In addition to being a complete racist, it is arguable that H.P. Lovecraft was one of the most influential horror writers of all time. His tales, particularly those of the so-called Cthulhu Mythos, published in pulp magazines of the 20’s and 30’s, served as inspiration for countless writers that followed him, including the likes of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and the guy who wrote Who Moved My Cheese.
If Lovecraft were around today, there is little doubt that he would be writing for television. Television is to modern audiences what Weird Tales was to Lovecraft’s generation.
Here are a list of shows that Lovecraft would have pitched were he alive in the age of television.
1. In Living Colour Out of Space
2. The Dunwich Hillbillies
3. American Idol to the Old Ones
4. Pickman’s Fences
5. My Mother the Fungi From Yuggoth
6. Cagney and Shub-Niggurath
7. Seinfeld – Reanimator
8. The Doom That Came To 90210
9. Gibbering Mad About You
10. Friends, Who I Will Sacrifice To Nyarlthotep
11. The Lawrence Welk Program, featuring the Music of Erich Zann
12. The Innsmouth Shore (featuring Snooki and the Situation So Horrid It Can Not Be Described)
13. Cthulhu’s Island
14. Growing Pains of Nameless Dread
15. Cultists and Recreation
16. Dancing When The Stars Are Right
17. The Dukes of Abdul Al-Hazrad
18. Hill Street Cyclopean Horrors
19. Miskatonic Commons
20. Saved By Nothing, Not Even the Bell
21. At the Full House of Madness
22. Arkham’s Funniest Home Videos
23. Murder, She Wrote in the Dreaded Tome Older Than The Very Earth Itself
24. Dexter’s Laboratory of Unspeakable Evil
25. This Old House, in Which It Sounds As Though There Are Rats In The Walls
26. Decidedly Unhappy Days
27. Breaking Mad
28. Buffy the Byakhee Slayer
29. Twin Peaks
30. The Fresh Prince of Rylyeh
31. Lost (in the Abyss Between Worlds)
32. Hastur Knows Best
33. The Head of The Class, in Which They Teach Non-Euclidean Geometry
34. Charles in Charge of Rounding Up The Innocent Victims To Appease The Elder Gods