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@@TEDEd OH MY GOD! Ahhhhhh!!!! I'm gonna stop fangirling now. stop it Ananya you are 17 years old! I tell all my friends to use your videos. they make learning so much fun! When I have to take lessons, I always search for videos from you guys, just because they are so simple and fun! sometimes I volunteer to take lessons for topics that I know you guys have put up videos for. I especially love the five fingers of evolution that one about the cyanobacteria ( the first mass extinction was it?) I watch them to pass time too! You guys are amazing! and what you are doing is amazing as well! I wanna learn animation and if I do learn it and am good at it I would love to make one of your lessons. contributing to this channel would be one of the pinnacles in my life. Thank you for what you do ( and for listening to my rant! ) -Ananya ( i wanted to put a heart, but computers don't let you use emojis so :-D and :-) is the best I can do ;-p)
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@Zengn Draws He wanted to pursue higher education in math, but didn't have the grades. His "non-Euclidean geometry", for one, is an example of some of the math that was revolutionary in his time.
@@raphuscucullatus7845 cancer caused by his diet consisted mostly of canned food because he couldnt afford anything else to eat. so, yeah, it is a fit description because he lived all his life as a penniless nobody and that eventually led to his premature, painful death.
He was kinda scared of everything, too. Immigrants, the ocean, air conditioning, things he couldn’t comprehend. And when you take things he can’t comprehend and have us look at them through his eyes, then we start to become a bit more afraid of it.
@@cbhv4321 He didn’t have a good understanding of science as a kid. I’m pretty sure he wrote about how he was scare of colors and non-euclidian surfaces too.
Don't forget that many things Lovecraft feared weren't even dangerous. When the dude came across something he didn't understand, he'd be afraid of it by default. I mean, _he was scared of air conditioning and curved shapes._
And that, to me, is what makes him such a tragic figure. He spent his life being afraid of different people and things and perpetuating that through his stories when, at the end of the day, much of those anxieties and suspicions were unfounded. Fear of the unknown is one thing, but teach someone to fear needlessly and you might as well smash their kneecaps.
Alicia Nyblade I think that’s almost poetic. His works perpetuated his own fear but at the end of the day, like you said, it’s mostly unfounded (or just unnecessary to worry about). You could almost view his works in the same way. There’s somewhat of a persistent, dreadful nihilism present in his works, seeing as we’re all minuscule specks in the cosmos waiting for whatever inevitable end the universe sees befitting of us, but you can find comfort in that. TL;DR Old Gods are cool but as a human, why worry about them? Maybe Lovecraft’s works were cautionary, if unintentionally.
Yep you can really feel the paranoia, depression and other emotions in his works which really adds a lot more to his stories, I believe without lovecrafts deep rooted character flaws, his stories wouldnt have been anywhere near as good, luckily he took advantage of his fears and wrote about it with unique storytelling
Well creppyness is in the yese of the beholder. It is on you how creepy something can be. That's what I like about HP Lovecrafts stuff. It's only creepy when you want to be scared.
@@imnotreallysure5155 I just regret having bought all his stories in the way he wrote them. aka old english mixed with american dialects. I regret my choice...
"And as long as humans feel a sense of dread about our unknown future, Lovecraftian horror will have a place in the darkest corners of our imagination." I seriously loved the topic and the idea that you brought upon us today, and, thank you for inspiring students like me to continue our own stories ❤
In case you were unaware, Euclidean geometry is geometry on a flat surface. So, non-Euclidean architecture includes bridges, pipelines, and particularly large buildings.
I think the fascination with horror is only existent when times are good. If the events of your day to day already scare you, you would not be so willing to invite fear as a form of entertainment.
He died poor and unknown. No matter what you do, do what you love and you never know the impact it will have on humanity. Always be a force of good and the best version of yourselves even if that is not the "best" in the eyes of others.
that is true, but he did not get any of that posthumus recognition. He still died completely alone, with the thought, that his lifes work, the thing he had sacrificed so much for, would be completely forgotten. He almost starved himself to death, because he was so poor, and barely was able to afford canned food. In his last years, he was also in considerable pain, because of his cancer, and his mind started to slip (which was no doubt quite scary, because both his parents went insane in the end). So while I agree, always follow your dreams, your path will not necessarily be a pleasant one, if you do so, and you have to understand that before hand, or be hit by life unbearibly hard, again and again.
Wait so he made cthulhu and people worshipping it as if it was real?, awesome. Correct me here is i say something wrong (might do a little more research)
I think H.P. Lovecraft also did drugs. In his story “Dagon” the narrator says that drugs are the only thing that makes life bearable. Keep in mind that Lovecraft included things in his own personal life into his works. Very sad.
i do not remember which but there are many stories with drugs, and no i dont think he did drugs considering that in his stories he also wrote drugs as a bad thing
The narrator of Dagon did opium to calm himself of his paranoia. In the 1910s and 20s, when the story was written, doctors threw morphine and opium at everything they could, leading to massive crippling addiction on a national scale. Lovecraft witnessed this first hand and incorporated into some of his stories, all which I've read so far, paint the drug in a negative light.
If you think about it, during his time, science and mathematics are not as progressive as today's era. There are still alot of things that needs to be discovered, even doctors and scientists during that time don't know what they were doing and even cause death among people. I think him being scared of almost everything kinda makes sense to me. It is truly horrifying when you can't comprehend things that are unknown.
@@flrs5858 Me after seeing a triangle on the surface of a sphere : [terrified screaming] (a curved 2D surface has non-Euclidean geometrical properties, such as a triangle on such surface can has the total of 3 angles greater or smaller than 180).
"The oldest and strongest kind of fear is the fear of the unknown.."- HPL His death was similarly dreary and mysterious as his inspiration Edgar Allan Poe.. sounds CREEPY..
You guys should read his books :) They are relatively short, so if you have 1-2 hours before bed, you could get through one. They are not only well written, but also thought provoking. To Lovecraft, we are not the centre of the universe, but mere ants in relation to higher powers, we don't understand. Powers, that are neither good, nor bad, but indifferent. My favourites are At the mountains of madness or the color out of space. Color out of space also gets a movie adaptation very soon, that looks pretty good!
Please help! I´ve been wanting to start reading lovecraft, but I just don´t know where to start! I really want to get into the whole Cthulhu story, should I start with The Call of Cthulhu?
@@BM5556 Cthulhu only appears in a few short stories. The call of cthulhu and especially at the mountains of madness are probably his best stories. But if you just want a taste to see if you like it, some good shorter stories are the dunwich horror, the rats in the walls, from beyond, the shadow over innsmouth... Those are quite short, and you can find good audiobook versions on youtube, so you can listen to them instead of buying the books :) Thats how I got into lovecraft tl;dr: for longer stories, call of cthulhu and at the mountains of madness are good starting places, for the short stories I would start with something like dunwich horror
2nd edit:This was probably me miss reading it so the following is unlikely In one of his final letters to his family he showed signs of regret realizing his prejudice. Edit: I've been Iooking for it but can't find the letter online, I came across it in one of the collection his letters books in the library
Miles Upshur He died right as he started to make a name for himself too. I'm sure if he had lived he would have been a household name in horror writing(even more so than today), and it would have been interesting to see how his possible change of heart may have affected his works.
I don't even think that his prejudices are relevant when it comes to his work, because it is important to seperate the artist from his art. I was kind of the status quo back then, and people who try to drag the attitudes of the past into the present and use this as a basis of judgement do neither know how to differenciate and how linear time works.
Fascinating, Isn't It? Lovecraft gets more and more recognised as time passes on. He is indeed an important part of the literary canon and popular culture
Love craft took his ever persistent anxiety in regard to pretty much anything he considered foreign was a large inspiration for his horror. He truly suffered during his lifetime which is tragic
Lovecraft inspired tons of people. The influence of Lovecrafts work can be found as far as in movies like Indiana Jones which is not even Horror at all. He is one of the most important writers in recent history.
My favorite of his stories is the Call of Cuthulu. It’s actually what inspires some of my own stories that I write. I may not like the man for his social views, but I respect him for how he has changed literature forever.
I've heard of Lovecraft many times throughout my life, but I've never read his work. Didn't realise he had such a profound impact on many of my favourite horror and sci-fi films. Thank you for enlightening me.
@@henriktamminen7438 I just recently read a manga adaptation of The Colour Out of Space: mangakakalot.com/chapter/isekai_no_shikisai/chapter_1 It felt quite short, so I'll definitely consider his books sometime.
You should definitively read his books. They are relatively short, so if you have 1-2 hours before bed, you could get though one. They are not only well written, but also thought provoking. To Lovecraft, we are not the centre of the universe, but mere ants in relation to higher powers, we don't understand. Powers, that are neither good, nor bad, but indifferent. My favourites are At the mountains of madness or the color out of space. Color out of space also gets a movie adaptation very soon, that looks pretty good!
Many of revolutionary artists were inspired by their own demons. The most intense of pain and horror made them create a own style of expression. But also the same horror made their life and death miserable. Many brilliant artists like Van Gogh, Virginia Woolf, Silvia Path ended up taking their lives, and other like Lovecraft died in misery. It's heartbreaking.
Some of the creepiest real life things I've ever seen are the pictograms they design for guarding nuclear waste sites. They have to draw something that humans or even other intelligent creatures could see potentially thousands of years in the future that communicates, without any cultural context, the message: What we buried here will kill you. Spooky.
It's a strange irony how he died as many of his characters: insignificant and unknown, but his work, his imagination is what lived on as a near-unfathomable entity in its own right. To me, he didn't just write his mythos, he embodied it. Both in life and in death.
@@M12GProductions The power of entities does not matter. What matters is their relation to us. We are but ants to them. Ants can not understand our motives, can not fight us, can not plead with us for mercy. Cthulhu has the same realtion to you.
@@aldoushuxley5953 well they dont even have mind, so this is inapplicable. I think we could contact and even regularily interact even with such an entities that all those stinky gods of Lovecraft are, even if its hard for most of us. These gods are definitely shamanic gods, so take a shrooms before contacting them, heh
For all the Lovecraft fans I highly recommend the educator for this video, Silvia Morena-Garcia's novel Mexican Gothic! I just finished it and loved it! I always enjoy viewing the artistic interpretations in these "Why you should read.." videos.
Fun fact: George RR Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire, included his own reference to the Cthulhu mythos in his series. The Iron Islands, and perhaps the Drowned God himself, are tied to this universe’s own version of the Great Old Ones, who supposedly love deep beneath the ocean.
I'm just in love with his eloquent style of writing! From the moment I read his works at 12, I wanted to dedicate myself to "Lovecraftian Horror". 8 years later, my translations of his works were published and my stories, inspired from his works, were also included in literary journals. Even my bday is the same as his. I sometimes even feel I was wrongly born in this era! THIS MAN... 😂
I literally searched up "Why I should read H. P. Lovecraft" yesterday and was disappointed there wasn't a Ted-ed video on it yet! I bought one of his books today, can't wait to read it!!
People really hate Lovecraft even though they have never read his stories and immediately jump to conclusions after Overly Sarcastic Production's video on him, I like the channel but I feel like they indirectly caused a hate crusade against Lovecraft and anyone who reads and likes his works.
I've never read his work but it sounds truly incredible. Everything he put in his work ACTUALLY sounded terrifying. Gore and murder or jump scares. None of that stuff scares me. Though stuff like the omnipotent beings in the lovecraftian universe, beings beyond reality, are truly terrifying
Lovecraft was moving away from his racism toward the end of his life. You can see it in "At the Mountains of Madness" (1935, he died in 1937) where the protagonist realizes at the end that the five-limbed creature is just a person with another body shape than his own. He also renounced his reactionary politics and was pretty much becoming a New Dealer. He deserves credit for that much.
Honestly does a diverse set of writers matter in a genre that highlights human insignificance? The long lasting impression I got from his writing was that life doesn’t mater and wasn’t all that special in the grand scheme of thing.
Most people forget that he renounced his racist views later in life. There was a letter to a friend where he said that he had seen how foolish and mistaken he was in his predjuces
@@redragon88 By the time Lovecraft renounced his racism, the damage had already been done as thoses ideas showed in some of his works (and cat). He died shortly after the change of heart, sadly. I think TED-ED did an amazing job by considering the author's greatness in his crafts without dismissing his racism and past mistakes. Notice how they still held on to his genius and didn't just talk about the wrong.
@@WeirdTale I mean... I guess so, but then do you think they should've just left/ignored this part of his life? They did go through what H.P Lovecraft is/was about and part of it were his views, wether good or bad or simply different.
Weird Tale Yes, some people do beat dead horses regarding that, but it is an important aspect of his life and relevant to his work; there are legitimate reasons to mention it.
“These beings exist beyond our conceptions of reality, their true forms as inscrutable as their motives.” You can’t grasp the true form of Giygas’ attack!
@@victor7480 I wasn't insulting all creepy pastas. There are some pretty good ones out there. And most of the ones I've listened to over 4 years are based in non fiction, not real the real.
No, I believe Edgar Allan Poe was. . . . . . "I buried a man alive who insulted me in my wine cellar" "I killed my cat but found another one that looks like him" "I killed an old man because I didn't like his eye"
Silvia Moreno-Garcia !!! She wrote my favorite gothic horror book of 2020 titled "Mexican Gothic." You guys should check it out, it features a really creepy family and even a BIT of Lovecraft-esque horror. It's like The Yellow Wallpaper mixed in with said disturbing family and haunted house plus creepy plants horror ✨
What a strange fate it would be to have your lifes work discovered only after you’ve died. Imagine coming to the end of your life and having very good reason to believe that you wasted your life on a talent nobody appreciated.. only to have it revolutionize that particular field after you’re no longer around to see
Despite Lovecraft's literary work and his success in immortalizing the mythos that inspire a long generation that believes in these fictional characters, but like many people in his time he is a sad man who is too afraid to live and learn the good and not at all terrifying. He casted everyone to be a threat and he believe in something that doesn't and will never exist, his twisted mind brought the idea of hopelessness and the dreaded fear of the unknown that would stop others to progress and develop in the field for human history and scientific development. I would praise him to be a brilliant author, but I will not praise the messages in his stories. Fear is something we all are and will face, but that doesn't mean we cannot overcome someday.
@@theultraatomicgamer del toro would be perfect for a kthulu movie he did do the 7 gods of chaos in the hellboy movie and they were basically a precursor to kthulu
Lovecraft and his crazy fears of not only the unspeakable unknowns of the universe, but of math, curved shapes, and normal things like air conditioning, have now permeated the modern horror genre. This is especially true in places like Japan, whose manga authors are taking horror into new and weird territories, always under the guidance of the OP--H.P. Lovecraft.
There is also a very very dreadful essay. It got mentioned in Lovecraft Country. He really had his issues and we are lucky that they are not more obsessive than what we saw thus far.
Lovecraft Is the only author who can really shook me to my core I have a deep fear of the ocean and big unknown things, so lovecraftian cosmic horror really hits a spot for me
You guys won a webby! Glad I could vote for a channel that totally deserved this honour!!! You guys are the best! These videos helped me so much during my exams! Thank you guys!!!
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@@TEDEd OH MY GOD! Ahhhhhh!!!!
I'm gonna stop fangirling now. stop it Ananya you are 17 years old!
I tell all my friends to use your videos. they make learning so much fun! When I have to take lessons, I always search for videos from you guys, just because they are so simple and fun!
sometimes I volunteer to take lessons for topics that I know you guys have put up videos for.
I especially love the five fingers of evolution that one about the cyanobacteria ( the first mass extinction was it?)
I watch them to pass time too!
You guys are amazing! and what you are doing is amazing as well!
I wanna learn animation and if I do learn it and am good at it I would love to make one of your lessons. contributing to this channel would be one of the pinnacles in my life.
Thank you for what you do ( and for listening to my rant! )
-Ananya ( i wanted to put a heart, but computers don't let you use emojis so :-D and :-) is the best I can do ;-p)
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@@TEDEd thank you for that! I shall do that once I'm ready! ❤️❤️ ( I'm on my phone now, well technically it's my mum's phone but now I have emojis!)😊
H.P. LoveCraft and Nicola Tesla both proved that capitalism doesn't work. If it worked both men would have died wealthy instead of poor.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. HP Lovecraft
I was gonna comment that 😆
I have a button with that quote on it :)
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Funny how most of his stories were inspired by his phobias and some specifically about his xenophobia.
Correction: fear lies not in the unknown, but in overthinking about the unknown.
Think deeply on that.
It is truly sad to know that two of the greatest horror writers (Poe and Lovecraft) died penniless, in misery, and on top of that, relatively young.
Their stories live on however
at least Poe got to be famous during his life. Lovecraft didnt even have that.
@@KilliK69 wellll lovecraft is really xenophobic so that might be onw of the reasons
kaiser der variante No not really, people didn’t care back then. Prejudice was a common thing, he was a nobody because he was way ahead of his time
Lovecraft's isn't sad. Just look at his cat's name or like, the racism in some of his books.
"Mathematics themselves become a source of horror"
You got that right.
Mathematics is love and life!
@@arfn1973 yeaa
When you struggle in math class.
I had the pause the damn video to appreciate this lmao
@Zengn Draws He wanted to pursue higher education in math, but didn't have the grades. His "non-Euclidean geometry", for one, is an example of some of the math that was revolutionary in his time.
"A victim of the universe's cosmic indifference", well said.
Fancy words for "cancer of the small intestine and malnutrition"
@@raphuscucullatus7845 cancer caused by his diet consisted mostly of canned food because he couldnt afford anything else to eat. so, yeah, it is a fit description because he lived all his life as a penniless nobody and that eventually led to his premature, painful death.
Didn’t get a jack.
@@justaperson324 What's a "jack" what?!
@@Gadget-Walkmen We’ll never know.
He was kinda scared of everything, too. Immigrants, the ocean, air conditioning, things he couldn’t comprehend. And when you take things he can’t comprehend and have us look at them through his eyes, then we start to become a bit more afraid of it.
uhhhhh... air conditioning?
@@cbhv4321 read his story “cold air”
@@cbhv4321 He didn’t have a good understanding of science as a kid. I’m pretty sure he wrote about how he was scare of colors and non-euclidian surfaces too.
That explains his racism.
I'm afraid of the fridge (jk) it's just... Demonic. The way you don't see the light turn off 😖😖
Don't forget that many things Lovecraft feared weren't even dangerous. When the dude came across something he didn't understand, he'd be afraid of it by default. I mean, _he was scared of air conditioning and curved shapes._
And that, to me, is what makes him such a tragic figure. He spent his life being afraid of different people and things and perpetuating that through his stories when, at the end of the day, much of those anxieties and suspicions were unfounded. Fear of the unknown is one thing, but teach someone to fear needlessly and you might as well smash their kneecaps.
Alicia Nyblade I think that’s almost poetic. His works perpetuated his own fear but at the end of the day, like you said, it’s mostly unfounded (or just unnecessary to worry about). You could almost view his works in the same way. There’s somewhat of a persistent, dreadful nihilism present in his works, seeing as we’re all minuscule specks in the cosmos waiting for whatever inevitable end the universe sees befitting of us, but you can find comfort in that.
TL;DR Old Gods are cool but as a human, why worry about them? Maybe Lovecraft’s works were cautionary, if unintentionally.
also had a massive fear of water
@Bridget Walker might very well be true! Both of his parents died in an insane asylum...
@@aldoushuxley5953 Lovecraft had night terrors. So, his dreams crept into his stories
Those anymations, the narration and the music...so good!
JJ NotToday *animations
@@warrenkeystone5195 Yeah I also saw that too afterwards but didn't want to correct my comment because the heart gets lost if you do...
These aren't just any mations
Yes! I was in constant awe from beginning to end!
*animatoins
He had a pretty dark imagination when he named his cat, too.
Ummmm
LMAOOO
Underrated comment
His father did not him
Maybe he BLACKED out when he did that
Is it just me or is the fact that he died young and pennilessness add another layer of horror to reading his work.
Yep you can really feel the paranoia, depression and other emotions in his works which really adds a lot more to his stories, I believe without lovecrafts deep rooted character flaws, his stories wouldnt have been anywhere near as good, luckily he took advantage of his fears and wrote about it with unique storytelling
So what does that have to do with genius, success in material usually leads to blandness.
You know somebody's work is creepy when just a Ted Ed video discussing it is creepy.
Wow this might even beat my most liked comment on this video: th-cam.com/video/ka5pYUSkgHI/w-d-xo.html
We're flattered! ;)
I opened my bed--side lamp while watching this video,freaked me out a little bit too.
Well creppyness is in the yese of the beholder. It is on you how creepy something can be. That's what I like about HP Lovecrafts stuff. It's only creepy when you want to be scared.
@@imnotreallysure5155 I just regret having bought all his stories in the way he wrote them. aka old english mixed with american dialects. I regret my choice...
"And as long as humans feel a sense of dread about our unknown future, Lovecraftian horror will have a place in the darkest corners of our imagination."
I seriously loved the topic and the idea that you brought upon us today, and, thank you for inspiring students like me to continue our own stories ❤
Correct I have a special Spot reserved For the great old one.
_"If I am mad, it is mercy. May the gods pity the man who in his callousness, can remain sane to the hideous end." H.P. Lovecraft_
I genuinely love this one!
“Mathematics themselves become a source of horror.”
Ah yes , facts.
The more I *LEARN* about math the more I'm convinced it's an outergod.
In case you were unaware, Euclidean geometry is geometry on a flat surface. So, non-Euclidean architecture includes bridges, pipelines, and particularly large buildings.
What is 1+1?
11 right
yeah felt that real hard in my maths test😃
Favorite horror writer. His mind is one that we may never see again.
He is not dead, he lives in our mind.
@@legendaryohope4670 agreed
His name shouldn’t even be “Lovecraft”
It should be “NoSleepForTheNext5MonthsBecauseOfMyCrafts”
👁️👃👁️
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🖕. 🖕
First time I came to know that these kind of horrors is "lovecraft", I was like totally confused. "Love" and "Horror" doesn't really match....
@@sendoh7x one sided love is pretty horrible😂😂😂
He called them "night gaunts," a lot classier that your term...
Eery juxtaposition, I guess.
1:20 "Mathematics themselves becomes a source of horror" Aren't they already horrors?
Math:*exists
Problems: It's free real estate..
Math is interesting😉
@@theseeker7194 yep i love math its fun ●w●
If you consider how many people go crazy in the US Navy's Nuclear Power program, you would see that yes, mathematics do cause madness.
I think it’s because Cthulhu is based on the concept of infinity
The fact that people are no longer frightened by fantastical folk lore because they were already traumatised by WWI breaks my heart..
Don't need to make up horror stories when you can just look around your reality
😊👍
I kind of like it a witch turns up cackling
ex solder ha come and have a go if you think you're hard enough.
I think the fascination with horror is only existent when times are good. If the events of your day to day already scare you, you would not be so willing to invite fear as a form of entertainment.
3:34 "Lovecraft's infamous blend of dragon and octopus"
THE OCTOGON !!
More like "Octagon", eh?
Ight imma head out
Dragtopus
They did say that mathematics became part of his horror, so it's not far off. XD
@@qazxwecvr This is the greatest comment thread and you made it so much worse
AliboLink_ 07 The greatest comment section is the “Come Together” animated video on the Beatles’ channel. Thank me later.
He died poor and unknown. No matter what you do, do what you love and you never know the impact it will have on humanity. Always be a force of good and the best version of yourselves even if that is not the "best" in the eyes of others.
that is true, but he did not get any of that posthumus recognition. He still died completely alone, with the thought, that his lifes work, the thing he had sacrificed so much for, would be completely forgotten.
He almost starved himself to death, because he was so poor, and barely was able to afford canned food.
In his last years, he was also in considerable pain, because of his cancer, and his mind started to slip (which was no doubt quite scary, because both his parents went insane in the end).
So while I agree, always follow your dreams, your path will not necessarily be a pleasant one, if you do so, and you have to understand that before hand, or be hit by life unbearibly hard, again and again.
@@aldoushuxley5953 this hit hard
Wait so he made cthulhu and people worshipping it as if it was real?, awesome.
Correct me here is i say something wrong (might do a little more research)
The most wonderful and empowering thing ever said ❤
Man, I thought I was the only one getting scared shitless from impossible geometric configurations ...
Its the normal geometry you have to fear. Especially right angles. That's how the hounds get to you.
😂
I dreamt of it once. Was not a fun dream.
Mandelbrot set
Non Euclidean geometry is terrifying.
This came out on my birthday.
A fan of H.P Lovecraft and subscribed to Ted
The stars have aligned.
Hbd
Alex K
Be warned, the slime will engulf you!!!! ~
Praise the old ones
@@vduck7354 happy birthday dude, have a great day😁😆🎂🎉
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
If you Love Craftian horror I recommend reading Junji Ito’s Work.
ah, the madman. he's great
Junji Ito works are basically Lovecraft works but with cool drawings!
I actually got to know about Lovecraft after reading his mangas.
Truth^^
Weeb
I think H.P. Lovecraft also did drugs. In his story “Dagon” the narrator says that drugs are the only thing that makes life bearable. Keep in mind that Lovecraft included things in his own personal life into his works. Very sad.
i do not remember which but there are many stories with drugs, and no i dont think he did drugs considering that in his stories he also wrote drugs as a bad thing
The narrator of Dagon did opium to calm himself of his paranoia. In the 1910s and 20s, when the story was written, doctors threw morphine and opium at everything they could, leading to massive crippling addiction on a national scale. Lovecraft witnessed this first hand and incorporated into some of his stories, all which I've read so far, paint the drug in a negative light.
The whole dreamcycle stories of lovecraft involve using drugs to get to another world, Celephais is a good story that shows this
If you think about it, during his time, science and mathematics are not as progressive as today's era. There are still alot of things that needs to be discovered, even doctors and scientists during that time don't know what they were doing and even cause death among people. I think him being scared of almost everything kinda makes sense to me. It is truly horrifying when you can't comprehend things that are unknown.
Awww...
“mom it’s a curved shape im scared”
-H.P Lovecraft
Honestly, seeing a triangle have internal angles greater 180° or parallel lines collide/part is pretty goddamn scary. Non-Euclidean geometry man.
They aren't curved, the angles are just too small for you to see.
@@flrs5858 Me after seeing a triangle on the surface of a sphere : [terrified screaming]
(a curved 2D surface has non-Euclidean geometrical properties, such as a triangle on such surface can has the total of 3 angles greater or smaller than 180).
try to imagine a 3 right angle triangle, pretty scarey right?
@@user-iq7mk3gb9w you might notice, that since we live on a globe, all of our geometry is non eucldidan
He died pennyless not knowing the thriving future of his creations.
Yup. Basically proving his point about reality being a cold and uninterested place. The future is pointless for the deceased.
He had a cute cat didn’t he?
:((
@@uggupuggu what was the cat's name again?
@@enchantednightcrawler6629 Lord Timothy Sullivan Maxwell III
I wanna name my future cat that
"The oldest and strongest kind of fear is the fear of the unknown.."- HPL
His death was similarly dreary and mysterious as his inspiration Edgar Allan Poe.. sounds CREEPY..
Coincedence!?.... probably. Cool to think about anyway? Yes
Nah he died of stomach cancer
He knew too much :)
Edger allen poe died cause he commited voter fraud for some alcohol then got drunk and got himself killed.
@@schwany6703 that theory is still contsested
"Festering fear consumes the mind."
"In time, you will know the tragic extent of my failings."
Ruin has come to our family
"We are not the flame. We are but moths. And we are doomed."
"The wounds of war can be healed, but never hidden"
With enough ale, maybe they can be inured against the horrors below.
"Welcome home, such as it is. This squalid hamlet, these corrupted lands, they are yours now, and you are bound to them"
You guys should read his books :)
They are relatively short, so if you have 1-2 hours before bed, you could get through one.
They are not only well written, but also thought provoking. To Lovecraft, we are not the centre of the universe, but mere ants in relation to higher powers, we don't understand. Powers, that are neither good, nor bad, but indifferent.
My favourites are At the mountains of madness or the color out of space.
Color out of space also gets a movie adaptation very soon, that looks pretty good!
@Rotom Channel same it’s super underrated
You don't see Huxley recommending Lovecraft's books every day ahahaha ; )
Mandy is easily one of my favourite movies. Thanks for the inspiration, Lovecraft.
Please help! I´ve been wanting to start reading lovecraft, but I just don´t know where to start! I really want to get into the whole Cthulhu story, should I start with The Call of Cthulhu?
@@BM5556 Cthulhu only appears in a few short stories. The call of cthulhu and especially at the mountains of madness are probably his best stories.
But if you just want a taste to see if you like it, some good shorter stories are the dunwich horror, the rats in the walls, from beyond, the shadow over innsmouth...
Those are quite short, and you can find good audiobook versions on youtube, so you can listen to them instead of buying the books :)
Thats how I got into lovecraft
tl;dr:
for longer stories, call of cthulhu and at the mountains of madness are good starting places, for the short stories I would start with something like dunwich horror
And Bloodborne still holds one of the most truthful interpretations of it.
@@pvtbx4198 its realy cool
Radek Seky Darkest Dungeon is more truthful to Lovecraftian Horror.
@@mr.awesomereacts2533 Haven't played it.
Oh, great Kos. Grant us eyes, GRANT US EYES!!
@@mr.awesomereacts2533 Both are, Bloodborne uses the Aspect of Humans being greedy, immortality etc. but in the end, turn insane and dead.
2nd edit:This was probably me miss reading it so the following is unlikely
In one of his final letters to his family he showed signs of regret realizing his prejudice.
Edit: I've been Iooking for it but can't find the letter online, I came across it in one of the collection his letters books in the library
Is it available online
It’s such an interesting tidbit to me that he showed these signs and then died soon after. I wish he had gotten the chance to be a better man.
Henrik Tamminen
Could someone find a link to this letter online? I can’t find it
Miles Upshur He died right as he started to make a name for himself too. I'm sure if he had lived he would have been a household name in horror writing(even more so than today), and it would have been interesting to see how his possible change of heart may have affected his works.
I don't even think that his prejudices are relevant when it comes to his work, because it is important to seperate the artist from his art. I was kind of the status quo back then, and people who try to drag the attitudes of the past into the present and use this as a basis of judgement do neither know how to differenciate and how linear time works.
That thumbnail is when I look into the fridge and see only kale
This is the horror you chose. You bought too much kale.
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Saute it in butter to defeat it !
That is me when homework is due today
You mean the image at 1:24
@@BanoonRagoon but you need to humble it first
Meanwhile Japan is here sexualising Lovecraft's works into cute girls.
WRLD OverHeaven whats the trend called?
@@thebigskub4319 try watch haiyore nyaruko san
The main heroine nyarlatothep or smtg I forget the pronunciation
@Brandon Booth which is why I'm not a fan of anime
@@drakashrakenburgproduction5369 I am a fan of anime and I still didnt like it
And?
Fascinating, Isn't It? Lovecraft gets more and more recognised as time passes on. He is indeed an important part of the literary canon and popular culture
His imagination was so dark that he gave a *special name* to his cat
𝚗𝕚𝚐𝕘𝚎𝕣𝚖𝕒𝚗
@@phaserxultraviolet1694 nikamon
Extremely DARK
It sounds like a superhero name.
@@YetAnotherInv The man of steal
I’m still traumatized by mathematics
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange æons even death may die."
these animations somehow blow me away every time! keep it up!!
Love craft took his ever persistent anxiety in regard to pretty much anything he considered foreign was a large inspiration for his horror. He truly suffered during his lifetime which is tragic
"the world is indeed comic but the joke is on mankind" is such a raw line
Mind-bending animation as always... George RR Martin is one of those inspired by Lovecraft
Stephen King also draws a lot of his inspiration from Lovecraft.
"The night is dark, and full of terrors"
Lovecraft inspired tons of people. The influence of Lovecrafts work can be found as far as in movies like Indiana Jones which is not even Horror at all. He is one of the most important writers in recent history.
pierrecurie Also the Ironborn’s “What is dead may never die” comes from a line in Call of Cthulu
@@angryyordle4640 And even in games like Bloodborne
My favorite of his stories is the Call of Cuthulu. It’s actually what inspires some of my own stories that I write. I may not like the man for his social views, but I respect him for how he has changed literature forever.
I've heard of Lovecraft many times throughout my life, but I've never read his work.
Didn't realise he had such a profound impact on many of my favourite horror and sci-fi films.
Thank you for enlightening me.
If you want hear about Lovecraft storys then please visit channel called Horrorbable as they have large amounts of Lovecraft audiobooks.
@@mirokortemaa9060 Thank you for the recommendation =]
@@MalaysianTropikfusion I'd recommend reading the books because they give your imagination more work
@@henriktamminen7438 I just recently read a manga adaptation of The Colour Out of Space:
mangakakalot.com/chapter/isekai_no_shikisai/chapter_1
It felt quite short, so I'll definitely consider his books sometime.
You should definitively read his books. They are relatively short, so if you have 1-2 hours before bed, you could get though one.
They are not only well written, but also thought provoking. To Lovecraft, we are not the centre of the universe, but mere ants in relation to higher powers, we don't understand. Powers, that are neither good, nor bad, but indifferent.
My favourites are At the mountains of madness or the color out of space.
Color out of space also gets a movie adaptation very soon, that looks pretty good!
Lovecraft is an American original.
He created a genre beyond 'horror'. He created what is called 'cosmic horror'.
Many of revolutionary artists were inspired by their own demons. The most intense of pain and horror made them create a own style of expression. But also the same horror made their life and death miserable. Many brilliant artists like Van Gogh, Virginia Woolf, Silvia Path ended up taking their lives, and other like Lovecraft died in misery. It's heartbreaking.
The best five minute video describing and capturing Lovecraft, especially in the visuals. Your animators are awesome, TED-Ed.
Agreed, this art is fantastic!
Imagine what he would write if he heard about radiation an the nuclear bomb
Look more closely at The Color out of Space, much of the effects upon the farm are in fact close to nuclear radiation.
He knew.
@@Skeloric Must be the New World Order.
well he did talk about other multi-universes and dimensions beyond the third and fourth which is very ahead of his time
Some of the creepiest real life things I've ever seen are the pictograms they design for guarding nuclear waste sites. They have to draw something that humans or even other intelligent creatures could see potentially thousands of years in the future that communicates, without any cultural context, the message:
What we buried here will kill you.
Spooky.
Don't care about his bigotry, I have no problem with separating the person from his work.
Which his stories are amazing!
It's a strange irony how he died as many of his characters: insignificant and unknown, but his work, his imagination is what lived on as a near-unfathomable entity in its own right.
To me, he didn't just write his mythos, he embodied it. Both in life and in death.
This man brought us one of the best final bosses in Terraria and I’m so happy I learned more about him.
And Cthulhu isn't even the most powerful entity in the mythos.
@@M12GProductions The power of entities does not matter. What matters is their relation to us. We are but ants to them.
Ants can not understand our motives, can not fight us, can not plead with us for mercy. Cthulhu has the same realtion to you.
@@aldoushuxley5953 well they dont even have mind, so this is inapplicable. I think we could contact and even regularily interact even with such an entities that all those stinky gods of Lovecraft are, even if its hard for most of us. These gods are definitely shamanic gods, so take a shrooms before contacting them, heh
thank you for shoving in those diverse authors with their strong and independent thoughts to counter Lovecraft's lack of privilege checking
I feel like this is sarcasm XD
Lovecraft sympathizer 👰🏻
It's amazing how detailed the drawing had, leaving some hints of what story they may be talking about. Amazing video!
I think it might jorge jaramillo, based on the ending credits.
H.P. Lovecraft of course inspired Abraham Lincoln, as we all know. 4:00.
For all the Lovecraft fans I highly recommend the educator for this video, Silvia Morena-Garcia's novel Mexican Gothic! I just finished it and loved it!
I always enjoy viewing the artistic interpretations in these "Why you should read.." videos.
"A victim of universe's cosmic indifference."
The same as everyone's fate. We live an absurd existence with only the insignificance and meaninglessness of our lives to lean on. Have a nice day.
@@sandollor
Don’t take science fiction seriously please.
We are all insignificant in the grand scheme
@@pafoneto1275 I'm an absurdist, I don't take anything seriously.
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Lovecraft sounds like a weird minecraft mod
No. It sounds like a minecraft horror story
Meh, he sounds like a character in bsd
Keichi Akechi omg XD
@@breadsaretasty6777 it's true, watch bungou stray dogs. Their characters are based on real life authors. Including Lovecraft I think. XD
Lmao. relatable, have a nice day.
Wow. The art depicting the Colour out of space and At the mountains of madness are absolutely breathtaking!
Zz.zZ agreed it’s amazing
Fun fact: George RR Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire, included his own reference to the Cthulhu mythos in his series. The Iron Islands, and perhaps the Drowned God himself, are tied to this universe’s own version of the Great Old Ones, who supposedly love deep beneath the ocean.
I'm just in love with his eloquent style of writing! From the moment I read his works at 12, I wanted to dedicate myself to "Lovecraftian Horror". 8 years later, my translations of his works were published and my stories, inspired from his works, were also included in literary journals. Even my bday is the same as his. I sometimes even feel I was wrongly born in this era! THIS MAN... 😂
Ahh, Kos, or some say Kosm... Do you hear our prayers? Grant us eyes, grant us eyes. Plant eyes on our brains, to cleanse our beastly idiocy.
As you once did for the Vacuous Rom...
Just leaving the comment to express the perfection of this video, both the graphics and substantive infos... Wow. Great job.
I literally searched up "Why I should read H. P. Lovecraft" yesterday and was disappointed there wasn't a Ted-ed video on it yet! I bought one of his books today, can't wait to read it!!
Diya Elizabeth Which story/ stories?
Cool Hazel pfp. I love Seconds.
People really hate Lovecraft even though they have never read his stories and immediately jump to conclusions after Overly Sarcastic Production's video on him, I like the channel but I feel like they indirectly caused a hate crusade against Lovecraft and anyone who reads and likes his works.
I've never read his work but it sounds truly incredible. Everything he put in his work ACTUALLY sounded terrifying. Gore and murder or jump scares. None of that stuff scares me. Though stuff like the omnipotent beings in the lovecraftian universe, beings beyond reality, are truly terrifying
It's amazing how Lovecraft's horrors can be so entertaining.
The Animation and theme really fits into that Mysterious tone of Lovecraft's stories
Lovecraft was moving away from his racism toward the end of his life. You can see it in "At the Mountains of Madness" (1935, he died in 1937) where the protagonist realizes at the end that the five-limbed creature is just a person with another body shape than his own. He also renounced his reactionary politics and was pretty much becoming a New Dealer. He deserves credit for that much.
The feeling of dread, insignificance and ultimately unavoidable yet horrible fate is just horrible and terrifying.
This is what “Lovecraftian” means
Bad news y'all.
Apperently his dad named the cat and not him.
Oh
And Lovecraft said (probably):
*"Let there be Creepypastas"*
I knew this guy from "Incident in a ghostland"
Hey TED-ED
Please
Can you make a video on the topic of *"depressive reality"*
Honestly does a diverse set of writers matter in a genre that highlights human insignificance? The long lasting impression I got from his writing was that life doesn’t mater and wasn’t all that special in the grand scheme of thing.
Human life.
Lovecraft also inspired Joseph Fink, author and dramatist, who co-created the podcast, stage show, and book: "Welcome to Night Vale."
Most people forget that he renounced his racist views later in life. There was a letter to a friend where he said that he had seen how foolish and mistaken he was in his predjuces
Yeah, but Ted-ed is all about virtue signaling so they don't care.
@@redragon88 By the time Lovecraft renounced his racism, the damage had already been done as thoses ideas showed in some of his works (and cat). He died shortly after the change of heart, sadly.
I think TED-ED did an amazing job by considering the author's greatness in his crafts without dismissing his racism and past mistakes. Notice how they still held on to his genius and didn't just talk about the wrong.
@@LaRavachole Yeah, surprsingly they managed to restrain themselves virtue signaling for a whole 3 minutes and 40 seconds. New record.
@@WeirdTale I mean... I guess so, but then do you think they should've just left/ignored this part of his life? They did go through what H.P Lovecraft is/was about and part of it were his views, wether good or bad or simply different.
Weird Tale Yes, some people do beat dead horses regarding that, but it is an important aspect of his life and relevant to his work; there are legitimate reasons to mention it.
“These beings exist beyond our conceptions of reality, their true forms as inscrutable as their motives.”
You can’t grasp the true form of Giygas’ attack!
he was the one who opened up our minds to the idea that maybe we're not the most important things in the world.
I want to thank Lovecraft for the masterpiece that is inspired by his work "Bloodborne"
It’s kind of sad that he died before he could see his success that he made in the world
Its very poetic, in a way.
Ah yes, as an "Asian dreg" im really sorry him
damn H.P. Lovecraft is such a cool guy! I wonder what he named his cat?
Gerald
basketball welfare person man
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@TheCyberShark XD
his cat is called ni...
Lovecraft's dad named the cat, not Lovecraft himself.
The father of creepypasta
All of Lovecraft's fiction is much better than any creepy pasta out there. Creepy pastas generally don't have very high quality of writing.
@@christopherdavis7069 that's the point actually ... Cuz most are based partially on real things, it's not supposed to be some literature genius.
@@victor7480 I wasn't insulting all creepy pastas. There are some pretty good ones out there. And most of the ones I've listened to over 4 years are based in non fiction, not real the real.
No, I believe Edgar Allan Poe was. . . . . .
"I buried a man alive who insulted me in my wine cellar"
"I killed my cat but found another one that looks like him"
"I killed an old man because I didn't like his eye"
Silvia Moreno-Garcia !!! She wrote my favorite gothic horror book of 2020 titled "Mexican Gothic." You guys should check it out, it features a really creepy family and even a BIT of Lovecraft-esque horror. It's like The Yellow Wallpaper mixed in with said disturbing family and haunted house plus creepy plants horror ✨
I just farted
The last line in the video is awesome. I can just imagine Lovecraft's ghost hearing it and saying "Aw... you guys _do_ care!"
What a strange fate it would be to have your lifes work discovered only after you’ve died. Imagine coming to the end of your life and having very good reason to believe that you wasted your life on a talent nobody appreciated.. only to have it revolutionize that particular field after you’re no longer around to see
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woah, i want to read this guy's stories, it sounds cool
Wait, didn't Overly Sarcastically Productions did a video of H.P. Lovecraft?
Yes
You’re practically illiterate
@@shallowgod5539 your thoughtful statement seems to be about right excluding the opinion of your so believed opponent.
@@shallowgod5539 ???
They did do uh video on that there subject, gah darn right. Durkka durr
"IT'S A SQUID! NOOOOO I'M GOING MAD!"
did h.p lovecraft predict henta-
*gets turned into a fishman*
@@qwertyiuwg4uwtwthn Lovecraft really was crazy about them octopussy before Japanese people did.
@@ileiad isn't there a game where you have to kiss a female version of chtullu?
Lovecraft is the definition of eating peanut butter before you go to bed
Can anyone remind me what his cat’s name was? I can’t quite remember it
like "nigel boy" or something like that
I think he named it Digger Man after his uncle, who dug for a living
@@Henrykrinkle5 no i was the N-world look it up
Basketball man...
Superior levels of melatonin male being
2:34 those drums were on point
Despite Lovecraft's literary work and his success in immortalizing the mythos that inspire a long generation that believes in these fictional characters, but like many people in his time he is a sad man who is too afraid to live and learn the good and not at all terrifying. He casted everyone to be a threat and he believe in something that doesn't and will never exist, his twisted mind brought the idea of hopelessness and the dreaded fear of the unknown that would stop others to progress and develop in the field for human history and scientific development. I would praise him to be a brilliant author, but I will not praise the messages in his stories. Fear is something we all are and will face, but that doesn't mean we cannot overcome someday.
Well said
Mr. Lovecraft, could you sign my Cthulu funko pop?
Tim Burton would be the right director if theres a Cthulhu movie
Or Guillermo del Toro
@@despinasgarden.4100 He was supposed to direct *Mountains of Madness*
@@theultraatomicgamer shame it didn’t get past nothing but a simple script. I think he may be wanting to try it again in future
@@theultraatomicgamer del toro would be perfect for a kthulu movie he did do the 7 gods of chaos in the hellboy movie and they were basically a precursor to kthulu
Lovecraft and his crazy fears of not only the unspeakable unknowns of the universe, but of math, curved shapes, and normal things like air conditioning, have now permeated the modern horror genre. This is especially true in places like Japan, whose manga authors are taking horror into new and weird territories, always under the guidance of the OP--H.P. Lovecraft.
Can this animation and sound team please make an entire Lovecraft movie already!!! The video was better than most horror movies nowadays!!!!!!
New game! Everytime someone in the comment section speaks of his cat, take a shot of whiskey
There is also a very very dreadful essay.
It got mentioned in Lovecraft Country.
He really had his issues and we are lucky that they are not more obsessive than what we saw thus far.
if i got that right, Lovecraft saw cats as magnificent creatures. It got me thinking : why would you call an animal you deeply respect as a slur ?
@@619to974 Meow meow
everyone gangsta until letters mix with numbers
Lovecraft Is the only author who can really shook me to my core
I have a deep fear of the ocean and big unknown things, so lovecraftian cosmic horror really hits a spot for me