/lit/ - Literature

>>14400561
>creative writing professors always tell people to not do that
>literally one of the greatest writers of all time did it
What did they mean by this?

>>14400561
Cosmic """horror""" in a nutshell. Smith was better.

>it's so terrible, it uhh, cant be described with words!

No, he was just writing works of transcendental-materialist apophatic theology.

>AHHH! a Puerto Rican! I'm going insaaaaaannne!

>>14400561
Yes. Lovecraft a shit.

>>14400561
>>14400589
>>14400600
>Posting dismissively about a writer you've read so little of that you don't have the ability to critique what you're describing in a legitimate of thoughful way
Reddit faggots with PTSD from overdosing on Cthulhu memes and plush pillows when they were 13 coming here to signal they're better than Lovecraft now have no place in America or in this world

>>14400629
I love his work you illiterate retard.

I've got something right here that's too terrible for words, except for maybe "rugose".

>>14400666
why, my peenus weanus of course :)

hahah! :D

it's my weeeeeenus peanus! :) hahah

What is too terrible to be described with words? - my answer is, of course, my peanus weenus :D

hahaha!

>>14400561
>>14400589
>>14400666
>>14400699
>T. hasn't read a word of lovecraft

>>14400571
>literally one of the greatest writers of all time
Slow down there hoss

its meant to be somewhat mystical, how you you describe something that has no words in any human language to describe? I think Lovecraft harnesses this literary device poorly but i dont think its necessarily a cop out (although Lovecraft comes across as that frequently)

Lovecraft's horror really comes from the buildup. It's kind of like the bible in that. The road leading to the promethean horror is lined with old dystopic towns and cities where the people themselves are inhuman or sociopathic in their ways. The more the protag delves into the mystery, the worse things get. Once the paranormal bits leak in, you don't question them because the people and places associated are so foreign and ugly. By the time the protag encounters the cthulhu monster, the horror is mostly imaged by the reader.

Or Lovecraft is just a mentally challenged edgelord who is praised by other mentally challenged edgelords

>>14400711
>>14400629
I've read many words written by him.

>>14400783
that kind of horror only works as a slow burn, when done right it can be very effective. In i believe it was "The Color Out of Space" where a "New Color" of sorts is described. This its self is titillating as it is impossible to imagine.

>>14400783
>Lovecraft's horror really comes from the buildup. It's kind of like the bible in that.
>NOOOOOOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN HUMANS AREN'T GOD'S SPECIAL CREATION? WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE ARE LIKE INSIGNIFICANT BUGS IN A COLD AND INDIFFERENT UNIVERSE
>WHAT DO YOU MEAN GOD MIGHT ACTUALLY BE A TENTACLED ABOMINATION? NOOOOOOOOO MY TINY CHRISTIAN MIND IS GOING INSANE

>>14400803
>this will trigger the Christians

>>14400561
>ARGH THIS INDESCRIBABLE BEAST IS DRIVING ME INSANE
>JUST LOOK AT ITS FOUR EYES, EIGHT TENTACLES AND HORRIFIC HORSE MIXED WITH EAGLE FEATURES
>FUCKING INDESCRIBABLE MAN AND I AM CRAZY NOW

>>14400790
You must have a lot of good weird fiction. I would be interested in seeing your shelf.

>>14400859
I don't have much, just The King in Yellow, that Lovecraft book, Lost Worlds by Clark Ashton Smith and The White People and Other Weird Stories. I mostly have gothic and "normal" horror books, like the ones on the picture.

I'm afraid of an octopus
I'm afraid of a fish
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't

>>14400801
It's magenta in Nicholas Cage's adaptation.

>>14400623
Big kek

the tiara, which the narrator of The Shadow Over Innsmouth sees in the library during the story's first section, is described in great detail through both positive qualities like texture, color, shape, likeness, and through negative, of absent, qualities as "a kind of tiara" that cannot be readily compared to. Lovecraft is an excellent descriptor. He can use both present and absence to give images life, while often indulging in that stupid Victorian over-detailing of locations and clothes for characters.

this meme is fucking whack.

>>14401235
It's the sort of surface level criticism only popular because it infuriates the people who actually read his work

>>14401377
oh does it!

>>14400890
Get Clark Ashton Smith asap.

>>14400571
>>literally one of the greatest writers of all time did it
are you serious mate

>>14400561
Niggerman

>>14401470
It's already on his shelf.

>>14400561
What about his dream cycle stuff. Some of just reads like bad fantasy but it's a lot different than then mythos stories and dosen't really rely on what op is complaining about

>>14401855
uuuuhhhh...mods? We gonna allow this shit on my board?

>>14400561
He couldn't write about what really scared him.

>>14400561
>AAAHHHH, GEOMETRY! MY HEAD IS EXPLODING!

>>14401470
O-ok.

>>14400571
>literally one of the greatest writers of all time

>>14402495
is he wrong?