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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 3263009" data-attributes="member: 4682">There are some aspects that are unconventional and are difficult to translate into film.  A movie that is primarily flashbacks to characters who die, for instance.HPL had quite obvious bigotted beliefs, not unusual for his era, about class (and even racial at times) superiority that often played into the the climax of stories... someone violating his heritage/destiny for eldritch knowledge doomed to corrupt his very flesh/mind. How do you show someone going insane over the course of years of study? Packed a bigger bang for an audience of an earlier era. His prose is also very lurid and over the top to modern eyes.Still there are some stories that can terrify. In college my wife participated in a group reading of some of his short stories, each taking turns reading one story. The Outsider and The Rats in the Walls read that night still give her nightmares more than a decade later. She's easily susceptible to nightmares though.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>