HP Lovecraft died on this day

[ajbera]

The Wall Street Journal has a short piece on his influence.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110006424

I discovered HPL way back as a kid, when my Mom came home with some paperback thrillers one day (I was reading at age 2, and was drawn to horror, science fiction and general nastiness quite early). One of the books was "The Dunwich Horror and other stories" by Lovecraft, and I was immediately taken by the cold, stark nature of his terrors, the utter alien-ness of his monstrosities. No comforting good vs. evil here - we are specks in a vast universe, and the powers-that-be care not a fig for our hopes, dreams, desires, and moral concepts. It affected me deeply, shaped me in a number of ways, and I love (and read) his works to this day.

Lovecraft died at the young age of 46, of intestinal cancer, on March 15, 1937. One can only imagine the works he might have produced had he lived longer. I bow my head and offer a moment of silence for this strange and wonderful man.

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RIP, HPL.

[Bosh]

*hugs his cute little stuffed cthulhu*

[chequita guevara]

Lovecraft was a pretenious, turgid, hack writer.

[ajbera]

Pretentious, no; elitist, yes. And there's nothing wrong with elitism in my book. Turgid, I'll give you that. He's better for concepts than execution. And he may have been a hack writer, but he's achieved a measure of reknown that most of us never will.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Crap writer, but he had a good imagination.

[Winston]

Re: HP Lovecraft died on this day

(I was reading at age 2, and was drawn to horror, science fiction and general nastiness quite early)

I think I know this guy, at age 3 he started making things up to impress people.

[ajbera]

Just to impress women, dude.

My wife started reading at age 2, too. She became a librarian, I became a waste of space.

[St Leo]

HP Lovecraft has written some of the most beautiful hyperbole ever. His words live.

[Wezil]

...so did Julius Caesar.....

[Proteus_MST]

Jep,
IMHO the best Horror I ever read.

Started reading his stories at the age of 10 or 12 and AFAIK have all (or at least neaarly) of the books with his stories.
I especially like "At the mountains of madness" with my beloved "Elder Ones", the racxe I like most

I´d volunteer at once if Lovecrafts stories were true and someone would assemble an expedition to do archaeological research on one of the ancient cities, even though it is clear, that this expedition would almost for sure end with death or madness for all the people taking part

[Seeker]

A moment of silence for the great man.

HP Lovecraft violated every rule any of my english teachers and professors ever taught me about writing, but I'd rather read anything he wrote than anything they've written. If it's bad taste I don't want good taste.