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There are good reasons for rules, but you also need to understand when to break those rules. By telling, Lovecraft invites you to experience the character's horror. Showing would let you see the creature, but you might not find it so horribly. Or showing would let you see that the character was experiencing horror, but his telling lets you share the character's horror. Lovecraft can make strange colors and shapes part of the horror, and by showing, we wouldn't have the same experience as the character does.
A writer's group may look down on writing in certain ways, but perhaps readers might feel different.
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