Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > BotM July 2021: CAN SUCH THINGS BE ? by AMBROSE BIERCE
 
  • Post
  • Reply
HelleSpud
Apr 1, 2010

anilEhilated posted:

I'd agree with "quaint" being a pretty good description.

Anyhow, it's intersting to see that this seems to be the origin for Carcosa and Hastur, two things that eventually show up in Lovecraft and his many, many literary descendants.

The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi is really good for this. Sometimes half the page is a breakdown of previous works and what ideas he took from them, and quotes from Lovecraft's letters discussing why he took them.

Later writers depict his themes/writing as being as inexplicable and alien as his creatures, but, like them, he has a mundane provenance that only seems bizarre through unfamiliarity.

* # ¿ Jul 18, 2021 04:12
  • Quote
Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 17, 2024 14:50
  • Quote
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply
The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > BotM July 2021: CAN SUCH THINGS BE ? by AMBROSE BIERCE