The Horror of Knowing

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    / @nelquea   FirstThirtyMinutes - Police Video Games and Mods    / @firstthirtyminutes   FightinCowboy    / fightincowboy   Shirrako    / @shirrako   Lacry    / @lacry   Lalla Dyer    / @lailadyer   horst bauer    / @viktorreznov10   Wanderbots    / wanderbots   Rhapsody    / @rhapsodyplays   WoolieVersus    / @woolieversus   NamelessDreadx37x    / @namelessdreadx37x   Blue Spike    / @emanolova   Ludophiles    / @ludophilia   Keith Ballard    / @keithballardgaming   quill18    / @quill18   Boss Fight Database    / @bossfightdatabase   saigancat    / saigancat   The Interactive Medium    / @theinteractivemedium1517   Gamer's Little Playground    / @glp   Sesawer    / @sesawer3418   Kane Pixels    / @kanepixels   Bean Boi    / @notbeanboi   PowderKegel    / @powderkegel   Nargacute    / @nargacute   JagerPlays    / @jager-plays   Perant    / @perant   SB    / @sbplaysgames   Throneful    / @throneful   MarcusAureliusLP    / @marcusaureliuslp   -pagb666    / @pagb666   -PorkChop    / @porkchop8442   Welonz    / @welonz   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 -    • The Backrooms (Found Footage)  ] 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 ================== Last Minute Essays is a creative project of mine, made solely because I know people prefer listening to rambling to reading it. And there's a lot of rambling that comes out of my brain which I want to get out into the world somehow. You can find me on Twitter - @CuteMutePrude   / cutemuteprude   Ia! Ia! Dol'larh f'taghn!   / lastminuteessays   https://ko-fi.com/cutemuteprude