Rahm is actually the fatty substance from which cream (sweet and sour), butter and so on is made. In some regions it is synonym to sahne= whipped cream. In this context however you can really forget the whole milky stuff.

Ironic fact is that already the saintly Grimm brothers themselves did some whitewashing and moralising. Even in those days these tales have by some people been regarded as unsuitable for children and so on. In their successiv editions the texts tend to become „cleaner“. But never as aseptic as those sugary Disney adaptations. Not unsuitable but surely harmful. To anybody...
Ghostly Christmas stories are not much of a tradition around here but as a part of my family `s Christmas rites we make up our own alternative Nativity stories in which unholy ghosts – and of course aliens and the like – play a prominent role. Most often they revolve about the „Who dunnit“ question („It`s not what you think Jussuf, it was the Holy Spirit“ is like the lamest excuse ever!) and my alltime favorite is my son `s story from last year where the ox turns out to be the father of Christ.

On the etymology of Wolfram: Your derivation makes sense technically T. Kelly Lee,  but I think you are mislead by translating „rahm“ as „cream“.
The word Wolfram (in various spellings) is first recorded in 16th century Erzgebirge (sth. like Ore Mountains, in modern Saxonia and Bohemia) as a  pejorative term in the miner ´s language for a wolfram containing  mineral which hampered the extraction of tin. Not „the tin eats the spoils like a wolf “ but the tin IS EATEN etc. At that time the word „ram“ had the meaning „soot“ or „dirt“. The  modern „Rahm“ meaning cream comes from a different word which at that stage would be something like „rom“ or „roum“. „Ram“ however has come completely out of use now. So linguistics and the fact that the word Wolfram comes from something that was regarded as waste rather than an intentionally created substance  decides the case in favor of „dirt“. Since in our composita the first word specifies the second, a translation would be: „wolfish dirt“.
 

Yes, that `s what the newspaper said this morning and I don `t get it. I don `t even want to.
Some guy(s) with no balls -  okay he doesn `t like people knocking at his door with an axe so he chose a stupid pseudonym  - and less economic sense (5 million bucks! My son makes better looking movies in our backyard on a 5 dollar budget) makes a stupid movie and everybody runs for it like a dog when you throw him a stick. Yes, some guys are pissed. But those guys are constantly pissed. We had that before.
About two years ago some unknown guy from an unknown town in Florida announced to jerk off in public and had world wide attention. What are we? Amoebae?

I suppose they should be ugly for the horror aspect, but what if after they transformed completely the fish people were not ugly? 

They wouldn't be human so they would look unusual or even strange to us because we are not familiar with them, but most animals, when they are healthy have a certain beauty.  Think of lions, wolves, horses or eagles.  We often marvel at their power, grace and beauty.

Yes, that thing is ugly und they `re supposed to be „ugly“ but I think that is only part of the horror aspect. More important I would say is the „travesty of the human fígure“.  Doesn `t the narrator himself say at some point that the human resemblance of the advanced mutants bothers him so much?
Even the Deep Ones themselves are still vagely humanoid. Of course you are right, they `re not necessarily ugly by an aesthetic standard but there is some genuine creepieness in something that looks human, but is … different. I always found all of those human ancestor reconstructions quite eerie. Except of course all the Neanderthals that look like Neil Young. Or the Grey Aliens. They are not ugly, but creepy. Or think of elves. Not Tinkerbell or Lord of the Rings elves, the evil ones. They´re even beautiful, but it `s a hideous beauty. 

Actually the horror of combat is not in horror stories.  The examples you give have war as the setting (and it does play into / add to the horror) but the part of them that is "horror story" is the supernatural part.

Jacob's Ladder is completely after combat, Owl Creek Bridge is all in his imagination, but not in combat.  It sounds like R-Point is set in war but is really about the ghosts.

Here's an idea, the horror of combat with no supernatural element is not considered horror-story, but simply considered war-story.

Well, you name it. There are tons of stories/novels/movies dealing with the horrors of war, but those are generally not regarded as horror movies. With „a supernatural or super-current-scientific-knowledge element “ you ruled out constituting elements of the genre. Moreover, regarding the literal sense of the word, works of „horror“ aim to scare their recipient, while war literature - real or fictional – mostly aims at a different emotional response. For example „Im Westen nichts Neues“ (All Quiet on the Western Front) is an impressive work of literature describing the terrible reality of WWI, but it `s not frightening in any way.
So, it `s not unsuitable, it `s different genres.  Where they are blended you get, well, a horror story in a war setting and most of the times that comes out silly. Although there are some good examples. Regarding movies „The Blockhouse“ with Peter Sellers is truely terrifying, without any supernatural elements.
Closest to what you are looking for might come the 2009 movie „Lebanon“ by Israeli director Samuel Maoz. It plays in the 1982 war between Israel and Lebanon and is set almost entirely inside a tank. Pretty intense, it transports a genuine feeling of threat and there are some horror aesthetics in it. Leaking tubes and all those oily liquids oozing down the walls and such make the tank almost a living, monstrous being that is as threatening to the cew as it is protecting them.

Moreover, since horror is always tapping the taboos of a society war is sometimes present in a more subtle way. Like in the 1931 Frankenstein movie, where the monster – of course consisting of sewn body parts – stumbles lonely through devastated landscapes, or how the visual style of Night of the Living Dead echoes Vietnam war footage. In the German Edgar Wallace movies from the 1950ies and 60ies there are all those secret observation systems, dark family secrets nobody is talking about, people disappear in secret passages, and once they find literally a skeleton the closet doing the nazi salute.

 
Shut up Graf, and go to bed already!

I should have considered that the English spelling would be slightly different, as well as the typical American preference for biblical names. However, I didn `t mean to point this out as THE origin of the fishpeople but I feel there is a source of inspiration that generally does not seem to get much attention. Or at least I am not aware that it `s recognized.
In Lovecraft `s lifitime there were numerous Nameless Cities of undeterminable age with mysterious art and illegible writing systems emerging from the deserts. A goldmine for any writer of the fantastic.

I hope nobody pointed this out before
Yesterday I was browsing over some old books of mine and had an "Oh-me-gawd-why-did-I-never-think-of-this-before" moment.
Part of the wave of archaeologic discoveries in the 1920ies and 30ies was the unearthing of a pre-sumerian civilization in Mesopotamia named the Obed- Culture (after a site near ancient Ur), a striking feature of whitch were strange humanoid figurines displaying some kind of Innsmouth Look:


Yes they `re more reptilian than ichthyoid, it `s not really a Tiara they `re wearing and the name is the Bible as well. But I think the semblance is striking. As Lovecraft `s work reflects the progress of ancient history as much as that of the natural sciences this could well have been an inspiration for the Deep Ones.

 

I just spilled my morning coffee - and already know I will have nightmares tonight.
Shoul I dare to go to bed at all...

Just ye good ol`wormwood flavored liquor, which the French called "la fée verte".

That `s why I want to see that movie already!
There is an audio adaptation where they did exactly that. They had a guy impersonating the cat, too. Now THAT was obnoxious!
We know, you can do better that.

The cat.
No. Joke. But the fact that Delapore is descended from a line of slaveowners.
It adds so much to the negativity of the tale. I mean, Walter de la Poer who is supposed to be the good guy begins his new life in the New World and makes a living keeping people like cattle... He wasn `t so different from his relatives after all. In a way they never stopped being cannibals and that `s one of the things that made the tale so bleak and hopeless.

If it `s a Lovecraft 5 adaptation I would love to hear someone do those ancient language stammering. Just for fun.

Besides that, as long as there aren `t any monkeys in it, I `m sure it will be cool.

A question - are we sure Mr. Wilde is even a real person or a manifestation of the madness?  I was never clear on whether or not the characters as portrayed are all real people.

I think we'll come to this again with the Yellow Wallpaper. 

I had that suspicion when the narrator-I-can `t-help-calling-Mildred first checks out that dynasty book. It is stored at Wilde `s place, but Hildred says it `s worn out only by his own hands. So Wilde owns it and never reads it? That was one of the many Wait A Minute moments in the story.
The other - sane - characters refer to Wilde as a real person, right. But always in a reserved and caucious way, trying to convince Hildred that this guy is bad for him and that he shouldn `t hang out with him so much. So maybe instead of talking him directly out of his madness they make some concession and try to alienate him from his made up friend.
Another possibility would be that Wilde is merely some weird looking excentric, on whom the straight persons have their opinion - and Hildred s messed up mimd does the rest.

Doorstep I think would be quite a challenge since it needs a thorough refining process to make a good movie scricpt. It contains  much potential for both success and failure.
My prime candidate would be Rats in the Walls, since it seems to make a great Hammer style movie.

Sure, but I meant the You tube as in Eric Lofgren `s link. Sometimes my last and only hope to get my eyes on a movie suggested around here. And even this is only possible by using US proxys of course. Sometimes I have to look out the window to make sure I `m not living in China.
Sorry for being so off topic. Now this is gonna make my saturday night movie.