From cave paintings to Clive Barker, Gilgamesh to Octavia Butler, humans have always told stories to explain the inexplicable. This panel examines how humans describe the mind-blowing experience of confronting beings and forces that put us in our place as specks of dust in the darkness. Panelists bring the varied perspectives of fandom, authors in the field, traditional monotheism, and some academic occultism as we wrestle with angels and other embodiments of order and chaos.
H.P. Lovecraft is back from the dead and is ready and eager to answer all your questions about love, life, and literature. Come behold the Eldritch wisdom from the grave or at the very least come hear about how great cats are.
Ask Lovecraft questions on the HPLFF Discord server! https://discord.gg/Cw2fpg6
Leeman Kessler is Ask Lovecraft!
The mythos was always a shared universe, but shared to a very exclusive set of authors, namely white men. People of color were cast as the villains in these narratives, blamed for all the ills troubling mankind (if they were given a part in the story at all). Women were absent from these early stories, unless of course, they too were cast as villains. Invisible were the faces of our LGBTQ community in this tapestry of horror. How did outsider creators fall in love with something that casts them in such a negative fashion, and why do they (we) feel it's important to change its direction?
GM Ariel Celeste has some death to mete out to our intrepid players, Adam Scott Glancy, Andrew Migliore, Ken Hite, Andrew Leman, and Sean Branney! Will any of them survive? It will be up to YOU to decide!
The Scenario: After a young man with superhuman strength goes on a multi-state crime spree, DG agents are sent to his small hometown to investigate. There they find strange lights in the sky, oddly behaving townsfolk, and unexplained disappearances. Just another Night at the Opera in this classic Delta Green scenario.
It's the Voluminous podcast, LIVE! with the HPLHS! Andrew Leman, Sean Branney and their special guest, Kickstarter Backer Stephen Fazio, discuss one of Lovecraft's Letters to Robert E. Howard!
The last part of the podcast is reserved for audience questions, and you can join in the discussion on the HPLFF Discord server: https://discord.gg/Cw2fpg6