I get the feeling that terms like “Old Earth” didn’t have the baggage in Lovecraft’s day they do now. -D

I realized something new while listening; that a lot of HPLs fiction, unlike so much other horror, ONLY works in a modern, scientific universe. Unless you have Deep Time and a modern nearly infinite universe, stories like At The Mountains of Madness don’t work at all.

A young earth of 6000 years won’t cut it, and you need a modern understanding of space for things like “The Color Out of Space” to work.

Just an observation, but makes sense since Dreams in the Witch House, Shadow Out of Time, etc read more like SF than supernatural horror.

Hope there’s a “Lovecraft films” episode in the offing. I have… opinions.

I mean, these days they’re just Public Domain because they’re old and not owned by Disney. I do know there was some argument for years over whether Lovecraft’s work was PD before its time, so to speak, but I couldn’t say whether there was any merit to that.

I love Robert Howard (his stories that is, not the person, on a personal level he was a cancer-filled boil), but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to quite eke out a rationale for a Conan episode. Can’t win ’em all.