| The Horrific Conundrum
Is it overly derivitive to write stories about wierd things from beneath the earth coming back to reclaim the great wonders that were once theirs, just because H P Lovecraft did it so well and his work is so famous? Just how far can a writer, in your opinion, go before it becomes idea-theft and you don't want to read it. In fantasy stale repetition of ideas seems to be the done thing, and authors make a mint out of it, but are there some sub-genres that the readers hold sacred, and do you have to set a story in the world of Cthulhu to write a Cthulhu-esque story? |