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HP Lovecraft's 135th birthday (August 20th) is exactly one week away. How will you be celeberating?

eh I'm more of a W Chambers fan

Going outside, having a picnic with my friends, and making sweet sweet love to the first ethnically ambiguous woman I see

I should start reading volume 3 of his Collected fiction.

>>24636389
Which collection anon?

>>24636464
Complete works, by ST Joshi. Read first 2 a few years ago

>>24636305 (OP)
Honing in on my racism

By stretching his face even further.

>>24636305 (OP)
Hegel's birthday is on August 27th

by reading something comfy at home and staying away from all the spics and niggers who live nearby

>>24636310
>>24636838
>>24637087
BASEDBASEDBASED.

amorcrafto will plap bunda up down copacabana in celebracion of his prior incarnation's birthday, and perhaps perform small meth magic incantations at secret underchurch beneath christ the redeemer foundation block. in all it will be good day in Brazil.

>>24636305 (OP)
as a New york City Anon I will be visiting all of his important places like 169 clinton street

I conceived the idea that the great brownstone house was a malignly sentient thing — a dead, vampire creature which sucked something out of those within it and implanted in them the seeds of some horrible and immaterial psychic growth

https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/New_York_City

>And Kuranes reigned thereafter over Ooth-Nargai and all the neighbouring regions of dream, and held his court alternately in Celephaïs and in the cloud-fashioned Serannian. He reigns there still, and will reign happily forever, though below the cliffs at Innsmouth the channel tides played mockingly with the body of a tramp who had stumbled through the half-deserted village at dawn; played mockingly, and cast it upon the rocks by ivy-covered Trevor Towers, where a notably fat and especially offensive millionaire brewer enjoys the purchased atmosphere of extinct nobility.

Holy kino

>>24636305 (OP)
by replaying Bloodborne

>>24636305 (OP)
By getting drunk on a balcony and yelling the name of his cat.

Red Hook is a maze of hybrid squalor near the ancient waterfront opposite Governor’s Island, with dirty highways climbing the hill from the wharves to that higher ground where the decayed lengths of Clinton and Court Streets lead off toward the Borough Hall.... The population is a hopeless tangle and enigma; Syrian, Spanish, Italian, and negro elements impinging upon one another, and fragments of Scandinavian and American belts lying not far distant. It is a babel of sound and filth, and sends out strange cries to answer the lapping of oily waves at its grimy piers and the monstrous organ litanies of the harbour whistles.... From this tangle of material and spiritual putrescence the blasphemies of an hundred dialects assail the sky. Hordes of prowlers reel shouting and singing along the lanes and thoroughfares, occasional furtive hands suddenly extinguish lights and pull down curtains, and swarthy, sin-pitted faces disappear from windows when visitors pick their way through.

>>24636305 (OP)
I'll read a few of the last 10 or so stories of his I haven't read yet.

Not sure if I should add him as a contact and get the birthday that way
it’ll automatically calculate his age, which is nice, but I don’t know if I want to click “previous month” a million times or even if I have to do that at all

>>24636305 (OP)
Read some of his short stories, and Houellebecq's essay on him. I got a formal bash and anime club to attend on that day, and would discuss his works with my fellow men. I would also listen to Electric Wizard, Darkspace and Akhlys between affairs.

>>24636838
>ACK! The racism! It makes me... uuuh errr... it ma...mm...makes me... fffff eel . Whare words? Reding hurd guiz

dude indescribable creatures in the sky with big ass tentacles and shit wow so badass and cool! If I was 7 I might have been impressed. what a tool there is no such thing as cosmic horror;

>>24638835
Lovecraft is based and you are cringe

>>24638835
The Rats in the Walls, and The Outsider were pretty scary when I was 15 and had first discovered him.

>>24636305 (OP)
> The tallest white man you've seen.
>Casually racist.
> Babbles about it sometimes, even in his books. (It won't sell or anything, just crosses his mind.
Why didn't he play sports?

>>24638835
> If I was 7 I might have been impressed.

describe your city better than this anon and I shall believe you.

My coming to New York had been a mistake; for whereas I had looked for poignant wonder and inspiration in the teeming labyrinths of ancient streets that twist endlessly from forgotten courts and squares and waterfronts to courts and squares and waterfronts equally forgotten, and in the Cyclopean modern towers and pinnacles that rise blackly Babylonian under waning moons, I had found instead only a sense of horror and oppression which threatened to master, paralyse, and annihilate me.

>>24639845
nta and i like lovecraft but such histrionic prose instantly renders it to pulp — labyrinths, ancient, endlessly, forgotten, cyclopean, babylonian .. it's too much, words of such proportion are used with reckless abandon and come to mean nothing at all, often reads like horror satire, satire of itself, I can't help laughing at amorcrafto .. imagine him describing a trip the supermarket: "pickled beetroot jars of Abyssian dimension, standing like obelisks beside Chthonic tinned fish" .. it's too much.

>>24639856
Lovecraft was attempting to combine their modern scientific language with his creative writing. Which is harder said than done. It was a scary time for science and the information regarding it wasn't as widely available.

>>24639856
the pulpy sensationalist factor is the fun, like reading detective noire. I get what you mean, but he, can just do it better, like just turn your brain off jump in his river and float away to a land of dead trees and pyramids of onyx presided over by a man with a mouth twisted like tree roots.

I'll celebrate by reading stuff by all the authors who did cosmic horror better than he himself ever did or could do. Seriously, I love cosmic horror as a genre but most if not all of Lovecraft's stuff is utter dogshit.

>>24639919

Drop some names anon, I'll check them out and see if they got the stuff.

>>24639960
Read The Great God Pan and House On The Borderlands for starters.

>>24639919
Jesus he's not THAT bad. He has gems. The transition from TGGP to Lovecraft is like going from reading 1 book that cost a small fortune and an estate but the time was so big you wanted it because then you could read it for months on end over to: "holy crap all these stories are cheap!" Meanwhile the author is scrambling around on the floor looking for loose change.

>>24639969
house on the borderlands is pretty good, so is the night land. it's a shame hodgeson tried to lean into horror with his other works rather than just going into the weird and slightly unnerving.

>>24639856
And yet it's a joy and a pleasure to read Lovecraft's pros, and numbing and flat to read your own.

>>24639845
If you want good descriptions of New York read EB White. This is drivel.

There's a channel on YouTube called Horror Babble who's narrated all of his stories, and does a really good job too. I will rip the audio and then open the mp3 up in my audiobook player and slow it down to 0.85% speed and it's quite comfy.
Maybe in October I'll do a Lovecraft story a day.

>>24641426
ouch, your fav narrator doesn't get any replays?

>>24636305 (OP)
I relate heavily to him upon finding out the abominable news that my family is of that ghastly russian jewish stock

>>24641507
I really don't care.

>>24641797
That's my point. He's either way too racist ( for taking care of his black cat with a racist name) or not racist enough.

It's rumoured he had crippling IBS.

>>24636305 (OP)
Replaying some Dark Adventure Theatre episodes.

I also recommend the point and click game Dreams in the Witch House made by some finnish autist. Very enjoyable. Light RPG elements, it’s possible to die and various endings including dooming humanity.

>>24643549
Careful about misinterpretations.

The Call of Cthulhu is a long buildup into a fart joke.

What would he think of the jeet invasion of the West?

>>24639919
Lovecraft gets a bad rap from people invoking him all the goddamn time, the flanderization of his output over the years and "cosmic horror" being a god-awful term generally. I don't know that I'd put anything of Lovecraft's up against TGGP or the Hill of Dreams but I'd stack up The Case of Charles Dexter Ward against pretty much anything else that Machen wrote.