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2501477 No.2501477 [Reply] [Original]

H.P. Lovecraft is the best horror writer ever.

Looking for someone who could shut up my fangirlness with something better.

>> No.2501485
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2501485

Edgar Allan Poe
>fan girl
That is not possible. For some reason female's obsession over anything in particular is so strong that even the force of a omnipotent God could not stop it. No matter what is impossible.

>> No.2501492

HEY GUYS LOOK I'M A GIRL

I HAVE A CUNT

>> No.2501501

>>2501492
I hate when women attentionwhore on 4chan too, but if the OP had said "fanboyishness" instead nobody would have batted an eye.

>> No.2501505

>>2501492
>HEY GUYS LOOK I'M A GIRL
>I AM A CUNT

>> No.2501510

serious reply, OP

If you really like Lovecraft, you might want to give T. E. D. Klein a try. Hard to come by, but totally worth it. Klein is like an expert on Lovecraft and his short stories are very clever pastiches but without the obviousness of a pastiche. S T Joshi loves Klein and I trust Joshi's opinion.

>> No.2501512

>>2501501
But she didn't. We are fully aware that we are talking with an ignorant whore now.

>> No.2501521

>>2501485
I've never regarded his works as horror, he IS a great writer, but i don't think his tales were ever meant to be specifically horror, even if they dwelled with horror, while Lovecraft's had obviously a background, but were men't to really thrill the reader.

>> No.2501536

>>2501521
There's literally nothing more interesting than observing someone try to define a writer's genre

>> No.2501542

>>2501492
>Implying fangirl at this point shouldn't be used in a context in which either a man or a woman like something a lot.

>> No.2501551

>>2501521
He wrote gothic literature even though he hated it and gothic literature was the mother of the horror genre. He wrote gothic literature ,but to define him like I did , I don't know why but I did, is kind of degrading. Oh well, he is a great writer in general ,but his gothic work unfortunately remains to be his most well known. The Fall of the House of Usher is a very good tale.

>> No.2501553

>>2501536
Anyways it isn't really about genre, it is about the overall feelign, yes it is hard to define genres, specially if your an ignorant retard.

>> No.2501554

Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House is better written (not that hard) and also terrifying.

>> No.2501596

>>2501521
This. More like kinda creepy.