/lit/ - Literature

>>20133732
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 they were too removed from humankind
To fill the gap and join the rest to man
The Olympian host conceived a clever plan
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure
Filled it with vice and called the thing a n-word.

>"OCTOPUSES ARE UHMMMMMMM... LE SCARY!!!!! OKAY?!?!?!?"

I'm honestly not at all surprised his main audience consists of 25-30 year old women from Tumblr. His works are overhyped garbage only propped up by brainlets who have collectively agreed to pretend his anthropomorphic depictions are in any way scary. They're really not. HP Lovecraft is the JK Rowling of horror literature.

>>20098900
*blocks your path*

Lovecraft was right about pretty much everything

>>20079007
>>20079130
nautical-looking negro

>character who loved to craft his writing more than anything else
>name is Lovecraft
Are you serious?

>>20065160
>fore
fug, this is exactly the kind of typo that keeps fucking me when I rely on autospellcheck

What would he write if he saw modern american city?

>a beast he wrought in semi-human figure

Reading Lovecraft was a greater help in understanding right-wing 'thought' than de Maestre, Evola or any other so-called right wing intellectuals.

Lovecraft was notoriously racist, even for his time, so racist that he almost killed himself when he found out he had a bit of Welsh ancestry.

He feared POC and the "Other" so much that he portrayed them as demonic monsters intent on destroying all civilization, fellow humanity as an unfathomable, dark cosmos.

This helps me understand the Republican party so much. They genuinely think women, liberals, Hispanics and countless other groups are intent on destroying them in a Manichean struggle that has been going on forever. The furthest right wing peoplle such as Evola disregard race, extending this so far as to include lower "castes" of their own nation, intent on destroying the spiritual aristocracy.

Lovecraft's thinking can best be illustrated by "The Street" - a work that's hardly fiction but clearly his xenophobic history of a New England town. Go read it yourself, it portrays primordial Anglo-Saxon tradition(the Natives of course get one sentence and are portrayed as invaders) uprooted by the swarthy masses of Ireland and Eastern Europe. Lovecraft views his fellow man as "brainless, besotted beasts" who had nothing on their mind but destroying traditional America. Sound familiar?

Of course these were his paranoid fantasies generated by a life of panic attacks and living shut in.

what are some modern lovecraftian books that zoomers can read?

>>19945091
This is actually my plan if, by some miracle, my webnovel takes off. It's pretty firmly planned out to be three main parts and wouldn't work well past those, however the universe itself can easily survive and even benefit from a timeskip. Readers would probably be pissed about me axing the whole cast though.
>implying I'm going to be successful
lol, lmao

I just learned that HP printers aren't named for H.P. Lovecraft. I also learned that the H.P. in his name doesn't stand for Hewlett Packard. Am I an idiot?

I'm looking for writers like HP Lovecraft or Michel Houellebecq, writers that could have been on 4chan basically

>Sees a greasy Wop eating Pasta Fazool
Oh the God's I'm going insane!

>His short stories are legitimately creepy
How did he achieved this?

Which book/story should I read first?

I started reading Hp lovecraft. So this is basically just like creepypasta?

What was his cat's name? Wrong answers only.

Pessoa is what happens when you gaze into the abyss and it breaks you. Lovecraft is what happens when you gaze into the abyss and call it a nigger.

>AAAAAAAAAAA I'M GOING INSAAAAAAAANE!!!!
>NIGGERMAN HEEEEEEEELP!!!

Horror novels suck, the fact that so many people enjoy these "books" really goes to show how brainless most people are.
Books like "Dracula" are laughably trite, just silly stories for overgrown children. The goal of a horror novel is only to be "scary" and nothing else, if they are not "scary" (which they never are) then they have failed. Whenever someone tries to convince me of a certain horror novel's quality, I read it and laugh hysterically and make jokes throughout, books like the exorcist that are supposed to be scary, make me laugh more than any comedy ever could, its all just so ridiculous to me!! How anyone could take any of this seriously is beyond me.

Don't get me started on gory trash like the nonsense Steven King writes. I've never read any of them and I simply refuse to, they are just sick amusement for the mentally depraved and offer no storylines or characters, just an assembly line of butchery for the sick minded to enjoy.

If you want TRUE horror, I would turn to the world of real literature. The most terrifying tales ever conceived can be found in the works of one H.P Lovecraft. He is a lesser known writer, when compared to the likes of Poe or King, but his stories are truly nightmarish. He writes of elder gods who secretly control the human race from strange worlds and he touches on loftier themes like humanity's place in the universe as well as madness. Lovecraft rejects silly notions of religion and supplants them with true literary might. He has created a vast pantheon of horrifying gods and monsters that intertwine and cross over in his stories, think of it like the MCU, but for horror (trust me, it's so cool).

To me, lovecraftian horror is the ONLY TRUE horror, everything else is a mere bedtime story fit only for children. If you want to know where to start with his works, I recommend heading over to the r/lovecraft subreddit where they have extensive philosophical discussions.

If I'm having horror, make mine lovecraftian.

What was his cat's name? Wrong answers only.