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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Out of interest, what are the elements that make something 'Lovecraftian' for you?
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A few different things.
- An emphasis on academic study of some kind, like anthropology or history or biology being applied to something uncanny and utterly unknowable.
- Psychological horror, particularly a threat that feeds on fear or madness or insecurity
- Giant, difficult to describe or amorphous/multifaceted amphibious leviathans that make Godzilla look like a tinkertoy
- Cults
- Americans in foreign places where the culture (or some other elements of the environment) proves utterly confounding and ultimately dangerous
- Humanoid genetic abberations living in the dark
- Caves and cathedrals and discovered civilizations
- Victims’ minds turning against them, or deceiving them
- Horrors and threats so great and so utterly without peer that the brain doesn’t know how to process them (like Cthulhu, or the “lighthouse keeper” in Area X)
- Water monsters
- Thought contagion
Etc.