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- From: ehenness@willamette.edu (Ethan D. Hennessey)
- Subject: Re: H.P.LOvecraft
- Message-ID: <By4Lp2.D5A@willamette.edu>
- Organization: Willamette University, Salem OR
- References: <BxvvCy.G0@umassd.edu> <yw2LuB8w165w@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 16:27:01 GMT
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- In article <yw2LuB8w165w@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (philip marlowe) writes:
- >s13989bc@UMASSD.EDU writes:
- >
- >> 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
- >
- >
- > 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
- >
- >------------------------------------------------------------------darkpark BBS
- >pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (philip marlowe)
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- Lovecraft's books are very cold because that's the way he wanted
- them. He was of the opinion that all this science stuff is going to lead
- to the discovery of things we aren't meant to know, and that there is no
- good in the universe. He had a very dark world view.....
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