Dark Corners of the Earth is based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, one of the most influential writers in the horror genre, and yet somehow one of the most obscure. Lovecraft’s stories deal with what’s since been labeled the Cthulhu Mythos. He wrote about men who were driven to destruction or madness by meddling with forces that they couldn’t begin to comprehend, in a universe populated by horrible dark gods and incomprehensible aliens. These weren’t the monsters and ghouls of 19th-century horror, which could be dispatched by a wooden stake or silver bullet; these were creatures that a human could not encounter without going insane.