Lovecraft?

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

I am referring to HP Lovecraft. Do a google search and there is all kind of sex crap. HP Lovecraft was an early American horror fiction writer. Even though he was married I believe he was an old school MGTOW and probably an Aspie.

Anyhow, He invented the cosmic horror genre and he was a god among men. Yes his writing was not very good and he would be labeled a racist by today’s standards.

His ideas were awesome.

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[chirParticipant]

I always loved reading his work. Trying to read all the old gods names was fun too. I liked his take on seeing an old god. The horror was so great your nuts pulled up so far into your body from fear they jerked up into your skull…. Then your head explodes. 🙂

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[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22521]

I found HP Lovecraft to be one of the first true modern sci-fi writers. He was limited only by terminology and reference material. Though, due to this he pioneered a lot of concepts and idea. He also knew how to blend fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and drama together.

HP Lovecraft was best known for mixing details with broad strokes. HP could make a pleasant Sunday afternoon seem to be a scary setting.

The wide ranging number of writers inspired by his works is breath taking: Tolkien, Clark, Asimov, King, Hitchc~~~, JMS. Even comedic writers, like Tina Fey have some inspirations by HP Lovecraft. And countless writers have been inspired by HP.

HP also conversed with other writer of his time, Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian), Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch (writer of the book, Psycho that the Hitchc~~~ movie Psycho was based on). And they talked about and shared their idea. This is why the Cthulhu mythos and the mythos in Conan the Barbarian seem like sibling mythos.

HP Lovecraft, Robert E Howard, and Clark Aston Smith were concerned the big three of the Weird Tales magazine. Which was published before government censored fiction in the 1930’s.

People say that “Call of Cthulhu” was his best work. I disagree. I believe that “At the Mountains of Madness” is HP’s best work. My second favorite HP story is “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”.

[ChuddoxParticipant 585]

H.P. Lovecraft is among a generation of fiction writers that’s spawned a “golden era”. He and many of his contemporaries collaborated to create a collective (science) Fiction universe of strange and bizarre. My personal favorite author from the same era is Robert E. Howard, Author of Conan The Cimmerian, Kull the conqueror and Solomon Kane. Howard actually references some Lovecraft’s “Old gods” He specifically mentions Yog Sothoth . They collaborated and spoke with some frequency prior to Howards suicide. Howard, being from West Texas, was in many ways a deep south conservative. He too, would be considered a racist by todays standards. I can’t say I disagree, other than he falls in to a view of “Classical Racism” This isn’t a view that stems from hate, but simply one that realizes the differences inherent in racial make ups of people.

That generation of authors in Weird Tales was amazing.

“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

The mountains of madness, charles dexter ward. Yes!

Don’t forget the walls of eryx.

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[RoyDalParticipant]

Some of the scariest stories I have ever read were by H.P. Lovecraft.

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[NerevarParticipant 8040]

The Shadow out of Time is my favorite Lovecraft story.

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[MoonlightParticipant 223]

I love H.P. Lovecraft’s work! He pretty much created his own genre of horror. I imported the Barnes and Noble hardcover complete edition and it’s one of my prized books.

This documentary is great for learning about Lovecraft himself:

Also, one of my favorite writers called Gen Urobuchi made a visual novel (video game/book) called, “Song of Saya” which seems to have taken a lot of inspiration from, “The Dunwich Horror”. I highly recommend it to anyone that wants a Japanese twist on Lovecraftian horror. Just a warning, it contains graphic sexual content which surprisingly is relevant to the plot.

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