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Eldritch Abomination & Body Horror
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The Warp is all around us ever present and watching as if a black visceral echo of our shallow reality. It's nature, though beyond our comprehension, is seemingly that of chaos itself capable of perverting and corrupting any and all order which we call reality. It is that which exists beyond the edges of our known and ever expanding universe and yet is only a atom's distance from us at any given time in our daily lives. We feel it behind our eyes when we dream and taste it in our mouths before we die yet every morning when we wake or for those who have cheated death we never return quite the same person as when we left this plane of consciousness.

So how about a thread celebrating all things Eldritch and inconceivable through body horror, corruption and transformation.
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>>17836618
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTQmfc96LbI
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>>17836618

alright, have a very related music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq1jLYQINMc
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wellwellwell.. Lemme ask a question /x/: ws Childs infected in the ed?
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>>17836744
I guess so, the bottle he drank from was filed with gasoline, MacReady knew that, which is why he laughed.
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>>17836744
Could have been each one of them, both or none.

I love this movie. It even spawns goog /tv/ threads from time to time
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CTHULHU IS SMALL FRY, BEFORE ELDRITCH THERE IS

QA' LA' 'MUS N' AQ' 'KA UL

>pic related, DAEMON, THE CHILDREN OF QALAMUS
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Test post please ignore
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>>17836618
>The warp
We warhammer now
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>>17836618
that fucking movie is so good
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>>17837635
Beautiful
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>>17837543
Where is this from?
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>>17836618
I had never considered the Thing as being Eldritch in nature. Very awesome. I have to re watch the movie now.
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>>17836744
In the short story "the things" yeah he was. Not sure how canon that is though. As far as the movie goes some say he drank gasoline and that outed him as infected I've also heard that you don't see his breath in the cold and that also means he's infected.
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>>17837547
what comic is this?
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Can someone post any mechanical/cyborg body horror? That would be great. Thanks
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LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!!!
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What needs your flesh more than you do?
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>>17840047
The Taken King has come for us all.
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Behold, the Omnisiah. The singularity cannot be seen over the horizon nor behind us after the fact. All we can truly know is when it has come to pass and that neither the concept of the mind or flesh will ever be the same again.
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>>17837814
Nisemonogatari
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>>17840047
here's the sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btj0Q3VXIac
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>>17840785
Thank you, anon.
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Could someone please post that webm were a smiling monstruosity made of human limbs peers around a corner, chews and vomits on the ground?
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>>17841133
bump for interest
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>>17840023
Source?
Looks like the blob
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>>17836618
>The warp is all around us ...
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>>17837547
More?
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>>17838879
oh hey, that my scan, sweet
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>>17837547

moar
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>>17837647

Wtf is happening there?
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Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
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9 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
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15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
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And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
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Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AhaulXxlqCQ
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That movie The Borderlands/The Final Prayer is pretty eldritch, especially the ending. The full movie is on youtube, with a link provided below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IND16Ilar2c
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>>17836618
Quake was the game to get me into this stuff and actually read Lovecraft, then they threw it all away with subsequent releases.
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>>17841937
I bought Quake on Steam for this reason and because I loved Doom. Really need to play it more
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>>17841806
in the world of darkness, the light shines bright
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>>17840112
source?
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>>17841443
I've always found this picture calming, but I don't know why.
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>>17841787
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>>17841806
Fuck off.
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>>17838500
Not original poster but here.
http://immethi.tumblr.com/post/140998630797/cover-for-the-first-chapter-of-necrosis-first-page
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>>17837647
Nice Declaration In Stone
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>>17838835
Sauce?

I had a wicked dream once similar to this.
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>>17842528
Betterman
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>>17838167
In the DVD version you can see his breath, you couldn't really see it in the vhs version because of shit quality.
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>>17836618
>the warp
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SCULLS FOR THE SCULL THRONE!
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>>17841436
That story really doesn't work in live action.
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>>17838835
KAHN!!
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>>17842020
i think it's faust: love of the damned
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>the Thing is lovecraftian

When will this meme die?
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>>17843774
How is it not?
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>>17843775
How is it? It's just an Alien. Do you consider Star Wars lovecraftian?
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What in Lovecraft isn't just an Alien?

All the outer gods and old ones are aliens. The Mi-Go are aliens the Elder Things are aliens. Extra-dimensional and unworldly things are more of a novelty in the Lovecraftian universe.

The Horror of Lovecraft is not stuff from beyond the veil, but that the cosmos themselves are horror beyond imagination and that the tame mundane ecosystem of Earth which we naively assume to be typical is in fact a quaint novelty in the wake of the unimaginable horror which lurks out in the stars.

This is what "The Thing" encompasses, the unknown horror from beyond our local ecosystem. The fact that the story borrows so much from Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" only furthers this parallel and horror that not only is this extraterrestrial hostile and invasive, but that it's been here for hundreds of thousands of years waiting to be found.

In summation, you don't know what Lovecraft is because from your argument it would seem that you're under the impression that Lovecraft's fiction works much like Warhammer 40k with the Warp.
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>>17843774
1. Nothing in the OP mentioned the name "Lovecraft"

2. Read 'at the mountains of madness' then tell me what is or isn't "lovecraftian".

3. Learn what a "meme" actually is rather than simply just using "meme" as it's own incorrect usage of the term.
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>>17843774
I think it can count as Lovecraftian because Carpenter wanted it to be. I'd still argue against it, simply because all kinds of cosmic horror is called Lovecraftian today and Lovecraft didn't invent the genre, nor was he that influential in the high times of stories like that.
Many things we call Lovecraftian today are just typical to 1920s horror. You might find very similar things in Kafka's or Meyrinck's stories.
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>>17843778
Is Star Wars about Alien horror? No?

Well Lovecraft is. Lovecraft is essentially two things: Alien/Cosmic Horror & Pulp Sci-Fi.
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>>17843819
No. Because many of Lovecrafts major stories don't include Aliens, Cosmic horror or Pulp Sci Fi.
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>>17843826
name one
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>>17843828
The thing on the doorstep for example. Dagon, too. It would actually be easier to name the ones that include cosmic horror.
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>>17843828
Shadow over Innsmouth, too. There might be a reference I don't remember, but no major theme.
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>>17843831
Dagon is an alien old one and by proxy cosmic horror. Even then both stories are what would be considered pulp sci-fi of that era delving into both the horror of the unknown and speculative subject matter of the time.
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>>17843831
>>17843837
Dagon is an alien

And the Deep Ones are his spawn. The fact that they are not specifically acknowledged as such in the stories doesn't change the fact that they fulfill the exact same role that the creature in the Thing does. Something ancient and Unknown and something which invades or infiltrates humanity.
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>>17843837
I think you're confusing "setting" for "theme"
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>>17843838
Dagon was not considered to be an alien at the time it was written.
Calling pulp sci-fi Lovecroftian is just a too broad definition. You know that there were whole magazines full of other authors dedicatet to it? Rethoical question of course - but you see the problem. Calling a whole genre that had many influential authors "Lovecraftian" is giving him too much credit.
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>>17843842
Sorry, but you are going by Derleth's definition. For Lovecraft, Dagon was just a early version of Cthulhu. The alien idea came later.
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>>17843851
And what credit does he deserve then since pretty much everything he wrote borrowed from other author's fictional mythos and popular sci-fi trends of the time.

The only thing that was signiturely Lovecraft was the theme of dread and the unknown, which John Carptenter's Thing embodies perfectly.
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>>17843857
Not even that. The theme of dread of the unknown is the basic idea of horror.
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Personally, I'd apply a very close definition of Lovecraftian: Mythos stories and stories trying to copy it. However, that would exclude a lot of stories Lovecraft himself wrote. That's fine with me, since Lovecraft wrote a lot of things that weren't very unique and even tried to copy other authors. He also wrote a lot of crap he never wanted to see published. Those things can only be called Lovecraftian if you include clumsy writing and archaic expressions to the list.
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>>17843854
Even so Dagon still represents something ancient, unknowable and terrifying which the Thing was. Both are alien to man's understanding of nature and the world he lives in, both threaten the very foundation of what humanity is.

>>17843861
Pretty much, Lovecraft just took a bunch of stuff everyone else was already doing and combined in a manner which has a very loose and broad context which we swoon over after the fact, but was largely ignored at the time of his contemporaries. To say that John Carptenter's The Thing isn't Lovecraftian is just naive and projecting false significance onto Lovecraftian's collective works as it embodies everything that Lovecraft ever did.

I could understand people pissing and moaning about Ridley Scott's Alien being considered Lovecraftian (which there is a very strong argument for it being such), but since the Thing borrows pretty heavily from the setting and isolation of Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" there's really little room to doubt the fact.

In the end, any time someone bitches about something not being "Lovecraftian" it only ever ends in a pissing contest over who knows more about Lovecraft with everyone having concede in the end that there was really nothing that unique or signature about Lovecraft and most of what we think to be Lovecraft is actually based off much later works inspired by or in the same vein of his work.
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>>17843885
The question is: Does the thing really borrow that much from Mountains of Madness? It's based on the story "Who goes there" - does this story borrow from Lovecraft? I doubt it, I think it was idea simple enough to be invented several times.

About Dagon: Sure it does. I just argued, that it was neither an alien nor cosmic horror, so it couldn't apply for that definition of Lovecraftian.
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>>17843904
I say that it does and while all the superficial similarities may not be there, the core elements of the theme, tone and setting of The Thing are very signature of many of Lovecraft's works, particularly the common themes in Lovecraft's work of "horror of the unknown", "impotence of man via outside influence" and "uncertain/foreboding/aloof resolution". If these aren't lovecraftian then why consider anything Lovecraftian, hell the vast majority of Lovecrafts own writings aren't even Lovecraftian then.

As for the second point, Dagon is pulp sci-fi, at at least what would be considered such at the time.
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>>17841436
Doot doot
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>>17843923
Great minds think alike.
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>>17843923
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Any good literature/comics/anime/vidya with cosmic horror and eldritch abominations? I know about HP Lovecraft, but what about other ones like him?
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>>17843347
Why am I aroused?
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>>17843582
sauce?
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>>17837635
The sweet embrace of a mermaid... But wait, her sexual organ is not warm and creamy at all. In fact, it's rather cold and viscous. And we're not here to make love at all, are we? What is this? Her aspect is changing. Vitreal eyes, sharp teeth, scaly skin... God help me, she's eating me alive! I'm dead.
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>>17840121
I need sauce
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>>17840035
just watched this for the first time, kind of confused. I'm guessing he was hallucinating what happened to the glasses guys arm at the end and in reality he just shot him. same with the old guy who bubbled when he died. but in reality did he manage to stop videodrome from hitting the public? And I assume dr. oblivion's daughter got her revenge on the dicks that killed her father by reprogramming Max?
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>>17844743
Only one way to know for sure....
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>>17843497
Source?
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>>17844521
The Spread comics.

Great fucking series.
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>>17843430
That was an awesome movie.

And one I really do consider plausible.
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>>17841781
Sorin pissed off a Nihiri so she trapped his entire bloodline in stone. They aren't dead, well they're vampires so kinda, but they are as alive as can be and in eternal agony now.
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>>17837859
looks like some sort of eldrazi thing.
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this whole thread is spiritual deception
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>>17847560
DJINN EVERYWHERE!!!!

FEAR THE ARCHONS!!!

ICKE WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE DRACONIANS!!!
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But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
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Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
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21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
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>>17847589
>>17847592
>>17847598
God dammit, you again, fuck off. Shoo Shoo!
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>>17843719
Bane?
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>>17847548
It is. Emrakul is back.
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>>17847656

Fuck I love the way eldrazi are.
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quachil utaus will fuck your shit any time
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Where we're going you won't need eyes.
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>>17840075
>Taken King
Really faggot?
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Are there any good shows or anime dealing with eldritch or lovecraft type stuff? Or any write-fags that have some good material?

>>17847912
Is that? Xeno Queen Francine? Love her stuff.
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>>17843725
Is this fucking real?
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>>17843486
what? sauce?
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>>17841937
My man. Quake is some good shit. Thank god they got Trent on board for the soundtrack, the game just isn't complete without it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GXkCTJiL7U&index=5&list=PLl1QTmJ3lxchVZqNX2V7LkZ3HxoNhCuUI
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>>17843778
7/10 would rage again
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>>17846758
event horizon sucks dick, you fuckers tricked me into watching it and it's horrible.
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>>17847967
Viral marketing campaign for the videogame Cold Fear.
https://www.google.de/search?q=cold+fear+viral+campaign&biw=1525&bih=701&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwicwKuxrMTNAhWBhRoKHdNVAxsQ_AUICCgB&dpr=0.9
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>>17848336
Don't worry kid, it is not terminal
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>>17844002
BPRD, all of it
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>>17848336
Who? Who in the media tricked you?
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>>17847936
I would have to assume they're props for a movie.
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>>17844521
http://viewcomic.com/spread-009-2015/
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>>17848971
Not the Anon who asked, but thanks mate, it looks awesome!
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>>17840785
izat purgatory?
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>>17847656
More like Emrakool, amirite?
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I'm a bit surprised no one's mentioned Eternal Darkness yet. Great game full of cosmic and body horror. It's got everything from ancient gods, bone thieves inhabiting human bodies, monstrous horrors and guardians, and zombies, it's top of my list.
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>>17847923
>Are there any good shows or anime dealing with eldritch or lovecraft type stuff? Or any write-fags that have some good material?
Anyone?
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>>17849437
You can, you know, check the catalog and see the /x/ books recomendations, or perhaps the sticky?
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I completely forgot about eternal darkness!!
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Ah this is where the Jojo thread was.
Seriously though part 6 has some great body horror, worth the read
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>>17849437
Bokurano kinda is
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>>17843641
Mah Nigga
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>>17837635
Whatever Cthulhu, if you can make your fish monsters look decent like in that pic I'll father you some mutant Innsmouth fishtards for your army in exchange for some pirate gold.
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>>17841549
what is it?
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>>17847936
I have the same question. If this is a movie set nobody has come with the name. But if it is real, no med school or morgue would hang the bodys like that. But then again, why would anybody have a cooling fan in a movie set?
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>>17847936
the story I saw posted last time this pic made the rounds is that there was a disaster somewhere in China (flood most likely), and they had so many thousands of bodies to dispose of, but no where to put them. So they just hung them in a meat packing plant to save space.

While I wouldn't put it past the Chinese, I can't confirm if true or not.
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>>17843818
Dumbest post I've seen in a while. And this is /x/ so that's saying something.
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>>17836649
Where's this from?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt9HkO-cGGo
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>>17851154
Damn dude, when is this supposed to come out?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jp1CT1h6c

decent attempt at hp lovecrafts - the shadow out of time
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>>17851257
It's been out since 2014, it's kind of hard to find on dvd in stores, but pirate bay's got it. It's definitely worth the watch.
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>>17851332
Think I could find it on Putlocker or something?
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>>17851371
Don't waste your time. It does NOT deliver. 50 minutes of hollywood douchebags playing themselves and glorifying their connections in the horror scene and then like 5 minutes of really bad practical effects.
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>>17851330
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jp1CT1h6c
that was low budget as hell but pretty good.
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>>17851382
Just what im looking for
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>>17843430
http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/47106/take-a-look-at-the-event-horizon-you-didn-t-see/
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>>17850875
>>17843818
https://www.google.com/search?q="Lovecraft's+Secret+Source+for+the+Cthulhu+Mythos"
Click the first link.
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>>17840112
booby trap
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>>17851203
Dark City was the shit.
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>>17837635
small dick
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>>17853626
Holy shit my sides
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>>17841436
FUCK THAT WAS COOL
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>>17841436
thanks Mr. Skeltal
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>>17840018
Hate this fucking picture
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>>17848495
>BPRD
Oh fuck, I was just going to the comic store today to pick up some of these. I loved hellboy and BPRD looks fucking awesome
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>>17851332
holy fug can I get the sauce on that spookily gif
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Any good books to read with that kind of stuff?

>already read most Lovecraft Stories and I want more
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>>17856068
Check out Laird Barron and Thomas Ligotti.
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>>17837146
Aldrich was such a fucking disappointment.

I remember the trailer with the Lords of Cinder in them and the first one we saw was Aldrich, a seething mass of dark slime and weird shit coming out of a tomb, fuck, he was called 'The Saint of the Deep'. We were all expecting some freaky ass eldritch Cthulhu nonsense, but it was just a previous game's boss with a funky tail. What a fucking let down.
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>>17840018
Everything wrong with modern Cthulhu Mythos shit one fucking picture.

>le sexy 20s investigator lady
>le tentacles
>le break le 4th wall
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>>17841937
My absolute niggerino

I just finished Quake for the firs time, loved it completely, it's such a shame they ditched the grimy, gritty, freaky edlritch stuff in the sequels.

It deserves a reboot like Wolfenstein and Doom got. Quake seems to be the most serious of the lot, I want an intense alien horror action experience. If Bloodborne can mix action and cosmic horror, so can a new Quake game. But nah, arena shooter instead.
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>>17843416
OUR LOVE CAN DESTROY THIS WHOLE FUCKING WORLD
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>>17852435
So wait...you're telling me...Lovecraft, a fiction writer...was inspired by other things? This explains so much.
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>>17843407
shit, thought you were just being a faggot, but it really doesn't capture the creeps the story gave me. Oh well, at least it looked nice.
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>>17856394
He claimed otherwise.
Anyway, you guys might be also interested in this blog post:
https://www.google.com/search?q="In+Praise+of+the+Reprehensible"+archdruid
Again, first link.
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>>17857265
Add &btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky for firstlink redirect.
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>>17857324
What a nice trick, thank you.
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>>17840023
>>17841365

To this day The Blob is the only movie that actually get me
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>>17849409
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>>17843610
Goya is so recognizable, and so awesomely vivid.
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>>17843353
>SCULLS
See, children, this is why we send you to a loyalist school
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>>17836646
he turned into a being of pur spaghetti
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>>17836638
i am so mad i will never get to play that!
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>>17851039
The Thing (1982)
Damn good movie, one of my personal favorites.
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>>17843774
it is as valid as using the term "Kafkaesque" to describe something
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>>17843828
case of charles dexter ward
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>>17836618

They scurry, they breed, they squeal, they gorge. A seemingly endless parade of furred beasts, gnawing through wood and clawing through dirt. He had always hated rats, ever since he was a baby, when one found its way into his crib with him. He blamed them for his deformities, though he knew deep down he had always been abnormal. From the moment he was born, his mother could barely look at him. She would leave him crying on his own for hours. And yet, the guilt of what happened to him when she left him alone, screaming with the rodent, was too much for her. Even as the healers tended to his wounds, she silently opened her veins and wept in her last moments.
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>>17859438

The church had given him a better home him than she could ever have done. They saw his ugliness as a test from the gods. No child deserved to be outcast, no matter how repulsive; to them, the flesh is merely a vessel for the soul within. Where others saw a monster, they saw purity. The people tolerated his presence only for their faith in the church. Had it been otherwise, they would have strung him up before he had even fully grown. He knew they wanted to with each disgusted glare.
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>>17859440

The lantern he held glowed with a soft light. Not fire, but a glowing point of light hanging unaided within its metal casing, casting his hunched shadow behind him. He carried the light of the church, to signify their divine blessing. No more than a mocking reminder of his own faults. While the church had always cared for him, they did not see him as an equal. He had no skill as a priest. No face that evoked trust in others. Even his studies were woeful, no better than a child. But he had one thing that drove him: he had his hate.
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>>17859443

The lord of the city himself had bestowed upon him the honour of rat-catcher, a title he had dreamt of as a boy on lonely nights. He would protect the city from the merciless rodents that tormented them. It was a task he took oh too keenly. He would go where others would not, in the sewers and dank places, down alleys and ditches, where no one else would be to fix their hateful stare on him. And he did his job well, for the most part.
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>>17859444

But now he was called out more than usual. The city was plagued by the beasts, in every food-store, in every latrine, and every dark corner. People grew sick from their presence, with great black boils erupting across their bodies. They smell of death was barely masked by the smell of incense to ward away the disease. Only the rich could afford such luxuries.
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>>17859449

When he was called to the body of a stable maid, found lifeless in her bed, he knew he had allowed things to go too far. Her once pretty face was carved with many small scratches. Her lips and eyes were gone entirely, chewed away by the voracious pests. But it was the wriggling, swollen stomach of the corpse would haunt him for days. Though not more so than the rats, as they gnawed their way out of her and burst forth, scurrying off into the morning light.
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