Zoetrope Interactive’s Conarium takes its inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft, an author who has been survived by his gothic horror writing 80 years after his death.

Lovecraft once wrote in an essay about horror literature: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”

That quote embodies Lovecraft’s approach to his own fiction, and it helps explain two things: first, why his work has remained such an ingrained part of pop…

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