No.15344
I'm genuinely baffled by the adoration for him. I've read his stories and don't understand the appeal. Could someone explain it? Brainlet here.
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No.15345
Enough with fucking Lovecraft treads
>>15177
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No.15371
>>15344
Same reason everyone loves Tolkien. Fantasy writing and its copyright free so everyone can plagiarize it.
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No.15372
>>15344
The way he writes is not really good.
The good thing is in the creatures that imagination generates and how it makes them look before the reader.
He does not describe it or say it is but you, the author, the characters and everyone knows that he is a monster, that the things that are terrorizing the characters in his story is something so moustrous and indescribable that he does not put into words real.
And the best thing is that many times it is not really a monster, but a God or something else, something in a higher hierarchy.
It could be said that for its time it was innovation.
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No.15375
>>15372
>The way he writes is not really good.
except it is
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No.15379
>>15372
Lovecraft was standing on the shoulders of giants of his time. His only innovation was he basically combined a lot of contemporary sci-fi work to his own. Then he got memed by newspapers. To call him innovative is to call Robert Jordan innovative by adding S&M fetish into his version of Lord of the Rings.
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No.15978
The short attention span faggots probably feel quite accomplished and proud of themselves for actually finishing a Lovecraft short story, so they imbue a virtue upon the work that is entirely unjustified.
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No.16313
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No.16325
>>15344
according to schnoebelen (bill) a large part of current western occultism is lovecraftian
in other words the man wasnt just a writer, he also ushered in an era of commerce with spiritual entities and realms heretofore unexplored or not so focused upon
Bill mentions as an example contacting other universes, becoming God in them and drawing power from them
if you look at current technobabble they are talking a lot about alternate universes lately, notably in the field of quantum computing (and A.I.?)
TL;DR: way more real than you want to know unless you're into high level hardcore satanism
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No.16337
>>15344
I think that much of the admiration for HP derives from the exaggerated way that he wrote and the "tone" which one might envision when the read his literature. There's this Youtube channel called Leeman Kessler who has a series called "Ask Lovecraft". Notice his tone and how he speaks with dominance and intelligence . . . I think it's really captivating.
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No.16356
Americans will gobble up anything as long as it's "white" and Anglo.
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No.16392
>>16356
Like black people semen?
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No.16396
Unless I have understood Lovecraft wrong, one of the best Lovecraftian works in recent history is unironically Japanese visual novel called Saya no Uta.
It is actually getting a Steam release this month, but I have no idea how much they're going to censor it.
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No.16451
>>16396
I was going to read this even though I don't really care about VN's. Then some video I watched spoiled it for me and I lost all interest.
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No.16456
>>16325
I personally don't think he is guilty of pushing for occultism, as opposed to painting witchcraft as destructive. My mom was always into weird occultish things, I've always had a hatred for it, and Lovecraft only solidified that for me.
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No.16457
>>15344
reddit is that way
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No.16458
>>16456
Ok so you're autistic; that doesn't make Lovecraft any less of an occultist.
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No.16763
>>15344
You can't appreciate his job unless you are disgusted/terrified by modernity.
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No.16765
>>16763
This is pretty spot on. Normalfags don’t get the appeal of cosmic horror – they want whatever schlock Hollywood churns out instead – jumpscare-riddled, low-effort horror about ghosts and daemons, &c.
Cosmic horror is a slow burn, and it makes to think about the implications of the story after you have put the book down – mankind’s role in the infinite cosmos, the short time human civilisation has existed, and what was before us and what will come after us.
And since it so hard to adapt his stories, and do cosmic horror right in film and TV, you get these butchered adaptations and low-effort attempts at the sub-genre, so someone who watches these, might not even bother to look up Lovecraft’s original stories because of that.
2009 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival: Dan O'Bannon's "Howie" Acceptance Speech on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/15911259
Alien Explorations: 2009 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival: Dan O'Bannon's "Howie" Acceptance Speech transcription: http://archive.vn/KhTXi / http://web.archive.org/web/20190925112507/https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2009/09/2009-hp-lovecraft-film-festival-dan.html
Dan O'Bannon H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival 2009 Howie Award, PART 1: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=FG2JRNVji-8
Dan O'Bannon 2009 Howie Award Acceptance H.P. Lovecraft Film Fest, PART 2 (Final): https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=qrR_9l4HUHw
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