Do You Fear What I Fear

A little something I put together with music from the HP Lovecraft Historical Society and some images I found on the net.

Lyrics:


Said the night gaunt to young HPL
Do you dream what I dream (do you dream what I dream)
In the dark of night HPL
Do you dream what I dream (do you dream what I dream)
A beast, a beast clutching you so tight
With a face as black as the night
With a face as black as the night

HPL said to old Farnsworth Wright
Do you fear what I fear (do you fear what I fear)
Weird tales editor Farnsworth Wright
Do you fear what I fear (do you fear what I fear)
A god, a god waiting to be free
with a voice as deep as the sea
with a voice as deep as the sea

Said Cthulhu to the human beings
Do you know what I know (do you know what I know)
The stars, the stars soon will be in line
I will reclaim that which was mine
I will reclaim that which was mine

Relevant links are:

HP Lovecraft Historical Society: http://www.cthulhulives.org/

Graphics from these web sites:
http://www.elfwood.com/art/m/i/mindsiphon/nightgaunt.jpg.html
http://verreaux.deviantart.com/art/Night-Gaunt-48423753
http://andrew-olson.blogspot.com/
http://www.johncoulthart.com/haunter/hpl.html
http://www.rlyeh.nl/
http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2008/12/08/cthulhu-the-movie.html
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr2007004a/web/

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Cthulhu
• HPL
• HP Lovecraft
• Lovecraft
• Christmas
• scary
• solstice
• humour
• humor

[wareq]

I thought what HPL actually feard was blacks, Chinese and "mongrels".

[anothersquid]

@wareq possibly, even probably. Back in his time that was a fairly normal and widespread feeling. In the early 1900's being a racist wasn't considered a bad thing by most people.

[DiVeronica]

@anothersquid Several founding fathers owned slaves, that they lived in the 18th century doesn't excuse their moral failing for doing so

[anothersquid]

@DiVeronica Yes, it does excuse their moral failing, the same way you are excused as an adult for the crappy things you did as a child. You can't fault people who didn't know any better.

From their perspective, we'd be moral failures. Is it fair to call us that?

[KauhanaHequara]

Dude. I'm totally learning this song and caroling it instead of the original Christmas song.

[anothersquid]

@KauhanaHequara According to my mother-in-law, the two albums from the HPLovecraft Historical Society have ruined Christmas music for her because now all she can remember is the Cthulhu versions :)

[LastJackalope]

surprisingly soothing. like an unholy lullaby.

[LordSia13]

@LastJackalope Sweet dreams are made of these...

[CarpeMetus]

Yay! my Very Scary Solstice and An even scarier solstice came today! Along with a tentacle stocking and a box set of the Dark Adventure Radio Theater.

[sejemaset]

@anothersquid The fact that a great many of those founding fathers were also abolitionist (ie: they did know better) and still owned slaves renders your statement completely inept. Lets not get into the matter of Thomas Jefferson who fathered children with a woman he owned, being a slave takes away your ability to give consent, think about that.

[CarpeMetus]

I wish I could like this more than once...

[Aveiraslover]

Where is the picture at 1:02 from?

I think I found it on a wiki once. The Star Wars Wiki but still...

[btaens]

@anothersquid That said though, he was still considered extra racist even for his time, according to his wife.

[iseezapie]

@DiVeronica Morality is relative, if the culture you live in doesn't see something as immoral then why would doing it be considered a moral failing, that is just immensely arrogant to assume that all cultures across the whole world and at all times should be compared to our current morality. If in 300 years, posting comments on a public forum such as youtube was seen as immoral, would you consider all of us to have moral failings

[Haugtrold]

@wareq At the end of his life he did write that some of the beliefs and prejudices he once held now seemed foolish to him. If needed i could find the exact reference but... you know. solstice hangover.

[DarthVil]

@DiVeronica In understanding their predicament, their greatest failure was to not set the right example by granting their slaves freedom, and not having the courage, along with that, to vocally express what they and many others were too fearful to state.

Whenever people fear to challenge an established injustice, misery is the only possible result.

[DarthVil]

@DiVeronica What's really interesting is that several of those same founding fathers also, even while owning slaves, wrote a great deal about how distasteful they found it to be. They had great concerns about how slavery could be abolished, because they were loathe to use the power of government toward that end. When government is given power to make decisions of that magnitude, it never stays within the context of a singular issue.