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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by SwellJoe on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @09:40PM (#16228339)
Lovecraft is sort of the B movies of literature: Fun as hell, inventive, wild, unexpected, crazy at times. But, not great literature.
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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by _abattoir on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @10:22PM (#16228507)
Exactly, that's why Houellebecq was inspired to write a biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft%3A_Against_the...
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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by Cthulhu_ on Thursday January 25, 2018 @04:45AM (#16229823)
Maybe not, but it was inspiring; people like Guillermo del Toro wouldn't have had their style or whatnot if it wasn't for Lovecraft. (speaking of, he still wants to do a Mountains of Madness movie)
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