/lit/ - Literature

Opinions on him?

I wrote the first 30-40 pages of a highly experimental creative writing book. I was curious if anyone might be interested in reading it -- I could use suggestions/ feedback. The book contains a few redpills in it about art and psychology

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What's his best story?

This guy is without a doubt the worst author I've read in my adult life. I don't understand how he influnced so many people, but it certainly makes it obvious why modern "writers" like King are shit. His prose is phlegmatic and he continually repeats the same phrases over and over again (that crawling chaos Nyarlathotep). All he seems capable of is listing adjectives. In the entirety of the Dream Quest to Unknown Kadaath nothing of substance happened at all - all events, nothing thematic in the least. Didn't even have a line of dialogue. Not to mention that the plot of every one of his stories is derivative.

His life story is more interesting that his fictional writing

>"This inhibition was clarified when I spoke with Sonia and tape-recorded our conversation—HPL never once made any sexual overtures to his wife—she, Sonia, always had to make the overtures for their sexual relations, however, as she stated to me, HPL had read up on his husbandly duty, and he was more than adequate in his performance. “He was reared more like a girl evidently instead of being reared like a man; yet he was far from unsexed as someone has stated. But it was this sort of up-bringing, I believe, that made him squeamish and prudish about perfectly natural functions. The very mention of the word sex seemed to upset him. He did, however, make the statement once that if a man cannot be or is not married at the greatest height of his sex-desire, which in his case, he said was at age 19, he became somewhat unappreciative of it after he passed thirty. I was somewhat shocked but held my peace.” Most likely, at the age he married, Lovecraft was truly not any longer motivated to any length by sexual drives or urges—I believe that he was at that age, and probably all his life, one of those rare persons who do not have much sex drive or much sexual interest. This does not mean that he was not able to perform, nor that he did not want to."

I suffer because I am of the golden cloth. I languish in obscurity, although men of learning and higher consciousness certainly see merit in my writings, enough at least to praise it in the periodicals I have no trouble being published in. But it is the shambling mass of normalfags and idiots who sneer at me with sinister ressentiment. How they curse and blaspheme against the Muse who animated this unstayed hand, so like Milton’s and the Bard’s! How they hate me! How they bay and hiss at my poesy! I suffer due to the mean mass of humanity being absolutely unable to reach those lofty heights of beauty where I scream and cry for another soul to understand me! Go, now, ye uncouth and decrepit satyrs who frolic the fields of Arcadian grasses, and play thine awful song of ribaldry and Bacchic ecstasy. I shall stay in my domicile amidst the cloudy heavens, writing the next canto in the epic of the universe. Ye gods—I say no more—I gasp—mine intelligence is more than any lowly being could ever withstand to have within the circumference of their lifeless craniums.

>HP Lovecraft gave up writing after harsh reviews of At the Mountains of Madness and considered himself a failure right up to the moment he died painfully of intestinal cancer
>literally one of the most influential and talked about/read writers in 2023

Why is life so fucked up? Reading his later letters when he finally gave up writing are really painful.

Do you think his views on black people, Jews or immigrants would have changed had he lived long enough til the 1970s or 80s

I know his cat's name, but is he worth reading? If so, where should one start?

>>21880791
Forgot pic

All his cosmic horror bullshit pales in comparison to knowing your crush's bodycount

HeY GUieZ DiD YoU KNoE LOvEcRAfT WaZ RaCCisS!

Did you know H.P. Lovecraft was published in a pulp magazine? Meaning he wrote for really cheap magazine that you'd find at a drugstore. He was in no way a respected author of his time.
Still remains one of the most influential science fiction writers of all time.

>>21766407
>no one
ahem

Has anyone here read The Private Life of H.P. Lovecraft by Sonia Green?

I'm trying to learn more about him, and specifically why he would marry a Jewish woman even though he was apparently a racist and anti-semite.

>As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical 'American heritage'...) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

https://voca.ro/1nc0sAFU3xNG

>HPL was a weird neurotic
False.
>HPL was an isolated loner
False.
>HPL was more racist than average.
False
>HPL named his cat 'Niggerman'
False.
>HPL never described his creatures
Completely false and easily disproven if you actually read him.

Why do redditor subvermin like to slander this innocent man so much?

How important is it for a writer to work at a magazine in their formative years (as a writer, editor, slushpile reader, or whatever)?

Is that an.......................... Italian?

>>21411163
idk for sure but idk I have a funny inkling

>look up somehing related to lovecraft's work
literally any website found:
>deeply problematic writer so we changed our site name to distance ourselves from a seemingly accepting image without criticism
>how to deconstruct white privilege in horror
>how to rewrite lovecraft without hurting white people's feelings
>white people are like magic, they bring anything to a halt
>5 writers who are lovecraft without the racism
Literally what I found just trying to look for some lore.

Its all so fucking tiresome.

Are the Old Ones real? If not, what do they represent?