About a year ago I encountered, by way of sifting through weird indie game bundle sites, what I thought must be a totally anomalous peculiarity: Dreams in the Witch House, The Lovecraftian Rock Opera. (
http://witchhouserocks.com/ )
Yes. Lovecraftian... Rock Opera. I was unable to resist and, to be quite honest fam, it was considerably better than I had expected. And I hadn't expected much. If nothing else I enjoyed it more than, say, Repo: A Genetic Opera, or Chicago, or most musicals because like most right thinking people I do not enjoy musicals. It is, as the title suggests, the classic Lovecraft story Dreams in the Witch House, featuring Brown Jenkins the horrible rat thing in all his glory. I had meant to post about it here but, y'know, I forgot.
Surely, though, this was a singular creative endeavor of such outrageous absurdity that none would recreate, I thought to myself.
And three days ago, sifting once more through strange and questionable vidya bargain bundles, I have encountered a SECOND Lovecraftian musical, Shoggoth on the Roof, a Lovecraftian parody of Fiddler on the Roof. I have not had the opportunity to listen to it just yet but I have... well, modest hopes, really, but I assume I will be amused; if nothing else it's produced by the same company that made the excellent Call of Cthulhu black and white mock silent film (and was apparently involved with the With House rock opera, I just discovered). I don't want to seem like I'm shilling for anyone but it's currently available in the Miller on the Roof Bundle at Groupees.com for 3$.
Half of my intent was to share these with others that might share my passion for all things Lovecraft; the other half was to inquire if anyone is familiar with more examples of musical renditions of Lovecraft's work. Considering how mainstream Lovecraft is becoming I would not be particularly surprised if there are more, perhaps even weirder interpretations of his work.
