In Conarium, you play as Frank Gilman, a member of an Antarctic expedition who has woken up to find his group’s base of operations deserted and his memory wiped clean. And while this effort inevitably shares many of the weaknesses of other Lovecraft adaptations, it does an admirable job with its limited tools.Ĭonarium’s writing successful mimics the bombastic style of Lovecraft Conarium is explicitly based on the events and setting of At the Mountains of Madness. That hasn’t stopped creators from trying to capture the essence of Lovecraft in other mediums, however.

How do you interpret that to a screen, to a form where people inevitably will see it for themselves? Lovecraft’s best stories are about things so horrible they are undefinable, indescribable, maddening to even gaze upon. That quote embodies Lovecraft’s approach to his own fiction, and it helps explain two things: first, why his work has remained such an ingrained part of pop culture even now, nearly a century since he started writing and second, why his work has been so remarkably difficult to translate to more visual narrative mediums like film and video games.

Lovecraft once wrote in an essay about horror literature: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” Lovecraft, an author who has been survived by his gothic horror writing 80 years after his death. Zoetrope Interactive's Conarium takes its inspiration from H.P.

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