The Weird World of Eldritch Horror in Cartoons

Why do "kids" shows like Gravity Falls, Adventure Time, Owl House and more all feature terrifying Eldritch Horror villains? What makes animation the perfect medium for eldritch-inspired abominations? Join me as I dive deep into animation, lore, and creepy cartoons to look at the ways cartoons explore Lovecraftian ideas.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:55 Bill Cipher = Nyarlathotep?
3:01 What is Eldritch Horror?
4:32 Eldritch Gravity Falls
6:37 Eldritch Animation
9:26 Nostalgic Horror
10:49 Adventure Time's Eldritch Worldbuilding
13:08 Horror for Kids?
13:40 Our Cosmic Reality...
15:03 Transcending Lovecraft
16:59 The Problem
19:36 Sympathy for the Cosmic? (The Collector)
21:00 Still Scary?

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Media Shown: Adventure Time, Adventure Time: Distant Lands, Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, Gravity Falls, The Owl House, Centaurland, Over the Garden Wall, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated, Learning with Pibby, Stranger Things, Mad God, Coraline, Annihilation, Bloodborn, Amphibia, Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro

Article:

Miller, Tom. “The Mouse in the Walls: Disney, Lovecraft, and Gravity Falls.” Lovecraft Annual, no. 10, 2016, pp. 158–77. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26868517.

YouTube Videos Shown:

White Walls by David James Armsby.
   • "White Walls" | Lovecraftian Horror A...  

"Playground" by @rodrigosousa8853
   • PLAYGROUND- trailer  

Eldertubbies by Jars Drawings
   / @jars.drawings  

Poppy's Playtime Chapter 2 Trailer
   • Poppy Playtime: Chapter 2 - Official ...  

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4
   • Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4  

Art and Graphics Shown:

"Nyarlathotep by Jens Heimdahl - Facebook: Art of Jens Heimdahl, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons

Depictions of Nyarlathotep
https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Nya...

Paper background images by freepik and rawpixel.com - www.freepik.com

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♫Music Used:

Dark Tension Rising Music by Mattia Cupelli on:
SPOTIFY: https://spoti.fi/2WxnNN7

2pm and Flower Duet composed by Philip Milman - https://pmmusic.pro/

Haddonfield Horror, Vessel, and Primal by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
   • 80s Horror Movie Synth  - Haddonfield...  

Reflective District Stealth Theme 02, Ambience 02, and Action 01 composed by One Man Symphony - onemansymphony.bandcamp.com

Tenebrous Brothers Carnival - Act One and Act Two, Darkest Child, Myst on the Moor, and One-Eyed Maestro by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

Gothic Horror, Lost Souls, In the Land of Make Believe, The Fellowship, Cobwebbed, and An Angel will Rise by Purple Planet Music - https://www.purple-planet.com

Sound Effects by Pixabay - https://pixabay.com//?utm_source=link...

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