Lovecraft-inspired PC horror adventure unveiled

They had me at Lovecraft...

did anyone else play "call of cthulhu: dark corners of the earth"? that was a cool game based on the cthulhu lovecraft lore. if this is similar, ill be happy :)

Actually, "Howard E. Loreid" is an anagram of "I lorded a whore", or maybe "A red idol whore".

So long as it isn't another Scratches, I'll be happy.

"Howard E. Loreid (which is an anagram for "Stock Character")"

No its not!

Do you even know what an anagram is? It's a word/sentence made up by rearranging another word/sentence's letters. So how can "Howard E. Loreid" be an anagram for "Stock Character" when it has no S, no t, no c, no k, two o instead of 1, 1 a instead of 2, 2 r instead of 1 and two e instead of 1?

It's almost as far from an anagram as can be.

...that was sarcasm.

well spotted.. ;-)

@ 5:

I think you need to brush up on your understanding of sarcasm.

Another Call of Cthulu: DCotE fan?! Yeah, I'm interested in this. The whole family would sit down and play that, and we just haven't found that magic with other games.

Hey, I have that book.

Honestly, some of Love craft's stuff is really good, but most of it is really just absolute pulp mag crap.

Did you mean "pseudonym", in a similar manner to the way Alan Smithee is a synonym for a pseudonym for any director who doesn't wish to be associated with a film?

Call of cthulu was fun because of the speed at which you had to work sometimes, mixed with the crazy story of Lovecraft. This is going to be tougher because it appears point-and-click adventure. If I have to run around collecting numbers for a lock only open it and fin a clue to another puzzle I will get bored quickly. I have really enjoyed those games in sometime.
I will stay hopeful because I love Lovecraft's work, but that style does worry me.

"I think you need to brush up on your understanding of sarcasm."

No, writers need to actually learn how to write. I can't count how many times I have seen a poorly presented "joke" fall completely flat only to have the author or a helpful reader come along and inform us "it was sarcasm."

Ummm...if you have to point out that it is sarcasm, you have utterly failed at your craft and no blame should be leveled anywhere beyond the guy at keyboard. Period.

For the topic, I don't know...Lovecraft (from my admittedly limited exposure) has always come across as a Poe fan on acid. No reason to call it "bad" by any stretch, but hard to suspend disbelief and buy into a story when the whole time you are replaying your last few hours trying to figure out when someone dropped some peyote in your drink.

Some Jokes just go over people's heads, that's it, try to find all the jokes people missed from Futurama for example...

Gthulhu is coming.