Today I'm going to talk about H.P. Lovecraft, an author who is one of the great well-springs of the horror genre. And if you want tl/dr on the horror -- there's Poe then Lovecraft and then everybody else. I'm going to dive deep into two stories, Call of Cthulhu
Lovecraft didn't scare me when I was too young to appreciate his stories. And he still doesn't scare me, but now I think that his stories work not by scaring the reader, but by portraying how scared the main character is, and get the reader to emphasize.
Lovecraft didn't scare me when I was too young to appreciate his stories. And he still doesn't scare me, but now I think that his stories work not by scaring the reader, but by portraying how scared the main character is, and get the reader to emphasize.