Halloween 2020

You're going to have to be more specific about which one.

Idk, I think the Colour Out of Space is definitely something I might be disappointed in an adaptation of. I think the best way to represent a nonexistent color would be to make everything black and white until the color consumes it. Think the villain of the story is the most abstract of any of Lovecraft's creatures. So I feel like a film would be hard to put it in a visually tangible form when it's literally a carnivorous, infectiotory, unimaginable color from an alien planet living in a well and draining the life of everything around it. 

Perhaps I'll check it out sometime later. I still have quite the multitude of Lovecraft stories that I want to read but haven't yet. I'm am about to undertake reading one of his longest stories, At the Mountains of Madness, in a few minutes from writing this. I want to at least finish the rest of the stories on a list I found of Lovecraft stories considered canon in the Cthulu Mythos, which I still have 8 stories left to finish. After that I still want to get to some of his other works even then, such as Red Hook and Dexter Ward. Lots of ambition for cramming reading his stories. I'm considering reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein afterwards, but I don't want to get too ahead of myself. Using the free ebooks on the official Lovecraft website has been fine for the most part. But at the Mountains is about 90 pages in print, which is pretty hard to read in a continually scrolling down format. Honestly wish I had a paperback (I do own a hardcopy collection of some of Lovecraft's works, but I have not been using it as I hate the dimensions of the pages it has, they're nearly square shaped so the text is very weirdly formatted because of it). 

Anyways, my top 5 Lovecraft stories as of yet.

5: Nameless City
4: The Dunwich Horror
3: The Shadow Over Innsmouth
2: The Thing at the Doorstep
1: The Colour Out of Space

1 and 2 are nearly interchangable because I both enjoyed them so much and think they are nigh perfect works of horror short stories. While I have enjoyed the other work mentioned, not even #3 comes close to how much I enjoyed those two.

As for other stories, Although I did think Call of Cthulhu was decent, I did not think it was nearly as grande as it's made out to be. It's a cool story, but I think my expectations were somewhat heightened due to this being the title story of one of most prominent antagonists of Lovecraft lore. I think one reason Cthulu is so popular is that he's probably the least abstract of most of Lovecraft's creatures. It's a cool monster design that doesn't really require a huge stretch of the mind to imagine what the description in his work entails, and I definetly get the appeal of that compared to some of Lovecraft's more wordier and sometimes redundant avoidance of description by "Oh my, it's so horrible, I'm going mad". Obviously madness and terror are the exact point of Lovecraft's work, but he definitely does a much more believable and creative use of this concept better in some certain stories rather than all of them. Regardless of my minor criticisms of how wordy he gets sometimes, I'm still definitely having fun watching his grand mythos be built brick by brick throughout the Mythos-canon stories, and even the stories I didn't like at least introduce an interesting concept or two (Like The Mound, probably my least favorite of them all, then again it was only released posthumously abridged monumentally compared to what the original work apparently was, so I can't really say it's his fault is he didn't actually intend for it to be released in that manner). C'thulu Fhtagn!

Maybe. Am reading Mountains of Madness though. I like the setting. I managed to pick up a couple Lovecraft volumes in paperback form for less than 10 bucks today so it's easier to read them now compared to the free text document copies on his website.