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Which of the Howards was the true GOAT?

>> No.21830152

>>21830139
Robert because he was unique and unparalleled. Whereas Clark Ashton Smith did the same eldritch bs that Lovecraft did, but better.

>> No.21830154
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Find something new to drool over.

>> No.21830164

>>21830154
>That cover
Kek

>> No.21830168

>>21830154
That is a very strange cover

>> No.21830172

>>21830139
Incomparable.
One is an academic chap whose protagonists fall into a tomb and see a horror.
One is an adventurous chap whose protagonists plunge into a tomb to kill the horror.
Incomparable.

>> No.21830192
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>>21830139
Clark Ashton Smith

>> No.21830200

>>21830139
Robert, most of the 'lovecraft mythos' that people love is mostly the work of Sandy Peterson and the other writers for the Call of Cthulu rpg

>> No.21830471

>>21830200
>Sandy Peterson and the other writers for the Call of Cthulu rpg
What?

>> No.21830499

>>21830200
most people who say they love lovecraft havent actually read lovecraft

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I've been reading scans of Weird Tales recently. In the issue that saw the first ever publication of The Call of Cthulhu, the story they used for the cover was about a spooky table.

>> No.21830604

>>21830139
Clark Ashton Smith.

>> No.21830759

>>21830139
They were very great friends I don't think they'd appreciate this kind of DAMNABLE comparison. Shame on you.

>> No.21830868

>>21830139
Robert most certainly, Lovecraft was a midwit hack and outclassed by CAS

>> No.21830894

>>21830154
Very Tchitcherine/Enzian coded cover

>> No.21830898

>>21830152
>>21830192
>>21830604
>>21830868
>Is it 1st thing, or is it 2nd thing?
>It is 3rd thing
>woah
The laziest recipe for contrarianism

>> No.21830901

>>21830898
It's marginally less lazy than the original question.

>> No.21830917

>>21830901
>hey guys, who do you think is better?
That is about the most uncontroversial and legitimate question anyone can ask of any two things whilst comparing them.

>> No.21830936

>>21830917
Not when you're talking about art.

>> No.21830957

>>21830936
>art is le spooky and above normal speech you have to talk about it in a special way
you are the problem

>> No.21830961

>>21830531
Lol well damn. Thanks for sharing anon.

>> No.21830985

>>21830139
Hughes.

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>>21830531

>> No.21831091

>>21830898
>>21830917
You are gay and a pleb

>> No.21831696

>>21830139
Clark Ashton Smithoward

>> No.21832470
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>I died in WWI and now nobody remembers me

>> No.21832679

>>21830531
This is great. Just imagine the editor sitting there with Cthulhu in one hand and THE TALE OF THE HAUNTED COFFEE-TABLE in the other and saying "Which one do we go with? Which story are people going to be talking about a hundred years from now?..."

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>>21830139
>Big stronk roams around the world.
>Le life don't matter 'cuz fish people.
Though choice anon.

>> No.21833305

>>21832745
I detect sarcasm here anon. Give me your answer, by Crom!