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>>12658036
NYARLATHOTEP!!!

Is HP Lovecraft well received around here? Recently read a few of his short stories and have been really enjoying his writing.

When, long ago, the gods created Earth

In Jove’s fair image Man was shaped at birth.

The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;

Yet were they too remote from humankind.

To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,

Th’Olympian host conceiv’d a clever plan.

A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,

Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.

Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E Howard are both very much like Lovecraft.

>>9985952
Everything written by Lovecraft

"When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger."

What does /lit/ think of H.P Lovecraft?

Given his personality, do you think Lovecraft would be fine with some of the more tongue in cheek treatments of his stories (Cthulhu plushies, Munchkin Cthulhu games, etc) or would he sperg about people not taking his stuff seriously?

I am a time traveling colonist from the 18th century.

>>8771656
I hated this anime.

What's our opinion on him?

Where were you when Lovecraft BTFO Eliot?

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/poetry/p228.aspx

Waste Paper
A Poem of Profound Insignificance

Πἀντα γἐλως kαἱ πἀντα kὀνις kαἱ πἀντα τὁ μηδἐν

Out of the reaches of illimitable light
The blazing planet grew, and forc’d to life
Unending cycles of progressive strife
And strange mutations of undying light
And boresome books, than hell’s own self more trite
And thoughts repeated and become a blight,
And cheap rum-hounds with moonshine hootch made tight,
And quite contrite to see the flight of fright so bright
I used to ride my bicycle in the night
With a dandy acetylene lantern that cost $3.00
In the evening, by the moonlight, you can hear those darkies singing
Meet me tonight in dreamland . . . BAH
I used to sit on the stairs of the house where I was born
After we left it but before it was sold
And play on a zobo with two other boys.
We called ourselves the Blackstone Military Band
Won’t you come home, Bill Bailey, won’t you come home?
[It keeps going]

>Of such things I cannot, dare not tell, for therein was revealed the hideous solution of all which had puzzled me; and that solution would drive you mad
i love his work but goddamn why does he have to blueball everybody so often?

>DUDE EVIL TENTACLES AND ALIENS AND SHIT AND MADDENING HORRORS THAT CANT BE DESCRIBED BECAUSE INCOMPRIHENSIBLE SHIT

Was he a hack?

>>8224494
I think Lovecraft's value come from his philosophy. He approached horror in a way that no other writer has yet reproduced. He evidently had a firm grasp on science and on the philosophical essence of good horror. His horror is top tier because it points out the miniscule role that man plays in the universe. His horror samples some of the more frightening conclusions of philosophy. He included philosophical ideas such as amorality, existentialism, anti-egalitarianism, and nihilism.

Lovecraft makes you feel small, because you are small. Lovecraft makes space seem big and scary, because it is big and scary. Lovecraft evokes the powerful fears of the unknown.

Lovecraft doesn't seek to scare you with cheap thrills. His horror is the kind that embeds itself in your thoughts. His horror will never leave you.

Even if you aren't interested in Lovecraft's writing, you could read his critique of the horror genre.

Was H.P Lovecraft one of the best writers ever, or just a decent writer?

People I knew were constantly hyping him as a sort of master of literature, but when I decided to read him I found he was... Nice. Not bad, but not engaging in an artistic way. He was engaging as a Mistery writer though.

Also, why is he considered a writer of Horror? I would classify his works as Supernatural Thriller, rather than Horror. And he was not that racist in his writings.

So, I've been interested in Lovecraft's work for a while now, I've read some of his work and all, but I'd like a full immersion/knowledge experience. This has probably already been asked, but I don't frequent /lit/ often:

To get the fullest experience of Lovecraft's work, is there an order in which I should read tales of the Cthulhu Mythos? If yes, I'd appreciate if someone would just put in order the titles I should read.

Also heard there's the dream world and stuff, in which I could take a look if there's somewhat something interesting overall?

And any honorable mention of course would be welcome that aren't particularly part of the Dream world and the Cthulhu Mythos!

Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience!

Where should I start with H.P. Lovecraft? My friend is going to send me on audiobooks of H.P. Lovecraft's works, and I'm wondering where I should start.

I was thinking of starting with 'The Rats in the Walls', but I'm not so sure.

What do you think, /lit/?

When does Lovecraft get good? I'm reading through his entire collection of stories right now, about halfway through. His stories so far have fallen into three categories

>The crazy adventures of some guy in a dream. Look at all of this crazy shit in this dream, so fucking crazy woooooo
>Look at this creepy thing, it's kinda creepy but there's a normal explanation. But what really happened in the end was it was waaaaay spooky woooooo
>Look at these crazy monsters and how weird they look. Crazy right?

I'm reading the reviews of this stuff, and in every story it's saying that even Lovecraft thought it was shit. How am I supposed to enjoy stuff that its own author didn't even write? There have been a couple of good stories, but most of them have been shit. Also, I don't really understand why Cthulhu is so popular or why that's the story that sticks out. Yeah it was better than most of the stories I read so far, but it was still fairly boring.

>I hardly wonder that my racial ideas seem bigoted to one born and reared in the vicinity of cosmopolitan New York, but you may better understand my repulsion to the Jew when I tell you that until I was fourteen years old I do not believe I ever spoke to one or saw one knowingly.

>>7817910
>tfw dreading inevitable communist pansexual nonhierarchic worldwide leftist utopia

>>7829179
>MFW felt that feel

niggers

How can one man be so devoid of talent?