/lit/ - Literature

nah, he is a pretty mid author

>>20137141
Yes if you like spooky stories

his letters and philosophical worldview are more interesting than his stories desu

>>20137141
What the fuck is wrong with his mouth?
Was he mewing before it was cool?

>>20138972
Inbred Anglo look. There's a reason he thinks fishfolk and shut-ins are scary
>>20137141
His name is a genre and his cat is a meme, what do you think?

>>20137141
Just look his best short stories, they're definitely worth a read. Read the colour out of space and Call of Cthulhu, both are fantastic.

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/
Just to get a taste; I'd buy the complete collection of his works, I read them almost every night before I go to bed, same with Poe honestly.

>>20138972
New England WASP phenotype. He could've just walked off the Mayflower

>>20138998
>>20139012
>t. 2nd gen "Americans"

>>20138998
Anglos are the least inbred people in the world. The Puritains were totally autistic about genealogy and took it very seriously. Which is to say they only LOOK inbred, ironically

>>20137141
I look Nordic as fuck
Pure Anglo-Saxon ethnicity

The Dunwich Horror is a good place to start. Solid pace, not quite as prosaic as some of his more advanced works, and it outlines the mythology in a digestible manner.
Read it again last Thanksgiving on a flight home, still holds up

>>20138972
his mother was really ugly and he inherited her phenotype, his father was a very normal looking fellow

>>20137141
Some of his stories are trash pulp-tier shit, to be expected. Then he has some great ones. A few I recommend are The Rats In The walls, The Dunwich Horror, At The Mountains Of Madness, Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Lurking Fear, Herbert West, Reanimatior, The Temple, and Nameless City. You can get his complete fiction for like 20 dollars, a 1100 page tome of pure lovecraft.

>>20138972
>>20138998
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>>20139046
>I do not claim to be 100% Teuton. My dark hair and eyes forbid me that honour. But when I reflect on the fact that hair and eyes are the first things to be chang’d in a blond race upon the least infusion of southern blood, and gold-and-blue scheme being very unstable and liable to revert to the more primitive and deeply hereditary brown or black scheme; I am content to survey my ample height and pallid complexion ( bleach’d by the deep Saxon forests and Scandinavian snows) and pronounce myself 99.9% Teutonick. This supposition is borne out by my coarse features–the rough-hewn physiognomy of a Viking warrior–and by my enthusiastick response to warlike and imperious stimuli. . . .

>>20137141
Of course, he's one of the most important writers from the 20th century. Read The Colour Out of Space, Shadow Over Innsmouth, At The Mountains of Madness and Dunwhich Horror.

>>20137141
Just complete and utter shite. You'd have to be one of those weird kids that read Goosebumps as a child to see the appeal.

>>20140225
>he's one of the most important writers from the 20th century.
What did he influence besides genre fiction and nerd culture? Ligotti? Get real, dude.

>>20137141
imagine being this new

>>20137141
why does he look like this but on the right

>>20137141
>... My ancestor

>>20139039
I remember seeing a list of the most inbred populations a few years ago, if I recall correctly the tops were Jews, Brazilians, Indians/Pakis, and the Japanese.

>>20140471
Read Houellebecq's short book on Lovecraft, he discusses many of the authors Lovecraft influenced.

>>20140720
Not new. I unironically never see him discussed
>>20138998
>His name is a genre and his cat is a meme, what do you think?
Popular doesn't mean good

>>20140845
Stfu faggot. There's a post about him every day, probably all from you. Neck yourself

>>20140867
take your meds

>>20140845
>Popular doesn't mean good
It usually does if it's still popular after a century you retard.

>>20137141
He’s ok but not amazing, his “horror” doesn’t really fit with modern attitudes because people either don’t care that they think the universe is indifferent to them or don’t think the universe is indifferent to us in a meaningful way (including people who suggest making ones own meaning but also people who remain part of the old faiths) so it doesn’t scare people anymore.
>>20138972
Have you not seen an ugly person before?

>>20137141
I like his works.

>>20141059
The City is one of my favorites. I like the perspective of being stuck in the submarine the entire story.

>>20137141
First day huh?

>>20137141
A lot of his work isnt that great, especially the more popular stuff. Call of Cthulhu is so bad that I dont think anyone that likes it has actually ever read it. Shadow Over Innsmouth is simply ok. Shadow out of Time was interesting. Probably the only one I actually liked was Mountain of Madness.
The Dreamlands stuff is really good in concept but most of them, Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath in particular, are written horribly.

This is a good collection of his stories. Badass cover art too

>>20140458
>he didnt read goosebumps as a kid
tf did you read as a kid, fag? the dick catalogue?

>>20137141
>I don't actually think I ever see him mentioned on here
you don't have to justify making a thread about an author with an outright lie, it's good enough that you actually made a thread about literature

Is there a better piece of speculative fiction than At the Mountains of Madness?

Why do women like lovecraft so much?

>>20142481
>ask inflammatory loaded question that you know to be untrue
stop bumping dead threads with this shit

>>20139511
>the rough hewn physiognomy of a viking warrior
was this nigga delusional? he looks like a skinny autistic dweeb

>>20139511
based autist