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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
he makes it difficult. seriously. my eyes glaze over this shit.
i went over to the stupid clay tablet and the inspector and the professor and the “esquimaux”
life is too short for reading to be a painful chore. like eating a shit sandwich
yes yes obvious surprise the monster is gonna be real. no fuckin kidding. wings and tentacles. oooooo.
im much more afraid of dioxins
jeeezus there were so many great writers in the 20s why waste time with this jumbled garbage. i’ll read the clifff notes and be done. if someone offered to pay me to continue i’d turn down the job.
you wanna read something good go read ubu roi. it’s from 189fucking6 and way ahead of its time, not backwards. |
Dude, fair enough, but his stories are the bedrock of an entire genre. For better or worse, dude was inventive as fuck.
There are some anthologies out there where other, better authors like Neil Gaiman and... I dunno, some others... write ABOUT Lovecraft characters, or in a Lovecraftian style. I haven’t read any of them, but maybe they’d be cool.
Gaiman is one of my favorites, and he’s taken Lovecraft’s love of made-up mythologies and pushed it into a more dynamic direction, where it’s not really Horror or even fantasy anymore, but something akin to (very) adult fairy tales, rooted in real mythologies, be they Celtcic, Norse or what have you.
Anyhoodle...