Quicksilver was briefly part of the Inhuman Royal Family too, when he was married to Crystal.

Two pages, twelve panels. Done.

Oh, Pish-Bosch! What nonsense.

Tell that to Keziah Mason or Henry Akeley.

I'm mad at myself for even bothering with Century after reading The Black Dossier.

Right. None of them work, ultimately, but he's armed to the frickin' teeth for sure. He still "wins" in the end, via several buckets of acid, too.

Yeah he was an atheist. His stories posit a purely maltheist universe, but they were fiction.

I think "The Dunwich Horror," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," and "At the Mountains of Madness" are the templates for Lovecraft gaming. One of them even has a party of investigators! There's also "Dreams in the Witch House," where the evil plot is foiled, although the protagonist himself get a happy ending.

To be a true Lovecraft name, it has to involved a W somewhere.

If I want to read Lovecraftian weirdness that isn't written by Lovecraft, I go with Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, or Robert Bloch. Hell, I'll open up a Lin Carter story before I go with Alan Moore.

I am heavily disillusioned by Moore and haven't touched the series. I think we're in synch enough vis a vis Lovecraft that your statement makes me feel pretty good about skipping it.

I think most people mean "gaming Lovecraftian." So few people read the actual stories vs. how many are familiar with the tropes we associate with them.

The Blood Omen and Soul Reaver series? Admittedly, the original is straight up vampire gothic fantasy, but once Raziel shows up and the Elder God starts taking up a significant portion of the story, the Lovecraft influence is pretty obvious. Tony Jay is basically giving voice to Yog-Sothoth (and be honest, if…

So much of his racism (practically xenophobia) is wrapped up in his fiction. He feared what he didn't understand - and that was anything that wasn't white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant (despite him being an atheist). It permeates almost all of his stores, even some of his best - "Shadows Over Innsmouth" is about the…

Not a high bar to clear but, then again, she cleared it by a high margin.

Randolph Carter and Joseph Curwen were both able to chat with Yog-Sothoth without going crazy. And lots of people encounter Nyarlathotep without losing their marbles.

But then there's "The Dunwich Horror" where the protagonists have the knowledge, skill, and equipment to defeat the Whately twin, or "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" where the good doctor gets the upper hand on the old wizard, or even "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" where the government comes in and bombs Devil's Reef…

The first one is to this day the only video game to ever give me legitimate nightmares.

Well, he was very social, actually, and briefly married to a Jewish business owner. The longest thing he ever wrote was about his trip to Quebec, and he used to visit his pen pals up and down the east coast (he even built treehouses with Barlowe in Florida). The guy was not a shut-in.

It's quite a comfortable ride, once you get used to the swaying. A bit like being on the deck of a ship I should say, which may be where the "ship of the desert" appellation comes from.