Any H.P. Lovecraft fans here?

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My brother and I got into his short stories about a year and a half ago. This guy is one of the most unsung writers in literature; Stephen King called him “the greatest practitioner of the contemporary horror story”. He wrote stories such as “The Call of Cthulhu”, “The Dunwich Horror”, and “At the Mountains of Madness”.

His trademark literary subgenre, called “cosmicism” or “cosmic horror”, does a great job of illustrating the nihilistic consequences of atheism (I admire his consistency, unlike the cop-out of secular humanism). It’s also unique, when much of what passes as “horror” these days is just cheap gore-porn and jump scares. It’s truly disturbing and unsettling.
 
A thousand times yes. I’m a huge fan of his writing style. I really enjoy his descriptions. At the Mountains of Madness is a pretty good example, though it is a bit longer than most of his stories. I don’t remember which one I’m on right now, but I have one of those complete collected works books that I’m slowly working through.
 
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I’ve been a fan for many years though I have yet to see a movie that does his works justice. (From Beyond is a good story but the movie was complete trash)

I was about 25 when I first read The Call of Cthulhu and, living near the ocean the story kept me awake that night.

His biography is pretty sad. father died insane from VD and Mom “a woman of weak constitution” he was raised by his grandparents and had anything but a normal childhood.

Remember, “That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange eons even death may die.”
 
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A thousand times yes. I’m a huge fan of his writing style. I really enjoy his descriptions. At the Mountains of Madness is a pretty good example, though it is a bit longer than most of his stories. I don’t remember which one I’m on right now, but I have one of those complete collected works books that I’m slowly working through.
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A film adaptation Mountains of Madness was once considered by Guillermo del Toro, but he refused because some producers wanted him to shoe-horn a love story into it. I think the end result was the *Alien * prequel Prometheus (one of the aliens is apparently supposed to be a shoggoth).
 
I like some of his stuff (one of the few pieces of literature that made me scared to be in a dimly lit living room), but his bleak tone kind of overpowers the appeal for me at times.
 
That’s just when he’s not scaring you right out of your wits, right?

Did you guys know that there’s even a role playing game based on this mythos?
 
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