With R'LYEH finally completed I wanted to write a personal post about how this came to be. This story of eldritch horror and madness is dedicated to my sister STEVIE, as kids we were explored many horror based films even if we hadn't reached the correct film rating just yet. I think I was about 9 or 10 when mum introduced me to the movies like Predator and Aliens, sex was no no but spines being ripped out of a man's back was totally fine, our dad introduced us to things more of the spooky nature like The Haunting, Whistle and I'll Come to You, The Woman in Black. Over decades my sister and I have wandered through the dark corridors of horror including sneaking me in to see Blade II when I was not 18 but my big sister managed to sneak me in with a denim jacket if I recall to make me look older, we've been expanding our library of our favourite movie that have creeped us out ranging from John Carpenter's The Fog all the way to James Wan's The Conjuring.
It would be in my twenties when we would discover the mad world of horrors created by H.P. Lovecraft when we got a book of a couple of his stories my favourite being The Call of Cthulhu and her's At the Mountains of Madness, this new love of Lovecraft horror has always stuck with me and after watching several films and video games that are based of this style of horror I’ve always wanted to do a Lovecraft story but I put it on the shelf for the time being. R’lyeh came into being when I got the idea for doing a Lovecraft horror but set in space, the main inspiration came from the video game series Dead Space after many ideas running through my head eventually the plot for R'lyeh was born.
I know that dedications are normally at the beginning of a story but I'm mixing it up, so to the best companion to go into the into the darkness and face the ghosts and monsters of cinema because let's face it my husband is too much of a wuss, this story is dedicated to you.
It would be in my twenties when we would discover the mad world of horrors created by H.P. Lovecraft when we got a book of a couple of his stories my favourite being The Call of Cthulhu and her's At the Mountains of Madness, this new love of Lovecraft horror has always stuck with me and after watching several films and video games that are based of this style of horror I’ve always wanted to do a Lovecraft story but I put it on the shelf for the time being. R’lyeh came into being when I got the idea for doing a Lovecraft horror but set in space, the main inspiration came from the video game series Dead Space after many ideas running through my head eventually the plot for R'lyeh was born.
I know that dedications are normally at the beginning of a story but I'm mixing it up, so to the best companion to go into the into the darkness and face the ghosts and monsters of cinema because let's face it my husband is too much of a wuss, this story is dedicated to you.
Cheers Nerf Herder
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