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<blockquote data-quote="omro" data-source="post: 530057" data-attributes="member: 9351"><p>My belief is that he coined it after hpl death.</p><p>And fed on the image of Lovecraft as a writer involved in the Chtulhu Mythos.</p><p>What is coined the "Chtulhu Mythos" was just a part of hpl work and life that others took and represented as THE work of lovecraft. </p><p>Exemples like hastur or this citation from Lovecraft:</p><p><em>'Yog-Sothoth' is a basically immature conception, & unfitted for really serious literature... (H.P. Lovecraft to Frank Belknap Long, 22 February 1931)</em></p><p>shows that the chtulhu mythos as a whole is not the work of Lovecraft, nor went in a direction he endorsed.</p><p>Yet, as a source of inspiration for role playing, it's worth a lot. I started dmging with the old coc, and i found the depth of it as a gaming universe incredible (and the game was excellent too). I even advised someone lately to use yog sothoth in one of his campaign.</p><p>But not to the point to blind myself as where this material of inspiration comes from.</p><p>As a writer hp Lovecraft's work goes beyond the myth of chtulhu. The writing i found of the greatest quality are pieces like:</p><p>The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath</p><p>The Night Ocean</p><p>The White Ship</p><p>His work was about moods and dreams invading "real life", the incapacity of the human mind to cope with this and finally "moods and dreams" becoming real life. The chtlhuoid things were just one of the avatars of this idea, the nightmare part of it. But he cant be reduced to it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="omro, post: 530057, member: 9351"] My belief is that he coined it after hpl death. And fed on the image of Lovecraft as a writer involved in the Chtulhu Mythos. What is coined the "Chtulhu Mythos" was just a part of hpl work and life that others took and represented as THE work of lovecraft. Exemples like hastur or this citation from Lovecraft: [i]'Yog-Sothoth' is a basically immature conception, & unfitted for really serious literature... (H.P. Lovecraft to Frank Belknap Long, 22 February 1931)[/i] shows that the chtulhu mythos as a whole is not the work of Lovecraft, nor went in a direction he endorsed. Yet, as a source of inspiration for role playing, it's worth a lot. I started dmging with the old coc, and i found the depth of it as a gaming universe incredible (and the game was excellent too). I even advised someone lately to use yog sothoth in one of his campaign. But not to the point to blind myself as where this material of inspiration comes from. As a writer hp Lovecraft's work goes beyond the myth of chtulhu. The writing i found of the greatest quality are pieces like: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Night Ocean The White Ship His work was about moods and dreams invading "real life", the incapacity of the human mind to cope with this and finally "moods and dreams" becoming real life. The chtlhuoid things were just one of the avatars of this idea, the nightmare part of it. But he cant be reduced to it. [/QUOTE]
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