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- From: mikecap@guardian.WPI.EDU (Michael Vince Caprio Jr)
- Newsgroups: alt.horror
- Subject: H.P. Lovecraft
- Date: 22 Nov 1992 03:24:13 GMT
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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- Shakespeare was the Stephen King of his time - incredible.
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- H.P. Lovecraft was one of our greatest practitioners of the gothic horror
- tradition in the early part of this century. A great majority of his work
- took place in New England settings, with a touch of fear and a pinch of the
- dark in every ivy covered nook and cranny.
- Not only did he produce some of our finest horror fiction, he also contributed
- greatly to the genre of science fiction, using what were at the time the latest
- scientific concepts in his works, like the idea of hypergeometry and quantum
- physics being used to cast magical spells and summon knowledge "man was not
- meant to know". He was not "trapped in the past" trying to duplicate a gothic
- horror style - he created his own mythos and brought out the flavor of what it
- was like to live in an area like New England. I am from Connecticut, and am
- currently going to school in Worcester, MA. I can appreciate how he portrayed
- this part of the country, and believe me, I can feel all the dread that he
- represented in his works every time I pass by an old ivy-covered building, or
- go into a rare books library on university to study an old dusty tome...
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- How much Lovecraft have you read? I'd like to know exactly how you base your
- comments and from what stories you draw your conclusions. There's a lot of his
- stuff out there that no one even knows about - most people think all he wrote
- about was The Great Old Ones and the Necronomicon.
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- I feel that he is one of the more underrated writers of this era, and that he
- most definitely ranks right up there with Poe...
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- And don't tell me you don't like Poe, either...
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- Mike
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- mikecap@wpi.wpi.edu
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- --
- "Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - Never
- imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that
- what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been
- would have appeared to them to be otherwise." -- Lewis Carrol
-