Pickman’s Model (1926)
A letter depicting the story of a genius if strange artist who was ostracized by the art circles due to his gruesome paintings. The letter-writer gets a private tour to Pickman’s cellar painting studio and his models for his gruesome paintings. Cool idea, boring execution. This blah-blah-blahtered for ages and Lovecraft’s typical SHOCK AND HORROR last sentence reveal could be seen miles away.
☣︎ Monster of the week: Monstrous underground rodent-beings

The Book (1933)
So this is a short story fragment only but boy would I like to read more. The narrator is given a strange book and falls prey to its dark temptation and does a ritual he shouldn’t have done.
☣︎ Monster of the week: The book and the horrors it promises

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In the Vault (1925)
A lazy undertaker is trapped in a vault with a bunch of corpses but manages to flee with his mind and body mostly intact.
☣︎ Monster of the week: A corpse with a grudge

Memory (1919)
A flash fiction story of a genie and a daemon and long lost things.
☣︎ Monster of the week: No monsters, just vibes

Nyarlathotep (1920)
Ohh I liked this! The slowly creeping horror and sense of impending doom ending in blubbering hysteria and inescapable madness. I wonder if TMA’s The End was partly inspired by Nyarlathotep…? (also, I had to go and listen to Dream Theater’s Dark Eternal Night)
☣︎ Monster of the week: Nyarlathotep

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Anyway my big takeaway from the most successful #Lovecraft adaptation around is

Dr. Hill is in the Epstein Files for sure