I dont get it, whos HP Lovecraft

http://www.hplovecraft.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft

ps: you can thank him for ~25% of metal band names.

I dont have time to read all this internet. he was a famous dentist, right?

Yeah, the 25% that are totally imaginative, fresh and new.

I wouldnt want HP Lovecraft anywhere near my teeth.

FuckIsMySignature said:

He'd probably take six pages to describe them, and by the time you read halfway through you'd be asleep and ready for that root canal.

MikePile said:



H.P. Lovecraft
He was little known until he died
'Cuz the real demons were behind his eyes
And his tortured mind could never thought
Of the extent his mental health had wrought
A dozen shitty movies only two I saw
At least one song by Metallica
Aleister Crowley even believed that crap
You fucked my mind H. P. Lovecraft
You started writing for Wierd Tales
All you wanted was sex you got strait hell
I stole my first from Waldenbooks at the mall
And then I heard Cthulhu's Call
Other writer jumped on your boat
Even you weren't scared of what you wrote
You told of monters lurking in the mist
'Cause you daddy died of syphilis

HP Lovecraft is amazing

http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/


I've spent many a late night here

1a. Introduction of a guy involved in academia
1b. Boring stuff, boring stuff, boring stuff
1c. Mention of a horror that is too terrible to describe
1d. Describe the horror a little bit
1e. Shocking ending in italics!

2. Wait 80 years

3. PROFIT

MikePile said:

You forgot "eldritch," "nacreous," and "star-spawned."

Lovecraft rules

DaveFromTheGrave said:

i know what i'm doing at work tomorrow.

You can also get most of the works of Robert E. Howard (Conan, Bran Mak Morn, Kull) online:

http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-a-m.html#letterH (Scroll down to "Howard," dummy.)

It goes like this for writers of horror

Edgar Allen Poe
H.P Lovecraft
Steven King
Me (in the future)

Maybe throw dante up there on top of the list. That is a chronological succession of the gods of horror.

If only the world knew about HP Lovecraft, we'd have a better chance of seeing his work be made into half-decent movies rather than the shite ones out now.

as well HP Lovecraft's stories aren't too long, so if you are getting bored half way through...you've got a small attention span.

the longest ones are Mountain of madness, and some other one about dream quest, even those ones are at best thirty pages.

did I mention all those writers are born from New England.

We have a monopoly on horror.

not to mention almost all of HP's stuff is based in New England villages

Arkham is really Salem.

Not to mention he is pure metal

"Once when the wind was soft and scented I heard the south calling, and sailed endlessly and languorously under strange stars.

Once when the gentle rain fell I glided in a barge down a sunless stream under the earth till I reached another world of purple twilight, iridescent arbours, and undying roses.

And once I walked through a golden valley that led to shadowy groves and ruins, and ended in a mighty wall green with antique vines, and pierced by a little gate of bronze. "

Tell me that isn't some metal prose right there.

Y_Ddraig_Goch said:

No, this isnt true. the guy is just a huge geek, and trying to read through 30 pages of stuff with ridiculously detailed crap about architecture and cosmology and science and stopping over and over again to look up some word in the dictionary is oppressive and doesn't make for a good yarn. He used words that were antediluvian in his own era and even more obscure today - words like antediluvian. He's a fucking awful writer but the stuff he wrote was still worth reading because it is very bonkers.

The words aren't that hard. The architecture thing I do get though, you really have no idea what he is talking about when he goes on about georgian steeples and gambrels and other such things.

y_ddraig_goch said:

And "non-Euclidian geometry."

those are his last stories though, if you got the chance to read through the three books of his tales and had the dates for each of them, you would notice that stuff like that only shows up in his last five years of writing, those were his longest and certainly most difficult stories to follow.

Which is why he went bankrupt and died early of poor nutrition, they stopped printing his stuff around then.

"The Tomb," for some reason, has stuck with me like nothing else has. That story just says something to me, I don't know why.

Lovecraft is brilliant. And how dare you muthafuckas say Re-animator and From Beyond are shite films.

BlackoutRick said:


neva saw neitha. The only lovecraft film I saw was the terrible "Cthulhu" with tori spelling.

DestroyYouAlot said:

x^2 + y^2 = rat with some guy's face

Y_Ddraig_Goch said:

Dude, you never saw Re-Animator? Go rent it now!!! You will be pleased.