The image on the spine particularly caught my attention as I’m sure you could imagine (see below). The fact it was hardback fascinated me as I had only seen softback mangas before. Anyway, one of the mangas on the shelf was this bright blue hardback called ‘Shiver’ which I had never seen before. Then one day I was out doing some shopping in my local town centre and browsed the shelves of a manga section in a book store, praying that they had all of the ‘Tokyo Ghoul’ mangas as I did (and still do) really want to read them, but only when I have the full collection easily at my disposal. Now, I will be honest and say that I forgot who it was at the time because some of her suggestions up to this moment were things I were not particularly into and thus did not properly register this suggestion. I was telling an online friend about how much I enjoyed ‘Bloodborne’, ‘The Dark Descent’ and my new love for all things Lovecraft (minus his subtle racism) and she mentioned a manga artist I may have liked. The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.-H.P. You may have heard of it, but in case you haven’t:
There is a famous quote by Lovecraft that encompasses my favourite forms of horror besides a natural rise and fall of suspense. Their origins usually come from one of two places the furthest reaches of space, or the depths of the ocean, both are realms that we humans know next to little about. That is not to say Lovecraft does not have his own array of creatures and monsters, but what makes them frightening is that they are rarely mentioned, rarely sighted and next to no information is given about them. I would eventually get my hands on the entirety of his works in one tome called ‘Necronomicon’ and I was totally fascinated by his approach of story telling and how his villains are often not some deranged maniac or some otherworldly abomination that resembles more a fetus than anything human, but they just ordinary people who grew a little too obsessed by something.
Martin, but his influence was very much present in many games such as ‘Quake’, ‘Eternal Darkness’, ‘Dead Space’, ‘Skyrim’s Dragonborn’ DLC and of course, ‘Amnesia: The Dark Descent’. At the time I had never heard of this author before, but I quickly took him seriously as he not only influenced the likes of Stephen King and George R. My thoughts on the matter were changed when I got my hands on a game called ‘Bloodborne’ amd through its story and influences, I discovered the works of HP Lovecraft.
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