Just... wow

[wild09]

I've never seen a video game that could even remotely approach the hallmarks of true Lovecraftian horror

Do yourself a favor and play Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth if you have an original Xbox. It's an amazingly well told, frightening game that adapts some of Lovecraft's works into the game's story. For that matter pick up Frictional Games' Penumbra series (note: Requiem isn't actually scary, it's more or less like a puzzle game). A warning though about Call of Cthulhu, if you try to play it on the 360 I don't recommend it as the music and sound cuts out and a horror just isn't scary without music or sound. It's also on the PC but it has some impassible game breaking glitches that were never patched.