I also love Lovecraft, and there’s something cool about how a lot of his stories were about people becoming obsessed and haunted by old manuscripts, and your game is an example of you being “haunted” in a way by his old stories.
There are some really nice descriptions in here (I won’t quote them to avoid spoilers), worthy of Lovecraft.
I played it a couple of times, and noticed when parts of the text and/or the stat table changed, but I would’ve loved to see stronger differences result from the choices. That’s how the petite mort goes, though. This was my first time, and I learned that lesson the hard way.
But this was very cool, and I appreciate the terror of the situation, and the Lovecraftian direction (in a literal and figurative sense) it takes.
I’d written something more specific above, but am changing it to avoid spoilers, sorry.
Well done!
-Zac