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Paper presented at the 2013 Literature/Film Association Conference in Lawrence, KS.
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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)