Give me a reason why he shouldn't be concidered the best author of the 20th century

[Anonymous No.14497976]

>He was original, he introduced an entirely new genre of horror
>He was a talented writer, his stories are pure poetry
>Barely any useless details and straight to the point storytelling

[Anonymous No.14497979]

>>14497976
Because Faulkner, Joyce, and Yeats exist.

[Anonymous No.14498015]

>>14497979
James Joyce is overrated, his magnum opus is "Ulysses", a book about a farting jew that embarrasses himself all the time. Anti-conventional doesn't necessarily mean "good". I'd rather read Proust desu

[Anonymous No.14498050]

>>14497976
>It’s so spoopy you can’t describe it
Wow

[Anonymous No.14498059]

>>14497976
pretty good but you forgot to mention
>was based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.14498071]

>>14498015
All you said was an oversimplified, caricaturized version of the synopsis and then fought a straw man. Lovecraft is good but he's not the best of the 20th century.

[Anonymous No.14498076]

>>14498050
If you enjoy reading pages upon pages of insufferable environmental descriptions that could easily be written be tumblr hipsters just read J. R. R. Tolkien

[Anonymous No.14498079]

>>14497976
He's a genrefag and his spooky tentacles are gay.

[Anonymous No.14498085]

>>14498015
>Anti-conventional doesn't necessarily mean "good"
No, but strangeness helps you get a place in the canon. Think of Blake, for example. HPL was also not conventional by any stretch of the imagination.

[Anonymous No.14498170]

>>14498079
>t. non-reader

[Anonymous No.14498179]

>>14497976
>Barely any useless details and straight to the point storytelling
Ah yes Lovecraft was known for this.

[Anonymous No.14498262]

>>14498179
I mean most of his stories were published on newspapers and took up roughly 4-6 pages. How much detail can you fit?

[Anonymous No.14498373]

>>14497976
Because it's E.F. Benson in reality. Lovecraft was a fanboy savant, but his best work is Supernatural Horror in Literature, a book about 30,000 words long which is mostly criticism.

[Anonymous No.14498391]

>>14498373
Benson's short stories are usually just slightly longer than Lovecraft's but look at how much detail and feeling he's able to weave into a work. He was arguably a latent homosexual too, so eventually even American critics will rediscover him.

[Anonymous No.14498678]

There are none.

[Anonymous No.14498876]

>>14497976
Because Tolkien exists

[Anonymous No.14498882]

>>14497976
I can’t, for behold: he is.

[Anonymous No.14498892]

>>14497976
>Barely any useless details and straight to the point storytelling
you obviously havent read At the mountains of madness

[Anonymous No.14499317]

>>14498892
It's the 'useless details' that makes the story so great.

[Anonymous No.14499332]

>>14497976
He did not follow his deconstruction of the agenda of society and its participate to its logical conclusion. Instead of teaching people the flaw of all things, he fell for the same trap as his accused enemies, he chose a flaw that made his cause self-righteous and struck out against it for better or for worse.

[Anonymous No.14499354]

>>14497976
Because he's not Celine

[Anonymous No.14499484]

IM GOING INSAAAAAANEEEEEEEE AAAAAAAAAA

[Anonymous No.14500625]

>>14497976
Because horror is literal shit.

[Anonymous No.14500633]

[Anonymous No.14500638]

>his name stands for an entire narrative genre
He is.
Every faggot that parrots "purple prose" and undescribable is seething.

[Anonymous No.14500663]

>>14498015
>James Joyce is overrated
Yeah unlike Lovecraft clearly. Fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.14500675]

>>14500633
>still missing the beard

I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD. EVERYONE SAVE THIS GOD DAMN IMAGE

[Anonymous No.14500756]

>>14497976

His prose is a laughable caricature of the eerie aspect it attempts to exude. Self-indulgent and almost mawkish in the way every overlong, unmusical, cacophonous sentence falls over itself to terrify you with four-syllable adjectives.

He had a grand imagination, but was incapable of transposing it into text.