/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22646609]

Was he a good writer?

[Anonymous No.22646832]

Not really, but him being who he was made his work compelling anyway, so despite his weaknesses, he his work had a huge influence on fiction, especially horror fiction, and he is still read and will be read for a long time. I read that book some anon posted, "Lord of a visible world" and it was only after reading it that I understand this.

[Anonymous No.22646843]

>>22646609
clearly they have been unable to dethrone him despite him going against what is accepted in current year

[Anonymous No.22646882]

>>22646609
He used many adjectives - horrible, terrible, awesome, weird, frightful, hellish, etc. and it hard to not notice repetitiveness of that in a short story.
He always struggled to find his own voice a way of writing and not be just another popular flick (he mentions this in his letters) - while merging gothic horror with science, the horrors lurking in the mundane world.
Funny thing is - when you read his letters and he start going off about NYC and people there - immigrants, etc. - you can see how; seeing this mass of ugliness and how it lives - how it inspired him to create such a horrors.
He is both a not good writer and among the best.

[Anonymous No.22647009]

>>22646609
the best

[Anonymous No.22647104]

I think so, I enjoy his themes of cosmic horror and forbidden knowledge which lead to madness of those who witness it. Strange cults to old gods that are actually real in the setting. I also like many things that have been inspired by his works. I particularly enjoy Bloodborne which is heavily influenced by Lovecraft. My favorite is The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Also, the compilation stories by other authors inspired by Lovecraft using the Innsmouth setting are good. There are three books:
>Shadows over Innsmouth
>Weird Shadows over Innsmouth
>Weirder Shadows over Innsmouth
I only read Weird Shadows over Innsmouth so far but I intend to check out the others.

[Anonymous No.22647495]

>>22646609
I liked his redemption arc where he stopped being so racist and realized that maybe he should be just a little nicer.

[Anonymous No.22647563]

>>22647495

[Anonymous No.22647567]

>>22647563
I dated a chick like that once. Alas we were just two shadows passing in the night.

I still have her panties.

[Anonymous No.22648974]

Didn't he become a socialist on his deathbed or something? Was he a chuddy tankie?

[Anonymous No.22648984]

>>22648974
Yeah dude he converted to Islam socialism on his deathbed, he also said multiculturalism is the way forward and that he was wrong and that he takes everything bad he did back.

[Anonymous No.22648996]

>>22646609
If you're into gothic literature Lovecraft is great. His stories definitely do follow a formula, though. But his work is more thematic than other pulp fiction.

[Anonymous No.22649009]

>>22646882
Gelatinous

[Anonymous No.22649053]

>>22646609
depends.
what was cthulhu's tax policy.

[Anonymous No.22649070]

>>22646609
He's a good writer but it makes me cringe when I see adults that think he's the greatest writer ever

[Anonymous No.22649260]

>>22646609
He's great

[Anonymous No.22649264]

nyarlathotep is the left wing nightmare. you, a leftistist, sees this guy with TONS of followers, and then the world ends

[Anonymous No.22649585]

>>22647563
needs 'bruh'

[Anonymous No.22649588]

>>22646609
When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shap'd at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next design'd;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a NIGGER.

[Anonymous No.22651074]

>>22646609
If you have to ask others, you likely don't even care for the answer.

[Anonymous No.22651147]

>>22646843
ai