Thread 24643416

>stuck with a dead end low wage job
>socially recluse
>obsessed over racial purity
>raised by hyperprotective women
>short, unhappy marriage with a jewess
>loved cats
was he the archetypal chud?

He's literally me except i never married and hate cats

>>24643416 (OP)
>Actually had sex
Chud status: Denied

>>24643416 (OP)
He was on okay terms with the Jewish girl and way too smart and friendly to be a chud. He let go of his childhood fears towards the end while keeping his creativity. It's rare to do that

>stuck with a dead end low wage job
It was a lot better than slaving away in a factory. And lovecraft made enough money to keep him afloat even if he was pretty poor at times but it was mostly because he saw selling his stories in weird tales as something below him.
>>socially recluse
Another myth pushed by retarded reddit types
in reality lovecraft was highly social, travelled a huge amount (quebec, florida and new orleans) and was known to be conversational and witty

>>24643433
Lovecraft's friends reported he was not a sexist, loved to discuss his work and that he grew less racist before he died

>>24643433
>Another myth pushed by retarded reddit types
>in reality lovecraft was highly social, travelled a huge amount (quebec, florida and new orleans) and was known to be conversational and witty

This was probably why he was so racists too. It was a socialized trait.

>>24643416 (OP)
normgroid fakecel

ten thousand lashes

The difference between Lovecraft and me is that he feared brown people; I just hate them.

>>24643416 (OP)
possessed immense talent and persevered despite very low recognition or financial success to be recognized and was re-appraised after he died, true visionary that never sold slop.

I thought he was a writer?

They say he had debilitating IBS.

>>24643416 (OP)
don't forget
>victim of cancel culture

The fact that he wasn't just racist to non-whites but everyone who wasn't specifically his flavour of Anglo-Saxon is hilarious. The fact that he married a Jewess compounds the hilarity by like 10x. That's like the Most Racist Man Alive who has an Asian girlfriend. God I love women.

sim, amorcrafto's life was clad in brazillion textures and contradicions .. raciste yet homely .. paranoid yet comely ..

>>24643416 (OP)
What are his essential short stories that are required definitive reading?
I've read Cthulhu, and rats in the walls. I liked cthulhu which reads like a creepy pasta. I didn't like rats in the walls so much. It was just okay.

>>24644812
Read At The Mountains of Madness and The Shadow of Innsmouth immediately. The Shadow first, I'm thinking.

>>24644817
They are more of a novella right. I'm going to read them soon. Might read one tonight before bed.

>>24644819
I would not recommend Mountains of Madness. Lovecraft's prose is at its most purple here, and there are numerous mythos references. Read A color out of space instead.

>>24644812
The Music of Erich Zann

>>24644812
If you're after something short then I enjoyed the following
Dagon
The music of Erich Zann
The nameless city
The temple
Don't really know what you mean by essential. His best works? Or essential to understanding the Cthulhu mythos?

>>24643422
stolen valor

>>24643416 (OP)
op has that faggoty zuckerberg look

>>24643438
>he grew less racist before he died
never meet your heroes

Why did he hate italians again?

>>24645176
His best stuff and well cthulhu mythos is a bonus if I like him enough. Like I said, it's been 50/50 so far.
>>24644885
Sure.

>>24643416 (OP)
>>loved cats
Worst thing about this fag.

>>24643422
based

>>24643416 (OP)
>chud

What is honestly wrong with your entire generation?

>>24643438
He had become basically a leftist socialist by the time he died and he wrote that he was disgusted with his former chuddish self:

>I can better understand the inert blindness & defiant ignorance of the reactionaries from having been one of them. I know how smugly ignorant I was — wrapped up in the arts, the natural (not social) sciences, the externals of history & antiquarianism, the abstract academic phases of philosophy, & so on — all the one-sided standard lore to which, according to the traditions of the dying order, a liberal education was limited. God! the things that were left out — the inside facts of history, the rational interpretation of periodic social crises, the foundations of economics & sociology, the actual state of the world today … & above all, the habit of applying disinterested reason to problems hitherto approached only with traditional genuflections. Flag-waving, & callous shoulder-shrugs! All this comes up with the humiliating force through an incident of a few days ago—when young Conover, having established contact with Henneberger, the ex-owner of WT, obtained from the latter a long epistle which I wrote Edwin Baird on Feby. 3, 1924, in response to a request for biographical & personal data. Little Willis asked permission to publish the text in his combined SFC-Fantasy, & I began looking the thing over to see what it was like—for I had not the least recollection of ever having penned it. Well …. I managed to get through, after about 10 closely typed pages of egotistical reminiscences & showings-off & expressions of opinion about mankind & the universe. I did not faint—but I looked around for a 1924 photograph of myself to burn, spit on, or stick pins in! Holy Hades — was I that much of a dub at 33 … only 13 years ago? There was no getting out of it — I really had thrown all that haughty, complacent, snobbish, self-centered, intolerant bull, & at a mature age when anybody but a perfect damned fool would have known better! That earlier illness had kept me in seclusion, limited my knowledge of the world, & given me something of the fatuous effusiveness of a belated adolescent when I finally was able to get out more around 1920, is hardly much of an excuse.
>Well—there was nothing to be done … except to rush a note back to Conover & tell him I’d dismember him & run the fragments through a sausage-grinder if he ever thought of printing such a thing! The only consolation lay in the reflection that I had matured a bit since '24. It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33—but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all.

>>24646388
Killyourself.

>>24646429
His mind decayed under the influence of Russian immigrants just like the eponymous street in his short story...

>>24644812
>non cthulhu ancient aliens shit
The Music of Eric Zahn
Pickman's model
The Rats in the Walls
The Outsider
Cool Air
The Hound
The Picture in the House
The Colour out of space
Herbert West Re-Animator


I'd stay away from any of the Dream Quest shit. Cats of Ulthar is alright because it's barely a paragraph. Lovecraft has a bunch of great short stories. You can almost do no wrong but everything above is a good starting point to be honest. Some of his other stuff would probably not give the best impression like the Dreams in the Witch house or

>cthulhu mythos shenanigans and other ancient alien crap
Call of Cthulhu
At the Mountains of Madness
the shadow over innsmouth
the shadow out of time(a pretty high concept one for the time)
Dagon
Azathoth
The Other Gods
Nyarlathotep
History of the Necronomicon

>honorable mentions
In the Walls of Eryx(co wrote apparently)
Under the Pyramids also known as Imprisoned with the Pharaohs(some crazy collab with the Harry Houdini also starring Harry Houdini)
The whisper in the Darkness

>>24644812
>absolute essential required definitive reading
Call of Cthulhu
Shadow out of time
Color out of Space
Pickman's model
Shadow over Innsmouth
These stories are solid but also will give you a good example of all his tropes to the point when you read something like At the Mountains of Madness it will feel almost self parodying. So many of his stories are really fun or at least high concept and downright spooky. You can't really go wrong. Except with the Dream quest shit was was weird and not too great to me.

>>24646404
Internet

Reminder to actually read his letters.
He went from friendless internet (books) incel to grass (and pussy) toucher.

Niggerman

>>24646350
>His best stuff
In no particular order:
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Haunter of the Dark
The Shadow Out of Time
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Colour Out of Space
At the Mountains of Madness
Supernatural Horror in Literature
The Call of Cthulhu

One of the things about Lovecraft, for better or worse, is that he was a dyed-in-the-wool antiquarian and as such your mileage may vary. IMO his best stuff is generally where he's really immersed in New England and those stories are much more enjoyable if you have enough knowledge to set the scene.

>>24643416 (OP)
>was he the archetypal chud?
Nah sounds like he was a shit cunt from /pol/.
[s4s] would never have fucked anyone and maintained the pure love of cats.

For me, it's The Dunwich Horror, and The Outsider.

>>24643872
>immense talent
he wrote YA tier slop for shitty rags lol. grow up