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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Barnes & Noble, eye-scorcher of a cover (leather? surely leatherette?), claims to be complete: Eh, I wouldn't mind having that in my bookshelf. I'd be much more embarrassed to own these. I'm probably font-spergin' here, but jesus christ Papyrus is ugly  http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/necronomicon-h-p-lovecraft/1101955449?ean=9780575081574 http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/eldritch-tales-h-p-lovecraft/1102418434?ean=9780575099630 I also can't recommend Erik Kriek's Lovecraft comics highly enough. Easily the best Lovecraft comic I've ever read, his rendition of The Shadow Over Innsmouth is especially fantastic. Unfortunately they do not exist in English yet, to my knowledge, only in Dutch and Swedish (?).  
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When I marathoned Lovecraft's stuff back in my youth there were a few times when I got genuinely creeped out, so I can only imagine that his stories would have been considered straight-up terrifying when he wrote them back in the 20's and 30's. But as mentioned, the average reader today is jaded enough where his work tends to hold up better if you're in it for the weird rather than expecting to have your pants scared off. Has anyone seen the faux-retro movies produced by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society? They're pretty rockin'   edit: and if anyone happens to be looking for Lovecraft audiobooks, check out the outstanding H.P. Podcraft Nuclear Tourist fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Jan 4, 2015 |
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I'm not sure I see the point of posthumously shaming white, male authors from the early 1900's because they had opinions that were stupid or don't fall into today's standards of political correctness. Hemingway was a machismo chauvinist. Joyce was a major league perv. Jack London was a xenophobe. Lovecraft was a xenophobe (part of his life, at least). They were all fantastic storytellers, as well as products of the time they lived in. In other news, gently caress yeah Lovecraft beer  
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