/lit/ - Literature

>>23281025
That’s fine! There’s nothing wrong with world building as a hobby for fun.

Still, wouldn’t it be neat to see your creation come to life and affect other people in a meaningful way? After all, “vanity” is one of best things about art. I would argue that creating something special and keeping it to yourself instead of sharing it is like the equivalent of an inmate carving the Madonna out of a bar of soap and then letting it melt on the windowsill.

One of you pseuds was just in my gym with some big yellow hardcover reading inbetween sets until I turned on some linkin park on the overhead speakers and the guy stormed out in a puff lol work on your attention spans you lazy NEET fags

>non-euclidean

>his first book isn't a self-insert

>dedication page
>"For me."

>>22265126
Haunting Adeline is one of the best I’ve read recently.

>>22178052
Have fun reading your curry stories, anon. Just don’t forget to poo in the loo when you’re finished.

>>22156537
And if I was alive in Lovecraft’s time, I would’ve made a living off selling my weird little alien stories to pulp magazines, and I’d be pen pals with Robert and Clark.

>bro theres this HIDEOUS and DEMONIC being and if you look at it you'll go INSANE! its name? nigger wrath
really lovecraft?

I recently read Call of Cthulhu for the first time and although it was a good read overall, it wasn't really scary for me, which was my prime interest into discovering Lovecraft work.

Were my expectations wrong, am I unimaginative, is there another novel of Lovecraft I should try ?

>>18998753
im too good to be banned

>>18880705
>favorite book
>Camus
I can't pick just one, anon.

he cute

The Color out of Space is objectively his best story, followed closely by The Rats in the Walls, The Call of Cthulhu and The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Everything else ranges from decent to truly awful

>>12934027
Based.

>>12880139
>>12880149

Here is lovecraft btfo-ing your millenarian faith in science

>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 light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

Here is philosopher John Gray remarking on the mistaken belief people like le black science man have by conflating the scientific method with the moral progress of humanity

>Most people today think they belong to a species that can be master of its destiny. This is faith, not science. We do not speak of a time when whales or gorillas will be masters of their destinies. Why then humans?

>>12619162
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward takes place in the early 20th century but a large part of it focuses on the evils of a 17th century wizard.

>Waste Paper
>A Poem of Profound Insignificance

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

I'm too lazy to split it up into multiple posts. The whole poem is in the above link.

>>12476426
Nig

>>12408398
This is why Lovecraft is the more well-known/acclaimed Weird Tales writer. He despised romance schlock and never ever incorporated them any of its cliches into his work.

>>12371383
If you're reading him for the first time, I recommend the Barnes and Noble Complete Fiction book. It contains all of his fiction, except his revisions, and each story has a note by S. T. Joshi. I don't think annotations are really necessary to comprehend Lovecraft. However, if you're already a Lovecraft fan and want a deeper understanding of him and his work then buy the Penguin Classics books. The Penguin Classics editions lack a dozen or so of his stories but Joshi's annotations are very informative.

>>12140742
I've read the vast majority of his fiction. All I'm missing is a handful of his revisions.

>>12076965
Cyclopean