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After reading up on him, I'm convinced this motherfucker knew something, and he was trying to tell us indirectly.

>> No.6819408

What do you think he knew OP?

>> No.6819422

>>6819408
His creations were just too insane for his time period. He knew something, he saw something. He's trying to warn us.

>> No.6819431

>>6819422
Revelations was about as weird imo

>> No.6819557

>>6819431
As in the bible?

>> No.6819563

His Harry Potter series were pretty good IMO

>> No.6819605

>>6819270
Well OP, first of all Lovecraft was a quite well read dude. You can trace a lot of ancient history vibes and various philosophical themes going on in his alternate worlds. The thing is that, the horrors that his mind produced at that time were based on three major factors: the two major 'unknowable' planes at the time (space and the oceans) and the xenophobism that was generated by the waves of immigrants in that transitory age of society.

Aside from this, it is quite interesting how many things has he pioneered in his works. The idea that the Earth is actually an ancient extraterestial colony and that humans are the actual 'aliens' is quite inciting; only to be developed decades later by revisionists (notably von Daniken and the whole ancient alien madness of today).

No matter how you put it, the guy had a lot of knowledge in various systems of mysticism, occultism, ancient religions and most of all, a deep fascination for the thin veil between this world and others.

>> No.6819620

>>6819270
ITT:
>a write had a good imagination therefore MONSTERS MUST BE REAL

You're a retard.

>> No.6819712

I'm pretty sure he was connected to some secret agencies, but by the time he was able to reveal what he found out, the horror he experienced had become unspeakable.

>> No.6820837

If by 'knew something' you mean 'was afraid of large open spaces and minorities' then sure

>> No.6820880

>>6819270
I'm actually convinced he knew nothing; or at least, very little.

Sure he had a great body of knowledge of everything from chemistry to occult esotericism, but there's this distinct sense of, well, autism in his stories; the 4chan definition, not the actual one.

Like, all of his main character are complete social autists and are borderline author self-inserts who get so scared of everything that they go insane. Couple that with the fact we know Lovecraft really WAS a complete social autist who got scared of literal blacks and Jews, and it paints a picture of his horror not being of impossible cosmic gulfs, but the permeating fear of existence amongst fellow humans that can only manifest in someone so awkward that they get scared of other people.

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6821115

Start reading Kenneth Grant's Typhonian Trilogies, OP.
He took Lovecraft serious ( he claims even if Lovecraft might not believe his own dreams to have any factuality to it, it doesn't mean that is really the case ).
The Old Ones have given us the keys to understand reality.
Or some claim even Grant serves them and his books are a way for us to become food for the Old Ones.
Who knows.

>> No.6821294

>>6819270
After reading OP's post, I'm convinced he is retarded, and he was trying to tell us directly.

>> No.6821564

>>6819605
He also really fucking loves adjectives.

>> No.6821722

>>6819557 the matrix

>> No.6821744

>>6819270
Yeah, he knew that niggers were bad news.

>> No.6821882

>>6821744
fuck, you beat me to it. innsmouth and the rats in the walls are all basically thinly veiled racial bigotry. still love him though.

>> No.6821889

>>6819431
BRAVO WACHOWSKYS

>> No.6821930

>>6819605

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