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i'm reading through the complete lovecraft collection rn, read most of it before but not all in one go. to be charitable, some of the stories are negatively affected by needing to be published in magazine-friendly chunks; to be less charitable, sometimes he's not a good writer and you wish someone else could have a go at the basics of the story because his ideas and visions are what are compelling. and they can be really good and worth the occasional slog and 'ok howard, sure...'
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step 1 in creating an extremely tense story: tell the entire thing in a letter from the protagonist after he has escaped the harrowing danger
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he hates sailors too
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blight rhino posted:there are also more than a few of "AND HE WAS DEAD ALL ALOOOOOONNNNNG!!! *GASP*!" hm i haven't run into many of those yet, mostly it's just things where it's very obvious what's happening the entire time. like Charles Dexter Ward, pretty long and you can call exactly what's happening well in advance. but, it's still a cool/disturbing enough story with enough effective moments i liked it overall. but still, you just know there's a much better story hidden in there on the other hand, most people who try to write like lovecraft are just missing some critical element so it's harder than it looks i guess of course this story also features an unfortunately named cat, so
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