HP LOVECRAFT's BIRTHDAY.

RCMerchant · August 20, 2019, 11:43:48 AM

Today is HP Lovecraft's birthday. Whether your a fan or no- he has had a great impact on pop culture.
Oddly, he's from the same area of Maine that Stephan King is!
King knows this- and based his works on Lovecraft's claustrophobic horror in centering most of his work in a small town in Maine.
Lovecraft also lived in NYC much of his life- me homie!

RCMerchant · August 20, 2019, 12:37:05 PM

This was the first Lovecraft book I ever owned. Back in 1973- I was 11.

I still have a copy to this day.

ER · August 20, 2019, 09:21:08 PM

A short story Stephen King only wants released after his death is one he wrote back in the day called "Lovecraft's Pillow" and it is about a writer who happens upon H.P. Lovecraft's pillow for sale in a curio shop in Providence. The writer knows Lovecraft cherished dreams as inspiration, and it fascinates him to ponder that so many of Lovecraft's tales had their genesis on the pillow, so he buys it, and takes it home, intending to put it up on a shelf, but that night he can't resist getting the pillow down and sleeping on it....

King won't tell how the rest of the story goes, but I bet it'll be worth the wait.

Happy 129th, HPL!

Svengoolie 3 · August 21, 2019, 02:36:06 AM

There used to be an award for fantasy and horror writers called the Howie. See image.

It was discontinued because HPL occasionaly used a word only blacks can use today.

Svengoolie 3 · August 21, 2019, 02:36:52 AM

Starting a HPL story thread in entertainment, come and join.

Allhallowsday · August 21, 2019, 04:32:59 PM

An important contributor to what came to be called "fantasy". The original "mythos" was the Cthulu Mythos. LOVECRAFT influenced not only TOLKIEN but many American writers like ISAAC ASIMOV or RAY BRADBURY or JOHN CAMPBELL or ...

Svengoolie 3 · August 21, 2019, 09:15:01 PM

Interesting note here: many believe HPLs visions may have been inspired by HGWs war of the worlds.

Look at wells' martians: octopoidal, tentacles, emotionless, incredibkya advanced, come from the stars, plan to take earth as their one and see humanity as an insignifcant life form to be consumed and destroyed.

Hmm, remind you of anyone?

indianasmith · August 21, 2019, 10:28:20 PM

A lot of my short stories were set in Lovecraft's mythos . . .