H.P. Lovecraft

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I'm currently reading a compilation book called The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories. This is the second Lovecraft compilation book I've read. The current story I'm reading is At the Mountains of Madness.

I think I have a pretty good imagination but this stuff is just way beyond that. The amount of detail is just amazing, it's like he actually saw these things. It makes me wonder how authors come up with stuff like this.

Loevcraft is such a great author, along with many other authors of his time.
 
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StartingLine

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Oh yeah I found him on http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/ where they have a list of all his stories. I own 4 or 5 of his short story books. It is hard to say what one is my favorite. Many of them have a very interesting and not necessarily horror type books but definately very very creepy weird feel to them. I think the one where the guy in the mansion brings things back to life is good...ahhh there are so many good ones its hard to pick out a favorite. There is one about an excavation to antartica that I particularily enjoy, definately a founder of modern horror.

lmao I didnt even read your whole post then I went back and read it and noticed you are reading the story I mentioned as probably my favorite!
 
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Originally posted by: StartingLine
Oh yeah I found him on www.dagonbytes.com where they have a list of all his stories. I own 4 or 5 of his short story books. It is hard to say what one is my favorite. Many of them have a very interesting and not necessarily horror type books but definately very very creepy weird feel to them. I think the one where the guy in the mansion brings things back to life is good...ahhh there are so many good ones its hard to pick out a favorite. There is one about an excavation to antartica that I particularily enjoy, definately a founder of modern horror.
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The one with the bringing things back to life in a mansion is probably "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" (just read that one) and "At The Mountains of Madness" is the Antarctic excavation story.

 
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Yes that sounds like the right one with the caverns below the house and having mummies shipped to him from africa? There are a few of his stories which I like less like the dreaming ones where the guy enters dreamland but most of them are pretty solid. The only problem is the writing is from the early 1900s and some scientific things that he refers to that we know are false can be kind of hard to miss like space 'ether' and such. They are still very entertaining and I like how they intertwine with each other.
 
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Originally posted by: StartingLine
Yes that sounds like the right one with the caverns below the house and having mummies shipped to him from africa? There are a few of his stories which I like less like the dreaming ones where the guy enters dreamland but most of them are pretty solid. The only problem is the writing is from the early 1900s and some scientific things that he refers to that we know are false can be kind of hard to miss like space 'ether' and such. They are still very entertaining and I like how they intertwine with each other.
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Yep, thats the one.

I kind of tend to like the ones that aren't quite so centered on Cthulhu and the Elder Ones.
I think they still hold up pretty well anyway.
 
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djheater

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Originally posted by: StartingLine
Yes that sounds like the right one with the caverns below the house and having mummies shipped to him from africa? There are a few of his stories which I like less like the dreaming ones where the guy enters dreamland but most of them are pretty solid. The only problem is the writing is from the early 1900s and some scientific things that he refers to that we know are false can be kind of hard to miss like space 'ether' and such. They are still very entertaining and I like how they intertwine with each other.
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Dark matter?
 
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Originally posted by: djheater
Originally posted by: StartingLine
Yes that sounds like the right one with the caverns below the house and having mummies shipped to him from africa? There are a few of his stories which I like less like the dreaming ones where the guy enters dreamland but most of them are pretty solid. The only problem is the writing is from the early 1900s and some scientific things that he refers to that we know are false can be kind of hard to miss like space 'ether' and such. They are still very entertaining and I like how they intertwine with each other.
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Dark matter?
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nah he refers to the emptiness of space as a sort of spacial ether that some beings can travel through since no one knew wut wuz in space in 1914 thar
 
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Luminiferous aether or just "ether" was the pre-Einstein "medium" through which light was believed to travel through space. It was believed in those days that energy required a medium and could not travel through a vacuum.
You can't really fault Lovecraft IMO for just going along with the prevailing scientific theories of his time.
 
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Originally posted by: Vic
Luminiferous aether or just "ether" was the pre-Einstein "medium" through which light was believed to travel through space. It was believed in those days that energy required a medium and could not travel through a vacuum.
You can't really fault Lovecraft IMO for just going along with the prevailing scientific theories of his time.
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Yes, that is what I was saying but I also noted it is hard to read some parts because you know they are not true but u live u live
 
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I own two collections of his stories. I really like Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. HPL is on of my all time favorite authors.
 
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Originally posted by: cthulhu
I own two collections of his stories. I really like Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. HPL is on of my all time favorite authors.
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Whodathunk? ;)
 
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