Chapter & Verse Join Workhouse For Range Of Lovecraftian Miniatures
December 10, 2018 by brennon
Chapter & Verse has joined forces with Workhouse Games to create a range of Cthulu & Lovecraftian themed miniatures for collectors and hobbyists. The first of these is a familiar face...
You'll be able to watch out for a Kickstarter project which will be arriving in 2019 where you will no doubt be able to find this miniature and more. As well as painters enjoying these I could imagine folks who like their horror-based role-playing games could use this fellow for their adventures.
They are currently looking to hit Kickstarter in around March and hopefully, we'll see some more previews of what they have planned in the near future.
Whilst Lovecraft is a divisive figure nowadays for his views, and rightly so, the strange mythos he managed to bring to life has done quite a bit to inspire creative people, especially in recent years it seems!
Are you going to be keeping an eye on this range?
"...the strange mythos he managed to bring to life has done quite a bit to inspire creative people, especially in recent years it seems!"
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HPL’s racist and antisemitic views are horrible even for his own times let alone the modern reader. Fortunately they are not overt in the vast majority of his writing. He was a deeply strange individual and his mother and aunt seem to have influenced the view of the young HPL and in to adulthood.
That’s relevant how exactly?
Read the article above, the topic is directly introduced in the last paragraph.
And I would ask the author of the article the same thing. Will that be a thing going forward, signaling how virtuous we are when the topic is related to historical figures? Nazis bad, racism bad, colonialism bad, communism bad! Tell me if I checked all the necessary boxes please.
Or, you know, you could maybe not be so precious about it?
Lovecraft’s views on race and eugenics are a very common topic of discussion when discussing his work, as they are with many American pulp writers of his day. Indeed, they are pretty crucial to contextualising his writing and views of horror. If you personally don’t want to discuss these things, that’s completely fine, but I see no reason to jump down someone’s throat when they mention something that was referred to mere lines above their post.
Of course it’s a topic when going into depth about his work. We would not have said work without it, after all. Lovecraft was a sensitive child with an overabundance of fantasy, maybe even on the spectrum. The things his aunt taught him gave him all these nightmares.
Neither is he divisive though, nor was his racism and view on eugenics anything out of the ordinary in his time. In the end he apologized for it, after he had made his own experiences with people of different origins.
Goodness, all that is wrong. When harping on a long dead authors social views from the lens of modern social politics you are the very definition of precious.
His views were offensive in the context of his own times, not just from the viewpoint of modern social politics.
Fundamentally incorrect. Your ignorance is truly sad and reflects on the value of all your intellectual conclusions.
It’s not a case of virtue signalling…it’s just pointing out a fact about the man. I find it fascinating that we view his creative works through a different lens considering his personality is all. His worlds and ideas have become very popular and used across all manner of different games, but it’s fascinating that people put aside the man and divorce him from it when we see it on the tabletop in its various forms. So, when a company produces a miniature of the man himself I think it’s an interesting discussion topic to have, especially since from that point… Read more »
Of course you have to separate artist and work, or you will either go crazy or become a hermit. For example, I think David Harbour is an awful, divisive person in real life, but I still enjoy his performance. I think John Ringo has a very, how do I put it, weird and apologetic world view, and I still enjoy his books (with the exception of those with Germans in them). While Lovecraft’s world view is inextricably linked to his work, his books themselves don’t show that. Reading them without knowing his background, you’d never think he talks about how… Read more »
I like discussing the background and the people behind the art as much as I do the art itself, so I will continue to mention it.
Does this mean it’s going to be the dominating portion of discussion…no, just as aspect of a varied hobby which should be rewarded for the depth it offers.
Me discussing it is as valid as you not wanting to. Me bringing it up shouldn’t impact your enjoyment of the hobby as much as you wanting to leave it alone shouldn’t impact mine – it’s just different sides of a many-faceted hobby.
Had to edit, site is acting up.
Alright then, agree to disagree here. Hope you’re feeling better by now with your sickness, looking forward to this week’s videos and spotlights!
Have a good one!
What scale ar these going to be?
Tag says 32mm
I see the author and several of the commenters are painfully ignorant people concerning academic and historical standards for discussing dead figures, standards that have been around for centuries. If Lovecraft’s now century old beliefs, entirely intellectual beliefs and without a single act of wrong-doing or crime to back them, gives you the vapors I’m afraid it’s impossible for anyone to take you seriously as an adult. Again, this question has been settled for centuries by academics with much higher IQs than these couple gamers, the present doesn’t stand in moral judgment of the past, nor do we apply our… Read more »
This question has been settled for centuries past? Lovecraft hasn’t even been dead for a century. Also, no-one’s harping on about it. Race is fundamental to much of Lovecraft’s writing. His own personal abhorrence to ‘miscegenation’ is, at the very least, academically fascinating. Given that two of the most successful adaptations of his work in recent years have tackled the race issue head-on (Harlem Unbound, and Get Out), I’d say it’s pretty natural and, dare I say, interesting to discuss the issue of race in his work. I admit I am more interested in this than most for professional reasons… Read more »
The question of whether the present holds judgment over the past is the settled question in academia. And of course, the commenters on here are clearly unaware of that fact, and how settled that fact is. Though I can’t hold it against any academic with a legitimate interest in the topic. Of course you would then know, as I do, how ridiculous the comments that Lovecraft was atypical in his racial beliefs for the time is. And you would also be aware of the missing scale this author personally suffers from to mention Lovecraft as a controversial figure, yet consistently… Read more »
I certainly agree on some of what you’re saying. But for many people, their interest is in Lovecraft, not other contemporary figures. I think a fairer comparison would be made to American pulp writing of that era in general, which very much shared Lovecraft’s ideology. I cannot agree that the question is settled, though. I’d say it’s still very hotly debated, especially in the discipline of history (as many would argue that History always has been the interpretation of the past through a ‘modern’ lens, albeit as cautiously as possible). Lovecraft certainly had many contemporaries who would have strenuously disagreed… Read more »
I don’t see anything wrong with your work or anything illegitimate about your pursuits. For what my personal opinion is worth, they seem perfectly valid and worthwhile. Now I don’t believe that a select minority of people in the past holding much more modern values overwhelms the common norms of their society. Considering the laws, institutional rules, and business practices of the time, Lovecraft was no more than a reflection of the majority norms, and quite frankly a very inoffensive version of them when considering the practical malice all those laws, institutional rules, and business practices caused. How many short… Read more »
You’re definitely right about that. There is a distinct lack of empathy with others when people look into the past (and present!). This is nothing new, its just more noticeable today. No offense to his legacy, but Lovecraft was essentially a nobody in his time. He could have had views three times more offensive and he still wouldn’t have done as much harm as some who worked in colonial offices, police forces, etc.
Pathetic.
Yes, I will be keeping an eye out for this range! Please keep us posted.