Literalist and Proceduralist Videogame Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft

Kevin M. FlanaganUniversity of Pittsburgh

H.P. Lovecraft

“no other writer is so perplexed by the gap between objects and the power of language to describe them, or between objects and the qualities they possess.”

- Graham Harman

Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy

Via MobyGames

Game Credits:

Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet (1993, Infogrames)

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (2002, Silicon Knights)

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2002, Headfirst Productions)

Cthulhu Saves the World (2010, Zeboyd Games)

Eversion (2011, Zaratustra Productions)

Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land (2011, Red Wasp Design)

Catachresis (2013, C. Kunzelman)