Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago

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You ever think about how many times knowing things is portrayed as a bad thing? What's up with that? Anyway, here's an hour of me trying to put into words how "Lovecraftian" fiction has changed with time.

Timestamps:
00:00 - 01:51 - Intro
01:51 - 06:18 - Concept of knowledge as source of horror
06:18 - 24:04 - Lovecraft Contemporary
24:04 - 30:01 - Post-Lovecraft
30:01 - 32:10 - Bloodborne spoilers
32:10 - 37:47 - Post-Lovecraft (cont.)
37:47 - 40:45 - Meta-Lovecraft
40:45 - 46:30 - Fallen London spoilers
46:30 - 46:53 - public embarassment
46:53 - 51:14 - Signalis spoilers
51:14 - 55:59 - Meta-Lovecraft (cont.)
55:59 - 56:38 - Outro

Music used:
- SIGNALIS - Eulenlieder
- Bloodborne - Hunter's Dream
- The Sinking City - Coverside
- Alexey Voytenko - The Music of Erich Zann
- Darkest Dungeon - Explore the Ruins
- World of Horror - School Investigation
- Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring
- Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne - Normal Battle
- SIGNALIS - Die Totenisnel
- Bloodborne - The Witch of Hemwick
- Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines - Moldy Old World
- Drakengard - Growing Wings (Piano arranged ver.)
- Dark Souls - Souls of Fire
- Pathologic - Utroba Main
- Bloodborne - Micolash, Nightmare Host
- Lobotomy Corporation - Neutral 04
- The Sinking City - Strange
- World of Horror - Mansion Mystery
- Sunless Skies - Star Maddened Skies
- Doom 2 - Running from Evil
- SIGNALIS - Cigarette Wife
- SIGNALIS - 3000 Cycles (I missed you)

Outro song:
Limbus Company - Mephistopheles Story theme

Additional footage (aside from the material recorded on my own and promotional materials) was borrowed from the following channels:
- Nelquea
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- FirstThirtyMinutes - Police Video Games and Mods
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- FightinCowboy
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- Shirrako
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- Lacry
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- Lalla Dyer
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- horst bauer
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- Wanderbots
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- Rhapsody
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- WoolieVersus
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- NamelessDreadx37x
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- Blue Spike
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- Ludophiles
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- Keith Ballard
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- quill18
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- Boss Fight Database
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- saigancat
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- The Interactive Medium
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- Gamer's Little Playground
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- Sesawer
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- Kane Pixels
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- Bean Boi
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- Nargacute
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- JagerPlays
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- Perant
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- SB
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- Throneful
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- MarcusAureliusLP
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-pagb666
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-PorkChop
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- Welonz
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Works shown in the video (excluding split-second jokes), in order of appearence:
- Death Stranding
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Subnautica
- LSD Dream Emulator
- Bloodborne
- Darkest Dungeon
- Oedipus Rex stageplay (1957)
- Elden Ring
- Shadows of Doubt
- The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures
- Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
- Cultist Simulator
- The Music of Erich Zann (1980)
- The Void
- The Call of Cthulhu (2005 movie)
- World of Horror
- Call of Cthulhu (2018 video game)
- Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
- Disco Elysium
- Sunless Skies
- Darkwood
- Victoria 3
- Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
- Bayonetta
- Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs
- Cthulhu Saves The World
- Pathologic Classic HD
- Pathologic 2
- Shrek
- Dark Souls
- Scribblenauts Unlimited
- In The Mouth of Madness
- SCP Containment Breach
- The Backrooms (Found Footage) [short film by Kane Parsons - youtube.com/watch?v=H4dGpz6cnHo]
- Lobotomy Corporation
- YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG
- Undertale
- Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
- Lovecraft Country
- Mark of the Rose
- Sunless Sea
- Doom 1993 (myhouse.wad)
- SIGNALIS
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