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Originally Posted by Spellbot 5000
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.
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Oh... Horror should be an art. Lovecraft's stories and today's horror stories are like comparing erotica and porn. Sure porn is more explicit, but erotica can be so much more engaging, sensual.
There's nothing that we fear more than the unknown. The invisible. What we can't control. Loevcraft played more with that ideia. He hightens our senses to the point that "revealing a DEAD" can be a great climax, compared to the disgusting and numbing gore.