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What does /lit/ think about Call of Cthulhu and other works by H. P. Lovecraft?

Bonus points if you help me find a book by Lovecraft, I do not know the name, I only know that on the cover is a blond girls clutching a book and a flintlock.
It may not be that Lovecraft, but I clearly remember seeing that name on the cover.

>> No.1085473

Everything HP Lovecraft writes is amazing.

>> No.1085486

>>1085473
herp derp duh berrrp

>> No.1085487

>>1085473
Of course, I fully agree with you.

>> No.1085510

>>1085486
Watsa matter, don't like Lovecraft?

>> No.1085520

>>1085486
Herpaderpailliteratefaggotderpderpderp

>> No.1085521

>...and that's when I saw something so unspeakable, so indescribably terrifying that I won't speak of it or describe it at all.

>> No.1085526

>>1085521
Hahahahaha!
Even though it happens a lot I still like the way he writes.

>> No.1085529

Ibid is a fairly funny story considering the source.

>> No.1085532

>>1085521
I fuckin lol'd. He usually does describe whatever it was further down the line.

His narrative is supposed to be as if it's a journal or research log, so later he'll be like "remember that unspeakable thing I was telling you about? Well, you won't understand why it was so unspeakable unless I speak about it, so here goes."

Such is Lovecraft.

>> No.1085544

>>1085532
Lovecraft's and Chuck Palahniuk's are the only 1st person perspective books that I can read, aside from that I can't stand it.

>> No.1085547

A township

A lantern over some column accurately danced with almost cryptic burglar. An echo around an empty lot was ghastly. I watched in horror as the war accidentally brainwashed the model! When an empty lot returns, a ring trembles. Indeed, the proverbial existence of a burden was nearest. A memory rejoices, and a crane satiated an accurately terrible Elder Sign. It was a polygon related to the shadow, but now I had no choice but to accept the fact that a spider was indeed inconceivable as well as inexorably lazily blasphemous! I watched in horror as a ridiculously exceedingly strange echo often bestowed great honor upon the splendor! A frightening crane sucked the life from a scythe. Most people believe that a wedge peeked at another antiquarian library, but the insidious vacuum is much more temporal. Oh, the cylindrical mushroom of it ALL! If the pit living inside another hole conquered a pyramid, then a legend behind a coffin obliterates. Sometimes a paralysis inside an empty lot prays, but soon I was to find that a stone toward another memory always danced with a mouldering vista! When an arch returns, a vault near the organism prays. Oh, the insidious fire of it ALL!

My attempt at a Lovecraftian story.

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>>1085547
I see what you did there.
http://www.darkicon.com/lovecraft.htm

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>> unfathomable cosmic abomination rises from the depths of the nightmare city R'lyeh

>> herp derp some guys ram their dingy into the monstrosity, tuning it into green jello

>> No.1087273

>>1085547
You need more descriptions of New England architecture and a few more "edritch"es, and you're good