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^It's also looks the closest to classic images to demons and devils. So it's easy for people to see and put it in a Satanic or generic BBEG-like role.
Which is, of course, missing the point.
I'm split on Lovecraft.
On one hand, I think he's more effective when writing on a smaller, more personal scale without large events unfolding, focusing primarily on a small geographical area and a tiny amount of characters. The issue is that the more personal he gets, the more appropriate he thinks it is to do things like naming a cat "Nigger", or to have the "horror twist" be that the main character is distantly related to a black man.
On the other hand, the stories he tells with a somewhat wider scope are less effective, but tend to lack things like naming a cat "Nigger", or having the "horror twist" be that the main character is distantly related to a black man.
The whole state of affairs isn't quite a deal-breaker, but it makes for some uneasy reading at times. Which I guess is kind of appropriate? Gotta find those silver linings.
>My guess with regard to why Cthulhu is so popular is because he's the most powerful Lovecraft entity that can be easily drawn. Which kind of demonstrates how low he actually is on the totem pole.
Actually blame August Derleth who has a big proponent of Lovecraft's and pushed pretty much all of his stuff into publication after his death and Cthulhu was his favorite (hence his novel 'The Trail of Cthulhu') and he even coined 'The Cthulhu Mythos'. Lovecraft called it Yog-Sothothery.
^His bigger stuff I appreciate more for its ideas and imagination than actual terror.
I giggled way too much at this.
I agree, Lovecraft is pretty important to horror writing and his ideas have lots of potential. But other authors were much better at the existential horror thing.
The man himself, was a total asshole though.
I'd wager ole' Howard was too ineffectual to be a real asshole. More like annyoing little fart, in the end more pathetic than anything else.
Plus, I'd add that he was good at what TVT calls Cryptic Background Reference, even if many of those references weren't cryptic to him. It builds the athmosphere, so to say.