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

1. Literalist and Proceduralist Videogame
Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft
Kevin M. Flanagan
University of Pittsburgh

3. 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

4. Via MobyGames

9. 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)

10. 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)