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lovecraft is nice just for the vibe he creates.. great at that but other stuff eh.. worth reading just to see how many other writers have tried a hand at his style, some better most much worse..

still i'd rather read anything by Sergei Lukyanenko, his watch series is seriously one of the best trilogies i've read in a long time..

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07/21/08 + khoral

That's fun because I was just reading them all again myself
And watching all those amateur or semi-pro adaptations that are listed in the imdb
Mostly crap, but some gems too, like that link link or link if you can catch them

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07/21/08 + seanh

my favorite stories: "celephais" and "the outsider"

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07/21/08 + khoral

My favorite ones, first Charles Dexter Ward, which is the very first one I read back in 1990 or something, and the major mythos ones, Mountains of madness, Dunwich horror, Whisperer in darkness...

In the short ones, I think Nyarlothotep is an incredible masterpiece, and I love Strange high house in the mist and Thing in the moonlight (which I don't see listed on that site)

He's one of the maybe three writers that influenced me most, including WS Burroughs and Cioran

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07/21/08 + seanh

anyone else like ambrose beirce? i am quite fond of his work too. as i am fond of algernon blackwood. both of which have had a far greater psychologcal impact on me than lovecraft, yet there is something in lovecraft that draws me in. i like his "unnameable, indescribable" aproch, explicit descriptions can be cumbersome or at worst, laughable. leave it to the imagination, which falls short in this day and age, so many people lack imagination.

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07/22/08 + khoral

I think I read some short stories by Bierce back in college, they were great (I vaguely remember something about the civil war, it's fuzzy)
now it didn't catch my attention like Lovecraft... different strokes, eh?

I totally agree about the unnameable comment
Actually that's where Lovecract's movie adaptations fail miserably
For instance, Stuart Gordon's Dagon
The atmosphere is suitably lovecraftian but what the heck with all the gore and sex

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07/23/08 + j_chot

link

this is barely relevant, but when you get to the part of the song "i don't understand you" it involves lovecraft and cthulu

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