Lovecraft

[SoytanEnthusiast]

Are his books actually that bad or is it just twitter real woman seethe?

 

[CX2]

 

[Onzikin]

For one moment, I genuinely forgot who Lovecraft was and thought this thread was about Minecraft e-dating or something.

 

[CX2]

For one moment, I genuinely forgot who Lovecraft was and thought this thread was about Minecraft e-dating or something.

this or something

 

[Mongoloigul]

Are his books actually that bad or is it just twitter real woman seethe?

Don't know, haven't read them, but i did read the stories written by his friends (Robert E Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, etc) and they were kino, so i have a pretty high expectation of his books.

 

[木制的尼尔森]

it's horror books

 

[Mongoloigul]

I don't know why shitlibs love to bemoan about how hecking rayciss lovecraft is when edgar rice burroughs is just as, if not more racist than him.

 

[Onzikin]

I don't know why shitlibs love to bemoan about how hecking rayciss lovecraft is when edgar rice burroughs is just as, if not more racist than him.

It's cause the fact he named his cat noob became a meme. That is genuinely the only reason they know he is racist.

 

[SoytanEnthusiast]

It's cause the fact he named his cat noob became a meme. That is genuinely the only reason they know he is racist.

Well they're not gonna read his books to find out they'd rather read gay fanfictions of their real womanslop media

 

[moidsy]

xitter hates him? i like him a lot personally i had a huge lovecraft phase like a year or two back
he and clark ashton smith write great shotrt stories definitely would recommend if ur bored

 

[Mongoloigul]

xitter hates him? i like him a lot personally i had a huge lovecraft phase like a year or two back
he and clark ashton smith write great shotrt stories definitely would recommend if ur bored

You read any of his contemporaries? other than CAS that is.

 

[moidsy]

You read any of his contemporaries? other than CAS that is.

not yet. i know r e howard is very famous too but idk if it's for me

 

[Mongoloigul]

not yet. i know r e howard is very famous too but idk if it's for me

I recommend the Del-Rey collections of his works if you want to get started, just pick any of his popular characters.

 

[soymask]

horrors beyond human comprehe- BRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPP

 

[Idkchud]

>"Tyrone? Tyrone! What profane silence lingers beyond the threshold? Why do I not hear the customary hymns of mortal ecstasy from my pale bride?” With trembling hand I halted my perusal of The Discourses of Elysium — that most accursed interactive grimoire of existential despair — and turned toward the chamber behind. What I beheld there… may the Old Ones grant me forgetfulness. My reason shattered upon the spectacle: the strange inversion of roles, the alien implements of unholy delight, the very geometry of decency undone! I cast aside the sacred Controller of the Ritual Machine — shattering the looking-glass that had been projecting the visage of the prophet Hasanabi upon its surface — and cried out in blasphemous disbelief. “You have switched the design! By all the eldritch sauces of Fauci and the obsidian idols of the realm of Stranger Things, what madness compels such a reversal of purpose?” My heart quailed. The ceremony, intended to bring forth new life and unify the diluted bloodlines of man, had been perverted into something beyond mortal comprehension. I felt both fury and a loathsome curiosity stir within my breast. “I must contact the others of the Vaushian Conclave,” I murmured, pacing in dread. “They will mock my ruinous failure, and I shall never again compete in the sacred Speed Trials of Elysium beneath their gaze.” I withdrew to my study, clutching the phonograph cylinder of Cantu-Ledesma’s Ambient Hymns, hoping its spectral reverberations might soothe my trembling soul. But even as the tones washed over me, I sensed it — the soundless laughter of the cosmos itself, ridiculing my fall from reason.

 

[Apolloyon]

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>"Tyrone? Tyrone! What profane silence lingers beyond the threshold? Why do I not hear the customary hymns of mortal ecstasy from my pale bride?” With trembling hand I halted my perusal of The Discourses of Elysium — that most accursed interactive grimoire of existential despair — and turned toward the chamber behind. What I beheld there… may the Old Ones grant me forgetfulness. My reason shattered upon the spectacle: the strange inversion of roles, the alien implements of unholy delight, the very geometry of decency undone! I cast aside the sacred Controller of the Ritual Machine — shattering the looking-glass that had been projecting the visage of the prophet Hasanabi upon its surface — and cried out in blasphemous disbelief. “You have switched the design! By all the eldritch sauces of Fauci and the obsidian idols of the realm of Stranger Things, what madness compels such a reversal of purpose?” My heart quailed. The ceremony, intended to bring forth new life and unify the diluted bloodlines of man, had been perverted into something beyond mortal comprehension. I felt both fury and a loathsome curiosity stir within my breast. “I must contact the others of the Vaushian Conclave,” I murmured, pacing in dread. “They will mock my ruinous failure, and I shall never again compete in the sacred Speed Trials of Elysium beneath their gaze.” I withdrew to my study, clutching the phonograph cylinder of Cantu-Ledesma’s Ambient Hymns, hoping its spectral reverberations might soothe my trembling soul. But even as the tones washed over me, I sensed it — the soundless laughter of the cosmos itself, ridiculing my fall from reason.

Gem

 

[AshkeNazi]

Don't know, haven't read them, but i did read the stories written by his friends (Robert E Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, etc) and they were kino, so i have a pretty high expectation of his books.

his work is less sci-fi and also less lorecacay than smith's, i especially recommend "the outsider"