Very different concept. Lovecraft stuff is “ooh these cosmic higher dimensional beings are so weird they drive men mad!”
A Langford Basilisk is based on the idea that your mind is analogous to a computer and the Basilisk image is visual data that causes an unrecoverable hard crash. There’s nothing magical about the image, the problem happens when your brain tries to make sense of what it is seeing.
Very different concept. Lovecraft stuff is “ooh these cosmic higher dimensional beings are so weird they drive men mad!”
A Langford Basilisk is based on the idea that your mind is analogous to a computer and the Basilisk image is visual data that causes an unrecoverable hard crash. There’s nothing magical about the image, the problem happens when your brain tries to make sense of what it is seeing.
Oh, I meant the “reading something so perverse and otherworldly you go mad” thing, the source of the text notwithstanding