Childhood is idolizing HP Lovecraft. Adulthood is realizing Clark

>>9892385
>facebook meme

Kill yourself

Ascendance is never reading again and instead just daydreaming about making sweet tender love to Rimbaud from here to eternity

>>9892393
STOP BEING EXCLUSIVE!

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>>9892409
No

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>>9892385
>horror

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>He still doesn't idolise Lovecraft.

Of all people you decide to perpetually meme him. Kinda sad op.

>>9892385
>Childhood is idolizing HP Lovecraft. Adulthood is

Reading the classics from around the world.
Fucking shit, let this nigger die already.

>>9892385
Both of them are fascinating and complement eachother. They share the same preoccupation with the weird, and things outside of our understanding; but while Clark is baroque and fantastical, HPL is more realist. Clark has the superior prose style and poetics, but HPL has a deft sense of plotting, the weaving timelines and elements of things like Call Of Cthulhu and Haunter In The Dark. The other interesting thing is Clark's deities are more like Greek deities, bestowing favour in one place and meddling elsewhere.

>>9892385
you should probably make us a Clark Ashton Smith flow chart to let people know what's worth checking out. Consider yourself lucky to probably be the only anon on this board with such knowledge.

>>9892520
Such a chart would be embarrassingly short.

Step 1: read the penguin collection of his work

Step 2: If you didn't like it then stop. If you did then start reading the collected fantasies. There are only 5 volumes.

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>>9892520
Not OP, but there is a Penguin volume. Lovecraft's current popularity is down August Derleth and a roleplaying board game. In another timeline it would have been Smith in his place. He iis arguably a more literary writer than HPL - certainly a better poet, and his prose poetry is nonpareil.