Thoughts on HP Lovecraft

[khar_ghatten]

I've recently started reading a collection of 20 of Lovecraft's short stories.  I've curently made it through two and a half.  Here are some thoughts in no particular order.

• Lovecraft is blatantly and unapologetically racist.  I actually had to stop and see when they were all published.  Ah yup.  20s.  That'd be why.
• Lovecraft's work is almost a

Comments

[lrdfaelan]

The Lovecraft genre is REALLY creepy for me. A lot takes place in rural New England. I've been there (heck LIVED there) and at night it can get REALLY REALLY creepy.

[eyja]

Katarinka was telling about the ghost she grew up with. >.>

[eyja]

Purple prose? I'm not familiar with that term.

[khar_ghatten]

It's usually used in romance. It refers to an overabundance of flowery adjectives (and euphemisms, in romance) rather than straightforward prose.