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<blockquote data-quote="trancejeremy" data-source="post: 3558537" data-attributes="member: 924"><p>People have different ideas of what is "Lovecraftian", and IMHO, it's often colored more by Call of Cthulhu (the game) than what Lovecraft actually wrote.</p><p></p><p>In this case, probably the closest thing to Event Horizon would be Dreams in the Witch House. And in that, despite being exposed to dimensional travel (along with other things), the main character only goes slightly crazy. He retains enough moral sense to kill Keziah Mason rather than help her sacrifice that baby.</p><p></p><p>Also, in HPL, people driven crazy usually just babble incoherently, it's more in Stephen King's stuff that they become psychotic/violent after being driven insane by supernatural forces. The only HPL story I can think of with a guy who goes crazy and kills people was really a case of possession.</p><p></p><p>(edit:I can't remember the name of the story I'm thinking of (edit2: Beyond the Wall of Sleep), but it was some guy brought into an asylum after killing some people, then it ends with the doctor killing him and seeing a new star born, meaning the creature had been released. Also now that I think about it, it happened in "The Rats in the Walls", but in that case, it was more a theme of racial/familial degeneration, another big theme of his.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trancejeremy, post: 3558537, member: 924"] People have different ideas of what is "Lovecraftian", and IMHO, it's often colored more by Call of Cthulhu (the game) than what Lovecraft actually wrote. In this case, probably the closest thing to Event Horizon would be Dreams in the Witch House. And in that, despite being exposed to dimensional travel (along with other things), the main character only goes slightly crazy. He retains enough moral sense to kill Keziah Mason rather than help her sacrifice that baby. Also, in HPL, people driven crazy usually just babble incoherently, it's more in Stephen King's stuff that they become psychotic/violent after being driven insane by supernatural forces. The only HPL story I can think of with a guy who goes crazy and kills people was really a case of possession. (edit:I can't remember the name of the story I'm thinking of (edit2: Beyond the Wall of Sleep), but it was some guy brought into an asylum after killing some people, then it ends with the doctor killing him and seeing a new star born, meaning the creature had been released. Also now that I think about it, it happened in "The Rats in the Walls", but in that case, it was more a theme of racial/familial degeneration, another big theme of his.) [/QUOTE]
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