Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown Page #3
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- 2008
- 90 min
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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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