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Originally Posted by knivesout Are there any other HPL fans out here? What do you like most about his works and what are your favourite stories?
Cthulhu phtagn!!! |
Is George W. Bush the hellspawn of an unholy union betwen a rabid chimpanzee and Shub-Niggurath?
One of my fondest memories was getting my grubby little mitts on a copy of
The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Supernatural Tales during my Christmas break in my freshman year of high school and devouring it whole. It was as if the scales had fallen from mine eyes.
That was 22 years ago, but there hasn't been a day since that I haven't felt the inspirational heat of that moment.
Okay, Grandpa Theobald (HPL's pen name) suffered from an awful case of
Adjectivitis pejorative and he deliberately eschewed character development in favour of a literary objectivism
, but somehow that stately 18th century prose style, combined with 20th century nihlism and an operatic grandeur swept aside whatever shortcomings his tales had and infused them with a potency that has never been equaled since.
Well, the first tale of HPL's that I read was
The Shadow Over Innsmouth. A very good choice that (forgive the pun) inserted the hook firmly into my cheek. Reeled in and gasping for air, I sought out his other works. Later I obtained some battered copies of the old Arkham House three volume set of his complete works from the suburban library system. Of his 65 stories, his finest ones, in my opinion, are
At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Out of Time and
The Colour Out of Space.
How about your choices?
Yours in Cthulhu,
Curt