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Anonymous Sun Jan 9 17:24:56 2022 No.19718256 [Reply] [Original]

>His short stories are legitimately creepy
How did he achieved this?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 9 17:25:59 2022 No.19718264 >>19718256 being racist

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 9 17:26:10 2022 No.19718266 Married a divorced jewess and kept spooking himself with her busted roast. She left him after couple of years.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 9 17:26:28 2022 No.19718267 File: 160 KB, 710x473, futurist accelerationism.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 9 18:47:31 2022 No.19718673 >>19718256 Read M.R James anon >Canon Alberic's scrap-book Still gives me nightmares

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 9 18:51:15 2022 No.19718696 >>19718267 right is unachievable because ethnostate is not happening so people turn to left

>>	Ra Ra Mon Jan 10 00:53:20 2022 No.19720372 >>19718256 Thy weren’t? You can see all the twists coming except like two honestly his world building is good but it’s not scary

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 03:09:32 2022 No.19720901 >With his dying breath, the foul fiend made a ghastly noise I shudder to recall. For this beast's utterance had a structure resembling human language. Indeed, I recognized his gurgling as the dreadful mother tongue of Italy!

Anonymous Mon Jan 10 07:20:40 2022 No.19721618

>>19718267
You realize these aren’t mutually exclusive right? For instance, if you take virtue from the left and mix it with the technological advancement of the right you’d end up going quite far frankly. It’s foolish to draw such hard lines in the sand.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 10:19:15 2022 No.19722116 >>19718696 The ethnostate is a meme, only bottom of the barrel autists fall for it. Enjoy watching everything being stolen from you in the name of the superior race.

Anonymous Mon Jan 10 12:43:04 2022 No.19722637

The only time I've been legitimately creeped out by fiction is a scene in The X Files where Scully has been watching hours and hours of the news recorded onto murderer's VHS tapes and is getting effected by the hypnotic frequencies on the tapes and is hunting all around the room for listening devices and freaking out that somebody might be outside. I could relate. I don't think you can get scared by reading, even if it's trash pulp short stories from the 1930s the act of reading separates you too much.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 13:27:29 2022 No.19722843 >>19718256 autism

Anonymous Mon Jan 10 14:34:15 2022 No.19723151

>And the gaunt, lithe, blackened creature that I had spied from the garret the night prior in my feverish paranoia, slowly lumbered from some dark crevice in the ginnal behind my accommodation, towering over me, it stared for a moment, back-lit from the entrance to the lice infested den from which I left, it's two puce eyes staring deep into my very core being, the being's foul stench of fish and motor lubricant pervading my olfactory senses, I was surely being driven to madness by the incomprehensible behemoth that could not be yet stood before me and then it opened it's maw of bone white, jagged crooked fangs and uttered the most unholy noise that no mortal ear was meant to hear
>ayo nigga, tree fiddy?
>At that moment though I knew my fate was sealed I ran, grasping at my head as the madness encroaching upon my mind was causing a great nausea for surely had I not the creature would have done yet more unspeakable horror to me. Oh! Curse and confound that damnable welshman who brought me to this forsaken underworld of
>"Pittush-Borgha"

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 14:35:33 2022 No.19723160 >>19718256 by being a crazy racist

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 14:36:24 2022 No.19723164 >>19720372 Why do faggots end declarative statements with a question mark when they're feeling particularly smarmy? It just reads like you're trying to be insufferable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 14:39:38 2022 No.19723179 >>19723164 it's internet lingo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 17:21:45 2022 No.19724082 >>19718256 They are more comfy than creepy tbqh

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 17:26:35 2022 No.19724102 >>19724082 This. Scholarly men investigating weird shit in New England with their bros is peak comfy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 17:37:21 2022 No.19724155 File: 34 KB, 739x415, B4E0B5F8-2D9F-4C1E-992A-A8860D52DF5E.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19718256 By living in murica

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 17:43:59 2022 No.19724185 >>19718256 creepy is a good word for it. it's cause he's more atmospheric than anything. if he wrote an actual gothic novel it would probably be considered a classic.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 18:43:45 2022 No.19724498 >>19724082 They are simultaneously comfy and creepy. The kino small-town New England arrival leads into the funky I-don't-like-where-this-is-going horror! I think it co-exists.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 18:46:32 2022 No.19724507 No they aren't. His short stories are all trash. His only redeeming quality is racism.

Anonymous Mon Jan 10 19:36:09 2022 No.19724721

>>19718264
This is the right answer. Everyone who tries to save the "good parts" of Lovecraft and take out the racism are fundamentally misunderstanding why Lovecraft works.

We like being safe. We value beauty and intelligence. We like being around our own people, in societies that are orderly and sensible.

Monsters transversing space and time to ravage and enslave our planet are interchangeable 1:1 with loud minorities making public schools inhospitable and playing bass music at night and yelling into their phones on speaker in Walmart

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 21:00:33 2022 No.19725032 >>19718267 Why not just mix and match both? Get rid of the trannyshit like Nick Land, Accelerationism, Soc Darwinism and Transhumanism and also the Ethnostate.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 21:03:24 2022 No.19725043 >>19718256 Everything he wrote was from his own nightmares and paranoia so there is a strong authenticity to what he attempts to get across.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 21:07:33 2022 No.19725059 >>19723164 It's effeminate passive-aggression. Don't let the other anon bother you, he's just a tranny after all.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 21:09:43 2022 No.19725063 >>19724721 You fags really exaggerate how much Lovecraft's racism affected his writing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 21:11:50 2022 No.19725073 >>19723164 There's nothing wrong with it tho?

Anonymous Mon Jan 10 21:24:11 2022 No.19725117

>>19725063
Reading Eldritch Tales right now, featuring:

The Street, where swarthy minorities demographically displace the descendents of the Anglo settlers, and the neglected homes on said street collapse on them, leaving a brief afterimage of the houses when white people still took care of them

--a story about a man who kills himself after discovering that his great grandfather had married a humanoid ape in Africa. Each generation was ugly and apelike, but they were able to continue by marrying gypsies

They're great

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 10 21:37:44 2022 No.19725176 >>19718256 Short stories are much easier to be creepy than long ones. Because the longer you have to get familiar you get with the setting and horrors, the less creepy/scary it gets

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