/lit/ - Literature

>>15668084
Lovecraft is outdated.

>>15668084
Was the Scary Monster a Nigger?

>>15668084
Was he right about cats though?

>>15668084
Post kot

Lovecraft is great.

>>15668084
Very dishonest and low quality post. I feel sorry for your mother.

>>15668576
Lovecraft was an overwritten faggot who was afraid of math and kept making the same basic bitch nihilistic short story.

>>15668084
I real Call of Cthulhu and while I liked the plot and how it progressed for a short story, the mythos really didn't pull me in like I thought it would.
What are some other Lovecraft stories worth reading?

>>15668564
based

>>15670027
>the mythos really didn't pull me in
Don't fall for that shit meme

>>15668084
Lovecraft is genre fiction.

>>15670780
yes and?

>>15670027
rats in the walls is spooky

>>15670841
And shit.

>>15670027
As another anon mentioned, rats in the walls. Personal favorites include the festival, the music of erich zann, the colour out of space and the haunter in the dark. Honorable mentions include at the mountains of madness, the shadow out of time and the whisperer in the darkness. The dunwhich horror and the shadow over inssmouth are overrated, although the former much more than the latter.

>>15670992
Color Out Of Space fucked me up man, I don’t read horror often and when I do it’s usually not scary, but I was up in rural Pennsylvania while reading it and it just hit so vividly in my mind. Phenomenal lovecraft piece, it’s a shame some of his weaker stories are picked apart instead

I read Dunwich Horror and wanted the bad guys to win. Cosmic horrors' decades-long plan failed because of a dog and the protagonist reading some spooky books?

>>15668084
low quality prose and narratives that aren't entertaining, straight into the bin

>>15668084
listening to nothing but Electric Wizard for 2 years will make you appreciate ol' H.P.

>>15672796
You must have read a different Lovecraft.

>Imagine dedicating your life to studying one person

LOOOOOLLL

> WE'RE SOOOOO INSIGNIFIGANT! ISN'T THAT SCARY?!
No, it isn't. It's the same nihilistic message the establishment has been feeding for the last 200 years.

>>15668084
>The effect was that of a Cyclopean city of no architecture known to man or to human imagination, with vast aggregations of night-black masonry embodying monstrous perversions of geometrical laws. There were truncated cones, sometimes terraced or fluted, surmounted by tall cylindrical shafts here and there bulbously enlarged and often capped with tiers of thinnish scalloped disks; and strange beetling, table-like constructions suggesting piles of multitudinous rectangular slabs or circular plates or five-pointed stars with each one overlapping the one beneath. There were composite cones and pyramids either alone or surmounting cylinders or cubes or flatter truncated cones and pyramids, and occasional needle-like spires in curious clusters of five. All of these febrile structures seemed knit together by tubular bridges crossing from one to the other at various dizzy heights, and the implied scale of the whole was terrifying and oppressive in its sheer gigantism. The general type of mirage was not unlike some of the wilder forms observed and drawn by the arctic whaler Scoresby in 1820, but at this time and place, with those dark, unknown mountain peaks soaring stupendously ahead, that anomalous elder-world discovery in our minds, and the pall of probable disaster enveloping the greater part of our expedition, we all seemed to find in it a taint of latent malignity and infinitely evil portent.

>>15670992
>>15671959
I got really baked and read The Colour out of Space. Novels typically don't give me chills but damn that short story messed me up for hours.

>>15674069
still waiting on a film adaptation of Mountains of Madness, although The Thing is pretty close I guess

>>15670027
I know this is /lit/ but honestly, there are these "audio book" readings that sounds like it's an old radio show. I especially enjoyed his reading The Shadow out of Time and At the Mountains of Madness.

The Shadow Out of Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CAgu-IgJgs&list=PLG8klsjxFY-P3ITpqoMqvTyRDd7qg7RVK&index=13
At the Mountains of Madness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2iSmE129uQ&list=PLG8klsjxFY-P3ITpqoMqvTyRDd7qg7RVK&index=14

>>15674028
>when you realize that cyclopean ruins exist that were absolutely not built by ancient humans

>>15674151
Unfortunately I don't think it can be done properly. The budget required to make the derelict city and the visual appearance (whether practical effect or digital) probably wouldn't be as frightening as when you have to piece it together from the description. Also, a good portion of the book is the narrator describing a grand auto-historical relief left by the old ones. I often think that it would make a very good video game in the vein of Until Dawn.

Guillermo Del Toro tried, but for the time being we will have to settle for John Carpenter's The Thing.

>>15669069
>afraid of math
He excelled in the sciences and self-published an astronomical journal as a teenager.

>>15668084
Check out Clark Ashton Smith, he's pretty much Lovecraft with a sense of humor.

>>15674002
Lovecraft's theme is that humans are lost and naive and so we should have humility and tact as we explore reality. The establishment preaches YOLO, send messages out to space, collide atoms, be egotistical and competitive, we have silicon valley CEOs talking about unleashing demons in terms of AI. So his works are at least a more thoughtful brand of nihilism than what the establishment pushes.

>>15672771
I suspect Lovecraft edited the Dunwich Horror just before submission to be an inversion of Frank Belknap Long's story, Hounds of Tindalos, as both were publishing in Weird Tales at the time. Instead of humans being stalked and killed by predators from a higher dimension, Lovecraft has the supernatural spawn of a higher being be hated and ultimately killed by canines from this lowly plane.

>>15668092
>shitty hollow graphics
>muh intense scene shots because of spooky disfigured monsters and dark sky
What a fucking waste, does modern opinion really consider shit like this to adequately fulfil the role of 'art'?

>>15668092
>medium of answers
yawn

>>15674785
Dunwich happens to be a satire of the gospel.
"Fa-Father!"