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I started reading his works and while not badly written I find them uninspired and boring so far, in fact I stopped reading and felt no real desire to come back to it. OMG horrors beyond human imagination! It just gets repetitive after a while. Am I just ignorant?
Maybe you're just not enough of a white supremacist to get it.
>uninspired
>lives in an age where horror culture has been greatly inspired by his works
Uninspired is definitely not the right word.
I strongly feel that the extending of and remixes of og lovecraft offer more than the creator's work itself. @laser is right, it's really... a product of it's time.
That would be inspiring though, not inspired
Quite possibly they're just not your thing. Agree the writing is not the best but for me it's the world building and abstract nature of his horror that draw me in which at the time he wrote them were unique and I'd argue continue to be unique as so many people draw from his stories as a source of influence.
I wish his books came in an edition with the originals and lightly edited versions of the originals that don't have the casual racism.
When I get to hell I'm gonna talk em into putting HP Lovecraft & Ed Wood in a cage match and see who comes out of it the weirdest.
What's up with Lovecraft? I mean besides his cat's name, bc as far as i heard, it were his parents who named it. I really wanna know
Not sure why he's singled out especially. He was born in 1890. You could throw a rock at that point and hit a sexist, racist, everything-ist.
I'm sure in a 100 years they'll say the same about us.
His dad developed syphilitic halucinations when HP was four years old. He died of untreated syphilis in an insitution when HP was eight.
His mother was a wreck in general and psychologically abusive in his childhood. He grew close to his grandfather, but he died and the family assets were dissolved, leaving HP and his abusive unstable mother living in a small studio apartment, basically, meaning he couldn't get away from it. She also had a breakdown and died in an institution after only two years after being commited.
Plot twist: the story is literally just about a black man minding his own business.
Xenophobic racist mama's boy. But he wrote some great stories.
pretty sure he hated his mom because she was bonkers abusive towards him
It's so interesting how so many characters of his just go spend some time in asylums as though it's a completely normal thing for people to do because of how messed up his upbringing was.
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