Unspeakable Whispers - Sean Branney

Unspeakable Whispers

Voices that explore the arcane and the indescribable horror

Sean Branney — Co-founder H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society

Along this path of shadows and revelations, interviews shall be held to give voice to the creators, personalities, and guardians of horror, so that their visions and works may accompany us in this shared journey, a voyage of words and echoes that illuminate the darkness.

Today we have the honor of speaking with Sean Branney, actor, director, and producer, best known as co-founder of the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society. His work has brought lovecraftian horror to life through films such as "The Call of Cthulhu" (2005) and "The Whisperer in Darkness" (2011), both faithful adaptations of Lovecraft’s stories, created with retro cinematic techniques (such as “Mythoscope,” which imitates the style of the 1930s). He also participated in the documentary "A Shoggoth on the Roof" (2000) and has contributed as a voice actor in video games such as "Alone in the Dark" (2024) and "The Talos Principle 2" (2023). Welcome to the Círculo Lovecraftiano & Horror.

Sean Branney — Thank you. It’s a pleasure to have the opportunity to talk with you and with the many Lovecraftians in Mexico. I’ve been to Mexico on a number of occasions and our Society has a number of Mexican members. It’s a pleasure to take a moment to chat with other fans of the Old Gent from Providence.

CL&H — What was the first moment when Lovecraft’s universe spoke to you personally, and how has that fascination matured into a lifelong devotion to his mythos?

S B — I was probably about 13 years old and my weirdest friend handed me an anthology of horror stories. He said, “ I just read this story and it’s really weird - you’ve got to read it!” I did. It was Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls”. I’d never read anything quite like it and it really got me hooked. I bought some collections of his other stories and started reading them. A year or two later, another friend of mine gave me “the game with the strange name”, that being the roleplaying game "Call of Cthulhu" by Chaosium. We had played "Dungeons and Dragons" and had gotten burned out on killing monsters and finding treasure. We started playing the game and found it’s mixture of mystery and Lovecraftian horror was so much fun and made for much more satisfying storytelling.  We were theatre kids and thought, “Hey, wouldn’t it be even more fun if we put on some costumes and staged a game like this out in the real world?” Soon we were wearing fedoras and hiding clues in graveyards as we developed our own system of LARP rules. This was back in the early 1980s before there was an internet, so as far as we knew, we had invented LARP gaming. We called our LARP game Cthulhu Lives and we put on many games that were increasingly more ambitious. The LARP gaming led us to form the society which eventually took over our lives.

CL&H — Looking back, do you see your work as a mission to preserve Lovecraft’s legacy, or as a creative expansion that allows new generations to experience the dread and wonder of his tales?

S B — Lovecraft’s legacy was pretty firmly in place by the time I stumbled onto it. We had a lot of fun playing in Lovecraft’s world and we wanted to share that fun with other people. Of course, there are many ways one can create something “Lovecraftian”, but for us, keeping a meaningful connection to the original source material always made our creations better. H.P.L. told his stories through fiction; we’ve been able to expand on that by telling similar types of stories but telling them through motion pictures, audio dramas, audiobooks, games, and media which we cannot and must not describe. We hope by bringing the stories to new media, more people will find the same sense of joy that we have found.

CL&H — How would you describe the philosophy that guides your creative work, and in what ways does Lovecraft’s vision of cosmic horror shape that philosophy?

S B — Much of what we do imagines a parallel reality in which Lovecraft himself, instead of being an obscure New England author, was a celebrated figure in his day. What would Hollywood have done with his works if he were famous in 1931? What would his works have sounded like on the radio in 1935? We also find that real history is a wonderful source for creating fictions. So as much as we can, we use real events, real locations, real newspaper clippings, and similar sources in our works. Lovecraft himself believed that the best way to set up something bizarre in a story was to surround it by many facts that were true - that would make the one fictitious fact seem more plausible. We think we was right.

It’s fascinating to us that Lovecraft’s popularity seems to have done nothing but grow over the past 40 years. As current events make the world seem more random, hopeless, and meaningless, I think the Lovecraftian notion of a vast uncaring universe strikes a nerve with modern audiences.

The Society’s official motto is Ludo Fore Putavimus, which is Latin for “we thought it would be fun”. Making things that are fundamentally fun is one of our goals.

CL&H — Over the years, how has your artistic approach evolved, from the Society’s earliest experiments to the mature productions that now define its legacy?

S B — When we began the Society, it was just something we did for fun with our friends. But for more than 20 years now, it’s been a for-profit business and a full time job for multiple people. So, we do have to approach some of our endeavors from a business perspective. We’ve also covered a lot of ground and done a lot of things. We continue to look for new approaches to projects that will be both fun for us and fun for our audiences. For example, with our Dark Adventure Radio Theatre series, we keep looking both -for new stories to tell and for ways to tell the story that will both satisfy an audience’s expectations and bring new surprises. We’ve learned a lot of lessons through the many things we’ve created. There’s certainly a number of projects that we would do differently if we were to do them again now.

CL&H — Could you take us back to those early nights in Englewood, when friends gathered around the kitchen table to play "The Call of Cthulhu"? What atmosphere and emotions defined those beginnings?

S B —  Sure! So the setting was in Englewood, Colorado, a suburb outside of Denver. My dad had a big house and so friends would usually gather at night. We’d have some snacks and everyone would gather around a big table and set in. I think one of the best things about those days was that almost all of the players knew very little about Lovecraft or his stories. So each horrific or mysterious revelation in the game was new and wondrous to the young imaginations of the players. And playing a game cloaked in suspense, where your character ran the risk of going insane, was a great new element. I think it’s safe to say that for most of the folks who gamed with us back in those early days, no one had experienced anything quite like it. Everyone was eager to play more. And once we got going with the live-action games of Cthulhu Lives, that quality was even more enhanced. The emotional rush that comes through playing in a physically and/or emotionally demanding LARP game can be kind of mind-blowing.

CL&H — As theater people, you felt compelled to act out the stories, creating Cthulhu Lives! before even knowing about LARP. What memories can you share from those first experiments in basements and mansions, and how did they shape your vision of immersive horror?

S B — So, in traditional role playing games, players’ imaginations paint the scenes. Everyone imagines going into the dragon’s lair and pictures the dragon sleeping there on a pile of gold. And imagination is powerful. But in our first Cthulhu Lives! game we learned, when Andrew’s character climbed into the dark crawl-space under the house and the light flickered on for an instant revealing a dead body… very little imagination is required. He’s really there, crawling through cobwebs on that basement floor and when the light flashed, he really saw a body! Much less imagination is involved; the meta-reality of the game, is, for the time being, actual reality.

We soon realized we were working with intensely powerful storytelling forces. Atmosphere, physical exertion, all shaped the experience of the story. We saw many people do things in games that they physically could not do in real life (e.g. picking up someone and running with them, leaping over streams, etc…). These experiences led us to then write more stories and try and push the boundaries of this kind of storytelling in interesting new ways.

CL&H — In 1987, at a Boulder pizzeria, you and your friends decided to formalize the Society. What inspired that decision, and how did it feel to transform a circle of friends into a cultural fellowship?

S B —  In the early days of Cthulhu Lives!, we would rope our friends into playing this game with us. We found that pretty much everyone who tried it had a great time and wanted to play again. And we found when we told people about it, people wanted to know more. That was really the impetus for the society - we wanted to share the experience with others. Of course, there was no internet back then, so I don’t even really remember how we found new members, but in a few months, we were sending our our little newsletter, Strange Eons, to dozens of people in several countries.

CL&H — Your fanzine Strange Eons reached nearly 200 members worldwide before the internet era. What role did that publication play in building a community and spreading Lovecraftian culture?

S B — Well, when your reach only extends to a few hundred people, it’s pretty small. Still, it attracted a community of like-minded folks who were interested in the HPLHS. Of course, once the Internet came along, it allowed us to be found by a great many more people. We now have thousands of members all across the world.

CL&H — As a university project in 1988, you produced "The Statement of Randolph Carter" on VHS. Looking back, how did that modest beginning pave the way for the cinematic works that followed?

S B — TSoRC was our first endeavor in filmmaking. We were students and learned a lot through the process of making the film. Honestly, although it sounds silly to say it, one of the most important things a filmmaker can do is make a movie. Seeing a project through from concept to script to production to post-production is an essential journey. Lots of people have unfinished scripts or unfinished film projects. No matter how humble a project may be, the important thing is to complete it.

CL&H — In the beginning, when the Society was still finding its voice, what challenges did you face, and how did perseverance and passion guide you through those formative years?

S B — In the early days of the Society, one of the big challenges was keeping to a schedule. Once we decided to publish Strange Eons, even though it was a small fanzine, it took a lot of work to gather content, lay it out, get it printed, and distribute it to people. And that process repeated every month. We wanted to keep the magazine interesting, so we were always looking for new avenues to find new content.

CL&H — The films "The Call of Cthulhu" (2005) and "The Whisperer in Darkness" (2011) are regarded as the most faithful and ambitious adaptations of Lovecraft’s stories, successfully recreating the aesthetics of classic cinema from the 1920s and 1930s, with modern techniques and a profound respect for cosmic horror. Both productions were driven by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society and stand out for their technical inventiveness despite limited budgets.

What inspired you to adapt “The Call of Cthulhu” as a silent film, and why did you choose the Mythoscope style to recreate the atmosphere of the 1920s?

S B — We had made a short mockumentary film called “A Shoggoth on the Roof” and had done some humorous collections of Lovecraftian Christmas carols (“A Very Scary Solstice”). We wanted our next project to be something serious and loved the idea of “The Call of Cthulhu” as it’s often been described as “unfilmable”. At the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon, we saw a short film called “The Old Man and the Goblins” and it had been shot in the style of a World War I puppet film. It got us thinking that taking a retro approach to our story might actually solve many of the production challenges that it presented. And, of course, in making it a silent film, we’ve never have to solve how to pronounce “Cthulhu”.

CL&H — With a modest budget, how did you manage to achieve such striking visual effects, especially the stop-motion sequences of Cthulhu and the sets of R’lyeh?

S B — As guys with a background in theatre, we were used to the notion of trying to create something great with very limited resources. In fact, many of the sets for "The Call of Cthulhu" were built from leftover bits of sets from a theatre company that my wife and I ran. We used what we had and tried to think imaginatively about how we could shoot some of the challenging visual aspects of the story. We were able to follow in the footsteps of many early filmmakers who used theatrical techniques (literal smoke and mirrors) to create visual effects.

Pretty early in pre-production we realized that shooting Cthulhu as a stop-motion miniature was the way to go. It worked for King Kong, right? And while stop-motion is a very time consuming approach to filmmaking, it’s not an especially expensive one. So Andrew animated our stop-motion puppet one frame at a time. In the end, we didn’t use a lot of that footage, but a few moments of it, brought Cthulhu to life in a fun way.

CL&H — Could you share some behind-the-scenes stories about the filming process, locations, or the construction of props and miniatures?

S B — The DVD of "The Call of Cthulhu" contains a lot of behind-the-scenes footage that lets folks witness some of the odd experiences we had in making the movie. I guess what comes to mind today, is when we were shooting the swamp cultists. We wanted to create the mad orgy of dancing lunatics HPL describes in the story, but of course, we couldn’t hire 100 extras for the scene. So we wrangled about 20 or so cultists, realizing that if we shot them from different angles, we could composite the 20 people together to look more like 80. We rented a sound stage here in Los Angeles and one of it’s features is it had a permanent set of a strip club built into it. So in the middle of our swamp, there was a big ramp all setup with mirrors and lights where strippers could dance if one was shooting that kind of movie. So our swamp set is literally just feet away from the stripper ramp. For our cultists, we setup green screens and then had them come in and cavort in groups of four. They were wearing little more than rags and dirt, and they did their crazy cultist thing. It was a strange day.

Another story that I like to tell is that we needed a 1908 paddy wagon for the swamp sequence. Those vehicles are hard to find. We looked at possibly using miniatures or trying to build one, none of the solutions seemed ideal and all of them were going to be more expensive than we wanted. Then a friend mentioned that the City of San Marino had a vintage paddy wagon that they drove in parades and events like that. San Marino is a small town in the Los Angeles area very much like Beverly Hills - it’s an upscale neighborhood. Anyway, we asked their Police Department about renting it and they agreed to that as long as we got a filming permit from the city. The police chief walked us over to the permit lady who told us the permit was going to cost $3,000. And all we were planning to do was move the paddy wagon about 5 meters from the garage where it is parked, film it, and then wheel it back. The police chief was so outraged by the cost of a permit in his own town that he offered us the paddy wagon for free, provided we drove it outside of the city limits of San Marino. So we hired a tow truck and hauled the paddy wagon to my back yard where we filmed it. The chief even sent along a free police escort for the night. Anyway, the moral of the story is that it’s a good idea to ask to borrow things as people may unexpectedly step up and help you out. That’s happened often on all our movie projects.

CL&H — How did audiences and critics respond to the film, and did their reception surprise you in any way? Did you expect such recognition from festivals and the Lovecraftian community?

S B — We had no idea how "The Call of Cthulhu" would be received. We were, of course, delighted to have it play the festival circuit all over the world. More importantly though, it was embraced by the fan community. It was gratifying that some folks found it to be the first authentic embodiment of HPL in a motion picture.

CL&H — What motivated you to expand Lovecraft’s original story with a new third act, and how did you balance fidelity with creative innovation on the film "The Whisperer in Darkness" (2011)?

S B — Lovecraft was a terrific writer, but he was not a dramatist. He was far more interested in qualities like atmosphere and tone, than he was in things like characters or dramatic conflict. But we, as audiences, have spent 2,000 years getting really used to Aristotelian story-telling. We expect a beginning, a middle, and an end to our stories, particularly in movies. HPL’s story is terrific, but dramatically it skids to a stop when Wilmarth discovers the items on the chair. We didn’t feel like having the story end there would make for a satisfying movie. So, we thought, “OK, what would he do next?” and wrote a more dramatic ending to the story. We tried to keep our ending in keeping with what one might see as the climax of a 1930s movie.

CL&H — Could you tell us about the choice of Mount Holyoke College and Pasadena City College as stand-ins for Miskatonic University? What atmosphere did these locations bring to the film?

S B — We did a location scouting trip to New England and looked at a number of colleges in western Massachusetts and southern Vermont. We felt Mount Holyoke was the the kind of school that Lovecraft himself imagined when he described Miskatonic. The buildings were mostly from the late 19th century, and the campus very much had the right vibe. Being on campus for filming, we felt like we were at Miskatonic! The staff there was also very accommodating to the needs of our small production company.

CL&H — What techniques were used to bring the Mi-Go to life, and how did you integrate practical and digital effects?

S B — We had originally planned to shoot the Mi-Go in stop motion, the same way that we did Cthulhu in CoC. But we needed quite a bit of footage of the Mi-Go and estimated it was going to take 12-18 months to shoot that sequence. The sequence had the added challenge of taking place in the rain, and rain is really problematic when you’re working in stop-motion. Around this time we were approached by a special effects company that had seen "The Call of Cthulhu" and thought they could create the Mi-Go and digitally animate them in a manner that would look more like traditional stop-motion than contemporary digital animation. In the end, that’s the technique we used.

CL&H — How did Sandy Petersen’s involvement and financial support (author of the role‑playing game "Call of Cthulhu") influence the production?

S B — Sandy has been a long-time friend of the HPLHS. When we realized we were going to have this new cost of digital animation, our budget was pushed to the breaking point. Sandy stepped in heroically, and made an investment in the film that gave us enough capital to pay for the digital animation work and complete the film.

CL&H — How did the transition from a silent film in "The Call of Cthulhu" to a full-length sound production in "The Whisperer in Darkness" change your creative approach?

S B — "The Call of Cthulhu" was intended to evoke the stylized German expressionist films of the late 1920s. When sync sound became part of movie making, films on the whole took a big step towards looking, feeling, and sounding more naturalistic. As Whisperer was written in 1931, we wanted the picture to have the feel of that year, and it was, of course, the year that "Dracula", "Frankenstein" and "The Mummy" came out. So we sought to evoke the look and feel of those classic early Universal Pictures horror films. And after making a silent picture, we all enjoyed being able to work with the element of sound in telling this story - after all, there is quite a bit of whispering and other noises too!

CL&H — While "The Call of Cthulhu" is a faithful adaptation, "The Whisperer in Darkness" expands the original story. How did you decide when to remain faithful and when to innovate?

S B — Lovecraft stories tend to be great on setup, great on atmosphere, and weak on endings. H.P.L. was not particularly interested in giving his tales a traditional dramatic shape or structure, and as a result many of his tales have endings that are not ideal for dramatic storytelling. With Whisperer, once Wilmarth discovers what’s going on at the farmhouse, he just drives away. That’s fine for the short story, but we thought it was dramatically wanting for a movie. So we wrote a third act in which Wilmarth needs to take action and try to do something about the Mi-Go problem.

CL&H — Beyond the screen, your voice has carried Lovecraftian echoes into video games and audio dramas. You have also contributed as a voice actor in video games ("Alone in the Dark" (2024) and "The Talos Principle 2" (2023).). What experiences can you share with us about this new facet of your career?

S B — My colleague Andrew Leman and I are both classically trained actors with Masters degrees in theatre. I’ve done a lot of voice-over work over the years. I keep pretty busy with my work for the HPLHS, so I don’t tend to actively seek out voice-over projects. But every now and then a friend will ask me to get involved in one; that’s how it worked for "The Talos Principle". Jonas Krystezes and his team were great fun to work with. Another actor friend of mine saw the casting notice for "Alone in the Dark" and sent it to me saying, “Dude, this has you written all over it!”. I contacted the casting director an emphasized my experience working on this kind of material. They asked me to record and audition for them and I booked the job.

The HPLHS has also recorded audiobooks of the complete works of Lovecraft, the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe, and we’ve recorded many classic horror tales that HPL enjoyed.

Another big part of what the HPLHS does, is our series Dark Adventure Radio Theatre. There, we adapt stories and produce them in the style of the old-time radio dramas from the 1930s and 40s. We’ve found that the audio drama format works really well for this kind of material; the audio tells the story, but the listener amplifies it with images from his or her imagination. We’ve now released more than 30 titles in the series and are working on more.

CL&H — The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society has gathered a devoted community. What role do you believe audiences play in sustaining and expanding the mythos through your projects?

S B — Without a community of enthusiastic fans, the HPLHS would not exist, or at least certainly not in its current incarnation. Because we have found an audience that seems to appreciate our approach to this kind of material, we have a certain amount of freedom to create new products or tell new kinds of stories, knowing that there is a good chance that the Lovecraft community will support the endeavor. We do what we can to try and engage that fan base and provide them with the kinds of projects which they will enjoy.

CL&H — Do you see your contributions as part of a larger continuum of artists who reinterpret Lovecraft, and how do you hope future generations will build upon your work?

S B — Lovecraft and many of those in the “Lovecraft Circle” were sort of the original “open source” guys. They created things with the intent that their colleagues riff on their creations and grow them into new works. We hope that other creators will take inspiration from what we’ve done and expand on our ideas and techniques to foster new life in the genre.

CL&H — Looking inward, what has this lifelong journey through Lovecraft’s world taught you about art, imagination, and the human need to confront the unknown?

S B — My life’s journey has taught me a few things. With respect to art and creativity, it’s taught me that one can create marvelous things with very limited resources. Imagination and creativity can work together to solve challenges in interesting ways. I’ve also learned that life is full of surprises, and not all of them are bad. My professional journey has been entirely implausible; if I could have told my twenty year old self that my sixty year old self would be a professional Lovecraftian, I would never have believed it. But here I am. And with regards to confronting the unknown, as HPL said, “the lure of the unplumbed is stronger in certain persons than most suspect”. People yearn for that which is just out of sight; we want to take a step into the darkness. That yearning is what drives mankind forward into the unknown, but of course, there are things out there in the darkness that we might wish we had never seen.

CL&H — Let’s delve into your role as a creator of adventures for the "Call of Cthulhu" role‑playing game. How do you develop the initial concept for an adventure like "The Spark Devil" or "Eternity at Sea"? What challenges did creating them involve for you?

S B — I really enjoy using real history and factoring it into games. If you dig deep enough, real history usually turns out to be bizarre and filled with weird stuff. So, I often find myself working with little tidbits of truth and weaving them into a fictitious narrative. For "The Spark Devil", I was conducting an interview with the folks who lived in the actual house that inspired HPL’s “The Shunned House”. The woman, in a very off-hand way, said, “Well you know about the asylum that used to be next door, don’t you?” I had no idea, as the lot next to the Shunned House has been a Providence park for a decades. So, I did a deep dive into Bates Electropathic Sanitarium, which was the name of the house next to the Shunned House during HPL’s youth. The real history is bizarre, and I mashed it up with an origin tale for our prop book, Liber Oblitus, and "The Spark Devil" unfolded. For "Eternity at Sea", my colleague Andrew came back from a vacation to Oregon with tales of this weird mausoleum on a rock out in the Pacific Ocean. So I used a lot of real history of the region and built a fiction that gets to the heart of this real thing. I’m working on a game now that has its genesis in a fleeting moment of a LARP game I played in last year run by Chaos League near Philadelphia. One moment from the game really stuck with me, so I built a narrative to explore the consequences that might have ensued out of that moment.

These days I have been tending to write “sand box” style games. In this structure, typically Investigators are given a setup situation with a number of different leads they can follow. Each playing of the game tends to be unique, as players choose what sequence in which to pursue the leads they find. The sequence in which the story unfolds then makes for a unique telling of the story. These games can be a little harder to run, but I find that players enjoy having the agency to make decisions about where to go and what to do, rather than being in a situation where each step of the game points clearly to a next logical step. But there are many different kinds of stories to tell and many different ways in which to tell them.

CL&H — What challenges come with designing adventures that rely heavily on physical props and authentic documents? 

SB — One of the ones we’ve run into several times is a game where a prop is hard to make. If you’re only going to play it once, we can find a way to make most things. But if you’re going to manufacture it as a product and need to make thousands of reasonably priced copies, that’s another deal entirely. We have a game I wrote years ago called The Treasure Map. We’ve never published it as there’s one prop in it where we have not been able to solve how to produce it with the quality we need at a price people could afford. Too bad, it’s a fun game; I’ve run it a number of times.

We also try and explore new kinds of props that folks haven’t seen before. There’s no shortage of newspaper clippings and journals out there. We’re also looking for props that tell the story and have secrets for Investigators to discover. The best props, in my opinion, are ones that function like NPCs: they have secrets to unfold to Investigators who are clever and observant. One of the elements I really enjoy in running a game is watching a group of players connect the dots between information they’ve learned from both NPCs and props. I’m running a game right now where the Investigators are just starting to hypothesize what might actually be going on in the story. They’re not sure yet, but they have enough information that leads them to make some chilling speculations. Great fun!

CL&H — What advice would you give to a Keeper of the Arcane who wishes to design their adventure on a level beyond the ordinary?

S B — Listen to your own instincts. Games about fighting monsters aren’t of much interest to me these days, so I’m tending to write fairly complicated stories where investigation and mystery are the driving forces, and they eventually lead to some kind of finale. But hey, that’s what works for me. Some people really want to get in there and fight monsters and cast spells. And one of the great things about "Call of Cthulhu" is that people have done so many fascinating things with it and the rules bend pretty nicely to accommodate all kind of approaches. I do think it’s great to defy expectations and surprise players. So they’re going in to meet the Terrible Old Man? Blow their minds by having him be nice and bake them some cookies. Let the sweet old librarian have a card catalog drawer that’s filled with human pancreases.  I wrote a LARP game where Investigators infiltrated a cult meeting only to discovery it was more like a self-help group where the “cultists” comforted each other about their horrible dreams of Cthulhu. Everyone loves a surprise. Keep your players guessing.

CL&H — Could you share with us what upcoming works or initiatives the Society is preparing, and how they reflect the evolving legacy of Lovecraft?

S B — We are currently developing some more games for the "Call of Cthulhu" role playing game. This has proven a lot of fun as it allows us to tell new stories set in a Lovecraftian universe and it allows us to explore how we can use props and other physical objects to try and enhance the storytelling and the fun. We’re continuing to produce episode of our Dark Adventure Radio Theatre series too. Having already adapted most of HPL’ s major works, much of what we’re doing now are original tales. We’re having fun creating new stories that will take fans of this material to new and unexpected places.

CL&H — In conclusion, our conversation with Sean Branney reaffirms the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society’s enduring role as a beacon of creativity and devotion to Lovecraftian art. From its humble beginnings in Boulder to its cinematic milestones and immersive projects, his journey reflects both passion and vision, bridging decades of imagination and community. Through his work, the legacy of cosmic horror continues to thrive, reminding us that Lovecraft’s universe is not merely fiction, but a living myth that connects seekers across generations. We sincerely thank Sean Branney for the time he dedicated to CL&H in this interview.

S B — Thanks, Rogelio, I appreciate the thoughtful questions and I’m happy to have had the chance to share my answers with your audience. I hope other people can find as much fun from this source material as I have.

You can find everything about The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society (HPLHS) at:

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