How does _H.P. Lovecraft: A Life_ compare to _I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft_?
Is the "restored" content worthwhile?
How does _H.P. Lovecraft: A Life_ compare to _I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft_?
Brody Mitchell
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Levi Butler
>adds a whole chapter on how The Statement of Randolph Carter is actually based on a true story
>adds a whole chapter on Lovecraft's fetishes and his newly discovered erotic writings
>adds a whole chapter complaining about the SJWs changing the World Fantasy Award trophy
>adds a whole chapter complaining about Stephen King and his son Joe Hill
>adds a whole chapter talking about the time he kicked Laird Barron ass
S. T. Joshi went insane desu
Adrian Rodriguez
I have no idea, but I've read I Am Providence and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Kevin Lewis
what's going on here
Tyler Turner
R.I.P. W. H. Pugmire.
Nathaniel Perry
Pugmire and joshi talking about clark ashton smith
Isaiah Williams
Must know more about joshi vs. Laird
Nicholas Adams
>>adds a whole chapter on Lovecraft's fetishes and his newly discovered erotic writings
this actually sounds interesting desu
Juan Parker
basically Joshi doesn't buy into the cult of personality surrounding Barron
James Adams
I argee, can someone post a brief summary?
Levi Johnson
You are a shitty novelist
Parker Ward
He liked to eat ass
Dylan Morgan
Joshi is godlike
Adrian Phillips
Doesn't Barron also have beef with Ligotti?
Austin Wright
Isn't this the N word guy? Why isn't everyone bring it up. You know what he called his cat right?
Austin Brooks
>Say the line, Bart!
Jason Cook
YOU BETTER NOT SAY IT
Andrew Jones
He's not serious.
John Jones
Alexander Stewart
The great thing about Lovecraft is that anybody denying that his cosmology is fundamentally racialist automatically outs him or herself as a moron
Joseph Watson
Literally a great champion of literature for the work he has done for fantasy and weird fiction
Samuel Lewis
Kinda. In his story "More Dark" he very blatantly shits on Ligotti.
Chase Barnes
pugmire is kill? wew
Jaxson Bailey
Died at the end of March. You can read about it on Joshi's blog: stjoshi.org
Angel Lee
i would have loved getting stoned with lovecraft and talk about history or stuff. the man is my hero
Sebastian Long
to bad he would call you a nigger loving degenerate for smoking weed
Joseph Roberts
Yeah, Joshi should stick to non-fiction.
Liam Fisher
Never read his stuff I know he's supposed to be good, but I refuse to read it because he's such a weird looking blob entity
Kevin Ross
>But the saddest story of the lot is “More Dark,” the one tale not set in the Pacific Northwest. Instead, New York City is the locus, and we are treated to a dismayingly nasty and mean-spirited caricature of Thomas Ligotti (poorly disguised as “Tom L”). Barron’s protagonist states
>My impression of L’s work was lukewarm as I found his glib pooh-poohing of the master Robert Aickman as a formative influence of his disingenuous considering their artistic similarities, and L’s reduction of human characters to ciphers a trifle off-putting.…His gloom and groan regarding the Infernal Bureaucracy wasn’t my cup of tea, yet it possessed a certain resonance among the self-loathing, chronically inebriated, perpetually persecuted set. (252)
>There is much more of this, not to mention cameo appearances of Ellen Datlow, Mark Samuels, Michael Cisco, Gordon Van Gelder, and many others (including myself). What possible reason Barron could have had for writing this story is beyond my understanding; it would probably prove entirely incomprehensible to those who don’t know the characters involved, and unseemly for those who do. I fervently hope Barron doesn’t write anything like this again.
What the fuck is his fucking problem?