WHAT THE HELL IS THiS????
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Holy sheep shit. You actually read Lovecraft? I always thought of him as a pretentious, racist bore who did not know how and when to end a fucking sentence. 'The Colour Out Of Space' was the most ridiculous shit ever. Imagine a racist meteor terrorizing a quiet Massachusetts town which was really a lame allegory for blacks moving into a quiet, white neighborhood. I'd ask slave FORD to burn my copy of Lovecraft's hack work but have a suspicious feeling slave FORD likes novels about racism.
But I still like some of his stories. Mostly because of his strong connection to Edgar Allan Poe, of which I am an even bigger fan of. Go ahead, rip me a new one, I don't mind.
I'm sure you know Lovecraft was obsessed with Poe. Well, while he wasn't as good, he did refine the horror story-telling & created plausible monsters - aliens that came here aeons ago, long before Mankind came to be. To this day, with the underwater exploration efforts renewed, I am scared shitless of what might be there.
Did you see the images of the things that were dragged from the unfathomable depths of the sea back in 2004, in the aftermath of the Phuket Tsunami?
That's only what the strength of the Tsunami could drag out from the bottom of the ocean. Who knows what unspeakable horrors resisted that force?
To this day, I'm still half convinced that Lovecraft was absolutely crazy & there was something dictating those stories to him. Did you read The Music of Erich Zann? Amazing.Comment
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I like Stephen King, actually. It's very easy to read, it's like you're watching a film instead of reading a book. The pages go by pretty fast.Comment
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American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.
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I'm not sure you're man enough to watch that, though. It gets *really* nasty at times.
And I'll hype it up the best I can, no problem. If there's a film that can not only live up to the hype, but SURPASS it, it's that one.
IF you're man enough to watch it. I bet I even know which end you'll choose, you little pussy.Comment
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Head nod to Poe , big influence on not just horror but other genres.fuck your fucking framingComment
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But I still like some of his stories. Mostly because of his strong connection to Edgar Allan Poe, of which I am an even bigger fan of. Go ahead, rip me a new one, I don't mind.
I'm sure you know Lovecraft was obsessed with Poe. Well, while he wasn't as good, he did refine the horror story-telling & created plausible monsters - aliens that came here aeons ago, long before Mankind came to be. To this day, with the underwater exploration efforts renewed, I am scared shitless of what might be there.
Did you see the images of the things that were dragged from the unfathomable depths of the sea back in 2004, in the aftermath of the Phuket Tsunami?
That's only what the strength of the Tsunami could drag out from the bottom of the ocean. Who knows what unspeakable horrors resisted that force?
To this day, I'm still half convinced that Lovecraft was absolutely crazy & there was something dictating those stories to him. Did you read The Music of Erich Zann? Amazing.
Lovecraft was WeIRd but repetitively wEiRd. Creatures that live in walls, grotesque figures that dwell in remote forest (like you average Bernie Sanders supporter), slimy amorphous exoskeletal sea aliens I never really got into. Plus, there was too much first person narrative with the guy when some of his characters could have been more interesting to either love or hate. I don't think anything was dictating to him. Lovecraft in way invented horror mythology - I'll give him that.
"Zann said that he was old, lonely and afflicted with strange fears and nervous disorders connected with his music and other things."
Sounds like half of this forum.Last edited by Kristy; 02-16-2016, 10:44 PM.Comment
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Stealing from yourself isn't stealing. It's recycling. Yes, there are influences of previous writers in his work, but they're not the bulk of his work, like Jimmy Page did.
And you're right about Poe. He could tell an unsettling story just to make you laugh yourself to tears in the next one.
Never Bet the Devil Your Head & The Balloon Hoax were good ones, but there was one that had me in stitches, yet the name eludes me. It was one where two competing newspaper editors make bets about not using certain letters in the whole newspaper the next day, or something like that. It grows increasingly bizarre & there's a point where one of the editors had to write a whole article in which every word contained the letter O. It was beautiful.Comment
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