Resurecting an old thread to say this... Over time, I keep running into things that make me think harder about delving into some Lovecraftian mythos fiction.
PS Publishing is doing an anthology called Back Wings: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror edited by S.T. Joshi... featuring a story by Norman Partridge (!) and some other great writers... Subterranean is selling some copies.
If you don't like Lovecraft, you don't like Horror.
Just kidding. People get along fine on Kingian horror though even that uses elements of Lovecraft in certain books (IT for one). F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack series is all about the Lovecraft and he will tell you so himself.
PS Publishing is doing an anthology called Back Wings: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror edited by S.T. Joshi... featuring a story by Norman Partridge (!) and some other great writers... Subterranean is selling some copies.
I've got an advance of BLACK WINGS, and it's a strong antho. Some great stuff in there.
My piece (LESSER DEMONS) is almost an anti-Lovecraftian story. Basically, I dropped a Jim Thompson kind of protagonist into a Lovecraftian environment and let things roll from there. Was really happy with the way it turned out, and so was S. T.--I'll be interested to see what folks make of it. Writing the story was kind of an exercise in spelling out my differences with Lovecraft, which made it interesting.
And: also made this piece the title story in my forthcoming SubPress collection, so you know it's one I like!
I know of no writer more hypnotically readable than H.P. Lovecraft.
I tend to agree with Chris. It seems as if I lose all sense of time and place when I read Lovecraft, and I find myself crawling up a slimy cemetery hill in a driving thunderstorm trying to escape the unearthly chanting from an ungodly ceremony taking place in the recently revealed rank caverns below, or peering from the top window of a remote, high, abandoned tower, staring out at the newly revealed forms breaking the surface of a moonlit ocean and wondering "What could tha . . . no, it can't possibly be!"
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Lovecaft to me is like a psychedelic drug...the pros have a rhythm and a cadence to them that plays upon the mind in dark ways that no other fiction I've read does.
The scariest thing about Lovecrafts writing is that it's so damned bleak...even the word bleak doesn't do it justice. There is nothing more frightening that anticipating the doom that is unavoidable. Nobody does impending doom like Lovecraft.
For those that are struggling with reading Lovecraft I highly recommend THE DARK WORLDS OF H. P. Lovecraft audio books. The are read by Wade June who has the perfect voice for reading Lovecraftian stories. Go into a dark room, slip on the headphones and be transported to the scariest, darkest corners of the earth and beyond.
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