>and then the fish man showed up!
>AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What about this makes him so influential across all spheres of western entertainment? You constantly see game references to his stories based on basically nothing but this.
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fish are scary
deep sea fish are scary
>mfw the anglerfish in SOMA
soma was one of the best horror games i can think of, it's gotta be up there
>tentacles are…LE SCARY
You would freak out if you saw a giant oxtopus on land.
>tentacles are…LE SCARY
They are if you're a Japanese female.
I can't actually remember a story written by lovecraft that describes a monster as having tentacles.
Call of C'thulhu, Mountains of Madness, and Dunwich Horror.
The shoggoth and the dunwich horror were more like ghastly mounds of convulsing flesh and weird shit but the brother in dunwich horror did have tentacles I remember that now.
I'll never understand why people cannot agree as to what a Shoggoth is like despite Lovecraft telling everyone what it looks like.
His description was vague enough to give everyone a different idea on it's shape I suppose.
It's not really vague. What he does describe it actually pretty detailed. It's just that the actual description is incomplete because the narrator doesn't get a very good look at it like his companion does.
The fishes are important because of the hypocrisy of the protagonist. He lynched the Black folk, yet is one himself.
Four things off the top of my head:
a) The design of his monsters; just about everyone can call to mind how Cthulhu looks.
b) The names of his monsters and locations sound really cool, and get used in many areas unrelated to Lovecraft. Arkham Asylum is probably the most famous example of that.
c) The concept and genre of 'cosmic horror'. Lovecraft didn't outright invent it; in his incredibly influential essay on supernatural horror admits as much in the opening line - "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown". But no one did a better job getting it out there than he did.
d) He maintained extensive correspondence with hundreds of other writers, young and old, and influenced a lot of them that way, making his legacy even wider than just his monsters and cosmic horror.
The design of his monsters; just about everyone can call to mind how Cthulhu looks.
Most people don't actually even know what his monsters look like outside of this. Despite giving them as much detail as Cthulhu they all illustrate them incorrectly.
Any examples come to mind?
Shoggoth's, for starters.
i think they're like 4d worms with branches. what were seeing is just a chunk, and maybe it gets bisected but its just a scratch on its body.
also some humans are secretly shoggoths and they just don't know it
Lovecraft actively describes what a shoggoth looks like, most people who draw them do so incorrectly. Waht they look like is actually far simpler than what people think. They're more alien looking than they are monstrous like in almost every illustration you find on a search engine.
Lovecraft DID invent Cosmic Horror in terms of literature.
No he didn't. All the good cosmic horror in the past few years was japanese insect horror. Chuds try to claim it because chuds thinks whites deserve credit for japanese people do. Always stealing credit from others
What the god damn frick are you talking about? Can you not read?
Name the authors then. Or are you too much of a Chud yourself?
GAS THE WEEBS
>Weebs always try to credit some shit to Japanese anime comic books
I fricking hate Weebs.
is this shit good or is it reddit?
I enjoyed it, but it's fricking weird. Not in a "I'm going insane" way, but in a "What the frick am I reading" way?
But in a good way, if that makes sense.
You are reddit.
Chambers is in a class of his own if you ask me. Even Lovecraft was mostly incorrect calling him a "fallen titan" (although he was probably mostly referring to Chambers' pure romance stories) -- Chambers simply refined his style into another style or genre almost altogether which I struggle to put a name to. Some sort of macabre cosmic mystery romance, maybe.
So the answer is that it really depends. If you are looking to be really spooked Chambers is rarely your man. But if you are looking for interesting and sometimes funny characters that get into some exceedingly weird situations with vague, slightly unsettling implications of mysticism he is likely the GOAT.
Along with Mervyn Peake he is probably the most skilled writer I have ever read.
Cosmic Romanticism? Kek
Yea, unironically.
I will now read your Cosmic Gothic-Romanticism books.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8492/8492-h/8492-h.htm
Give it a read for free
Lovecraft before Lovecraft, but what was cosmic about it?
It's good, full of intense descriptions and gloomy atmosphere. The whole book is worth reading, even though only the first 3 stories are horror. The first non-horror story in it, "Street of the First Shell", is probably the best story in the book, with characters in abject terror and frantically trying to make sense of the unbelievable just like a Lovecraft tale - except it takes place during the Siege of Paris and the horror is not inhuman but that of war coming to your home. The conclusion freaked me out a bit because it was a happy ending and I was still thinking like I was reading Lovecraft and wasn't expecting it.
perhaps the idea of Carcossa being this far off realm of some strange god thing
One of the best. The first story is probably the best work of horror I've ever read. It's a shame he didn't do any more with the concept beyond the four shorts.
I thoroughly recommend checking out Maker of Moons, Mystery of Choice and Tree of Heaven. All of them are heavy on the romance but also really heavy on the mysticism. All have the "vague but slightly unsettling central theme" -thing going on reminiscent of King in Yellow.
>"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown"
Cosmic horror is not merely fear of the unknown, it's fear of the unknowable. The opening paragraph of The Call of Cthulu defines the genre:
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
God, he has been memed so hard i forget he is actually a good writer.
Fair enough, I think he goes into that latter in his essay.
>flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age
We're seeing this happen already.
What are these comics?
>What are these comics?
It's shizo comics, picrelated.
its about Solomons Pact and demonology
>He maintained extensive correspondence with hundreds of other writers, young and old, and influenced a lot of them that way, making his legacy even wider than just his monsters and cosmic horror.
This is really his true mastery if you ask me. He is an okay writer with some really good stories, but his great advantage was acting as a literary nodal point for pulp/horror writers to reflect off of, and it was hard work. The dude wrote an obscene amount of stuff and only a fraction of it are his stories.
Most impressive is that he did it all without being a "leader" type, at least not to my understanding, rather he and his closest friends formed a nucleus that any aspiring writers could make contacts through.
It sucks that human culture chooses to define culture by "great men", like Olympic champions who do great things. But time and time again, the greatest men are people who act as a nexus for other great men, people who spread knowledge, increased access to knowledge, and brought awareness to efforts of others. These are the real homies holding society together.
>True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read.
- Pliny the Elder
He wrote a very interesting academic piece about the genre. Good read for those looking for some recommendations. I added a few to my little library thanks to it (would probably highlight Arthur Machen).
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Supernatural_Horror_in_Literature
I appreciate the fact that the dream world felt like a living world with different inhabitants with their things to deal with and Carter even halts his journey to help friends but it does drag on for quite a while. It's been a long time since I last read it but I recall thinking the story would be better without a couple of moments like the last fight with the ghouls.
This is all true. While there were some that came before and others that came after, he really tapped into something important and helped to spread it. It isn't just about fish monsters, but the vastness and lack of knowledge of the universe, the fact that things that were essentially unknowable to human consciousness could be going about their behavior and, both with and without malice (or what would be understood as intent, if not malice) utterly destroy existence, human civilization, or sentient life across time and space.
He also connects to a literary tradition that goes back over a 100 years at least to those like Shelley with scifi/horror (and the guy who's name I forget who wrote The King in Yellow), which has interwoven itself into our shared mythos. Its not just those we think of, but consider that everyone from Burroughs (especially his John Carter series, which in and of itself basically set up SO much fiction. The Disney movie was basically garbage but the books are worth it, pretty much all of scifi tropes owes a debt to them including the idea of Superman ) , to favored bro Howard and his Conan universe which taps into a TON of Lovecraftian elements especially as the world developed, and going all the way back to a late 1800's work about "Vril" energy (which is pretty much THE genesis for everything from the nordic aryan superman from space + hollow earth,, capable of advanced Atlantian technolgy) in the modern era, lacing into the work and philosophy of Theosophy and related spiritual disciplines, and so much more. Lovecraft sits at the nexus of all that and more, so its no surprise he has been so influential
I really think that in the modern era Junji Ito is one of the few that really carry on and advance the "unnerving" elements of Lovecraftian horror. Things in his work are so unsettling and seem to happen for no reason, there's no way to "win" in many cases.. Oh this reminds me "World of Horror" updated!
Oh I should also say that besides "World of Horror" (which has Lovecraftian inspiration alongside the very JP take of Junji Ito), "Sunless Sea" is really quite worth it too if you like to do some reading, exploration, and horror in a game. Its not jumpscares or anything, but its well put together. The spiritual sequel Sunless Skies is either equal or far from it depending on who you ask but many seem to enjoy it. Of course, the very best if you want Lovecraftian mysticism is "Cultist Simulator", which is a fricking masterclass of blending storytelling to game mechanics. If you start playing and haven o fricking idea what's going on, that is what is intended, just as an initiate learning about a hidden world and secret societies has no idea about what's beyond the veil etc.
AHHHHHHHHH IS THAT A WELSHMAN?????? IMMMM GOING INSAAAAANE
qrd?
I blame Stephen King, he's one of King's favorite authors and he helped popularize HP's work.
They both good horror writers but slightly overrated.
steven k*ng sucks dick. dont ever dare to mention him again
i thought of this idea for a short anime series where some percentage of the world's human population goes into a trance and walks into the ocean. eventually deep sea exploration starts finding them a week or two later and theyre horrific hybrids of different deep sea creatures and human that are aggressive and start killing people.
i havent figured out what would trigger this or how to resolve it but its just an excuse to make ocean horror creatures.
>anime
Dropped.
i don't even watch anime but i feel like horror's true potential can only be reached with animation right now. especially for crazy monster designs and the ocean setting.
thanks anon
did you know there are styles of animation outside of japan?
The perpetually butthurt yuropoor lamenting his irrelevance.
Sure but anime art wouldn't do his gritty stories and realistic depictions any justice.
Read "Nyarlathotep" and "The Temple" for HP stories about people walking into the ocean.
also read the horror at martins beach for a similar premise
This sounds like a Junji Ito story. Neat
It is, to a degree. From what I remember it was an abandoned WW2 project to use fish as weapons and they grew out of control before coming to the surface and slaughtering Japan. Its called Gyo. Really cool
>deep sea divers discover ancient civilization
>take abnormally large gem from some wall/statue/pillar etc
>turns out gem acted as a seal to imprison an ancient entity
>cthulhu Black person is unleashed and begins corrupting weak minds and consuming souls to regain power
>also builds army to conquer and destroy mankind
something like that yea?
Black person is unleashed and begins corrupting weak minds and consuming souls to regain power
>>also builds army to conquer and destroy mankind
This part and
are hinted to in Nyarlathotep. It's a very short story, you could read it and be back posting in this thread in minutes.
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/n.aspx
"I screamed aloud that I was not afraid; that I never could be afraid; and others screamed with me for solace. We swore to one another that the city was exactly the same, and still alive..."
>ancient evil awakens
oh and uh maybe cthulhu Black folk goal is to enslave mankind rather than outright annihilate them and farm them as a soul food source for all eternity
Isn't that the plot to Phoenix Point?
I haven't seen that anime
It's a game
HP Chudcraft
Look up the name of his cat
That wasn't his cat, it was his father's cat.
Fun Fact: The real Black personman ran away when Lovecraft was 5 years old and he never directly owned another. He liked his friends cats though.
Leftoids still shaking and reeling and seething and dilating because a popular writer is racist, you need to go back.
you Black folk can't even read
I did cosmic horror better than him
The reason Lovecraft is so popular is because his writing has arguably aged better than any other horror author.
He was one of the first authors to write horror for the modern era. Advancements in science and technology had made superstitions like ghosts and other fairy-tales ridiculous. So instead he tapped into other fears of the unknown on a much grander scale. He believed that enlightenment would eventually lead humanity to discover true horrors they were never meant to see. Which you could argue is exactly what society is going through right now with things like the internet and smartphones giving people a level of power they're completely unfit to handle. It's why we're entering into a post-facts society, human beings aren't fit to handle the truth, they need comforting lies.
But he said Black person once so that makes me not like him wahhhhhhhhh
why are americans such babies
aquatic based creatures are just weird man, and the proximity only makes them weirder. it's compelling
He was a strong influence on all the big authors today.
Personally I don't care for his or any horror, but he was at least right about Black folk.
I call it the "Mario effect", you don't have to be the best, you just have to be one of the first in your genre and good
im pretty sure the first was commander keem? or duke?
commander keen literally started as a pc port of mario
End 1980s dissaproves
His writer friends circle creating his lore and everything, he sucks and died poor but like always the "leader" steal all the merits and work
He came from a time when existential dread did not permeate through day-to-day life as it does now. The concept of humans being tiny insignificant specks was still scary to the people at the time.
>imagine reality
>okay
>god isn't here
>AAAAAH SAVE ME CLERGYMAN I'M GOING INSANE
>tfw read Lovecraft shit my pants and can't sleep for the entire night
>tfw read Stephen King and don't feel anything
dunno Lovecraft just writes like it was real.
It's because his writing is excellent.
But you wouldn't understand since you don't read books.
The majority of "lovecraft fans" haven't read him either and just parrot what heard about him via osmosis.
His writing can be good but his contemporaries are far better than him at writing. Most of his stories are actully pretty mediocre.
Name 3.
Liggoti, Blackwood, and Poe
>but poe wasn't-
Don't care.
HP Chudcraft is credited with all dark souls games, elden ring games, sekiro and all the other shit despite how bug, insect and centipede horror has nothing to do with fascist neo nazis like chudcraft. Japanese people have lots of experience with bugs. He had 0 influence on dark souls you mouth breathing honkies.
Dark souls is japanese horror you idiot imbeciles
IS THAT ZANZIBART OF THE ABYSSS?! AHHHHHH HELPPPP ME NIGGGERUANDAYO!!!!!
Funny how you left out Bloodborne, the one FROM game that was directly inspired by Lovecraft.
Because I'm not a snoy you disgusting cultist
Demon's souls had plenty too. The old one was literally azathoth and the yellow king is... Well, the king in yellow.
>The old one was literally azathoth
No it's not. And Lovecraft didn't write the King in Yellow.
The old one was very clearly inspired by azathoth. He even has to be lulled to slumber or the world just ends similar to a dream becoming a hazy grey mist until all is forgotten.
>He even has to be lulled to slumber or the world just ends
Yeah, because it would flood the world with demons. Not becuase reality is tied to it. The only, even remote, similarity is needing to sleep.
Also it wakes up, that's the whole point of the game.
Oh no, the troony lost it.
>1890-1937
>neonazi
Human stupidity is the most scary shit tbh.
Don't reply to anyone that says "chud" unironically. It's the calling-card of being an axe wound
cool post anon, but you're wrong
and a homosexual
>italians make me lose my sanity
why was he like this?
Bong genes, he seethed at the superior meds
Aside from scary vibes and world building? An ethos that looked at modern society and saw that scientific and social advancement could only show us how little and limited we are as a species.
Ancient west Miyazaki
Unlike That hack he actually knows how to write a story from beginning to end.
> What a boy he was! I watched him grow from a tiny black handful to one of the most fascinating & understanding creatures I've ever seen. He used to talk in a genuine language of varied intonations—a special tone for every different meaning. There was even a special "prrr'p" for the smell of roast chestnuts, on which he dotes. He used to play ball with me—kicking a large rubber sphere back at me from half across the room with all four feet as he lay on the floor. And on summer evenings in the twilight he would prove his kinship to the elfin things of shadow by racing across the lawn on nameless errands, darting into the blackness of the shrubbery now & then, & occasionally leaping at me from ambush & then bounding away again into invisibility before I could catch him.
> And my old Black person-man was leaping in & out of the shadowy bushes, occasionally deigning to let his Grandpa Theobald pick him up, put his green shining eye to the telescope, & show him the critical surfaces of remote planets—where for all we know the dominant denizens may be lithe, quadrupedal, sable-furred gentlemen exactly like Black person-Man himself!
> Of all my dreams, about 0.8 are of that period—with myself in short trousers & at the old home, with my mother, grandfather, black cat Black person-Man, &c. Still alive.
He was a really good writer
This is not the writing of a man who hated black.
he didn't "hate" them like your average /misc/tard, the man genuinely believed there was a scientific basis for them being lesser creatures. Its its own kind of racism, but he wasn't getting on his soapbox screaming about it. the chud wants you to believe their beliefs are whole and consistent throughout time but really, the racists of yesteryear would think the racists of today are fricking moronic.
>he disparages the Black
>his own genetic pedigree is in question
>laughing_tea-drinkers.photo
>the racists of yesteryear would think the racists of today are fricking moronic.
I can hear Lovecraft now - "These mentally malformed modern morons really believe the Black is a greater threat to Anglo civilization than the shifty Sicilian or the despicable Dutch."
I'm surprised the term 'Lovecraftian' and Lovecraft references in vidya and fiction haven't been canceled yet, given how his horror of the unknown was so intimately connected to his racism.
They removed his likeness from the World Fantasy Award, but they haven't gone farther than that yet, and I haven't heard any pushing for it.
They certainly don't grant him dispensation for being an old-timey racist who hated other white ethnicities as much as he hated other races.
Because no game never reached lovecraftian besides showing random tentacles and "madness"
Those are two elements very heavily associated with Lovecraft, you don't even need the cosmic horror and elder gods.
Lovecraft was a Xenophobe in the truest sense, he didn't hate other races, he was scared shitless of them, in fact he was scared shitless of white people from the town over, the man was legitimately mentally ill but great at writing how it feels to be afraid
he really loved that cat
>posts author
>hasn't read him
You really a dumb mouth-breathing ape.
He's smart; he came here where he'd get real answers instead of going to Ganker.
>disgusting cultist
Sony is secretly an elder god.
Why don't games that would actually benefit from remakes get remade?
>constantly ranting about Black folk being subhuman when he wasnt writing about unspeakable cosmic horrors
What an amazing human being. I'm amazed that his stuff hasn't been cancelled by the globohomosexual police yet.
>constantly ranting about Black folk being subhuman when he wasnt writing about unspeakable cosmic horrors
there's literally one short story were talks about nogs you moronic homosexual.
Which story?
Dagon
What? He never talks about them in that story.
Yes he does.
No, he does not. Not one single instance of that sotry ever mentions anything related to Blacks.
was it The Shadow over Innsmouth? It's one of the fish people stories.
To prove you both wrong: Shadow over Innsmouth is about him finding out he had an ancestor from that foulest, most tainted of gene pools.
The Welsh.
Medusas coil however was 100% 'The twist is Black folk'
How does this prove me wrong? None of this is in Dagon.
It's on Call of Cthulhu, ackchyually
He was racist in real life
He isn't canceled because he is a marginal character. And Cthulhu is cool.
I feel like the racism in Call of Cthulhu actually hurts the pacing of the narrative. He goes on a tangent about bayou Blacks instead of showing us the damn cultists already.
Racism is the point of Call of Cthulhu. the basic thesis is "see those Black folk? they are plotting to kill us all with their octopus god."
Too big to really cancel, they can only try to fill his legacy with Black folk, the lovecraft country tried but failed miserably
>"Oh sweet, they adapted "The color out of space", might as well check it out
>First 5 minutes introduce a wannabe wicka and some sort of mutt
>Aaaaand dropped
I just wish they did historically accurate Lovecraft adaptations.
It's too bad his stories are being read by trannies now
More like pretends to read his stories
Lovecraft has long been posthumously cancelled my dude. It's why RPGs using his material and the World Fantasy Award remove him from credit/dumped his likeness and say shit like
>he may had started it, but authors since then have transformed the genre and built on his concepts/mythos until they have become something new
>something something frick Lovecraft and legacy of racism let's use his shit to profit
>>he may had started it, but authors since then have transformed the genre and built on his concepts/mythos until they have become something new
they aren't wrong, modern eldritch horror doesn't really reflect Lovecraft at all, if it ever did. Its literally the mainstream water'd down version of his mythos, why not remove his name from it?
>Its literally the mainstream water'd down version of his mythos, why not remove his name from it?
90% of Lovecraftian shit in modern media is still just Shadow over Innsmouth remixes.
it's the fate of any successful creation to have it's most recognizable pieces cannibalized by vultures until we're left with just the bones of the original artwork. just look at lovecraft country
Nietzsche merely wounded God, Lovecraft truly killed him. He opened our eyes to the insanity of believing in a benevolent God, and that if in fact a Divinity did exist it would be indifferent or hostile to us.
Nerds killing god, go back to your rpg or better yet ,do a rpg of these nerds
You'd have to be a homie and read, instead of being a moronic Black person, to know
his writing style is basedly autistic and immersive at the same time, littered with wordy but vague bits of suggestion that draw the reader like fromsoft item descriptions
>zanzibart never forgave anyone
>BRO WHAT COULD THIS MEAN
How is his writing anything like the crap form fromsoft games? It's actually detailed and isn't full of holes.
what the frick are you talking about, his writing is ultra detailed to the point of being annoying at times
that's literally the opposite of anything fromsoft related
Well, the original story wasn't so much the fish part being horrible, it was that being related to inhuman beasts was horrible.
HP was afraid of the sea and incredibly racist, so being something other than pure Anglo scared the shit out of him.
But, the idea of not being entirely human is horrifying. Sure, the original story had secret fish people trying to murder the main character, but the real horror was that it turns out that the MC was going to become a fish person because he's the descendent of the guy who started the whole Dagon cult to begin with
The entire concept of
>see that exotic culture over there?
>their religions and artifacts are from dark gods and interacting with them will summon gadoodoo
is steeped in racism. Kino writing though. Its effective enough that you can take that element and remove the xenophobia from it, but at its core, he was writing from a perspective of "non christian = shit that's worse than the devil"
Bloodborne did a good job turning it on its head with the Fishing Hamlet. The fish people were just enjoying life and hanging out with their fish god when the Healing Church came stomping around and murdered everyone.
Lovecraft already did it, check out 'The Doom That Came to Sarnath'
Simpletons freak the frick out and hyperventilate when they get reminded that they will in fact die one day.
The idea of being an utterly insignificant louse at the mercy of fricked up evil beings who can collapse reality on a whim just breaks them.
woops wrong one
>unsolicited rant about Black folk and miscegenation
truly /ourguy/
Peak chan chudism to be so worried about how other people breed when you have no children of your own.
Why are dickless eunuchs so obsessed with other people reproducing?
most transfolk dont get bottom surgery
lovecraft uses platonic elements in settings that are typically aristotelian
For me, it's the white ship.
Lovecraftian cosmic horror is what gave us Eternal Darkness, one of the most unique survival horror games. I love the enemy design
Why post this here? Why not post it in Ganker?
This thread has higher quality discussion than you’d see on lit in an entire year
Nah, Ganker can be pretty enjoyable, the problem it's how full of themselves some posters are for reading "real" literature.
I read literature too, but there's nothing wrong with enjoying fiction as well.
what is non-fiction literature?
I used the term non-fiction but it's the wrong term, it's more like a "not real literature" thing they've got going on.
>what do you like to read for fun?
>Ganker: homer and the illiad + some shitty treatise by a lesser known philospher
The early 20s angst to come across as fully mature is insane there.
lmao is that what they're really like cus that shit split my sides. I unironically enjoy YA fantasy and sci-fi I don't give a frick what anyone thinks.
Ganker is fricking garbage. it's essentially the gathering place for all the most conceited fart-huffing morons on this website. you unironically have a better chance at genuine discussion on reddit
>...
what happened to the wife?
She turned 30.
This game made me listen to Wayne June's audiobooks and got me into Lovecraft in general
Same. Wish there was more, though. Listening to Lovecraft audiobooks narrated by anyone else doesn't feel right now.
There are ones from the 60's that are just as good.
>I really shouldn't stick my torch in there...
>HOWEVER
For me it's that theatrical one. Or any like this one. I much prefer a theatrical audio experience than some person just reading the text.
There was a similar one for pickman's portrait but I can't find it.
>Let me just reduce everything he wrote to some very basic ad hominem tier insult
He wrote about the deep/unknown. How when encountered might drive men to insanity and at the very least they'd carry it with them hence fish men. The gods he wrote about more or less describe a after life of nihilism and nothing. Men fear death but men fear a hell beyond death far more then death itself.
His one-off ghost stories are, on average, far superior to his mythos stories. Also, most of his stories don't even feature fish people. I don't know why he gets meme'd about this so badly.
AMERICANS
DONT
READ
Yea Dreamland are his best works.
>Poo of Night
The nightlords have to poop too anon
>Poo of Night
He had a cat. I think that's the only reason this place obsessed with him. As long as they can say Black person everything else is secondary.
This is true. Picture in the House is probably his best story if you ask me.
Charles Dexter Ward >>> any of his other stories
You mean Herbert West, right?
Charles dexter ward > The whisperer in the darkness > Herbert West >>>> everything else
Here, now it's fixed.
Most of these morons never read his stories. Like pretty much all of his early short stories influenced by Lord Dunsany are far superior to his later Cthulhu mythos.
Wasn't Poe is biggest influence? He won't stop referencing all the time in his stories.
Poe is his biggest self-cited influence but read stuff like Polaris, The White Ship or pretty much any other early short story of his and it's very clear who he is imitating.
At The Mountain of Madness is his best work and only idiots and, lazy morons filtered by how long it is, don't like it.
>filtered by how long it is
Black person its like 100 pages wtf
Are you aware what year it is? Zoomers are legitimately mentally challenged
Yeah, that's the point. It's not actually that long. Yet people b***h about the length and getting lost because of it. I've even seem people complaing about having to listen to audio recordings of it.
100 pages isn't that long either
You think that's going to stop a zoomer from complaining? Having to read something for 4-5 hours is torture to them.
I can read at least twice as fast as I can talk, and thats not really a brag
You need to realize that people are often really lazy and really stupid.
I imagine the language might be challenging. Lovecraft wrote a lot of scientific articles and it shows in the precision with which he describes things - mineralogy, geography and architecture in particular. I'll admit I read a bunch of his stories with a merriam-webster tab open (sometimes I'm lazy and it's "oh I get the gist of it" but that's stupid, I don't know the word, I should go look it up). On the plus side, for people familiar with the words employed, it's very easy to visualize the imagery he invokes.
Personally, I'm paying the price of being a wienery ESL, I think I'm good enough to read the original text and then leave feeling like a mental midget. That said, Lovecraft is for the most part pretty accessible and they're all quick done-in-one-sitting reads. Now the walking parts in Tolkien, that's where shit gets real for me.
To play devil's advocate, e-hentai is a genuinely good place to look for non-h artbooks.
>Lovecraft wrote a lot of scientific articles
He didn't even graduated from high school.
And?
he didn't wrote any scientific articles, you gay. Stop making shit up, Jesus the state of this board.
>wrote
learn to frickin grammar you moron
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/science/
Google your moron
Also your original implication that he couldn't write articles because he didn't finish formal highschool is also moronic.
Go be a moron somewhere else.
>He didn't even graduated from high school.
neither did you
Because it's an intellectual kind of horror for a lack of a better word.
You can call it pretentious, but it cuts deeper when the monsters are not simply scary and threatening physically, but also scary due to the implications of their existence.
The shape of the monsters is not important and Lovecraft himself was not satisfied with his own descriptions. You can't describe the indescribable and you can't picture that which is supposed to be beyond human conception.
That's why Lovecraft is loved, he inserted ideas that are unsettling in his stories, rather than just monsters or situations that are scary.
Yeah, seconding this, a big part of his horror is not in the monster, but in the implications that the existence of the monster and his behavior indicate on a larger scale.
>pic related
Nice
I love those comics way too much.
Lovecraft had a wife.
she was israeli defend this polcels
95% of /misc/ would become ardent Zionists if it meant they got a zaftig israeli GF.
Kek, not everyone is a coomer who thinks with his dick you know
They're all armchair racists. There are occasionally real racists but they always shoot up schools, walmarts, synagogues or mosques
That's the other 5%.
#1 Public Domain
His shit is public domain so some finkstine isn't going to breath down your dick every time somebody makes a spooky octopus monster.
#2 When it happened
His shit went public domain at the start of the social media boom.
#3 He is the father of Cosmic Horror
A lot of his stories are about aliens and from that not the more mundane murderer or even earthly monsters.
#4 Moral posturing
gaybo shitbergs love to try and make their own fanfic and make it a point every single time to complain how a man from the 1920s didn't have their century later corporately endorsed homosexual politics in mind for the half a dozen times he wrote the word Black, having a cat named Black personman and writing what some would call "racist horror".
>Oh no, what if a town was over run by mulattoes, only instead of blacks the fish-lipped violence prone sub-humans were a result of breeding with "fish men"
>What if you had a "fish-man" for an ancestor and their horrid cotton pickin' scoon DNA is lying dormant in you until activated by the watermelon god!
A lot of his monsters are neat perception based which and not just
>Ahhh, looking at it makes me crazy
But they don't get as much play sadly.
A lot of them aren't even aliens.
I think the giant invisible flesh eating monster one was particularly cool.
>His shit went public domain at the start of the social media boom.
I can't speak for overseas, but this is untrue for the US; thanks to the Sonny Bono Copyright Act and similar previous extensions, nothing entered the public domain here from 1976 until 2019. However, I believe that all Lovecraft's work has been in the public domain since the 60s because his distant inheritors didn't renew the copyright.
If you're in another part of the world, I'd be interested in knowing what his copyright situation was like there.
Most of the rest of your post is correct, tho, good job.
>>What if you had a "fish-man" for an ancestor and their horrid cotton pickin' scoon DNA is lying dormant in you until activated by the watermelon god!
christ africking live
It's about a curse and death cult trying to end the world.
>complaining that an author's work is shallow based solely on secondhand meme bullshit
reading is for gays
>ant thinks he's best on the planet and his anthill is so cool and advanced
>suddenly he realises that he's a weak and unimportant insect that "prospers" somewhat because the human that owns the piece of land the colony stands on can't be fricked squishing him (yet), but the ant knows that one day the human will come for him with a big pail of molten aluminium
>as a matter of fact that great underground statue the colony found a few days back is what remains of the anthill that prospered here during times immemorial (last summer)
>also there's ants of a different colour who worship and are actively trying to summon The Great Bringer of Molten Death
This is closer to the truth. He wrote these things during an era of unprecedented scientific breakthroughs and industrial growth, everyone was optimistic and happy as frick until WW1 happened and suddenly those illusions were sundered.
Lovecraft kinda mirrors that sense of hope and faith and progress being shattered as darker sides of humanity come to the front then going even further into human weakness and fragility with the mystical space tentacle stuff.
I agree with all the homies back that correctly reasoned that God would not allow a war as such as this to happen so this place must be as accursed as hell
>I agree with all the homies back that correctly reasoned that God would not allow a war as such as this to happen so this place must be as accursed as hell
during ww1, there came a point on Christmass where everybopdy stopped fighting the nightmare war and just drank and ate together, wasn't until some officers started firing randomly at people that the war came back in session.
Could be god's not real, or it could be we're actively fighting a war with a devil on some spiritual plane we can't see.
Even in that scenario, the devil would very obviously be the countries that tell these people to fight
fighting for your country is respectable and honroable, however when the people who fight wish to cease and they are forced to by agents of powers who represent the country, it's a much different thing.
True but the issue then is that countries so very often create machinations that have nothing to do with the nation
>our country is independent but enjoys trade
>we will fight invasion, and maybe invasion of our neighbors
vs
>our country is in some schizo tier alliance with 30 other countries with vague and tangled rules of engagement
>our politicians voted for this because of a lengthy rube goldberg machine that boils down to it got more money in their pockets
>we went to war because a thing because a thing because a thing because a thing because Goldstein in Farfurggger thought he might lose money on the next decades stock appreciation
I'm not saying shit like NATO is bad but clearly the problem becomes when the average person has no fricking clue why the war is even happening in the first place. Vietnam is an example outside of the second greentext in this post, and people hated that shit too. Much less ire for the Gulf War for some reason.
that's what happens with all things, a thing is born into the world, shining and beautiful, and overtime becomes a bloated decaying mess that dies and provides sustenance for the next cycle. Even then, there's only something like 10-15% of the population on either side of any conflict with actual opinions for the thing in question.
I don't know if you could make a good argument for the existence of the divine, unless you took Lovecrafts's thoughts of the divine being evil so as to allow this.
My whole stance is that God wouldn't make such imperfect creatures. The "evil" in the world doesn't always come from specific interactions, like a man stealing or hurting someone, evil comes from broad stroke patterns that always emerge when a society gets to a certain size. We aren't meant to exist in tribes of this scale, so how can God be so short sighted to make us this way?
I think it's probably easier and saner to believe in no god, or lovecraft's stance of evil gods, but if god made us in his image, then it stands to reason we should have a spec of his divinity and with that comes the ability to be monsters. I think maybe if there is a god he spawned something worse than himself that killed him.
>be OP
>identify as a woman
>intentionally misunderstand Lovecraft's works
>come to Ganker to ask people to explain the thing that you just intentionally did not understand
>chinese cartoon pic
>barely comprehensible incoherent babble
I will not even going to give you this (You)
>barely comprehensible incoherent babble
Skill issue
Lovecraft bad?
I want to start reading Lovecraft. What should I start with?
If you don't feel like reading, you can just listen to audiobooks of his works, it's a really easy way to get into his stories. You have to find the good ones, though.
I said that I want to read but might look into those as well
Yeah, just start wherever. It really doesn't matter. If you feel ike it though, listen to the Wayne June readings of Lovecraft, they're very well done.
>the Wayne June readings of Lovecraft
motherfricker that's a thing?
Are you kidding? He's been doing it for years. I'm pretty sure it's the reason why he was brought on as the Ancestor in Darkest Dungeon.
It is, the devs mentioned it multiple times.
>I want to read
>Wellllll anon if you dont want to read-..
moron
>At the Mountains of Madness
>The Shadow Over Innsmouth
>Dagon
>Call of Cthulhu
>The Colour Out of Space
>The Shadow Out of Time
>The Whisperer in Darkness
>The Dunwich Horror
>Dream Cycle Stories
That should get you started, but there are so many great ones (kek) I wouldn't stop there
Calm down dude, he said he didn't mind audio books.
Lovecraft wrote mostly short stories.
You can go alphabetical or chronological or ad-hoc.
It doesn't matter.
To get started you should dip your toes with the popular ones, like Whisperer in the Darkness, Rats in the Walls, Mountains of Madness, Call of Cthulhu, The Thing at the Doorstep, Color out of Space, Shadow out of Time and anything people namedrop itt.
Dagon. Its short and it gives you a feel of the style of Lovecraft horror. Dont start with overrated shit like Call of Cthulhu
The first story by him I ever read was "The Outsider" and it's ending is probably way to relatable to most anons, so why not start there?
"Shadow over Innsmouth" was his story that scared me the most.
Also, there was a link to "Nyarlathotep" earlier in the thread; that story is barely more than a page long so you could read it right now.
Posting some nightland
The nightlands are a fantastic concept and I am mad we aren't getting a game based in them any time soon.
I'm a game dev, sell the idea to me
Probably the original dying earth genre. The sun has gone out, the last of humanity are cooped up in a massive pyramid called The Last Redoubt, and is under siege by abhumans, mutants, and cosmic horrors. It came out well before Lovecraft started writing and was certainly an inspiration to him.
Sounds based. Is it a book? serial series?
It's a book from 1912 but a bunch of other authors have written in the setting as well.
Bloodborne definitely took the Discus (The weapon people who travel into the nightlands use) as inspiration for the whirligig saw from bloodborne.
neat
Play it.
He invented cosmic horror
And is still a quite unique genre that not many can work correctly
>You're watching things you can barely understand
>They are so shocking you have gone insane just by seeing them or are almost insane
>What is incomprehensible horrible to you is not evil to the universe
>The universe itself is not evil but its horrible
>You will die a horrible death not because of the creatures out there, but because the universe is cold and uncaring
I like the Shadow out of Time.
It's my favorite anon, good taste
just read his books Black person
AHHH SAVE ME Black personMAN
>The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!
Literally the equivalent of finding notes on vydea written like this: "g-guys I think theyhere, I'll t-try to ahhhhhhhhhh".
Anons will read this shit and praise say
>omg, he was a genius. Hold me Black personman, I'm s-scared
Filtered.
That one makes sense.
The protagonist is about to kill himself by jumping out of the window.
The horrors beyond his door can't reach him in death (as far as he knows).
He spends his final moments leaving behind a record.
Before he realized the sweet release of death will be denied to him when he sees the fish people are blocking his way to freedom.
At which point he may as well use this final moment of freedom to record it.
I thought he just went mad and was seeing nad hearing things that weren't actually there.
I hadn't considered that, I thought the fishpeople and their agents were after him.
It could be either one.
>getting filtered by a short story that you can finish in 15 minutes
>mfw there will never be videogame open world adaptation the dream-quest of unknown Kadath
>mfw lovecraft will be always remembered for being a Black person hater and le spooky cuthulu horror man
>when dreamquest gets overlooked despite being one of the most fantastic and rich narratives I've ever read
why even live bros
being a lovecraftgay is suffering
you make it then
>but I can't program
learn
>but I don't have time
make time
>but it won't be good
nobody cares
>but I've never conceptualized myself as a game developer
if you want something, make it happen
>b-but
don't care, make it, or stop b***hing.
maybe I will anon
maybe
Oooh that looks cool.
I'm gonna be real with you. I have an autistic love for Lovecraft's writing and while Dream Quest is really good, it's a tough read. It's not as "relatable", if that's even the right word, as his other stories and I find myself reading it more out of interest for the setting than by being immersed in the story. It definitely reads like schizo ramblings more than anything else he's written, which is fun, but I'd be hard pressed to call it better than say Shadow Out of Time, Dunwich Horror or Mountains
Fish man were an analogy for Black folk.
>final dungeon features Lovecraftian creatures
A scaly mutant fish/human hybrid isn't in anyway as disturbing as an empty room
>mfw the best adaptation of color out of space is not even considered lovecraftian
weird
This movie is really slept on. It's really interesting and the visuals are stellar if you can get past the rainbow vomit
needed more scenes like Oscar finding his friend's tummy snake
>not the bear scene
It's not very good.
NOOOOOO! REGULARMAN DON'T!
The original Wickerman is fantastic, just wanted to let you know that it's a great watch. Kind of Lovecraft related in the theming.
The Nic Cage one is great too. 10/10 comedy
>see OP pic
>click on thread
>ctrl +f nigg
>30 results
never change Ganker
>Lovecraft thread
>No one mentions Black folk
Now THAT would be scary.
Read The Whisperer in Darkness.
Shit scared me shitless.
Lovecraft is an incel time traveller
>incel
go back to resetera Black person. the man was a sigma chad who screamed about the israelites and still managed to rope a israeliteess orbiter wife
Literally every /misc/tard dream
Besides, they even had a daughter. Isn't picrel the spitting image of her father?
one of the few pictures of the lad genuinely smiling.
Such a wholesome lad
I want to be happy just like him.
>lovecraft
>happy
>smile, honey!
>get your conniving israelite hands off me!
>hahahahaha say cheese!
>cheese!
>he blinked! take it again!
>we're gonna be late for the show, we'll take another afterwards
>you're gonna try to get out of it! I know you!
>I am not a lying israelite, I keep my promises
>promise?
And they lived happily ever after.
Wholesome.
"Underwater" was a surprisingly good movie for featuring Kristen Stewart
oh... the monster was really cthulu? was this confirmed?
Yeah, the director confirmed it.
maybe that's the right angle
never advertising it is lovecraftian until it's too late like bloodborne
Thank you everyone that gave me recommendations. I don't feel like mass replying
to be honest most people meme about howard insisting so hard on madness, its because his father spent most of his youth in a mental hospital for having neurosyphilis and becoming crazy until the day of his death. kinda sad really
maybe he wouldn't have neurosiphilis if he didn't frick so many horrible octopuss women
When you read his biography you realize his stories exist because he was living the reall horror story IRL
>mentally deranged man suffers because of the society white man built around him
>blames Black folk
every time
>it's a "oh boy he's gonna mention the mad arab Abdul Alhazred..." episode
always makes me smile
>...And the dreaded Necronomicon, written by the mad arab, Abdul Al-Hazred.
>makes sand Black folk look cool
They always looked cool.
AAAAAAAAA AIRCONDITIONING SCARES ME
This scares the HP Lovegay
qrd?
there's nothing to run down. non-euclidean geometry is referenced often in Lovecraft's work to describe the appearance of alien architecture. literally read ONE story suggested ITT
no anon, it's the fricking rat demon that shittalks you in whispers, that and the psychotic grandma and his tall BLACK friend
>For full three seconds I could glimpse that pandaemoniac sight, and in those seconds I saw a vista which will ever afterward torment me in dreams. I saw the heavens verminous with strange flying things, and beneath them a hellish black city of giant stone terraces with impious pyramids flung savagely to the moon, and devil-lights burning from unnumbered windows. And swarming loathsomely on aërial galleries I saw the yellow, squint-eyed people of that city, robed horribly in orange and red, and dancing insanely to the pounding of fevered kettle-drums, the clatter of obscene crotala, and the maniacal moaning of muted horns whose ceaseless dirges rose and fell undulantly like the waves of an unhallowed ocean of bitumen.
>I saw this vista, I say, and heard as with the mind’s ear the blasphemous domdaniel of cacophony which companioned it. It was the shrieking fulfilment of all the horror which that corpse-city had ever stirred in my soul, and forgetting every injunction to silence I screamed and screamed and screamed as my nerves gave way and the walls quivered about me.
OH NO CHINAMEN HAVING A RAVE IM GOING INSANE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQQQQQQQ
>BLEEEEERGHs in your direction
What do?
I do a 360 and walk away
What makes the protagonist go crazy at the end of the fishmun story is that he discovers he is one of them.
It's an analogy for him finding out he's a mutt.
it's an american thing
Would and Englishman eat me with chips and vinegar?
Nothing. He doesn't go crazy, which I personally find odd because, unless i'm remembering it incorrectly, the beginning of the story was being told as if he was afraid of, and shocked by, all the things he went through.
Why do people always claim lovecraft is about "catching glimpses of unseen horrors" or some shit? Lovecraft goes out of his way to describe creatures in detail and in the first story I ever read, Dagon, the character literally watches Dagon leap out of the water and chill on a rock or something fully visable.
Because believe it or not, most people don't read, yet still think they need to weigh in on shit they don't even have the most basic understanding of
It's less about the unseen and more about the unknowable or inconceivable. The concept of something being "unseen" is still a popular concept in his stories, however. But for the most part it's mentioned in passing to some side entity or entities of some kind. And the reason why there's this discrepancy is becuase people don't actually read anything, they function off of nothing but memes or second hand knowledge.
>go to artic
>this white boy waddles towards you
>he starts screeching at the top of his lungs "TEKELI LI"
>what to do
>he starts screeching at the top of his lungs "TEKELI LI"
The penguins weren't the ones making that sound.
Guess I'll tickle him like he wants.
Pet it.
Get decapitated. Also the penguins weren't saying that.
penguins literally do this
>zoomies don't knowing shit
What surprise
His stories are about the horror of being indefense in view of far superior beings. imagine an ant mont begin destroyed for the construction of a highway. but replace the ant mont with the human civilization and the road workers with ayyliums.
>but le fish man xD
Those are side effects of the superior being like the sound of the machines, use the chemicals like paint and gas that frick up the ants of the example, the cultists are individuals trying to ally or negotiate the complete destruction but to the workers/ayyliums aren't good or evil just do they thing without thinking in leeser beings
>imagine an ant mont begin destroyed for the construction of a highway. but replace the ant mont with the human civilization and the road workers with ayyliums.
'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' is actually Lovecraftian. I never made that connection before.
Color out of Space > Shadow over Innsmouth > Rats in the Walls > Mountains of Madness > rest is kinda bad, at least what I read, and should only be read as a fan.
Shadow over Innsmouth is incredibly overrated.
>I've read 5 whole stories!!! here's my list bros, because my opinion is relevant!
save it for your youtube channel gay. that shit only works if your audience knows absolutely nothing about the content, not in a literal thread dedicated to discussing the author
*teleports behind you*
Nothing personal, kid.
The thing on the doorstep = Pickman's model = At the mountain of Madness > The Music of Erich Zann > The color out of space > Cold Air > the Dunwich Horror > The Shadow out of time > Dagon >The whisperer in the dark > The Shunned House = Reanimator > Rats in the walls > Shadow Over Innsmouth > Everything else.
>aaaaa the horror, the cosmic gods.. Black folk!
yes we call it Shub-Niggurath
Lovecraft, Howard et al were just housebound pseuds who wrote quick stories for cheap magazines. They look impressive to morons because they use colorful adjectives. Henry S. Whitehead was the only Weird Tales author of any merit.
>no mention of The Mound
shame on you Ganker
His framework is loose enough for plenty of people to play around in and it still be considered under his umbrella of influence.
Also people frickin love to remind you that he said the n word a lot.
Shadow over innsmouth was legitimately good. A lot of his other shit isn't for me though.
Japan has studied Lovecraft greatly and you see it in games like derp souls
Reminder that literal ADHD morons that can't focus their attention long enough to read a short story like to shit up these threads due to their insecurities of being double digit IQ consoomer slop
>pathetic
https://www.vox.com/culture/21363945/hp-lovecraft-racism-examples-explained-what-is-lovecraftian-weird-fiction
>pose as an aristocrat
>have a nervous breakdown because you can't do high school math
>never leave your house
No wonder Ganker likes Lovecraft so much
Don't forget
>Hated everyone who wasn't a pure breed white.
He was racist against pretty much everyone that wasn't pure anglo. I think it was him that married a israeli lady for her money and writed a pitiful letter to justify this to one of his friends. I think being friends with Lovecraft was pretty much being friend with that autistic but kinda talent guy that you hardly hang out with personally but from time to time you receive a message from him on steam venting about something stupid.
>never leave your house
the jump in logic in the center comic to the last panel is exactly how these arguments go
He wrote creepy shit in a time when people were sticklers about any scary stuff in books
When redditors say
>"What lovecraft wrote about is happening right now!!!"
Holy shit are you all teenagers?
Poe is better, even Lovecraft would agree.
THE RATS CAN'T YOU HEAR THEM!
THEIR IN THE WALLS MY GOD,LOOK!
AHHHHHHHHHH~
Rakushun is such a cutie and his human form is unironically hot. He should throw his wiener up into Yoko.
lovecraft was scary at a time were people didn't know shit about space, doesn't really work today
>le fishman
lol
>we are so advanced
frick off lel
dick riders cannot decide whether to attack pretentiousness or stupidity
have your minds literally gone... LE INSANE?
They literally can't help themselves
>However, Lovecraft was displeased, as this book was riddled with errors that required extensive editing. It sold slowly and only approximately 200 copies were bound. The remaining 200 copies were destroyed after the publisher went out of business for the next seven years. By this point, Lovecraft's literary career was reaching its end. Shortly after having written his last original short story, "The Haunter of the Dark", he stated that the hostile reception of At the Mountains of Madness had done "more than anything to end my effective fictional career".
it didn't work at the time he was alive either, lol
space and the deep sea are still scary, there's so much of it that we haven't charted yet.
ITT: a bunch of dipshits and kids who haven't read a book since grade school.
>Anglo supremacist
>marries israeli prostitute
Just lmao.
Khazar milkers are too powerful for mortal men
>uuuuhhhmmm sweattyyy, lovecraft just doesn't WORK, it JUST DOESNT! uhhmm okay, i know because, well I just know! yes I know I haven't read a book since middle school, it doesnt matter OKAY? What do you mean I'm posting a moronic opinion in a thread full of discussion and praise for the author? It doesn't MATTEr okay?
lol
lmao even
The scary part was finding that not only you are part Black person, but are turning darker and planning Black personish deeds such as "busting dem fishhomie brutha outta dem asylum"
I like Red Hook
>im gonna bash the frick outta those dirty ass gypsy
>wait this magic shit is real nice
>the fish-people have awaken an ancient evil
Not my problem.
Write a story starring Black personman and his roommate Honkaman.
If I saw a fish man I would probably scream also.
>A KAPPA! SAVE ME KOKUJINMAN...AHHHHHHHH
Nah, I'm calling on Redman.
His works were very influential. It's a bit like D&D, the original table top game, especially the magic systems influenced a ton of video games and other media.
A story about a bunch of trannies showing up to a kids school is way more horrifying than anything lovecraft has done
are the trannies in the room right now?
not even Lovecraft could have imagined a terror of that magnitude
>KOKUJIN TASUKETEEEEE
The idea of lovecraftanian horror is trying to convey the manifestation of "being", or things that are beyond the capacity of comprehension of the human mind, and you can find lot of animals on the sea with "alien-like" appearance, that's why the muh fish wanking
I-IS THAT SHIT ON A CANVAS? WHAT A DELIGHTFUL COMPOSITION. NONETHELESS, SAVE ME Black personMAN I'M GOING INSANE.
The idea that humans aren't important was a more frightening concept back then.
thanks to (brand) our lives truly have meaning now
We truly are human cattle.
Good guide/artbook to Cthulhu mythos beings
https://e-hentai.org/g/1457119/09158e76d1/
>e-hentai
Yes, it's a good place to store stuff.
There are far better sites for literature storage than that shit. Use libgen next time, it's full of stuff.
I mean that's cool and all, I didn't personally upload the artbook. I'm just saying people do store stuff other than porn there all the time, like other artbooks and tabletop books and such.
>It's not secretly porn
Very based and nice
>https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/
/thread
He had some interesting ideas for his time but have you ever actually read one of this stories? His writing style is so overly formal, it's like he had a stick wedged up his ass every time he sat down at the typewriter. It's not fun to read. Don't ask me why he's the one everyone is still talking about when his buddy Robert E. Howard absolutely shit all over him in terms of actual writing ability. Literally the virgin H.P. Lovecraft and the chad Robert E. Howard. Howard even wrote like a chad. Lovecraft wrote like a guy who never touched a titty til he was 40 and pissed his pants every time he saw a mulatto.
I've read some of his stories and it doesn't seem that way, English is not my native language and I still had an easy time. But it was short stories, so maybe his novels have that issue
Lovecraft made an enduring mark on all of western fiction not through any monster he imagined, but through his perspective of reality and the universe in which humans were insignificant nothings. The fact that any pessimistic view such as this came to be engraved on the human psyche at large is not to be understated, even as diminished and reduced as most modern references to his ideas are.
“It is good to be a cynic—it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world—we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death—the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.”
"Nietzscheism and Realism" from The Rainbow, Vol. I, No. 1 (October 1921); reprinted in "To Quebec and the Stars", and also in Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy edited by S. T. Joshi, p. 71
The House on the Borderland is far and away much better than anything Lovecraft ever did.
Because reverse-baptism. You don't understand Lovecraft.