HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT

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HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT

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This person is good. I always liked the fantasy fiction style that he writes with. There would be no quake without him. He also gave us the necronomicon and that book itself seems to have a cult following. Do any of you all like reading his work?
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So that's what HP stands for? Also, wasn't he the guy who gave us Cthulu? If so, awesome; I like that instrumental by Metallica. Plus squid-gods are just awesome.
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It's a cthulu dog! Ha ha, Freeman's Mind is awesome...
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He gave us lots of neat things. Old deep ones, Dagon, Cthulu, Nyarlothopet (I suck at spelling so god knows if thats right.), ectra. A bevey of cheesy b-class movies have been based on his stories, and some blame him for the modern horror/suspense genre though Poe was doing it first. (And others, Poe's just the only one I can think of who's still known.)

I'm a big fan of his work, though I tend to dig the breaking of the human mind ones more then the creeps and crawls. Not to say I don't love the autre of the creeps and crawls, but a large part of what sets him aside from other authors to me is just the.. snapping of a rational mind and how he portrays it. I mean my personal favorite is Mountains of Madness for the most part, and its a good portion of both sides.

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The Dunwich Horror was good. Cthulhu seems to have its own following.
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Well hey, if people follow the church of flying spaghetti monster*, anything's possible.


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People also follow Eris based on a pamphlet that tells you to never believe anything you read. I mean its one of the 5 commandments in theory.

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I love golden delicious apples! Yum. Or was that red delicious? There's so many varieties, I forgot which.
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Golden Apples and Delicious Apples are technically separate. That being said I love my golden apple, though I'd recommend against doing some things I've seen suggested with it!
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There's definitely a golden delicious apple.
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Bah, hybrid freak. Though.. it does sound tasty looking at the descriptions.
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It's called Golden delicious. They kinda aimed for that type of reactions, you know?
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If someone gave me a food item and called it golden delicious, I'd be very suspicious.
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Cthulhu is a hybrid freak. Its like 4 or 5 things made into one. Wow. I thought this was going off topic. Anyways the guy who runs the apple orchard around here would probably never read mr lovecraft.
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There's some interesting paper models of Cthulhu floating around out there. Never read anything by Lovecraft, by the way. Just wanted to share one of my old hobbies.
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