Have you ever read Lovecraft?

cassar

cassar

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is it as good as "signs" thats a cool movie about aliens not liking water! water is one of the basic building blocks of life apparently, i used to play with building blocks when i was a cub........

i know im a UU {()} or 8===D lol

back on topic whats his stuff about, executive summary please ;)

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IdofEntity

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cassar said:
back on topic whats his stuff about, executive summary please ;)
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You know how the word Machiavellian has come to mean anything that is cunning, manipulative, and deceptive in statecraft? (based on his philosophy and writings)

Well Lovecraftian Horror is all about the weird and terrifying aspects of what we don't know. Cthulu sound familiar? Or did you ever see the end of the Hellboy movie? You know that giant tentacled thing in deep space that was a harbinger of doom for mankind. Lovecraftian.
 
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vincegamer

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Lovecraft was a genius of his time in the writing of horror fiction. He once said the oldest emotion is fear and the strongest fear is fear of the unknown. If you know something, you can understand it and it loses its ability to scare. If you say the monster is 20 feet tall, a voice in your head will say at least it's not 30 feet tall.

Lovecraft wrote his creatures in such a way you just got a hint of them and what he did not say was far more terrifying than what he did. When I was a teen reading them I used to say Stephen King wrote scary stories and Lovecraft wrote terrifying stories.
 
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Yeah - it takes some thinking and imagination to let Lovecraft really do his work. People who don't like or have either of those will probably be underwhelmed.
 
Wyrmypops

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Always liked his use of imagery, and snippets of his word use (gibbeous moon, who says that?) but found him difficult to just read. A bit like Tolkien in that regard, clever, but lacking something in the author skillset.
 
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supervike

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ktooloo said:
Never heard of the guy. ; )
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Wyrmypops said:
Always liked his use of imagery, and snippets of his word use (gibbeous moon, who says that?) but found him difficult to just read. A bit like Tolkien in that regard, clever, but lacking something in the author skillset.
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However, he was never writing high minded literature, but the 20's and 30's version of the comic book. I agree his word usage was very odd, and I think it's a bit of an acquired taste. But, if you keep in mind what audience it was intended for, I think it stands up pretty well.
 
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Torn blue sky

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Have to say, i'm being pushed further in sway of this kindle malarky. I never liked the name though, not sure i'd feel comfortable having something that I associate with being highly flammable in my pocket.
 
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Torn blue sky

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Now that just makes me think it wouldn't be stored in a pocket, or it has potential to be violated.
Who the FU*K comes UP with these names?!
 
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vincegamer

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Torn blue sky said:
Have to say, i'm being pushed further in sway of this kindle malarky. I never liked the name though, not sure i'd feel comfortable having something that I associate with being highly flammable in my pocket.
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As my brother said the other day: "Ironically, a book makes much better kindling than a kindle".
 
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Dedwrekka

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cassar said:
back on topic whats his stuff about, executive summary please ;)
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Psychological horror with some quick dalliances with science fiction at times.

A few of his short stories should sum up his work pretty well. I'd suggest "The Rats in the Walls", "The Unnamable" and "Herbert West-Reanimator".

They don't touch on his main Cthulhu mythos much, but I think they pretty well sum up the style.

The Cthulhu mythos later spawned or were the inspiration for Warhammer's Chaos Gods.
 
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