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HP Lovecraft fans? Christanon 01/22/18 (Mon) 15:33:53 ff9efd No.592545

Any other fans of HPL on /christian/?

I realize he was an atheist who hated Christianity, but I find most of his stories can be read as a warning against dabbling with the occult. Every one of his characters look for "secret knowledge" and it ends up destroying them every time.

Christanon 01/22/18 (Mon) 15:48:58 cfa62b No.592552

Used to. I can't read his work with a sound conscience anymore (especially given the literal blasphemy in Charles Dexter Ward), but his overall "morals" are definitely true. You can't control the occult, no matter how falsely confident you are.

Christanon 01/22/18 (Mon) 16:06:22 e5aa2d No.592558

Nope. I liked it as general horror and mystery settings, but grimdarkness and "humans are garbage" tone is annoying is hell. These tones are what I generally despise in most of fantasy settings. Except Warhammer 40k (probably because it actually laughs at these. British humour and all)

Christanon 01/22/18 (Mon) 16:12:24 e2d4f2 No.592560

>>592545

He's one of my favorite fiction authors.

My favorite story is Shadow over Innsmoth.

Christanon 01/22/18 (Mon) 16:22:28 ccbd83 No.592561

Heard of him a lot. Never had occasion to read anything.

Christanon 01/22/18 (Mon) 20:01:15 a5418e No.592646

Here here. I usually love his work but sometimes I can't read it with a clear conscience, like the Dunwitch Horror…

Christanon 01/22/18 (Mon) 21:36:40 c4225c No.592673

>>592545

>>592560

His works are okay, my favorite is On the Creation of Niggers.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Creation_of_Niggers

Christanon 01/22/18 (Mon) 22:16:57 863878 No.592682

>>592545

man was sick in the head and spirit

Christanon 01/22/18 (Mon) 23:52:01 28256b No.592709

>>592673

Even by early 20th century New England standards, he was considered racist.

>>592561

His sonnets are rather nice.

>>592682

^Entirely. He was a man without hope.

Christanon 01/23/18 (Tue) 01:32:04 ecbb41 No.592732

>>592673

wew. thanks pol. Next thing you’re going to be telling me is that his nose looks a little large in the picture. Is it just the shadow? I think that’s a pretty big nose. In other news is this really the best this board can do on a Monday? It really is kind of dead here.

Christanon 01/23/18 (Tue) 01:41:32 e2d4f2 No.592735

>>592673

B A S E D

Christanon 01/23/18 (Tue) 01:54:19 b98e2e No.592740

>>592732

This board has taken a nosedive in quality recently.

Christanon 01/23/18 (Tue) 02:05:40 9dddef No.592743

>>592732

>>592740

Well he did marry a jewess. What insight into spiritual betterment were you really expecting from casual discussion of an atheist short novelist? But if you're just here to air your booty-blasting to the world and would prefer to be insulated from anyone who doesn't love BASED niggers I might suggest going back to plebbit's christian board.

Christanon 01/23/18 (Tue) 02:05:53 e2d4f2 No.592745

>>592740

This is 8chan, we're in a continual state of declining quality.

If it were not the case I would think something was wrong.

Christanon 01/23/18 (Tue) 02:08:12 b98e2e No.592746

>>592743

CCC 1935

Christanon 01/23/18 (Tue) 02:40:52 ecbb41 No.592766

>>592765

Oh. Sorry reread your post./r/Christian. No. Try/r/Catholicism

Christanon 01/23/18 (Tue) 12:33:00 8d76b0 No.592876

>>592646

Dunwitch horror not his best work.

Christanon 01/23/18 (Tue) 16:27:18 c8cd5d No.592914

>>592740

>nosedive

Christanon 01/23/18 (Tue) 16:48:29 5d68a9 No.592917

>>592743

>Well he did marry a jewess.

While being anti-semitic.

> prefer to be insulated from anyone who doesn't love BASED niggers I might suggest going back to plebbit's christian board.

Contain your buzzwords, /pol/yp.

Even during his time, he was considered way too racist towards irish, germans, blacks and italians compared to the norm.

Christanon 01/23/18 (Tue) 18:17:34 ea85c0 No.592962

>>592545

I was surprised to see that he wrote short stories. Despite me disagreeing with his views, I'm glad that he portrayed occultism in a negative manner as opposed to a cool/empowering thing like media portrays it now.

Christanon 01/23/18 (Tue) 18:52:34 98c02f No.592995

>>592914

>nose

Christanon 01/23/18 (Tue) 19:32:57 55ad8d No.593007

Anyone got occult type fiction like his, no matter how it's portrayed, or the actual blasphemous tracts and what not? I find this shit really interesting to read. It's a good genre of fiction if you treat it that way.