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>"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.

>> No.20117298

>>20117249
Can you recommend some better horror works then?
Almost all the horror works I have read don't scare me at all. Lovecraft was pretty comfy to read.

>> No.20117301

>>20117298
Stephen King is way better in virtually every aspect.

>> No.20117311

>>20117249
I read that HP Lovecraft was basically terrified of sex and it would manifest in him belittling women for not being chaste enough and hating negroes for being too "boisterous." When I learned that his books made a lot more sense. Guy was terrified of sex and it made him terrified of people. His books are held up as high art, idk, I've never read much of them just skimmed. But in reality they're basically the writings of a fuckin nutcase. Being schizo ramblings doesn't preclude them from having any artistic value, everyone's perspective has value. Just realize you're dealing with King Incel when you read him though.

>> No.20117323

>>20117311
Lovecraft was married, so he most likely had more sex than you.

>> No.20117326

>>20117301
Nope. Stephen King is the JK Rowling of horror. He shills out hundreds of garbage novels instead of focusing on improving the quality.

>> No.20117327

>>20117249
>his main audience consists of 25-30 year old women from Tumblr
>racist
low quality bait

>> No.20117360

>>20117249
His core idea is the „Fear of the unknown." Trying to imagine unimaginable. That's pretty simple, not sure OP but it looks you are the brainlet one

>> No.20117423

>>20117323
He was married in the most chaste period of white culture and was on the record as having a phobia of sex that he projected as a distaste for women. I'm sure he treated his wife well and was having tons of long dick style sex with her, sexless marriages have never existed. Since he was married he must have been a sex machine. That's logical

>> No.20117526

>>20117249
Lovecraft is a hack, but if you think about it, octopuses are completely bizarre to think about. They're a species with notable and observable intelligence, and they're so completely divorced from human evolution that it actually is scary. They have nine brains, one in the head and one at the base of each tentacle. How do you even translate that into a human equivalent? You can't.

>> No.20117569

>>20117526
Nah, I'm their human equivalent

>> No.20117574

>>20117249
>>20117301
Bait thread, slide and ignore.

>> No.20117589

>>20117249
Filtered

>> No.20117627

>>20117249
His short stories are his best. His writing style doesn't work well in the stories he's most known for.

>> No.20117646

>>20117301
>No!

>> No.20117653

>>20117627
Some of his first stories like "A beast in the cave" or "The Alchemist" seemed very infantile to me but his later works are pretty good.

>> No.20118040

>>20117301
>stephen king

>bro clowns are scaaaary! Also it is absolutely CRITICAL that my book about a scary clown contains a scene where actual children are having an orgy... it's very important to the, uh, plot!

Nah he's a hack and I read his books so I know

>> No.20118058

I actually did write a thesis on lovecraft for my college degree and it gave me more appreciation for him. He was a sheltered shut-in who spend his childhood reading, learning languages like Latin, getting to know about ancient and foreign cultures and their mythologies, writing poetry and indulging in his love for science and astronomy. He was definitely a smart lad and likely an autist - when other kids were running around and playing, he was glued to a telescope and gazing at the stars. He did have a small gang of friends though.

Anyway his stories are not jusr "OOOH SCARY OCTOPUS" - that's just a normalfag take on it. He wrote a shit ton of stories with different themes, and I especially liked The Quest of Iranon - it wasn't some horror shit but a pretty good and rather sad story that felt sort of personal and in my take was a lament on how people abandon their dreams and don't have imagination or passion. The Dream Cycle are also a pretty interesting exploration of his fantasy world.

I do like his writing, and feel sad that he's getting blasted by normies for being "LE RACIST" and by others because he got a lot of normie attention. He wasn't a hack in my opinion at all, he definitely was ahead of his time and his writing can be easily enjoyed even today.

>> No.20118107

>>20117249
I would agree that his stories aren't scary. but they're kind of neat though. Have you read the Dunwich Horror? That one is beautifully written.

>> No.20118113

>>20117423
>he had a phobia of sex
>he was an incel
pick one

>> No.20118133

do not reply to bait threads

>> No.20118175

>>20118113
I’m nervous about the idea of actually having sex and being embarrassed about it but I’m technically an incel who wants a gf. We exist

>> No.20118195

>>20117653
He was a literal adolescent when he wrote those

>> No.20118473

He's the King of Pulp.
The 'very best pulp' is still nothing but pulp.
What did you even expect? A total 'deconstructionalist makeover'? Those things came much later.

>> No.20118501

>>20117653
Lmfao that's because he wrote them when he was very young.

>> No.20118738

>>20118175
You're a volcel (voluntary celibate or just celibate really), because you choose to avoid sex out of fear. Incel wants sex, but is denied by the other party.

>> No.20118795

>>20117311
his work was pure, and not degenerate by sex or love for woman, to be fair, he could have been nicer to blacks but that's just one thing
>schizo
you are schizo if you can't respect introverts

>> No.20118815

>>20117423
he was actually afraid of sex so his wife bought him a romantic book, he literally had to study how to do it, but I really like him, he is my fav author

>> No.20119122

>>20117249
Context matters. Lovecraft was a sick and paranoid young man trapped in the rotting tatters of a once-wealthy family. He was neurotic, anxious, and afraid; he died relatively young and penniless, unknown to the general public. His works were published in niche pulp magazines.

Despite this, the theming he introduced—the danger of unbound knowledge, the smallness of man in an alien and uncaring universe—were hugely influential. Now, of course, they’re common to the point of cliche, but we’re fully a century later.

>> No.20119192

He's a legend and was right about niggers right about jews and still makes queers seethe to this very day.

>> No.20119492

>>20117311
wtf I love him even more now

>> No.20119500

>>20117249
Read before you criticize.

>> No.20119557

>>20118040
>contains a scene where actual children are having an orgy
Is this in the movie?

>> No.20119750

>>20119557
Sadly not

>> No.20120047

>>20117323
His hot mommy Jewess wife had to pay the guy to have sex with her. I’m also pretty sure they lived separately for the bulk of their relationship

>> No.20120589

>>20117298
>Can you recommend some better horror works then?
They're all trash, the most infantile, artless genre to have ever existed besides fantasy and sci-fi.

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20120690

>>20118815
So back then incels could just end up with wives somehow, and she would patiently teach him how to have sex?
Why did we fall so far since then?

>> No.20120696

>>20117311
Wow, he is literally me.

>> No.20120756

>>20117249
time traveller from 2019 posted this

>> No.20122259

>>20117249
>"OCTOPUSES ARE UHMMMMMMM... LE SCARY!!!!! OKAY?!?!?!?"
Yes. I've never met a respectable man who enjoyed the company of octopus.

>> No.20123731

>>20117249
I like reading schizo thoughts though.

>> No.20123825
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20123825

>>20117526
aquatic creatures in general tend to be pretty bizarre