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ha! we all love him don't we? =) |
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i do, well i've only read half of one of his short story collections but very good so far! |
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I know the name. That's it. |
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Hewlett Packard Lovecraft....... |
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Wait till Marlowe and Neetta turn up :) He he, yes he is very good and has influenced a lot of popular horror of more recent years. A lot more than most people realise... Steven King, Clive Barker, Evil Dead, they all nod in his direction. Even the original Quake game (and Blood!) make direct references to his work! |
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yes we do !! cthulhu portrait : http://www.deviantart.com/view/1249862 |
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He looks like he's wearing some 80s style new wave tunic. Cthulhu electroclash? |
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ahah cool you see it like that... the thing with wath i draw is that almost everyone will se a thing different in it, and i like that. of course thats an interpretation, and purists will say that he's meant to have tentacles for a "nose" and i've put the tantacles on the back of its head... the rest is influenced by music and life/nature in general :) |
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love it..read everything by him about five times... |
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I love all the stories of his I've read... My favorite so far has probably been The Music Of Eric Zann, follwed by The Call Of The Chutulu... both are excellent reads. |
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"call of cthulhu" the role playing game is excellent too |
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terrible dialogue though |
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in the game ? well dont know about the video game i was talking about the real role playing game god when i talk about that with english persons, they all think about video games. you know round a table with multi faced dice, paper and pencils ahhhh thats good, i wanna be a 1920 detective again !!! come back from japan game master !!! please :'( |
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uhhm, I was referring to the books |
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ohhh then -_- |
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At the Mountains of Madness is freaky as hell. and Dagon is weird, although they made a really bad movie out of it. |
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I like Ashton Clark Smith's strange fiction better... More murder, more madness, more mildew! |
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Dont forget, H.R. Giger has said that some of his drawings are inspired by Lovecraft tales. Most notably: The Necromicon but there are several others as well |
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i turned up! aah lovecraft :D i just love his style. the way he writes tight, informative, report-like text just backs up those stories.. just finished re-reading his works some months ago. i am also in the middle of a cthulhu role-playing campaign :) i appreciate! |
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Lovecraft was obviously inspired by the works of Edgar Alan Poe and William Hope Hodgson, but he did manage to work these influences into a style of his own. Whether this style was good or bad is generally up in the air. It's certainly an improvement on Hodgson's writing (try reading 'The Night Land' one day, without screaming in pain at the dialogue) but it does often fall flat. An example of this is 'The Search For Unknown Kadath' (or something like that) where there are just pages and pages of descriptive passages without any breaks or paragraphs. The imagination involved is staggering but so is the wording, which reads like the author swallowed a dictionary and spewed it up at random. When Lovecraft was at his best though, he conjours up images so potent that they have rarely been matched in the horror field since. 'The Rats In The Walls'; 'The Dunwich Horror'; 'The Shadow Over Insmouth'; 'The Colour Out Of Space'; I could go on if I had my books to reference. His two novels may have been failures, but his short stories and novellas influenced writers so much that until the 1970's with the outbreak of Stephen King and William Peter Blatty, every horror writer was using Lovecraft as the basis of their writing. |
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I doubt you've read his archive of letters 5 times :P The volume of them is staggering. I don't think they've ever been released though... Neetta: Re his writing style- yes, it makes it look like he's stating fact, makes the stories more believable. Works particularly well in the mountains of madness :) |
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I can be proud! I've read all his big and small stories (mostly in English, damn, what a vocabulary of terrifying adjectives), except for The Dream Quest For Unknown Kadath. I fall asleep with a headache every time I try to start reading the thing! I read Mountains Of Madness at night (yes just one night), being very cold, with noone around me, and by the time I finished the sun was already rising above the woods. Great sight... A pale yellow-cyan sky, weird noises from the woods, I could swear I heard a "Tekeli-li!"... |
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Dream quest is hard going, but well worth it. That particular story suggests to me that Lovecraft could dream lucidly... |
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H P Lovecraft was the best horror writer EVER! He blows stephen King out of the water, and reveals what a hack he is! I put him above Edgar Allan Poe too, mainly because his stories are less pulpy and more atmospheric! His work is so evocative and fantastic! :) |
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lol neetta how cool !!! wich character do you play ? what sort of campaign is this ? got to struggle against really big demons or what ? :D you are lucky to have a game master and time to play it. role playin' games can be so cool |
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These are the best ones IMO: At the Mountains of Madness Beyond the Wall of Sleep The Call of Cthulhu The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Colour Out of Space Cool Air Dagon The Doom That Came to Sarnath The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Dreams in the Witch House The Dunwich Horror Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family From Beyond The Haunter of the Dark Herbert West - Reanimator The Horror at Red Hook The Hound The Lurking Fear The Music of Erich Zann The Outsider Pickman's Model The Quest of Iranon The Rats in the Walls The Shadow Out of Time The Shadow Over Innsmouth The Silver Key The Statement of Randolph Carter The Thing on the Doorstep Through the Gates of the Silver Key The Whisperer in Darkness |
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Yavo, you're turning into a Listing Machine! :D hehe. |
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