deliriumcrow:

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oldroots:

i love lovecraftian horror, but not lovecraft the author. aside from being a massive racist, literally everyone who handles his mythos in games and stories have done so far better than he ever could, and his mediocre writings and stories were given far more credit simply from from piggy backing on his ideas, when really the only thing he shouldve been praised for was laying down the bare-bones minimum concept for everyone else to work with who did it 100x better. its a pretty funny phenomenon. anyway im glad hes dead

Feeling pretty validated by this post. 

So glad someone else said it. His writing is … not great. Mostly it makes me laugh, which is just not a good sign in what is considered horror. But it’s been a fantastic framework for other authors to work with.

(If you want good creepy literature from the early 20th century, look for Algernon Blackwood.)