Essays about: "call of cthulhu"

Found 5 essays containing the words call of cthulhu.

  1. 1. External and Internal Horror Objects : Analysis of the "objects of horror" in H.P Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu and Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Samuel Ek; [2023]
    Keywords : Horror; horror objects; mental defeat; Howard Phillips Lovecraft; Robert Louis Stevenson.;

    Abstract : Both Lovecraft and Stevenson have earned their respective fame as horror writers.However, it is interesting to compare their separate approaches to creating fear. The purposeof this essay is to show how there are different kinds of horror objects within the respectivestories of Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu and Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. READ MORE

  3. 2. Ascending the Mountains of Madness: the Language and Psychology of H.P. Lovecraft

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Daniel Lidman; [2018-03-26]
    Keywords : engelska; H.P. Lovecraft; Dagon; Cthulhu; The Great Ones; Romanticism; Gothic writing; Weird Realism; sublime; first-person narration;

    Abstract : The horror of Howard Philips Lovecraft’s writing lies within the mentality and psychology of his characters. Since he first became prominent, the main criticism against Howard Philips Lovecraft has been that his writing uses too many adjectives, and that his creatures and monsters are vague. READ MORE

  4. 3. From Rolling to Reading: An Analysis of the Adaptation of Narrative Between Role-Playing Games and Novels

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Nikolai Bjädefors Butler; [2018]
    Keywords : narrative; transmedial narratives; role-playing games; fictional worlds; adaptation; transmedia; dungeons dragons; call of cthulhu; superworld; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Narratives are present throughout media, ranging from its traditional point of study, literature, to newer media such as films, graphic novels and video games. While these narratives have always transcended barriers to some degree today we find that the concept of transmedial narratives has become more relevant via the interconnected storyworlds established throughout popular culture. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Ordinary and the Eldritch: : Contradictory narrative technique in "The Call of Cthulhu"

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Fredrik Holmér; [2016]
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  6. 5. From within the Abyss of the Mind : Psychological Horror in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Bengtsson Joakim; [2003]
    Keywords : H. P. Lovecraft; horror literature; Gothic; psychoanalysis; Sigmund Freud; Julia Kristeva; Modernism;

    Abstract : ABSTRACT An attempt to put the horror writer H. P. READ MORE