Lovecraft thread Why is this guy so based?

JOSHI: A MYSTICAL POETIC GENIUS

HOUELLEBECQ: HIS PRIMORDIAL FEAR OF NI-- "THE OTHER" MADE HIM GOOD AT DEPICTING IT

GRANT AND OCCULTISTS: HE WAS CHANNELING REAL SHIT AND WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE

POP CULTURE: LOL CTHULHU FTW XD

ME: WHOA, SPOOKY

Because his name

>A twin fisted existentialist, whose post-Nietzschian sensibilities reject the lantern of the cynic in a quest for a sun that leaves no shadow.
-Harold Bloom on Lovecraft

>talk to girl who said she just bought a book of Lovecraft stories
>at some point later, read on 4chan that girls "like" Lovecraft but don't actually read him
>inwardly laugh because I have met a girl who was going to start reading them
>talk to her again and she says she never read them

Sorry for inwardly laughing at you, Anon, you were right all along.

>>8298641
He had a lot of solid influences (Poe, Machen, Blackwood, Le Fanu), kept obsessively refining technique, and was terrified of swarthy foreigners/inbreeding and inherited madness/squid

I still consider him one of my favorites but haven't read one of his tales since HS. Gotta bust out my old collection soon.

>>8298955
Alot of his work is available here http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/fiction/

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>>8298641
Because he was well-read, kept good company (mostly epistolary), and had a fevered paranoid imagination. I got to go to NecronomiCon last year in Providence, give a paper, see his grave, the observatory he hung out at, go to the costume ball and prayer breakfast, buy rare books, etc. It was a great time.

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>Go to /lit/
>HPL and Ligotti next to each other on the catalog
The stars are right

>>8298686
Decent post.
>>8298707
My sister loves Lovecraft and even bought me a nice edition of one of his collections because she wanted me to read it so much. She does have mild autism, though.

>>8299350
>mild autism
Asperger's or? I've found aspie girls to make the best lit companions

Lovecraft is racist though, every1 should hate him.

>>8299355
I keked
pretty much domes up his work