@ianwilky12345 No, but Lovecraft had connections to the Far Right through his writer-friend, Clark Ashton Smith. These writings appeared at the same time of Crowley, Hitler, Luddendorff and later L. Ron Hubbard ... :)
To be honest, I didn't find Lovecraft to be a very good writer. Most of his work has me nearly falling asleep. I became really terrified when I read Lovecraft mythos stories by other authors
@georgekostaras Lovecraft was an excellent writer. His style though came from a different era. He wrote in a very "pulpy" style that can seem overly wordy, but make no mistake, he's was an excellent writer even if you didn't find his stories interesting. They are constructed well and he did an amazing job at creating a sense of the unknown and macabre.
Its simply the style of writing. You don't connect with it the same way you would a more modern writer, doesn't make him a bad writer.
A chronicle of the life, work and mind that created the Cthulhu mythos. Featuring interviews with Guillermo Del Toro, Neil Gaiman, John Carpenter, Peter Straub, Stuart Gordon, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Ramsey Campbell, S.T. Joshi, Andrew Migliore and Robert M. Price.
Funnily enough, the fact that the "monsters" were curious about us actually made me fear them less. I felt they were less alien as a result of having characteristics that I could identify with. Humans dissect them, they dissect humans. Fairs fair!
The subject of Lovecraft and social issues deserves better than soundbites; his "elite" status is more a question of time line, with shades of moral grey enduring in his later, more left wing, years.
that woman (?) that sounds TOO much like a man is terrifying. it's voice calls to that black pit in the recesses of the mind and curls around one's sanity to be forced on one's unwilling thoughts.
was this man or woman? such questions older and more terrifying than the great ones themselves must never be answered lest the answerer would retreat into madness or death.
@daemunum I am accursed ... and I have seen too much ... slipping and sliding tendrils of filth that pervade my mind's edges as I fall into madness. Around me - the ruined Church and villages burn and scream to me with illuminated sheets of light invisible to all but me. As my shattered psyche attempts to grapple with what I have encountered, I realize it is too late for my decayed sanity to grasp...
@lipoicacid Lovecraft borrowed from a lot of sources. He borrowed from the works of Poe and Lord Dunsany. His mythos is filled with a wide assortment of stuff from varying sources.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is one of those speakers Neil Gaiman? If not he looks like he could be his twin... That would be amazingly epic, and to a degree make sense if he was inspired by Lovecraft's works.
@Gentou Sorry, my friend, at the risk of at, the very least, sounding like a pedant and hopefully, at most, and more correctly, understood as an occultist, we honestly cannot help you with that question as we are not much for modern writers ourselves and started with Lovecraft, shat ourselves, and continued to work our way backwards until we finally lost all sanity halfway through 'The Yellow Book' (Paris Manuscript, Folio 3[b], Old French trans. to English by Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1879)...
@Gentou However, on a serious note, we don't read a lot of modern literature nowadays, so maybe one of the viewers may be able to help you? How about it, you well-read people? Unfortunately, most of these people were a total mystery to us, despite the fact we gladly admit Lovecraft had a HUGE influence on all modern horror writers, including King, they all steal Lovecraft's or his writing circle's themes and plot devices and this is only rivalled by their collective effect on modern sci-fi...
@Gentou Incisive homages to Lovecraft's sci-fi include Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five', written in the late Sixties, and details a time-travelling schizophrenic B-17 gunner who is kidnapped by aliens that look like toilet plungers, each sporting a giant, cyclopean eye. Vonnegut's character, Billy Pilgrim, reflects many of Lovecraft's own personal fears of mental deterioration imbued at the heart of his work and in the actuality of the closing stages of his relatively short, afflicted life...
@showtimeko This is from a lost video tape - "The Pnaknotic Tape" - that my great uncle discovered in a small bookshop in Egypt. He brought it back to this country. He went mad shortly after viewing it. Even now I feel my mind slipping away...Now you have watched it, it is too late for you...Can't you see the shadows in the corners of your eyes...? Tulu Tulu Tulu...Even strange death itself may die...
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ianwilky12345 6 days ago
@ianwilky12345 No, but Lovecraft had connections to the Far Right through his writer-friend, Clark Ashton Smith. These writings appeared at the same time of Crowley, Hitler, Luddendorff and later L. Ron Hubbard ... :)
deadkennedys555 5 days ago
awww damn why did he die so young man.
He would've written amazing books and novels up to the 50s!!! many film adaptations of it...
pfl95 1 week ago
Who did the audio reading Lovecraft's story? It sounds awesome. Anyone know what effects they used on the voice?
ExistentialExistent 1 month ago
@ExistentialExistent If I'm not mistaken, those are from the atlanta radio theatre company's dramatizations
TheGreatOldOnes 3 days ago
guillermo del toro would be a reincarnation of lovecraft but......happier
legosheet 1 month ago
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GoongalaGoongala 1 month ago
5:24 = "Ive seen some shit"
ReverendSyn 2 months ago
To be honest, I didn't find Lovecraft to be a very good writer. Most of his work has me nearly falling asleep. I became really terrified when I read Lovecraft mythos stories by other authors
georgekostaras 2 months ago
@georgekostaras Lovecraft was an excellent writer. His style though came from a different era. He wrote in a very "pulpy" style that can seem overly wordy, but make no mistake, he's was an excellent writer even if you didn't find his stories interesting. They are constructed well and he did an amazing job at creating a sense of the unknown and macabre.
Its simply the style of writing. You don't connect with it the same way you would a more modern writer, doesn't make him a bad writer.
GoongalaGoongala 1 month ago
@GoongalaGoongala Maybe he isn't a bad writer, just the same, at times he was pretty hokey
georgekostaras 1 month ago
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deadkennedys555 3 months ago
necronomicon? sounds like comic con for necromancers :D
0Mn0Mn0mable 3 months ago
o.k the bisexual scared the fuck out of me lmao
getalife67 4 months ago
Hp lovecrafts stories aren't ment to be taken so seriously, people act as these stories are complete non-fiction! People are so strange
MegaSlashProductions 5 months ago
isnt this h.p lovecraft fear of the unknown
hostelowner 5 months ago
Funnily enough, the fact that the "monsters" were curious about us actually made me fear them less. I felt they were less alien as a result of having characteristics that I could identify with. Humans dissect them, they dissect humans. Fairs fair!
MorganScorpion 6 months ago 3
The subject of Lovecraft and social issues deserves better than soundbites; his "elite" status is more a question of time line, with shades of moral grey enduring in his later, more left wing, years.
Theanchoritegarlic 10 months ago
I love you for posting this. a thousand thanks.
TheCaptainLulz 1 year ago
that woman (?) that sounds TOO much like a man is terrifying. it's voice calls to that black pit in the recesses of the mind and curls around one's sanity to be forced on one's unwilling thoughts.
was this man or woman? such questions older and more terrifying than the great ones themselves must never be answered lest the answerer would retreat into madness or death.
daemunum 1 year ago 10
@daemunum I am accursed ... and I have seen too much ... slipping and sliding tendrils of filth that pervade my mind's edges as I fall into madness. Around me - the ruined Church and villages burn and scream to me with illuminated sheets of light invisible to all but me. As my shattered psyche attempts to grapple with what I have encountered, I realize it is too late for my decayed sanity to grasp...
deadkennedys555 1 year ago 3
@daemunum You need to look: The SWYER Syndrome. This might explain the woman.
Aquapello1967 5 months ago
@daemunum its a tranny, dude, wake up!
thisisivanov 3 months ago
@daemunum My just be a cross-dresser or a transgendered person. No big deal.
ReverendSyn 2 months ago
John Carpenter borrowed from Lovecraft and Lovecraft borrowed from Sumerian mythology.
lipoicacid 1 year ago
@lipoicacid Lovecraft borrowed from a lot of sources. He borrowed from the works of Poe and Lord Dunsany. His mythos is filled with a wide assortment of stuff from varying sources.
GoongalaGoongala 1 month ago
these are just bits and pieces from fear of the unknown, right?
NutNapalm 1 year ago
@NutNapalm This is from a half-hour program solely dedicated to the writings of Lovecraft.
deadkennedys555 1 year ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is one of those speakers Neil Gaiman? If not he looks like he could be his twin... That would be amazingly epic, and to a degree make sense if he was inspired by Lovecraft's works.
Gentou 1 year ago
@Gentou Sorry, my friend, at the risk of at, the very least, sounding like a pedant and hopefully, at most, and more correctly, understood as an occultist, we honestly cannot help you with that question as we are not much for modern writers ourselves and started with Lovecraft, shat ourselves, and continued to work our way backwards until we finally lost all sanity halfway through 'The Yellow Book' (Paris Manuscript, Folio 3[b], Old French trans. to English by Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1879)...
deadkennedys555 1 year ago
@deadkennedys555 The King in Yellow. Great series of stories.
GoongalaGoongala 1 month ago
@Gentou However, on a serious note, we don't read a lot of modern literature nowadays, so maybe one of the viewers may be able to help you? How about it, you well-read people? Unfortunately, most of these people were a total mystery to us, despite the fact we gladly admit Lovecraft had a HUGE influence on all modern horror writers, including King, they all steal Lovecraft's or his writing circle's themes and plot devices and this is only rivalled by their collective effect on modern sci-fi...
deadkennedys555 1 year ago
@Gentou Incisive homages to Lovecraft's sci-fi include Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five', written in the late Sixties, and details a time-travelling schizophrenic B-17 gunner who is kidnapped by aliens that look like toilet plungers, each sporting a giant, cyclopean eye. Vonnegut's character, Billy Pilgrim, reflects many of Lovecraft's own personal fears of mental deterioration imbued at the heart of his work and in the actuality of the closing stages of his relatively short, afflicted life...
deadkennedys555 1 year ago
Where is this from? I love it!
showtimeko 1 year ago
@showtimeko This is from a lost video tape - "The Pnaknotic Tape" - that my great uncle discovered in a small bookshop in Egypt. He brought it back to this country. He went mad shortly after viewing it. Even now I feel my mind slipping away...Now you have watched it, it is too late for you...Can't you see the shadows in the corners of your eyes...? Tulu Tulu Tulu...Even strange death itself may die...
deadkennedys555 1 year ago
LOVECRAFT WAS A VERY INTERESTING WRITER.
scottblur 1 year ago