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Thoughts on Lovecraft?
For some reason I feel like you guys would really dislike the works.

>> No.4813543

>>4813539

His cat was called `Niggerman`

>> No.4813547

>>4813543
That's cute.

I bet the cat wasn't even black

>> No.4813548
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4813548

I like Lovecraft. I like macabre and fantastical stories. Sometimes his writing can be overly descriptive though.

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>At the Mountains of Madness
>Shadow out of Time
>Under the Pyramids
>Rats in the Walls
>The Alchemist
>Through the Gates of the Silver Key
>The Cats of Ulthar
>The Dunwich Horror
>Shadow over Innsmouth
>The Shunned House
>Cool Air
>From Beyond
>Dreams in the Witch House
>Colour Out of Space
>Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath
>The Strange High House in the Mist
>>4813543
Pic related

>> No.4813578

He's best suited to shorts, which are often pretty good. Anytime he drifts into novella territory he gets tiresome.

>> No.4813603

>>4813568
To what end

>> No.4813620

>>4813539
The magazine The Conservative in wrote was pretty good

>> No.4813644

FUN FACT: Lovecraft himself called his mythos “Yoggsothothery” in his lifetime.

The term “Lovecraft Mythos” wasn’t popularized until after his death.

>> No.4813683

>>4813568
Is that Niggerman? I thought Howie only had one cat so name because it was all black?

>> No.4813700

>>4813568
Nigga, you dun left off Erich Zann.

>> No.4813729

Great writer with a wonderful imagination.

>> No.4813732

>>4813543

Is this supposed to upset us? This isn't Tumblr.

>> No.4813737

>>4813568

>no pickmans model
>no doom that came to sarnath
>no statement of randolph carter

Get it together.

>> No.4813764

Going through a major Lovecraft phase right now, working chronologically through his short stories. Right now reading his essay on horror lit, nice little survey and very indicative of his tastes. His little prose thing Ex Oblivione is nice (in a depressing way). I'm also partial to the White Ship.

>>4813568
The Outsider, Erich Zann, The Festival? Picture in the House?

>> No.4813809

Where should one start with LC?

>> No.4813814

>>4813809
start wih Poe and Dunsany

>> No.4813824

POLARIS MOTHERFUCKERS

One of his best

>> No.4813835

>>4813824
Anyone know anything similar to the dream cycle? I love the sense of longing and hopeless fantasizing in these stories.

>> No.4813901

>>4813824

>> No.4814026

>>4813568
>No Lurker At The Threshold

>> No.4814213

Obsessively read every story of his my senior year of high school, fell in fucking love Lovecraft. Quite a few of his stories share major similarities but that also carries a charm with it, that he was able to create so much work that was so similar yet each and everyone captivating as it was.

One of the few horror writers I've ever liked, mostly because he truly embraced the aspect of HORROR. No one survives, no one has a happy ending, there is no savior, there is no 'ah glad it's over'.. Nope, it's fucking never over. Just like life, that is true horror.

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>>4813543

Really? Lovecraft would be such a bro if he wasn't a shut in.

>> No.4814742

Despite his rampant xenophobia, antisemitic and racist views he's an absolutely brilliant horror author. "The Rats in the Walls" is so damn good, it's almost a perfect essay on how to write the ideal short story. The atmosphere in "The Colour out of Space" is ridiculously good. If you want to try him out, buy the Penguin editions and work your way from The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories to The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories and, lastly, The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories. You'll find that the annotations by S. T. Joshi are invaluable.

Lovecraft's basically hit-or-miss. You either love his writing style and the unique atmosphere he can create of pure cosmic horror, or you find his verbosity excruciating, pretentious and the big reveals at the end to be laughable. And, again, he's extremely racist (he wrote a "poem" named "On the Creation of N*ggers" for fuck sake) so that can certainly be off-putting.

Wherever you might stand on Lovecraft, "The Street" is fucking god awful.

>> No.4814743

>>4814742
>Despite

>> No.4814745

>>4814213

This. Man, those gods aren't even gods. They're just beings from another plane of existence we could never even hope to comprehend. Just witnessing a glimpse of these cosmic truths is enough to cause anyone to lose their sanity. They're proof that all our beliefs, structures and concepts are hopelessly incorrect. As Burleson said, Lovecraft's universe is "a universe in which humanity is an insignificant blot, fated to come and go, its appearance unnoticed and its passing unmourned."

Fuckin' metal.

>> No.4814749

>>4814743
Lol'd. I knew I was going to see a comment like this once I scrolled past >>4814742

>> No.4814757

>>4814749
I was going to make one and I don't even like snowniggers. Why do people feel the need to stomp us with their absolute moralism?

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4815140

I have these /lit/, the complete fiction of HPL. You mad?

>> No.4815176

>>4815140
find a skin-bound necronomicon and only then

>> No.4815193

>>4815176
>tfw finding Giger's Necronomicon is actually near impossible

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>>4815140
i have this

>> No.4815481

The White Ship, Polaris, Celephais and Ex-Oblivione gave me the feels.

>> No.4815492

>>4815481
>feels
>>>/r9k/

>> No.4815538

>>4815193
Amazon UK has it.

>> No.4815553

>>4815140
>putting Beksinski paintings on the covers

They're both macabre, but this somehow seems disingenuous and mismatched

>> No.4815568

shitty writer. interesting story-teller.

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>>4815553
you wrong