Chapter & Verse Join Workhouse For Range Of Lovecraftian Miniatures
December 10, 2018 by brennon
Chapter & Verse has joined forces with Workhouse Games to create a range of Cthulu & Lovecraftian themed miniatures for collectors and hobbyists. The first of these is a familiar face...
You'll be able to watch out for a Kickstarter project which will be arriving in 2019 where you will no doubt be able to find this miniature and more. As well as painters enjoying these I could imagine folks who like their horror-based role-playing games could use this fellow for their adventures.
They are currently looking to hit Kickstarter in around March and hopefully, we'll see some more previews of what they have planned in the near future.
Whilst Lovecraft is a divisive figure nowadays for his views, and rightly so, the strange mythos he managed to bring to life has done quite a bit to inspire creative people, especially in recent years it seems!
Are you going to be keeping an eye on this range?
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HPL’s racist and antisemitic views are horrible even for his own times let alone the modern reader. Fortunately they are not overt in the vast majority of his writing. He was a deeply strange individual and his mother and aunt seem to have influenced the view of the young HPL and in to adulthood.
That’s relevant how exactly?
Read the article above, the topic is directly introduced in the last paragraph.
And I would ask the author of the article the same thing. Will that be a thing going forward, signaling how virtuous we are when the topic is related to historical figures? Nazis bad, racism bad, colonialism bad, communism bad! Tell me if I checked all the necessary boxes please.
Or, you know, you could maybe not be so precious about it?
Lovecraft’s views on race and eugenics are a very common topic of discussion when discussing his work, as they are with many American pulp writers of his day. Indeed, they are pretty crucial to contextualising his writing and views of horror. If you personally don’t want to discuss these things, that’s completely fine, but I see no reason to jump down someone’s throat when they mention something that was referred to mere lines above their post.
Of course it’s a topic when going into depth about his work. We would not have said work without it, after all. Lovecraft was a sensitive child with an overabundance of fantasy, maybe even on the spectrum. The things his aunt taught him gave him all these nightmares.
Neither is he divisive though, nor was his racism and view on eugenics anything out of the ordinary in his time. In the end he apologized for it, after he had made his own experiences with people of different origins.
Goodness, all that is wrong. When harping on a long dead authors social views from the lens of modern social politics you are the very definition of precious.
His views were offensive in the context of his own times, not just from the viewpoint of modern social politics.
Fundamentally incorrect. Your ignorance is truly sad and reflects on the value of all your intellectual conclusions.
It’s not a case of virtue signalling…it’s just pointing out a fact about the man. I find it fascinating that we view his creative works through a different lens considering his personality is all.
His worlds and ideas have become very popular and used across all manner of different games, but it’s fascinating that people put aside the man and divorce him from it when we see it on the tabletop in its various forms.
So, when a company produces a miniature of the man himself I think it’s an interesting discussion topic to have, especially since from that point are you separating him from the real Lovecraft and instead crafting a new version of him that is ‘in-world’, therefore avoiding the dark side of his personality.
Discussing and/or prompting discussion of these things is worth doing. We’re still going to enjoy Cthulhu games and no-ones going to say you can’t make a miniature of Lovecraft…but I’d rather have a chat about his personality and the separation from his work than just say “that’s a cool miniature” and that be that…
Of course you have to separate artist and work, or you will either go crazy or become a hermit. For example, I think David Harbour is an awful, divisive person in real life, but I still enjoy his performance. I think John Ringo has a very, how do I put it, weird and apologetic world view, and I still enjoy his books (with the exception of those with Germans in them).
While Lovecraft’s world view is inextricably linked to his work, his books themselves don’t show that. Reading them without knowing his background, you’d never think he talks about how he imagined Filipinos and Arabs to be, but simply about people degenerated from worship of the Old Ones.
Do you think of Richard Wagner’s antisemitism when listening to Ride of the Valkyries?
Could we maybe agree to leaving all this crap where it belongs, and enjoy the art in our hobby? You know, for most of us this is escapism, this is what I do when I want to shut out the real world and relax. We don’t have to bring this up every time.
Edit due to site shenanigans eating half the post.
I like discussing the background and the people behind the art as much as I do the art itself, so I will continue to mention it.
Does this mean it’s going to be the dominating portion of discussion…no, just as aspect of a varied hobby which should be rewarded for the depth it offers.
Me discussing it is as valid as you not wanting to. Me bringing it up shouldn’t impact your enjoyment of the hobby as much as you wanting to leave it alone shouldn’t impact mine – it’s just different sides of a many-faceted hobby.
Had to edit, site is acting up.
Alright then, agree to disagree here. Hope you’re feeling better by now with your sickness, looking forward to this week’s videos and spotlights!
Have a good one!
What scale ar these going to be?
Tag says 32mm
I see the author and several of the commenters are painfully ignorant people concerning academic and historical standards for discussing dead figures, standards that have been around for centuries. If Lovecraft’s now century old beliefs, entirely intellectual beliefs and without a single act of wrong-doing or crime to back them, gives you the vapors I’m afraid it’s impossible for anyone to take you seriously as an adult. Again, this question has been settled for centuries by academics with much higher IQs than these couple gamers, the present doesn’t stand in moral judgment of the past, nor do we apply our ways to their ways for the purposes of condemnation. I only comment because it’s fair to tell you, you’re embarrassing yourselves. Get a basic education.
This question has been settled for centuries past? Lovecraft hasn’t even been dead for a century.
Also, no-one’s harping on about it. Race is fundamental to much of Lovecraft’s writing. His own personal abhorrence to ‘miscegenation’ is, at the very least, academically fascinating. Given that two of the most successful adaptations of his work in recent years have tackled the race issue head-on (Harlem Unbound, and Get Out), I’d say it’s pretty natural and, dare I say, interesting to discuss the issue of race in his work.
I admit I am more interested in this than most for professional reasons (I am a professional historian of racial science, with a PhD in such). I’m definitely not morally judging him. He lived much of his adult life in the poor house, was estranged from his wife, was often unwell, and was frequently unpaid for writing that never achieved the success it has today in his lifetime. I’d say his mind went to pretty dark places often. You need only read the copies of his letters to get that impression.
The question of whether the present holds judgment over the past is the settled question in academia. And of course, the commenters on here are clearly unaware of that fact, and how settled that fact is.
Though I can’t hold it against any academic with a legitimate interest in the topic. Of course you would then know, as I do, how ridiculous the comments that Lovecraft was atypical in his racial beliefs for the time is. And you would also be aware of the missing scale this author personally suffers from to mention Lovecraft as a controversial figure, yet consistently fail to mention this fact when discussing historical figures such as a Queen Victoria, a murderer who oversaw a vast colonial empire, believed in apartheid, was a racist and bigot, and permitted uncountable instances of abuse, murder, rape, and other institutional wrongs of a terrific scale that relegates Lovecraft’s completely contemporary and entirely hollow racial beliefs to a barely noticeable speck. I find Brennon’s tacit approval of these truly monstrous figures to be disgusting.
I certainly agree on some of what you’re saying. But for many people, their interest is in Lovecraft, not other contemporary figures. I think a fairer comparison would be made to American pulp writing of that era in general, which very much shared Lovecraft’s ideology.
I cannot agree that the question is settled, though. I’d say it’s still very hotly debated, especially in the discipline of history (as many would argue that History always has been the interpretation of the past through a ‘modern’ lens, albeit as cautiously as possible). Lovecraft certainly had many contemporaries who would have strenuously disagreed with his social and racial views. Personally, my interest in his views is in how they influenced his writing. As uncomfortable as his ideas are—and frankly sometimes puerile—they unquestionable formed the basis of why his stories are the way they are.
I don’t see anything wrong with your work or anything illegitimate about your pursuits. For what my personal opinion is worth, they seem perfectly valid and worthwhile. Now I don’t believe that a select minority of people in the past holding much more modern values overwhelms the common norms of their society. Considering the laws, institutional rules, and business practices of the time, Lovecraft was no more than a reflection of the majority norms, and quite frankly a very inoffensive version of them when considering the practical malice all those laws, institutional rules, and business practices caused. How many short stories does one have to write containing racist sentiments to equal one store owner threatening a black customer with arrest and physical violence for entering their front door? Just one constant at that time.
Many foolish people have begun using articles about Lovecraftian games as a consistent platform to advance their beliefs in a Genetic Fallacy. His racial views have no more relevance to enjoying his works as a common reader or to games based off his ideas than his love of ice cream. Yet we consistently see agitators selectively attempt to paint him and his works with this one aspect of his life and not the many others which are just as relevant. And they do this in an attempt to advance an agenda which proposes modern peoples (specifically them) lord their values and viewpoints over the past, when in fact they have absolutely no right to or to be taken seriously when they attempt to. Which is the specific “question” I’m trying to refer to in my above comments, which I think I had left rather vague.
Again, I would like to see this very ignorant and disgusting practice attempting to delegitimize the works in question and the works and games based off of them to be ended, and those attempting it to be harshly rebuked by those educated enough to know better. Which is the only way those operating on such a low moral and intellectual level will be compelled to stop. One also has to wonder at what motivates someone to loudly proclaim they are functionally aware of modern moral norms and to signal their morality by idiotically attempting to chastise the dead. It is outside of regular, mentally healthy behavior.
I think I find myself in a select minority in my own time in NOT believing that my personally held beliefs, thanks to their liberal origins and good intentions, hold some kind of transcendence that makes them absolutely true and right. I can only imagine what future peoples looking back at us will think when they see our time was filled with so many people who not only believed things which they would tell you are obviously wrong and abhorrent, but how incredibly stupid they must have been to further believe those incorrect beliefs were universally and timelessly unquestionable.
You’re definitely right about that. There is a distinct lack of empathy with others when people look into the past (and present!). This is nothing new, its just more noticeable today. No offense to his legacy, but Lovecraft was essentially a nobody in his time. He could have had views three times more offensive and he still wouldn’t have done as much harm as some who worked in colonial offices, police forces, etc.
Pathetic.
Yes, I will be keeping an eye out for this range! Please keep us posted.