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[Niggerman420 No.2013774]

What's your favorite Lovecraft title?

Mine's obvious

[The Tourist !!zaCQyFZeSRS No.2013777]

His first one.

[Niggerman420 No.2013780]

>>2013777
where the fuck did you come from?

[The Tourist !!zaCQyFZeSRS No.2013783]

>>2013780
I follow you.

[Niggerman420 No.2013804]

Can't say I really expected a response, let alone the hour of the night but Lovecraft is probably talked about to the point everyone hates it.

[Ludwig !9CUY39dDYo No.2013815]

They must know it was the rats; the slithering, scurrying rats whose scampering will never let me sleep; the daemon rats that race behind the padding in this room and beckon me down to greater horrors than I have ever known; the rats they can never hear; the rats, the rats in the walls.

The rats in the walls are actually a metaphor for the Jewish conspiracy.

[Phil !!2NLTH2UTLrN No.2013816]

The Thing on the Door-Step.
Sage for /mu/.

[Anonymous No.2013819]

I'm not quite answering your question but my favourite was the name of his cat. *snigger*

[Anonymous No.2013836]

So apparently his top ten favourite words were

1. Hideous — 260
2. Faint (ed/ing) — 189
3. Nameless — 157
4. Antiqu (e/arian) — 128
5. Madness — 115
6. Singular (ly) — 115
7. Abnormal — 94
8. Blasphem (y/ous) – 92
9. Accursed — 76
10. Loath (ing/some) — 71

I guess he could have called one "The Hideous, Nameless, Abnormal, Blasphemous, Accursed, Antique, Singular, Fainting Madness" and been done with it.

[Anonymous No.2013861]

The Shadow over Innsmouth.

I really like that the protagonist slowly descents into madness, instead of just going "Wahh! I'm a fish!".

[Anonymous No.2013873]

>>2013861
I laughed out loud at
>"Wahh! I'm a fish!".

Also, after typing that out, I feel inclined to tell you that if a quotation ends in a punctuation, it is actually correct to just close the quotations around it and not add further punctuation.

I feel like my explanation is awkward, so tl;dr;
"dfgouhdfgo!" should be left alone.
"dofuhdfou" should get a period at the end.

[Anonymous No.2013878]

>>2013873
Huh! I didn't know that.
Well, you live and learn.

[Anonymous No.2013885]

"I hate niggers."

- HP Lovecraft

[Anonymous No.2013893]

>>2013873
Does it matter whether you're in the UK or the US though? For example, I understand that in the US it's considered correct to always keep the punctuation inside the closing bracket

> .)

but in the UK it's acceptable to have the punctuation outside the closing bracket

> ).

I was wondering if it was a similar situation with quotation marks?

[Anonymous No.2013909]

>>2013893
Hrm, good point. I'm in the US.