At the
Carnival of Para-Horror, on August 26th & Sunday, the 27th, I gave an
animation presentation: H. P. Lovecraft’s Cosmic Carnival of Horror.
H. P.
Lovecraft’s Cosmic Carnival of Horror is now a 23- minute YouTube video,
uploaded by my daughter to YouTube on August 22, 2017.
My daughter,
Ligeia Leigh Steadman, a sophomore at Michigan State University, majoring in
Japanese, created the animation & chose the background images, the
film-clips & the music. I supplied
the passages from Lovecraft’s works.
Our
presentation explains why Lovecraft’s brand of horror is truly terrifying in
its implications for the future existence & well-being of humankind.
Our focus is
on four major Lovecraft themes: cosmic indifferentism; humankind’s
insignificance in the universe; humanity’s inability to perceive the reality of
the world or to comprehend the nature of extra-terrestrial entities; and
finally, the ultimate nothingness of the life & the universe that we think
we know.
If you are
fascinated by Lovecraft’s philosophy & his horror, fantasy, and sci-fi
stories, then you will enjoy our animation presentation.
In
particular, study the pyramid, which points down instead of up, to illustrate
just how heavily the burden of time lies on humankind, and how brief & infinitesimal human life really is in the grand scheme of things.
JLS
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