The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society

The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society
Current Status	Active
Founded	1986
Founder	Sean Branney Phil Bell Andrew Leman
Country	United States
Headquarters	Glendale, California, USA
Website	https://www.hplhs.org/index.php

The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, or HPLHS, is an organisation created in 1984 that is devoted to the promotion of the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and the Mythos. The produce a wide range of media based on that material.

They created the Cthulhu Lives Live Action Role Playing (LARP) game and produced film and audio pieces; usually adaptations of Lovecraft stories.

They also ran the Strange Eons fanzine.

Formation

The society saw its roots with a group of friends and Call of Cthulhu gamers including Sean Branney, Andrew Leman, and Darrell Tutchton. As all were amateur drama enthusiasts, they decided to home-brew their own live-action roleplaying system; during one session, passers-by who were unaware of what was happening with the group called the police and "a quick-thinking Sean … told them the group was the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society. The police were mollified and the name stuck."

In 1986, Branney and Leman, along with Phil Bell, formally established the group, and set it on the path to become what it is today .

Films

• The Statement of Randolph Carter (1988)
• A Shoggoth on the Roof
• The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
• The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)

Audio

• "A Very Scary Solstice"
• "An Even Scarier Solstice"
• "Live at the Gillman House"
• "Ogham Waite Live from Stockholm"
• "Music f Dark Adventure"
• "The Curious Sea Shanties of Innsmouth, Mass."
• "A Soggoth on the Roof"
• "The Call of Cthulhu- Soundtrack"
• "the Whisperer in Darkness- Soundtrack"
• "Dagon/Cats of Ulthar Vinyl LP"

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre (DART) Productions

• At the Mountains of Madness
• The Dunwich Horror
• The Shadow Out of Time
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth
• The Call of Cthulhu
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
• The Colour Out of Space
• Herbert West -- Reanimator
• The Dreams in the Witch House
• Imprisoned with the Pharoahs
• The Horror at Red Hook
• Dagon: War of Worlds
• A Solstice Carol
• The White Tree
• The Thing on the Doorstep
• The Brotherhood of the Beast
• The Haunter of the Dark
• The Rats in the Walls
• Bad Medicine
• Masks of Nyarlathotep
• The Lurking Fear
• Mad Science
• The Whisperer in Darkness
• The Curse of Yig
• The Horror in the Museum

External Links

• LARP game official site
• Official website