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It... depends. Horror in literature doesn't work very well for "scaring", good horror is more about pressure and inevitable doom. A couple of Lovecraft stories do this (in my opinion, obviously) very well - Color Out Of Space comes into mind - but a lot of it depends on the mood and setting; you read it alone in an empty dark attic or something, a lot of HPL stories is perfectly serviceable as scares, at least until the absurdity starts kicking in. Still, I imagine most fans are in it for the mythology; Lovecraft's imaginary worlds and gods still inspire awe and kind of an otherworldly beauty. His monsters are genuinely cool even nowadays.
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I'm honestly not sure which one of the reviewer's depiction of horror writers or Joshi calling The Shadow Over Innsmouth "worthy of Faulkner" is funnier. I do have a healthy dose of respect for both HPL and Joshi, but these fellows are really overthinking their stuff.
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Dec 27, 2014 15:55
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My favorite HPL story is The Outsider. I mean, okay, it's dumb, you'll see it coming from miles away but there's something adorable about the whole thing. For actually good ones, I'd go with Color Out Of Space. Thing disturbs me even on rereads.
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Jan 8, 2015 23:28
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I think it's more about the issue constantly coming up. We get it, HPL was racist. As long as you're aware of it, it shouldn't interfere in your enjoyment of his work and there's definitely no need to bring it up on every page.
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Jan 18, 2015 18:52
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Yeah, it's more of a take on the history than the magical angle. The whole twist it puts on Watergate is interesting but ultimately there's just not much to see there. It's got ideas but never really realizes them; whoever was it here that compared it to Declare was way, way off.
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