A Little Lovecraftian Humor For Halloween!

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31 Oct 2024, 4:15 am

Glad to see Lovecraft's fiction is alive and well, and can inspire humor as well as horror:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/h ... 04283.html

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31 Oct 2024, 5:23 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

Glad to see Lovecraft's fiction is alive and well, and can inspire humor as well as horror:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/h ... 04283.html

Good for a chuckle. :mrgreen:

Big Lovecraft fan.

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31 Oct 2024, 2:50 pm

^^^
Indeed, as am I!

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31 Oct 2024, 6:04 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:

^^^
Indeed, as am I!

Friend!

I have been gathering books by the Lovecraftian authors that derive their cosmology from Lovecraft. It is really great what can be found on ebay these days, the cheap used books that sell for very little.

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31 Oct 2024, 6:39 pm

Gentleman Argentum wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

^^^
Indeed, as am I!

I was raised to be a Lovecraft fan, as my dad had read everything by H.P., and had gotten me hooked early on. I've found you can find Lovecraftian cosmology in even Stephen King's works. For example, Pennywise in It was revealed to actually have been an Old One behind his clown avatar. I'm a horror writer myself, and I freely admit to lifting elder deities from Lovecraft's work for some of my own fiction.

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01 Nov 2024, 3:00 am

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Gentleman Argentum wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

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Indeed, as am I!

My brother introduced me to Lovecraft when we were teenagers. I did not think much of Lovecraft at the time and preferred Stephen King, but now the opposite is true. I have the complete and collected works, a couple of biographies, and most all of his other writings, but not his letters. I watched a documentary about his life as well, it is on Youtube I believe and is pretty good. Then I reached the end, but the end was not the end, and I started collecting the derivative authors as well. I just like reading about magic, because it is fun to speculate about different possibilities.

I tried my hand at fiction, but don't think that I am any good, so I quit. I posted many stories online, but did not get much interest or feedback. It was the same long ago, in the 1990s, when I was a young person in college, and sent stories off to publishers, and either got rejection slips, or else no response (much more common).

Nowadays, with A.I., things look rather daunting for writers and artists. I wish that A.I. did not exist, and that we could roll back at least some of the technology that we have.

I do like writing, but think nonfiction is better suited for me. I will probably do something along those lines when I retire. I think the most enjoyable type of writing is autobiography, because you can take long, leisurely strolls down memory lane.