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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Lovecraft also encouraged other writers to write tales set in his universe, and carried on a lively correspondence with many of them.
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Lovecraft's work is great just to see how horror writing got it's start. There's only a handful of his stories I enjoy purely for the story and characters. The rest though serve as these little tiny time-machines, to take you back to a different style of writing and plot. It's great to see all the differences in tone and style, and the choice in words to convey the story. I love too how innocent his horrors are in todays context, and to think what people of his era may have thought if they could read the horror stories of today. People used to a climax where Lovecraft reveals "but in fact the man was DEAD!", would whither reading something like King where he takes an entire chapter to describe how someones bones crack and splinter as they are forcibly pulled through a 3 inch slot.