/lit/ - Literature

Would you say that Lovecraft's entities align with Taoist traditional thought of the divine as an unknowable and unexplainable existence beyond man's ability to comprehend?

>Everything fantasy Robert E. Howard
>Everything by HP Lovecraft
>Everything by Clark Ashton Smith
>Everything by Lord Dunsany
>Everything by Edgar Rice Burroughs
>Everything by Poul Anderson
>Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series
>The Dying Earth series
>Everything by Michael Moorcock

Is my list missing any essentials or should I just move on to history and mythology after finishing these?

>Reading Wodehouse instantly realize he's the basis for Douglas Adams
>Reading nonfiction Twain instantly realize he's the basis for Kurt Vonnegut
>Reading Poe instantly realize he's the basis Lovecraft

Does this happen to you? How far back does this shit go? Is there really nothing new under the sun? Are there Wodehouses and Twains from the 1200s they were ripping off?

What are you reading?
How do you feel about it?

I'm currently reading ''To Rouse Leviathan". Some of the stories are interesting but holy hell is Cardin long-winded. This guy just cannot end a story, he just keeps wringing out the water from the already dry sponge until it evaporates.
I also don't understand his huge ego thinking he's the one and only person to use Christian mythology in his try-hard Lovecraft copy stories.

>that Lovecraft pastiche
Don't think anything has made me laugh so hard. In general the way he uses pastiche and the interaction between them all is really impressive, not sure if I completely missed them when I first read it years ago or completely forgot but I am loving it. This is easily his most complex and enjoyable work and if he maintains it through the entire work it will be by far his best and my memory of that first read suggests it will.

He seems to pastiche just about all of those genre defining authors and styles from the time period and does it well while maintaining his own voice but the whole Iceland spar Lovecraft pastiche is really something else.

>Houellebecq, Guenon, Spengler, H.P Lovecraft, Kafka?
>Dude like no offense but that's kinda lame, you're kinda creepy man

Today I'm going to read some Lovecraft short stories
I haven't read in months so I figured out short stuff is the best way to get myself back into it

What is some literature about new forms of symbiosis or merging with the non-human that involves shedding one's carnal humanity? I keep having dreams of transforming into solar gods, birds, dragons, coral ecosystems, eldritch abominations, and even robots.

I liked The Peregrine by JA Baker a lot, but is there anything else like that? I thought Lovecraft's The Whisperer in the Darkness was decent, but it didn't impress me as much since it involved placing a brain in a canister rather than fusion with something greater. The Ellimist Chronicles was great but ghost written. I verified that by talking KA Applegate who admitted she could never write something like that because she's a dumb bitch.

>H.P. Lovecraft Policy;
>H.P. Lovecraft was a well-documented and irrefutable racist. Even for the time his views were considered extreme. Lovecraft’s racism is inseparable from his work and informs the very foundation of his brand of horror. r/HorrorLit acknowledges Lovecraft’s place, influence, and legacy within the genre but does not lionize him instead we strongly rebuke and condemn his bigotry which has no place in our community now, then, or ever. This is our official stance and is not subject to debate

What is /lit/'s official stance on Lovecraft?

>DFW ripped off Mcelroy and Pynchon with a little bit of Don Delilo thrown in the mix
>All the semi decent horror authors heavily ripped off Lovecraft to some degree
>Murakami ripped off Kobo Abe
>All the post modernists ripped off Joyce
>Just about everyone trying to write surrealist fiction rips off Kafka
>Everybody rips off the Greeks like Illiad and The Odyssey and other ancients using them as a templates

Is all literature and writing just ripping off your predecessor while trying to one up them until your own style has developed enough

Why are his non-sherlock holmes works so forgotten? His historical fiction is equal to walter scott's and his horror and adventure stories were hugely influential to writers such as lovecraft
He himself regarded his holmes stories as hack-work to pay the bills and saw books such as the white company as his greatest works

Want to get back into reading this year. Need EASY book recommendations that make me addicted, for example (Lovecraft, Monte Cristo, Houellebecq)
NOT complete slop, please.
help a newfag out

>Waste Paper mogs The Wasteland
>closet modernist
>people who use "over-descriptive" as a fault in his work clearly do not understand that it's technique to overwhelm your senses and instill terror in you
>one of the most prolific horror authors of all time
Stop memeing Lovecraft and learn to earnestly appreciate the magnitude of his work, you plebs!!!

I've been getting into and collecting gothic stories or those that are just in general dreadful.
One I've gotten recently has been The King in Yellow and a few of the other novels made by Robert W. Chambers before he changed away from the genre.
What books if any fill this neiche of dreadful or gothic stories.
Dracula/Frankenstein/Vampyre/Wuthering Heights/House of Leaves are some of the other books I have along with Lovecraft and I'll be investing into Poe eventually also.

why are Lovecraft fanboys so pretentious?

What is some essential literature involving tunnels?
What are your favorite /lit/ tunnels? How would you write the subterranean exploration?
I think Lovecraft deserves some mention here with the underground of the Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and the Mountains of Madness. To some extent the same could be said for the Rats in the Walls.
Then there is obviously Gass's The Tunnel but I can't bear it.

I hate how the field of literature is filled to the brim with faggots, effeminate men, actual cuckolds, and antinatalists. This is all because J's controlled the publishing and chose to solely spread demoralizing, devitalizing trash.

I got into literature thinking it'd help make me cultured and educated, but no, everywhere you go, it's faggots and antinatalists all the way down. The thing is that literature is so financially unviable that it only exists as a result of a hostile elite propping it up in order to force-feed you propaganda.

The only based writers were Howard, Lovecraft, Burroughs, and their peers. Basically everything after WW2 has been demoralization and the inculcation of faggots.

I should have just been an investment banker instead of writing. I hoped to find actually based material and it's just actual faggotry, actual cuckoldry, and eggless women coping with the anguish they feel when they see their friends having babies. Fuck this medium.

https://maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/childfree/

What was the target audience of Weird Tales, Astounding Stories, and other pulp and horror magazines like that. I know they’re what HP Lovecraft and other famous short story writers published in but who were they directed at? Was it mostly seen how comics are for teenagers, or would you see businessmen in the 1920s pick up a copy to read on the bus?

The complete dechudification of Lovecraft is imminent, chuds will be forever seething at the treatment of their favorite writer
>Providing a new perspective on Lovecraft's life and work, Horror as Racism in H.P. Lovecraft focuses on the overlap between the writer's personal beliefs and the racist images and narratives in his speculative fiction. Building on recent debates about Lovecraft and drawing on the concept of "white fragility," John Steadman argues that the writer's fiction reflects his feelings of resentment and anger towards non-white persons and was used to advocate for his racist, xenophobic political beliefs – that western civilization was in decline and slavery was justifiable among "superior" civilizations. In making these claims, Lovecraft's tales pit humans against extra-terrestrial aliens, developing a terrifying, futuristic vision of the Earth as a plantation planet. The familiar image of Lovecraft as a reclusive, creative genius and mentor to young writer-friends is dismantled through close readings of his fiction and nonfiction – including correspondence, essays, and poetry – and examination of his early biography. This image is replaced by that of a cruel, callous, and, at times, psychotic man, a violently vitriolic racist and white supremacist who hated most of the non-white races. While some will dismiss the author outright and others will read his fiction but ignore the racism, Horror as Racism in H.P. Lovecraft takes a middle ground: acknowledging Lovecraft's personal history and heinous intentions, it helps readers navigate the author's disturbing biography while also getting a better sense of the stories, which remain significant within American science fiction.

Do you think H.P. Lovecraft stories work best when they lean more into sci-fi or more mythological horror? For example I just read At the Mountains of Madness and while it was good everything about the aliens was explained in very scientific detail, which was very different from other stories of his I’ve read where he leans into men being driven mad by cosmic horrors literally beyond our comprehension, like Call of Cthulhu or the Dunwich Horror or the Colour out of Space.

Make fun of Lovecraft all you want, admit it if you saw this shit you'd go insane too.

while we all know of authors that came from the pulps such as Lovecraft or Howard, I would like to hear about those lesser authors that never quite managed to reach wide acclaim like those two

have any of you anons ever read through actual pulps to find some gems?

>1/3rd of the book is describing dead bodies of vegetable things
>1/3rd is describing a bunch of ruins and piled rocks

Way, WAY too much of a “bone chilling slow burn” for me. I will not be pursuing any other works of this writer.

The greatest gut wrenching, heart stopping bone chilling slow burn from HP Lovecraft.

>0 days without a Lovecraft thread