Lovecraft & the Occult - Historical & Literary Influences on the Cthulhu Mythos & Necronomicon

I grew up in RI. I used to park right in front of Lovecraft's house when I went to Thayer St./RISD/Brown area because it was free street parking. While the parking meters have been installed closer and closer, I think it's still free street parking. I never knew it was his house until last year. After all that time!

In his short stories this is more pronounced, that he simply was unable to end a story, often was the "i blacked out and awoke back in my chamber etc etc" the was it all a dream cop out of actually ending a story.

'Ole Zuck could spin a good yarn!

Love hp

I utterly hate this author. However I'm impressed at your remarkable work. Bravo Rabbi.

Nice minor voice pitch for this topic! Playful and effective.

The only video on lovecraft I've ever seen that didn't jump straight to his cat. He is by far my favorite author, thank you for keeping that to a minimum.

Personally, I’ve always found the concept of “beings” that “exist” whose true form are so abstract that at best our minds can’t grasp them and at worst will kill us outright from madness and fear, as fascinating.

I shall try Lovecraft.
I love Poe due to amazing Rhythm.
TY for recommendation.

I was literally just reading one of his letters, and he was telling Clark Ashton Smith that he actually avoids reading up on real occultism.
"I've never read any of the jargon of formal "occultism"". He goes on to say that he wished to avoid the hackneyed cliches of the occultism formulae.

One time I brought my Lovecraft book to school and I couldn’t help but laugh at the dudes I was showing my new book to because they were going “nah man we don’t mess with that kinda shit” like I was holding the actual necronomicon 💀

As a blossoming writer and artist lovercraft and his works have been a beacon of inspiration for my work even more so ever since he left the mythos of yogsothothry open for interpretation by other writers.

@TheEsotericaChannel in this piece you mention that The Golden Bough by Sir James Frazer was once quite popular but has since been largely discredited. I'm interested in the details there, as I've only ever heard praise of it before and actually began to read it a few days ago. Would you be willing to do an analysis and deconstruction of the book and its arguments with the context of the new information you give a mention in this video? I'd be really interested in watching that. Thank you!

Yog-Sothoth demands more!

Dunno if it annoys you….but you were absolutely right about that Venn diagram joke😂

I find it amusing that in imagining forbidden books of knowledge both horrible and tantalizing, he actually managed to inspire the creation of a book that has never originally been written, but copied many times: The Necronomicon.

Thanks!

The Golden Bough is now discounted? How so? Not that I do not agree but I haven't heard anyone really discounting it, a lot of people here still refers to it.

Eldritch! Eldritch! Eldritch! Any tuyube video which uses this term has got it going on! Speak! Speak!

Zuckerberg looks a little like Lovecraft.

I clicked on this video because I thought I saw Adam Sandler 😅😂

I've always found things like ch*ld s*x ab*se (and the abusers) and brutal totalitarian dictators, and the mindset of prolific serial killers, etc, to conjure something of the lovecraftian horror in their inspection.
This is why for me, the racism et al in Lovecraft's writing fits perfectly within his work because even racism to the progressive/humanistic mind is such an alien otherworldly perspective that it conjures the unnameable and unimaginable that is found in his text🤔

Great video btw!!!

Great holes secretly are digged where the earth’s pores ought to suffice, and things have learned to walk that ought to crawl.

I just seen a short about books that if u read u could kill u and are locked up etc and one was bye Lovecraft... Is that true??

Cthulhu is the first ever cognito hazard scp 😅😅😅😅❤❤❤😊

After seeing a few different pics of Lovecraft, I am kind of surprised Ben Affleck has not portrayed him.. idk why but sometimes I see a resemblance.... 😊

Just watched this and it gave me a hankering to hear your thoughts on Robert Price, be it his Lovecraft scholarship or his thoughts on the validity of (well, lack of) the historical Jesus.

Very well done! Really informative 👏 I'll be checking more of your stuff out 📚👍

Thanks!

He looks like if Mark Zuckerberg and Alastair Crowley had a child.

Masterful, as always. I had no idea about Scott's book en demonology!

I am glad you mentioned Kenneth Grant, what do you make of his Typhonian trilogies. He kind of looses me after Hecate's fountain.

what the... whaaa.?
That "bernard stiegler" insert not only is beyond my intellect, because I have a lot of holes in my cultural upbringing, but seriously how come. I admit I wasn't aware his works exported outside his native frontiers, but for starters I am still trying to integrate the very less than six degrees of separation it takes to see him mentioned here, and then around HPL futhermore. I'll get it at some point I hope. Maybe I should read more than its wikipedia entry first.

I think it is fairly easy to see where the Necronomicon, which is fiction, comes from. Lovecraft wrote the book Al-Azif is roughly translated as 'howling'. The actual real Goetia is translated as 'howling'. I think he just used poetic license and used it in his books. Plus the fact that Crowley was in the papers a lot when he was writing helps the theory.

Could we have a similar exploration into M.R. James' writings? This is so interesting!

Thank you

and now bob dole will read from the necronomicon...

I read lovecraft and no way that dude wasn’t completely insane, it’s impressive he even had the nerve enough to maintain sanity while writing it down.

I enjoy most of his stories, although I'm not really a short story guy. He was definitely a rasisms. The funny thing is most of the time the darker skinned person in his story would be a badass. I always thought that was odd for a verilent rascisms. If you like stuff like HPLC check out BRIAN LUMLEY.

Brian Lumley is probably my favorite author in that genre.

I enjoyed the best weird tales, and had to re-read several times the Necronomicon. To hear that Stephen King took inspiration, and then to learn that Lovecraft was inspired by Poe - I had to!

But I never knew Lovecraft's knowledge or research. Had read that our guy suffered night terrors, and do believe he could write of the supernatural like a demon

Love craft was seriously talented and very scary.

He was basically the Garth Marenghi of the 20th Century....

Is there a particular reason for the pauses in speech? They’re noticeable pregnant 😅

Lovecraft was also a Teetotaler and hated Alcohol

Lovecraft wasn't just racist against people with a different hue in pigment in their skin. He was racist against other white people. If you were not of his stock. You were basically trash. Irish, Scottish, Russian, Polish, etc. To him, you were trash. Might as well reveal all his bigoted mindset. Still love the horror he wrote