HP Lovecraft - Classic Or Dud?

http://muzski.darkfolio.com/gallery/470268

Thanks, those are great!

ho ho, blocked as potential nudity by my work overlords.

No nudity, only shadows out of time.

Also, The Monsters of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, As Drawn By Children: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/11/16/children-draw-h-p-lovecraft-cthulhu/

if ilx had avatars

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http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/07/h-p-lovecrafts-commonplace-book/

i found some of those obscurely moving e.g. Man with unnatural face—oddity of speaking—found to be a mask—Revelation.

148 Vampire dog.

haha

H.P. Lovecraft's advice column

Dear Howie,

My girlfriend has metamorphosed into a kind of polyhedron with many pairs of feelers, membraneous wings, and fanged orifices on stalks. Should I talk to her about this, or keep hoping it’s just a phase? Snapshot enclosed.

Amateur Photographer

Dear Amateur Photographer: –

I do not know long it was before I dared to inspect your snapshot. Once I did, I immediately fell wholly to the floor. How much time passed after that, do not ask me to guess, but a momentary fragment of memory shows me racing dementedly past a long stone colonnade towards a curious hummock. After that, mercifully, all is blackness. My aunts discovered me beside a nearby megalith, with my faculties paralyzed, a mark on my forehead bespeaking all too vividly the ravages of some snail-like marsupial. It was months before I regained the ability to talk any language but proto-Algonquian. Now my senses have somewhat cleared, I recommend you break things off with your fiancée as tactfully as possible, not letting her suspect you have noticed any change or blemish. Hers is such an image as — but I cannot go on. I have barricaded myself indoors, and hope never to look at another photograph, or touch any variety of leafy vegetable. Even Dalgaard’s worst prophesies fell short of the unspeakable reality! A rank odor now pervades everything, the hills resonate with sustained prehuman howling, and I keep losing my place in the Unrecommended Codex of Naarg,

Yrs Strkly. Trrfd., – HPL.

202 A monstrous derelict—found and boarded by a castaway or shipwreck survivor.

it wasn't a predator ship!

Can we just have an Oblique Strategies-like thread with one of those commonplace book entries a day, please.

where should i start if i've never read any lovecraft?

Start with the three-volume Penguin set (or the equivalent Arkham House editions if you can find them at a library). Go forThe Call of Cthulhu (Penguin) or The Dunwixh Horror (Arkham House) first.

Or if you mean an individual story, try The Call of Cthulhu, The Colour Out of Space or The Whisperer in Darkness.

individual stories won't really do it tho. you kinda have to immerse.

telephone thing otm

lmao the whisperer in darkness is fucking hilarious

he does a lot of different styles and i agree w/ rogermexico about immerse

which is probably why the best anthologies front load w/ a ton of short pieces

the shorter pieces tend toward more fantastic and the longer ones tend toward straightlaced w/ a twist at the end

i think starting with the more overtly weird stories helps you suspend disbelief when you read the long investigative ones (mountains of madness, call of cthulhu, dunwich horror, shadow out of innsmouth, etc)

Barnes & Noble has the complete stories of H.P. Lovecraft for like 13 bucks in their store. If you have a Kindle, it's public domain, so you can find all of it in the e-reader format for free.

Here you go: http://cthulhuchick.com/free-complete-lovecraft-ebook-nook-kindle/

Via Gotham City Comics:

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brilliant

post on FB so i can share it

that's terrific

xpost -- Already did! Check earlier in my timeline today.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8144

Fuck, he was right!

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/rawfile/2013/03/Seal-660x933.jpg

:D

VINDICATED

classic. fucking obsessed with this stuff right now.

Like Poe in that, assuming you're a certain kind of child, you go from taking the stories (and sensibility) overly seriously during early adolescence, perhaps dismissing it when you reach young adulthood, and then coming back to it and finding it's still possible to really enjoy and even take seriously these strange American authors.

An impossibly ancient city of lizard-things hidden under the desert, imagined in obsessive detail = immune to satire.

Also, everyday life in Arizona AMIRITE

My new roommate is a fellow appreciator so if you ever hear about us being killed by squamous things you know what to blame.

good interview with pre-eminent Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi
http://heathenharvest.org/2014/01/12/gods-of-the-godless-a-discussion-on-h-p-lovecraft-with-s-t-joshi/

thanks for linking that!

he looks like a badass

What if HP Lovecraft was Cornish?

http://cthrnwall.blogspot.co.uk/

thinking about reading some of the lovecraft i never read - what editions do you guys have? as a kid i had this one and it did the job: http://www.amazon.co.uk/H-P-Lovecraft-Omnibus-Mountains/dp/0586063226/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1445677683&sr=1-5&keywords=hp+lovecraft

there are tonnes on amazon. does it even matter?

I have the Barnes and Noble edition of his complete fiction. It's a chronological compilation of the Joshi editions, it's a hardcover, it's cheap, and it's everything in one volume.

as a kid I had the Ballantine paperbacks with John Holmes covers, those paintings still creep me out

arkham house editions for meeee

Those Ballantine covers really used to creep me out as well.

Wow, I've never seen those, pretty gruesome

Ballantine Adult Fantasy series editions for me (HP's and Clark Ashton Smith's stuff)

I always got the four Arkham House editions from the library when I was a kid- The Dunwich Horror and Others, At the Mountains of Madness, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, and The Horror In the Museum and Other Revisions. The current Penguin Classics (3 volumes) are pretty great, still under Joshi's stewardship, and AFAIK just as complete (albeit without the revisions and collaborations).

http://www.hippocampuspress.com/h.p-lovecraft/fiction/variorum-lovecraft

This is the definitive edition, there will be cheaper paperback versions eventually.

Friends used to live near a sex shop called Lovecraft. Not very appealing. Now it's a deli, which is also unappealing because just how clean or those surfaces really?

I dig the annotated versions from ST Joshi

Has anybody read Victor Lavelle's "Ballad of Black Tom"? I really dug it. Much like Mat Johnson's _Pym_, you have modern black American writers taking some of HPL's really racist-ass shit and repurposing/reclaiming it to both comment on how fucked it was but also function as cosmic horror itself.

Here's Victor on Fresh Air a coupla months back:

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/29/468558238/the-ballad-of-black-tom-offers-a-tribute-and-critique-of-lovecraft

Yeah, I read it. It was good but too short. Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country is superficially related, and also well worth reading - one of the best books I've read so far this year, in fact.