live-sized plush Cthulhu
More games oriented towards action/horror other than White Wolf. More Ravenloft-style things. Old
fashioned horror movies! <A-la Blind Dead>
A good Cthulhu mythos movie. Seriously think about it. It would have action exploration vile creatures and
insanity. If done correctly it would have great potiential.
a role playing game that takes place in a world of my own creation
A decent CoC computer game... and perhaps something new and innovative based on the Hellraiser
mythology.
More funny stuff making light of already established horror conventions
A computer game along the lines of Baldur's Gate that was Lovecraftian.
I would like Todd McFarlane or Stan Winston to make some figures of the Lovecraftian creatures...that
would rock. Also i would like to see some cool Lovecraftian games...be it borad games or video games that
are just downright strange.
childrens cartoons
REPRINT OLD PULPS. i LOVE TO BUY AND READ MAGAZINES SUCH AS WEIRD TALES ASTOUNDING
THRILLING WONDER ALSO LOVE THE ART WORK. THIS STUFF IS TO HARD TO FIND AND TO EXPENSIVE.
I like survival horror games I wish there were a Lovecraft themed survival horror game maybe with elements
of Sherlock Holmes thrown in or at least in that time period you know late Victorian age.
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I would like to see a game based off of the works of Barker and King. I think enough material is present to
offer another option for rpging.
I wish the RE-ANIMATED expansion for THE HILLS RISE WILD! would come out. That and the XXXenophile rpg.
More good horror flicks instead of the crap that most studios are putting out. Also more of the older stuff
out on DVD instead of wasting away in the studio vaults.
I'd like to see more Lovecraft based movies and most of all some good (as in NOT 1990's) chtulhu based
Gurps supplements.
I like the in-depth campaigns like Beyond the Mountains of Madness the Walker in the Wastes and Masks.
More Cthulhu toys/dolls.
A good sequel to Alone in the Dark.
I wish EVERY Call of Cthulhu (and Runequest) supplement ever printed by Chaosium and Pagan were readily
available. I really enjoy Chaosium's line of mythos fiction and am waiting to see what they're coming out with
next! The Call of Cthulhu computer game already has a special place on my hard drive ....
There is a mythos- type game soon to be released on the computer. I just want it released for a game
console like the Playstation 2.
A decent mythos-inspired point-and-click adventure game on the PC (like Prisoner of the Ice only good).
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GENERAL COMMENTS
Respondents had an opportunity at the end of the survey to say anything they wanted.
Here's what they offered.
I'd like to add "Mountains of Madness" to my favorite books and stories (I'd delete Burroughs to do that but
I'd have to flip back several pages) ... after having thought about it my life wouldn't be the same without
"Mountains".
Very interesting. I'm curious what the results of the survey will show.
Intrigued by the ethnicity question. Why is it present in the survey?
blah blah blah comprehensive blah blah better not end up like that earthlink commercial blah blah blah
It was just a groovy survey and I'll have to link up to it over at my LOVECRAFT/CTHULHU/THICKETS PAGE
at http://chimchim.freehomepage.com/ when I finally do an update....
You go guys! I think I see where this is heading. Definitely keep me posted and let me know if I can be of
assistance.
Damn that was really complete wasn't it? The reason why I gravitate towards Lovecraft and the Mythos
is because of a driving fascination with insanity and the loss of control. These themes have been of intense
interest to me since my early childho
This was the most fun I have ever had taking a survey!
If this involves software and a beta test I have experience in that. If this survey is to collect information for
something that involves writing and game design I'll offer my services for that as well.
I can't wait to see these results ... and I can't wait to see them coorelated to the current wave of fear
washing across this nation - sheesh! Good luck!
I'd be very interested in seeing even an abridged version of this survey's statistical results.
The most enjoyable survey I've ever taken. Lovecraft deserves more.. well love.
Ia Sub-Niggarath! Ia Cthulhu! Gaphuf! FNORD
This is one of the strangest surveys I've ever taken part in - well done!
Daisy Daisy Give me your answer do. I'm half crazy For love of Great C'thulhu. Let's make it a stylish
pyre And stack the kindling higher And you'll smell sweet From the heat Of a sacrifice built for two.
uh i dont really know anything a/b lovecraft i was referred to take this survey by someone else..but the
survey itself was fun!
I was really looking for music by HP Lovecraft
As I mentioned before I am astounded you did not ask gender along with age. I'd be interested to hear what
you all come up with!
I'm curious about whatever you're plotting -- wouldn't mind being on your mailing list.
Join us. . . http://www.topsitelists.com/area51/squidtop/ AI! AI! Cthulhu Fhtagn!
THANKS FOR THE SITE WAS A PLEASURE TO VISIT AND TAKE YOUR SURVEY
Ugh.. Too early to commit to survey's this long.
Yea this survey kicks tentacled ass!
Even though a bit long this was the best survey layout I've seen on a fan site.
What about Charles Dexter Ward?
The angst and terrible wistful longing in Lovecraft's work seems to be utterly unnoticed by so many of his
knockoffs...
I really liked this survey and would like to apologise for my occasional wordiness...I think what you are doing
sounds like a blast and if there are any ways I could help please let me know via E-Mail. Keep up the good
work and best luck on getting things produced as you wish to see them.
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H.P. Lovecraft was not truthful to the public. That he was strictly a materialist is not true. To approach this
problem certain definitions need to be made. Whether or not his rational conscious mind accepted his
conjurings is debatable but it is doubtful that a man who wrote in this vein denounced its "authenticity" in
the manner commonly attributed to him. I believe his public statements and opinions were a matter of
personal credibility as a gentleman and perpetuation of his genius artistically. If Lovecraft doesn't believe
this or is not possessed by this as a lunatic may be then truly how genius his artistic power is. You see where
I am going with this. A very lucid approach to the evident personal psychological makeup of Lovecraft was
demonstrated in an article or excerpt I don't remember exactly by Aleister Crowley.
that which is not dead may eternal lie and in strange aeons even death may die. the privilege of those who
serve is that they shall be the last to die!
I've been a Lovecraft fan for most of my life. Living in Rhode Island I've been able to visit HPL's house and
final resting place in Providence. I even have a framed rubbing of his gravestone in my study right above my
extensive collection of HPL literature. I believe the Arkham House editions to be the definitive canon but
the Providence-based Necronomicon Press (sadly now defunct) had a lot of great stuff too. I play "Call of
Cthulhu" whenever I can which is all to rarely these days... Height: 5'7" Weight: 135 lb. Hair: Brown Eyes:
Brown Likes: Fuzzy animals industrial solvents Dislikes: People who aren't polite tentacles Favorite colour:
Out of Space I enjoyed visiting your site. If I could make any one improvement I would suggest refinement
of the answers in the "Activities" survey. For instance I have gone spelunking exactly once in my life but
would go again. I just haven't had the opportunity. Should I select "Once but would never go again" which is
wrong; or "Rarely" which suggests I have engaged in the activity more than once (which is also wrong)? I
suggest replacing the "Rarely" response with something like "Once and would/could go again". This not only
reflects the previous experiences of your respondents but the ability and/or willingness to experience the
activity again. I submit that this is more useful demographically as well as less confusing to your
respondents than a vague "Rarely" which supplies no information about future intent at all. I hope this has
been helpful. IA FTAGN CTHULHU!
Cool site! Consider it bookmarked!
This is a really nicely designed site! I'm very excited to see people this enthusiastic about Lovecraftian stuff!
If I can help out I'd like to!
im a big fan of lovecraft and wished more of the world was aware of him.
Have been reading Mythos for 40 years since I bought the Lancer pb color out of space In the 70's I did small
illustrations for some fanzines including Mead Frierson's HPL Until I got on line 4 years ago I didn't realize
how many Mysthos fans there were
nice questions.
If I am completly unsure that anything including myself exsists how do Iknow you're there reading this?
Thats one damn long survey but it wasn't boring! Keep up the good work.
I know this is unoriginal but I just can't resist: Ia Ia Cthulhu Ftagn!
Let me know when you get your game going I want to be part of any kind of beta testing (woo hoo!)
More Mythos creatures in Black and White.
WHat is true reality?
Cthulhu rules and anybody supporting him (like you guys) rules too. Good work!
mmmmmmmm cthulhu loven
I wish I had godlike powers.
This web page is awesome.
you need a fan made section for the website with submitted flash movies ( Cthulhu In flash ? )
damn but this is a long survey.
Send any and all interesting things by email. Winter sucks and is very long and harsh in these-here parts so
any distraction is welcome. Cabin-fever is very real...
Very interesting survey though I wonder what the meaning behind some questions was... like the one about Bill
G. being evil incarnated...!
Interesting survey
Gotta love Lovecraft
You don't ask for much in exchange for a t-shirt do you?
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Very Cool Big C will not crush you when he/it takes over well you'll be toward the last to be crushed.
I've loved your site since I found it and I arrange a lot of Cthulhu Larps here in Sweden. Would love to get a
T-shirt;-) Keep up the good work and do add some more scenarios in the old scenarios section! I loved
reading about them
Um... no that's pretty thorough that is.
HAIL - Cthulhu Satan Pazuzu Odin Thor LOVECRAFT
Quite a long survey don't you think?
I'd really like to see more Cthulhu Mythos related conventions/festivals. I live only 10 minutes from Providence
and even around here there isn't much going on.
Some things are not as they appear and the greatest Evil lies deep within the human mind.
that's one hell of a survey. kick ass
This is probably the most detailed consumer survey I've ever filled out. Here's hoping you get lots of mileage
out of it.
Sorry about being vauge and not answering some im interested in ready lovecraft but havent found any
books yet to read
Though I was kiding in some of this survey (I don't belong to crackers of America) I really would like a sick
satuarday morning cartoon and a crucifiable Jesus Doll.
A damn long survey. =)
this survey was awsome.
I'd have answered a little more thouroughly but there's a rampaging group of Grade 8 demons in here and I
am somewhat distracted by trying to curse the lot of em. It ain't working BTW.
ICED EARTH + BLIND GUARDIAN + HIGH VOLUME = NIRVANA
Thanks for the diversion!
love this site !
nice survey
They are watching
Your site is utterly great. I !
I'd like to express my complements on the creativity and design of this site. Well done. Perhaps a bibliography
page listing the various authors and publications associated with Lovecraft would be a nice addition. Sounds
like a lot of work though. Thanks.
Hastor Hastor Hastor Hastor Hastor Hastor
I wanna go to bed.
I love the site. With Lovecraft being my favorite author it's nice to find another resource on he and his
works.
DO NOT give out my email address. YOU may email me but noone else. Thank you. Hail Satan and stuff. KP
PLEASE WHO EVER READS THIS SEND ME AN EMAIL TO LET ME KNOW WHERE TO GO TO PLAY ONLINE
RPGS
Nice site! Long survey.
I heart you Survey Monkey!
Great survey and great website. Keep up the good work!
This was indeed a thorough survey. (read long) Mildly entertaining. (read I'm bored) Perhaps someday this will
all have meaning.
Coffee is the nectar of life and source of all joy.
would someone please come to my house and wake me up...I've been asleep a very long time and those
werewolf trolley operators are freaking me out... thank you
Hey I think that was the most interesting survey I've ever taken.
Azathoth Azathoth Azathoth!
Interesting survey...
Do you collect this information to gain unholy power over us?
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I love your game archives! You guys can really put together great inspiring stories in the very vein of
Lovecraft himself. I find myself reading them on occasion to gather ideas and inspiration for my own media
adventures! Thank you!
Well - reading Lovercraft actually goes WAY back. I almost remeber nothing but I played the RPG and that
was - well for the lack of better words - fun :-)
horror is fun. Scare me.
I thought that this was quite an interesting survey. I just didn't answer any of the religion or political
questions because I don't like to discuss my views with anyone else.
I enjoyed being able to answer mindless questions in the service of my dark god. To be of service is
sufficient.
THIS SURVEY WAS SO LONG I THOUGHT I WAS INTER-DIMENSIONALLY TRAVELLING.
We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and
many-columned Y'ha-nthlei and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever.
May we all win the lottery.
My favorite color is currently Green. I like cats and dogs bike rides in the park a pretty sunset/sunrise on a
mountain fast food -altho BKing doesnt usually have anything I'd feed my sacrafice movies and wish for
world peace -its so much easier to rule people who are peaceful.
This was a lot of fun and it is nice to see people take the mythos seriously as a hobby and interest that
unites lots of different people. And I could really use another T-shirt since I am a public school teacher and
cannot afford to buy one on my own.
I do believe that this survey indicates that you've got a healthy imagination and creative power that you're
articulate and probably intelligent. I hope that your LARP does exceedingly well. EXCELSIOR!
All hail cthulhu
I feel satisfied that I will live on through this survey. Long after my body has turned to worm food my
answers will remain in this glorious corpus of wisdom; a shining beacon all alone in the cold night.
Cthulhu kicks ass!
Thank you for taking interest in my life when so many others shun my beliefs
I'm heading up to New England this summer and need to find a map of Lovecraftian locales. Maybe you
should ask people their philosophy too.
you better not give this to.....THEM. kidding
would like to learn more about h.p. lovecraft and the cthulhu mythos. bought the roleplay game after hearing
about it from a friend. trying to find some mythos books but currently living in a small country town in the
middle of outback western australia and there is nothing. unemployed currently therefore dont want to buy
gifts for myself or i would try amazon. like i said dont know much of the mythos but from what i've read
seen i am very interested.
I lied about using alien technology. Sorry.
Is it just me or is it getting... crowded... in here... are there -- THINGS -- everywhere... NN-GGH-AAA-KKK-HH -Anything for HPL! Keep up the great work guys the site looks fantastic!
Do you work for the FBI? I did like this survey anyway. It was light hearted and quite humorous.
Cthulhu fhtagn: Unpronounceable phrase! Cthulhu fhtagn: Say it anyways! It means he's dreamin' Down in
wat'ry R'lyeh. Yeah sing it squid! It's the Mad Ay-rab's dread prophecy... Cthulhu fhtagn. /|\_(@<<>>@)_/|\
This was the most fascinating thought-provoking survey I have ever taken. Thank you for actually digging in
to my interests (good humor too!)
THANK YOU. i LOVE EVERYTHING LOVECRAFTIAN.