H. P. Lovecraft goes shopping. Yes, that's the premise.

Cult horror writer H. P. Lovecraft visits the British supermarket Asda. It's like Walmart, except you can't buy live ammunition. Happy Halloween*!

*A kind of spooky Michaelmas.

[MC-uprl]

The most unrealistic part of this video is the concept of Lovecraft leaving the house

[THATGuy]

The fact that he described regular penguins as "grotesque" in Mountains of Madness is the thing I tend to bring up when when trying to explain that Lovecraft was afraid of everything he wasn't familiar with.

[wolfgangallanalhazred]

>Walks outside after several months of fear and loathing
>Sees an Irishman
>Day ruined

[timothymuscat]

I love the fact that you actually voiced Lovecraft in a Rhode Island accent with the high pitched voice he was described as having.

[greyowlaudio]

"The only thing worse than an interdimensional eldritch horror... is an Italian." -H. P. Lovecraft, probably

[arcraventree]

The best part of the “Italian herbs” is that later in life he wrote letters extolling the wonders of going out to dinner for spaghetti.

[alienz]

Somehow, this version of Lovecraft is more well-adjusted than the real one.

[mitigatedrisk]

The true horror was the friends we failed to make along the way.

[TheSamgo]

He improved so much, he didn't even call the guy at the fish counter a racial slur!

[Propanesucka]

In retrospect, reading the collected works of Lovecraft while literally committed in a psych ward was one of the odder decisions of my life. Fun, though.

[SamAronow]

This was much closer to an actual 1920s upper-class Rhode Island accent than I expected.

[abdurrazzaqmumin]

Lovecraft is literally the type of dude to see an Italian guy and write four poems about how horrifying it was

[Molegul]

This is a peculiar type of unsettling that fits the spooky month perfectly.

[garrick]

I liked "The Sandwich Horror". Right up there with ""At the Mountains of Glad Bags", "Beyond the Wall of Sleep Aids", "The Reduced Price Meat Out of Time", "The Price-Quest of Unmarked Candy", "Herbert West - Tinned Salmon" and "The Call of Clean-Up on Aisle 6".

[spacepimpkevin]

I like how he's not even that rude, he just politely states "no thank you."

[thegnarledpirate]

He once wrote a story where the main horror element is an air conditioner.

[kaisertreu]

Fun fact: Even tho Lovecraft despised Italians, he loved Italian food.

[Me-wxmt]

I don't know how ABK comes up with this stuff but it's always very clever, this man is a genius

[Saturnia]

Funny thing about the ending is that one of Lovecraft's favorite meals was spaghetti Bolognese, which he expressed in a letter to a friend. The guy hated Italians but loved Italian food.

the real creeping horror is ABK quietly perfecting yet another art medium for the sake of a funny internet video