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- From: pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (philip marlowe)
- Newsgroups: alt.horror
- Subject: Re: H.P.LOvecraft
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 17:34:57 EST
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- s13989bc@UMASSD.EDU writes:
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- > I feel that Lovecraft is a master of horror writing, The scary
- > thing about his writing is enhanced by his style. The fact that the monsters
- > are often beyond human comprehension makes them much worse than some
- > kid with a hormone problem and a hockey mask. Not meaning to be rude,
- > but I feel that HPL is probable one of the greatest horror writers of
- > the twetieth century
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- Your points are valid, but (his awful prose style aside), HPL's biggest
- problem was the almost complete lack of well-rendered main characters.
- Nothing human contrasts the inhuman, and his books are very cold because
- of it.
-
- marlowe
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