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Yeah, I agree- that anti-semitic racist can write some cool stories!

Definitely. I also really like Frank Belknap Long, Robert E Howard, and the aforementioned Clark Ashton Smith.

Re-animator was actually the first Lovecraft story I read.  I don't remember anything extraordinarily racist in there.  Am I missing something?

adndgamer wrote:

Re-animator was actually the first Lovecraft story I read.  I don't remember anything extraordinarily racist in there.  Am I missing something?

The attitude toward the black man used in one of the early experiments was overtly bigoted.  As the story was told in the first person perspective, it's possible it was intended to portray the callous nature of the protagonist, but that's not the gist I got.

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Argh. {shakes fist}

I keep expecting this thread to be about an HP-branded pimpmobile, hovercraft edition.

StaticAge wrote:

Tallgeese wrote:

StaticAge wrote:

Yeah, I agree- that anti-semitic racist can write some cool stories!

why did you bring up his racism?

I dont know. Sometimes there's bits of it present in the stories, but mostly its because I just have a hard time praising people who had such ugly ideas. I seriously like reading him though. But I love reading Heidegger too, and I cant stop myself whenever someone says "Heidegger is cool" pointing out, "yeah, a really cool Nazi."

Well, I'm glad that I can enjoy Lovecraft or Heidegger or Ezra Pound or Richard Strauss...

I've read one of Lovecraft's stories, something about a port and Insmuth, and while I love the way he creates atmosphere in his books, I felt kind of let down by the climax.  I guess it's possible I've just been desensitized by modern horror that tends to go overboard to create fear, but it seems like things could have been more... terrible. Perhaps my imagination is also lacking though.

In the above story, for example, I was seriously engaged when the protagonist was trapped in the hotel for the night, and ended up smashing down several doors and escaping through the window.  I could really feel his fear and imagine myself in such a horrible situation.  But when it came to the point where he was hiding out on the railroad tracks and he finally saw the creatures, I was underwhelmed.  Wow, they're some kind of fish people?  Uh, that's terrifying...  So I guess that part kind of lost me, in that I wasn't able to imagine it in the context of reality.  Because undoubtedly seeing a whole bunch of fish people would be pretty damn crazy in real life, but I didn't get that sense from this particular story.

Agh! Zombie thread! *runs off*