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Good Lovecraft is good. Bad Lovecraft is August Derleth.
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hth posted:i got a dead dreaming eldergod tentacle you can rouse from its millenia of slumber, OP And with strange Viagra, even death may die?
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Sep 7, 2016 00:04
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EmmyOk posted:I think everyone goes into Lovecraft thinking "everyone was racist back then Said by someone who has apparently never read Lovecraft.
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Sep 7, 2016 03:17
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" and then a few pages in realises "Jesus Christ, Howard, what the gently caress man"
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"Pickman's Model" has always been one of my personal favorites. Such a nice slow burn to the  climax.
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Sep 7, 2016 03:27
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MeatwadIsGod posted:As much as I like his writing when he's at his best, there are so many great weird fiction authors from that era or beforehand that are probably more rewarding overall. Guy du Maupassant especially is probably the most consistently good short story writer ever. Still, there are some unique aspects to his writing that make his best stories more than the some of their parts. Ambrose Bierce was better. 
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Sep 7, 2016 05:05
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Fire Barrel posted:Yeah, that's basically why I think the Hyborian Age gets undue flack. Hell, I think if anything is really singled out by Howard in his works, especially stories involving Conan, it's civilized society. So much of the nastiness in those books stems from people that come from more developed societies than the Cimmerians or the other groups marginalized by the "advanced" civilizations in the world. When you said Kane I thought at first you were conflating the work of Karl Edward Wagner with Howard, then double-checked and remembered Solomon Kane. Wagner's Kane is pretty badass.
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Sep 7, 2016 07:16
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Aubergine Mage posted:He also let Clark Ashton Smith expand on the Mythos (which is cool, Smith is good but Lovecraft should never have let Derleth near his work) I shittalked Derleth earlier in the thread. The worst are the ones he "finished" for Lovecraft posthumously and that misleading just list Lovecraft as the author. Derleth clearly couldn't grasp the whole "the Abrahamic god doesn't exist and there is no simple good/evil dichotomy" thing and wrote some of the most mundane crap ever.
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Sep 8, 2016 00:39
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Aubergine Mage posted:And unfortunately, a lot of writers doing Mythos stuff now take their cues from Derleth. But still, without Derleth, Lovecraft's work would probably have fallen into obscurity on his death since he was (I think) instrumental in keeping HP's name alive. Yeah, Derleth really kept Lovecraft's legacy alive, despite making GBS threads on it every time he tried to add to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkham_House
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Sep 8, 2016 01:35
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One of the things I love most about Lovecraft is his unapologetic use of the umlaut. English should never have stopped using them, goddamnit.
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Sep 8, 2016 03:50
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hemophilia posted:the themes are so similar and you're better off watching the thing i really don't care if it's not a literal adaptation nobody should really be reading lovecraft. You should read the novella that The Thing is based on - it is really very good. It would also help you to understand how badly you are screwing up your attempts at analogy here. "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, Jr, 1938
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Sep 8, 2016 21:30
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Lovecraft was actually a good writer, and anyone who unironically recommends reading Stephen King as a better alternative is either trolling or functionally illiterate.
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Sep 8, 2016 22:22
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reallivedinosaur posted:dean koons I will loving cut you.
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Sep 8, 2016 22:25
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:I am obsessed with the racism of a dead author Edited for clarity.
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Sep 9, 2016 05:09
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One of my all-time favorite authors who explicitly referenced Lovecraft as an influence was Roger Zelazny. That dude wrote some great stuff.
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Sep 9, 2016 06:36
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:Forget lovecraft this joker needs to learn how to read, period😂 I'm terribly sorry if it was a misfire - your avatar just makes me irrationally angry.
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Sep 9, 2016 06:47
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