Comments on: Crossing Lovecraft http://allumination.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/crossing-lovecraft/ weird fiction, poetry and music Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:59:31 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Derleth Defender « Papers Falling from an Attic Window http://allumination.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/crossing-lovecraft/#comment-125 Derleth Defender « Papers Falling from an Attic Window Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:26:48 +0000 http://allumination.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/crossing-lovecraft/#comment-125 [...] 28th, 2007 at 10:26 pm (Cthulhu, Lovecraft) Via the Grim Blogger comes this short post on Derleth’s posthumous additions to Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, focusing on the [...] [...] 28th, 2007 at 10:26 pm (Cthulhu, Lovecraft) Via the Grim Blogger comes this short post on Derleth’s posthumous additions to Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, focusing on the [...]

]]> By: Al http://allumination.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/crossing-lovecraft/#comment-123 Al Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:08:54 +0000 http://allumination.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/crossing-lovecraft/#comment-123 Well, true enough - and on the plus side at least he avoided *improving* Lovecraft (as they did to Shakespeare etc) to bring him into line with his own belief system. Tho' some strange version of the Pilgrims Progress with tentacles would have been wonderful! Oddly enough, talking about Lovecraftian style today - yup, you do have to wade - personally, I love him for the vision, the kind of anti-transcendent SF he wrote! Good ultimate pessimism corrective to all the find-yourself-in-space stuff... Well, true enough – and on the plus side at least he avoided *improving* Lovecraft (as they did to Shakespeare etc) to bring him into line with his own belief system. Tho’ some strange version of the Pilgrims Progress with tentacles would have been wonderful!

Oddly enough, talking about Lovecraftian style today – yup, you do have to wade – personally, I love him for the vision, the kind of anti-transcendent SF he wrote! Good ultimate pessimism corrective to all the find-yourself-in-space stuff…

]]> By: Cliff Burns http://allumination.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/crossing-lovecraft/#comment-122 Cliff Burns Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:17:23 +0000 http://allumination.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/crossing-lovecraft/#comment-122 Derleth has been accused of tampering with Lovecraft for ages...and that's to his discredit. Still, when Lovecraft died and perhaps would have slipped into oblivion, it was Derleth's Arkham House imprint that drew subsequent generations of readers to HPL's oeuvre. I, myself, am not a fan of either writer, I think they're dreadful stylists. I've written a couple of homages to HPL but it's mainly the theology he proposed (although I've heard he lifted some of it from Arthur Machen) that interested me, the notion of Elder Gods exiled/cast out and plotting their savage return. Interesting post. Thanks. Derleth has been accused of tampering with Lovecraft for ages…and that’s to his discredit. Still, when Lovecraft died and perhaps would have slipped into oblivion, it was Derleth’s Arkham House imprint that drew subsequent generations of readers to HPL’s oeuvre. I, myself, am not a fan of either writer, I think they’re dreadful stylists. I’ve written a couple of homages to HPL but it’s mainly the theology he proposed (although I’ve heard he lifted some of it from Arthur Machen) that interested me, the notion of Elder Gods exiled/cast out and plotting their savage return. Interesting post. Thanks.

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