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ive just started reading his short stories and he is my new favorite author (except asimov). anyone else here ever read any of his stuff?

Lovecraft makes my top 5 list. I like the Color Out of Space the best. BTW there is a role playing game for Lovecraft.

i think most of them suck, but the color out of space does definatly not! the one with aliens in vermont is quite good too, cant remember the name

I love Lovecraft. Asimov as well.

I have read everything lovecraft has written.

I think that at the Mountains of madness.

Jim

I think that at the Mountains of madness.


"I think that at the Mountains Of Madness" what? suxors? roxors?

"The dreamquest of of unknown Kaddath","The doom that came to Sarrnath"

:lol: Seirously folks,this man roomed with Crowley,and as a shut in roomed with a hundred cats to protect him from the vampires.

:D Even to this day, his horror stories make Stephen King look like a little schoolgirl.

:oops: No offence Stephen.

:lol: Seirously folks,this man roomed with Crowley,and as a shut in roomed with a hundred cats to protect him from the vampires.

Except he didn't:

http://www.hplovecraft.com/life/myths.htm#crowley

ReAnimator gives me the creeps.

the Dream Quest was beautiful fantasy.

He had one story with no monsters or supernatural element, just a traveller eating dinner with a lonely man who makes veiled references to the powers of a canibal's diet, while redness drips from the ceiling onto the dinner table...

*shiverrrr*

Yes.

"Howard Phillips Lovecraft, heaven knows, had a talent for writing which was of no means proportion: only what he did with this talent was a shame, and a caution and an eldritch horror. If he'd only gotten the hell out of his aunties' attic and obtained a job with the federal writer's project of the WPA, he could have turned out guidebooks that would have been classics and joys to read forever. Only he stayed up there muffled up to the tip of his long gaunt New England chin against the cold which lay more in his heart than in his thermometer, living on 19 cents worth of beans a day, rewriting (for pennies) the crappy manuscripts of writers whose complete illiteracy would have been a boon to all mankind -ah, but life is a boon- and producing ghastly, grisly, ghoulish, and horrifying works of his own as well -of maneating things which foraged in graveyards, of human/beastie crosses which grew beastlier and beastlier as they grew older, of gibbering Shoggoths and Elder beings which smelt real bad and were always trying to break through thresholds and take over; rugous, squamous, amorphous nasties abbetted by thin, gaunt New England eccentrics who dwelt in attics and who were eventually never seen or heard from again. Serve them damn well right, I say. In short, Howard was a twitch, boys and girls, and that's all there is to it."

Rudimentary Peni, Twitch, from their LP about HP Lovecraft - Cacophony. Definitely worth a listen or twelve.

All hail great Yog-Sothoth
Fall before the almighty Shub-Niggurath
Tremble at the approach of the crawling chaos Nyarlothetop
On your knees pray to the great sleeper Cthulhu


take care that what thee call up, thee can put back down.

DEESMEES JESHET BONE DOSEFE DUVEMA ENITEMOSS


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:shock: oops!!! uh, gotta go guys.
ummm, the big green and grey thing forming in the smoke there uhhh... it likes to be scratched behind the ears....

gotta run, have fun now... :twisted:

Although many of his stories are brilliant, and the world he creates is fantastic.

A few of them suck. The plots slow and sluggish, the characters are wooden.

BUt I judge him on his best works, and I love them.

Has anyone read Poe or Bierce

:lol: Seirously folks,this man roomed with Crowley,and as a shut in roomed with a hundred cats to protect him from the vampires.

Except he didn't:

http://www.hplovecraft.com/life/myths.htm#crowley

:D :oops: Sorry man my bad.