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Lagrange posted:you are wrong. He was a racist rear end in a top hat, but he was good at writing horror stories.
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he really was the driving force behind weird fiction though there wasn't anything like that in american literature before, it was still mostly gothic horror with a few outliers
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Oct 10, 2014 05:49
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using words like "squamous" is the lamest thing i can conceive of, but im also totally queer for five dollar words like "squamous" so in conclusion lovecraft can be compared and contrasted i.m.o.
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Oct 10, 2014 05:51
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cthulusnewzulubbq posted:he really was the driving force behind weird fiction though no, he wasn't. that was m.r. james, lord dunsany, and arthur machen who popularized it, lovecraft just popularized the term "weird fiction" and wrote some of the first materialist horror
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Effectronica posted:no, he wasn't. that was m.r. james, lord dunsany, and arthur machen who popularized it, lovecraft just popularized the term "weird fiction" and wrote some of the first materialist horror they aren't american
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Oct 10, 2014 05:55
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Effectronica posted:no, he wasn't. that was m.r. james, lord dunsany, and arthur machen who popularized it, lovecraft just popularized the term "weird fiction" and wrote some of the first materialist horror he also left all his work to the public. He was a racist rear end in a top hat, but anyone can use his ideas now. Does anyone have that pic from the Planetary/Authority comic? "Negro Eggs!"
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Oct 10, 2014 05:56
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Lagrange posted:you are wrong. No he's a bad writer who had some neat ideas. But lol at "Wow what do those long weird words even mean, why doesn't this 1920s dude write like a Twitter post?!?"
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Oct 10, 2014 05:57
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cthulusnewzulubbq posted:James is the only american nope, that's henry james, and he ain't a weird fiction author. ambrose bierce and walter de la mare are americans that are classified as weird fiction writers and were popular, but those three really defined a lot of horror alongside lovecraft and then matheson slightly later
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Effectronica posted:nope, that's henry james, and he ain't a weird fiction author. ambrose bierce and walter de la mare are americans that are classified as weird fiction writers and were popular, but those three really defined a lot of horror alongside lovecraft and then matheson slightly later post was edited earlier
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Oct 10, 2014 05:58
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cthulusnewzulubbq posted:post was edited earlier lovecraft even complained about how his works could be split into dunsany pastiches and poe pastiches, dude, and machen produced one of the other big strains of horror, with james providing a constant source of inspiration. matheson and lovecraft were the first americans to really revolutionize horror fiction
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Oct 10, 2014 06:00
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Effectronica posted:matheson and lovecraft were the first americans to really revolutionize horror fiction this is what i said from the very beginning...
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Oct 10, 2014 06:02
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cthulusnewzulubbq posted:this is what i said from the very beginning... that you hate eskimos? That's what H.P. said
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cthulusnewzulubbq posted:this is what i said from the very beginning... oh, whoopsy-daisy
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Oct 10, 2014 06:04
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OP is good at making a post count thread.
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Oct 10, 2014 06:04
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Who? Sorry, I only read mangas and Dan Brown novels.
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Oct 10, 2014 06:06
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Both lovecraft and tolkien made extensive use of lacunae ie. never describe any detail so the reader can use his [sic] imagination to fill in the blanks, which means the reader that sees cool stuff in them probably has more creativity than they had, and that's one reason lovecraft and tolkien fanfiction is better than the real thing
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Oct 10, 2014 06:07
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Troll Bridgington posted:Who? Sorry, I only read mangas and Dan Brown novels. Bullshit!
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Oct 10, 2014 06:07
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My favorite Lovecraft story is "Medusa's Coil", a colab work with another writer. There's a lady whose hair is alive, and there's evil powers, and a curse, but the final jump scare, the horrifying, mind-destroying revelation in the final line of the story is "She was a negress." Dude still put more thought into his aliens than any sci-fi you see on TV these days, so that's something.
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Oct 10, 2014 06:08
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the best lovecraft stories are the ones that end like this and oh my god it's here it is indescribable i am finished!!
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butplug accident posted:Both lovecraft and tolkien made extensive use of lacunae ie. never describe any detail so the reader can use his [sic] imagination to fill in the blanks, which means the reader that sees cool stuff in them probably has more creativity than they had, and that's one reason lovecraft and tolkien fanfiction is better than the real thing this isn't the case, sadly. would htat it were so
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Oct 10, 2014 06:08
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That feel when you wake up and a new probation you didn't know you got just ended
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Oct 10, 2014 06:08
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i never could tell wtf lovecraft was shooting for in his descriptions of the great race of yith or the old ones v v
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Oct 10, 2014 06:08
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Pumpy Muffinz posted:Bullshit! I'll loving cut you.
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Oct 10, 2014 06:09
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Effectronica posted:this isn't the case, sadly. would htat it were so The former's true at least
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Oct 10, 2014 06:09
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a barrel with tentacles and poo poo? a triangle-head-neck-trumpet thing? ok howie, whatever you please.
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Stick Figure Mafia posted:the best lovecraft stories are the ones that end like this and oh my god it's here it is indescribable i am finished!! You mean literally the single one? I guess you could be talking about Dagon. It ends sort of like that, but you know what the fish-people look like. Seriously the dude is a wealth of problems and complexes, but not describing his monsters isn't one of them.
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Oct 10, 2014 06:10
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Rats in the Walls posted:As I have said, I moved in on July 16, 1923. My household consisted of seven servants and nine cats, of which latter species I am particularly fond. My eldest cat, “friend of the family-Man”, was seven years old and had come with me from my home in Bolton, Massachusetts; the others I had accumulated whilst living with Capt. Norrys’ family during the restoration of the priory. For five days our routine proceeded with the utmost placidity, my time being spent mostly in the codification of old family data. I had now obtained some very circumstantial accounts of the final tragedy and flight of Walter de la Poer, which I conceived to be the probable contents of the hereditary paper lost in the fire at Carfax. It appeared that my ancestor was accused with much reason of having killed all the other members of his household, except four servant confederates, in their sleep, about two weeks after a shocking discovery which changed his whole demeanour, but which, except by implication, he disclosed to no one save perhaps the servants who assisted him and afterward fled beyond reach. Racist, but man was he an entertaining writer. As much as I love the Cthulhu stuff, Herbert West is my favorite ghost story of his: http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/hwr.aspx
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Oct 10, 2014 06:11
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:No he's a bad writer who had some neat ideas. ? What are you talking about? And what is this thing coming out of my pineal gland?
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butplug accident posted:The former's true at least i've got a "cthulhu mythos megapack" and "new cthulhu: the recent weird" on my kindle, believe me, it isn't, and i wish it weren't true every day of my life that i think about gayass genre fiction
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Stick Figure Mafia posted:the best lovecraft stories are the ones that end like this and oh my god it's here it is indescribable i am finished!! yeah, because when he wasn't being a racist rear end in a top hat, he was good at horror.
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:My favorite Lovecraft story is "Medusa's Coil", a colab work with another writer. the colab works are the loving worst
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Oct 10, 2014 06:13
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actually, even when he was being a racist rear end in a top hat, he was good at horror. HP was always good at horror.
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Oct 10, 2014 06:14
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the best lovecraft stories are alien, prometheus, and the classic flash game "herbert west: de-animator"
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Oct 10, 2014 06:15
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Quick rule of thumb if an author is enjoyed almost exclusively by nerds it's because he's trash. Everything that has a fandom is trash
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butplug accident posted:Everything
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butplug accident posted:Quick rule of thumb if an author is enjoyed almost exclusively by nerds it's because he's trash. Everything that has a fandom is trash that means there are no good writers
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Oct 10, 2014 06:17
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other good lovecraft stories: t.e.d. klein's "the events at poroth farm", "petey", and "black man with a horn"
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Oct 10, 2014 06:18
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Effectronica posted:other good lovecraft stories: t.e.d. klein's "the events at poroth farm", "petey", and "black man with a horn" The best not Lovecraft book is The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
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Oct 10, 2014 06:22
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Read: -The Colo(u)r out of Space -The Rats in the Walls -The Mountains of Madness -The Case of Charles Dexter Ward those are the four best Lovecraft novellas IMO and they stand up as pretty entertaining reads, okay thanks goodbye 
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Seriously Lovecraft described the heck out of his horrors: "The match had been between Kid O’Brien—a lubberly and now quaking youth with a most un-Hibernian hooked nose—and Buck Robinson, “The Harlem Smoke”. The negro had been knocked out, and a moment’s examination shewed us that he would permanently remain so. He was a loathsome, gorilla-like thing, with abnormally long arms which I could not help calling fore legs, and a face that conjured up thoughts of unspeakable Congo secrets and tom-tom poundings under an eerie moon."
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