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Do you know of any works on the history of his reception by audiences and critics?

>> No.18557886

Why would anyone waste their time reading books about critics, especially critics of a pulp author

>> No.18557925

>>18557886
>hurr why would anyone want to materially trace the long history of how one of the biggest and most influential writers for nerds and bugmen came to have that influence?
I should have known better than to post here. Go ahead, get your brain dead meme response last word in where you tell me I’m seething. I won’t see it.

>> No.18557936

>>18557925
REFUTED.

>> No.18557960

>>18557925
The best response to someone telling you you're seething is to say "yes I am seething"

>> No.18557977
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>> No.18558014

>>18557883
there are books of Lovecraft's correspondence. I bet he himself probably says something about it.

>> No.18558184

>>18557883
read the essay Houellebecq made if you haven't already

>> No.18558193

>>18557883
Check Hippocampus Press or Joshi's bibliography.

>> No.18558194

All you need to know is that anyone with taste considers him shit

>> No.18558198

>>18557977
I understand that his seething fear of Blacks stemmed from sexual inadequacy, but what have the Indians done to him? Did some charming Pajeet bang his teenage crush or something?

>> No.18558236

The main problem is, probably the most interesting interpretations of his ideas have been generated during the last 30 years or so, but I wouldn’t touch anything written about Lovecraft as a person during this timeframe (I’m aware of Houllebecq book). I mean, this is supposedly the most renown Lovecraft scholar of our time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._T._Joshi Skim his Wikipedia page, then read this quote >>18557977 then ask yourself whether you’d trust this person to accurately represent life and works of H. P. Lovecraft.