Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown Page #3

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in which a monstrous race of entities, called by me 'Night-Gaunts'

usedtosnatch me up by the stomach, they carried me up through infinite leagues of black air

over the towers of dead and horrible cities

with vast aggregations of night-black masonry

embodying monstrousperversions of geometrical laws

feeding his taste for the macabre

was the recent discovery of tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Lovecraft is the most significant descendant of Poe

and you can see that heritage most clearly in those early stories that

evoke affects such as those in "The Tell-Tale Heart", say

"The Tell-Tale Heart" could have been written by Lovecraft

he may have wanted to be a little like Edgar Allan Poe

but he went into a whole different direction with his imagination

you know Poe talked about how short stories should be

everything should be there to create one particular affect

whereas Lovecraft I think goes for much moresort of a bigger canvas somehow than Poe did

in his teenage years, Lovecraft would attempt quiet a few of stories in the Poe style

most however, were destroyed by Lovecraft

I think too many writers are too hard on themselves had to be said that,

you know Lovecraft epitomized this trend

and I actually thinks that there's one positive thing to be bought from that, he was a great writer

I think you know, any writer who feels down about their own work

should read Lovecraft's comments about his own work

he almost never has a good thing to say about his own work

this may be a kind of version of what he perceived as "good manners"

because there's no doubt that he would have thought

it's very ill-mannered to praise his own work

I think that Lovecraft was full of insecurities at that time, he really didn't know what to pursue in terms of a career

maybe he didn't feel that he needed a career

at least in terms of the money because he felt that the money would always be there

but shortly there after he discovered that the money wasn't gonna be there

in 1904, Whipple Phillips was already suffering from poor investments

in a failed dam project

the stress of it all no doubt tribute to his death on March 28th, 1908

the house on Angell Street was sold

the library that schooled Lovecraft for 12 years went with it

he loved that place, it was there he knew the only security he ever had

even though with only 3 blocks away, the new home Susie had picked for her son was an unknown country

though high-school would offer some enjoyment

Lovecraft was vexed by the subjects that escaped him

Lovecraft said he had a full scale nervous break-down

we don't really know what that means

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