• gigastasio@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    19·
    6 days ago

    Proceeds to describe said horror down to the last molecular detail, to include minor theses on its surroundings, movement, culture, attitude, and what it had for breakfast

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    I mean… He very much describes the monster in pretty much all the stories I’ve read. But like most horror, there is a lot of tension built up before this happens.

    It would have been funnier to point out that he takes 37 chapters building the tension around the idea that the monster is indescribable; then goes on to describe it in great detail.

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    83·
    6 days ago

    After reading all of HP Lovecraft out of curiosity, i learned he was a really bad writer.

    He was just one of the first people to create this kind of horror.

    I only ended up enjoying like 3 or 4 of his stories.

    • Aeao@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      I’m always saying this. His stories are fantastic! His writing not so much. Reading lovecraft is a task. A test of patience.

      He is my favorite author but it’s like in Charles Dexter ward he says something like “like a year adding time defying mirror” just say the painting looked like the dude. Wtf lovecraft

    • ekZepp@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      Have you read some of his long romance like “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath”? Or “The silver key”. His stories wasn’t only about tentacles, and even when they where, “At mountainof madness”, "the shadow over innsmouth " and "The Call of Cthulhu"are gems of the genre.

      • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        Yeah I love the Dream Quest, i love the different bizzare cultures (not racist this time) and enviroments, it felt like he had a lot of practice as a writer by that one. The cat society was my fav part

        That’s maybe my favorite one, either that or The Beast in the Cave, that one’s aot shorter tho XD

    • MattW03@lemmy.caEnglish
      61·
      6 days ago

      He was just one of the first people to create this kind of horror.

      The same way Conan Doyle was just one of the first people creating detective stories. And yet today everyone knows of Sherlock Holmes.

  • tio_bira@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    I really like the way he describe creatures, when i was reading An The Mountains of Madness, as long he was describing th Elder Ones anatomy i was drawing a mental picture in my mind.

    I simply was “hold on, this can’t be right” and search for a picture online, it just perfectly matches with i throught and i was “HOLY SHIT, it really is like that”