Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
Kinda surprised it hasn't been done to death. Lovecraft is America's best known writer after all.
Surely you jest? Poe, Twain, Fitzgerald, Salinger, even Stephen King would be better known. The first and last are more famous horror writers.

Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
...As far as I know only 'The lurking fear' had a (very lose) movie adaptation. Especially The color from outer space would be great movie-material.
I never saw the 1970's "Dunwich Horror" (featuring a tattooed Wilbur) but apparently it stank.There were a handful of (1980s?) films including "Reanimator" (as in Herbert West) and one or two others which I did see and they stank big time. I think some guy got his hands on the film rights and churned out a little line of films with some of the same actors, I think they went straight to video.

The "overdose!" intestinal strangulation and decapitated cunnilingus scenes in Reanimator were memorably bad.