>You will never be bros with H.P. Lovecraft
Why live?
You will never be bros with H.P. Lovecraft
Nolan Allen
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Charles Lee
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Caleb Sanders
You can still name your cat OP
Noah Nelson
Honestly, if anything constitutes the "literary lifestyle" it is summering at fellow writer-friend's estate or having them summer at yours. It seems to be a practice lost to time, but you find examples of it all the way through history and back to the Greeks.
Jacob Gonzalez
Probably because people can't make a living by writing anymore and thus have to work yearlong.
Jose Rivera
You know, there are a lot of other "New Weird" writers, some of which come close to Lovecraft's quality. Weird fiction is booming right now.
Daniel Powell
Name a nu-weird writer who is remotely comparable to Lovecraft
Levi Wright
Cooper Cruz
Yeah but will they come hang out with you for a month so you can tell spooky stories to each other and write poems and play with your cats and shit?
Zachary Martin
Some of Laird Barron's stories are good, but he is a mixed bag and not everyone's cup of tea.
Ligotti is good, but his style is not comparable to Lovecraft. I feel Lovecraft is trying to convey a more Olympian stance in the face of an incomprehensible, otherworldly horror whereas Ligotti is more about a all-pervading "icy bleakness". Indeed, both Ligotti and Lovecraft have similar ominous atmospheres to their prose, but it is conveyed very differently. To keep it simple, Ligotti is trying to make one's mind feel disenchanting, gray, and bleak whereas Lovecraft is pointing to some kind of otherworldly external horror that leaves one speechless. In this sense, Ligotti has more in common with Robert Aickman rather than Lovecraft.
Jack Peterson
>Ligotti is good, but his style is not comparable to Lovecraft.
I was under the impression we were talking about quality not stylistic similarity? e.g. >some of which come close to Lovecraft's quality.
James Thomas
Well I know Ligotti won't
Andrew Brown
The guy was asking who's comparable to Lovecraft, so I assumed he meant thematic similarities. Sorry, it's late.
Camden Jones
>tfw you listen to I Have a Special Plan for This World and start to read Ligotti's stories in that sinister-sounding (British) voice David Tibet is doing; then you listen to one of Ligotti's own recordings and he just sounds like some dude
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Xavier Wright
Shitpost aside I have finished HPL and disliked Ligotti. Any other cosmic horror writers that aren't just a bootleg copy of HPL? Bonus points for short story authors w/audiobooks cuz I fall asleep to them.
Jack Ramirez
Ligotti is not a "bootleg copy of HPL" if that is what you were implying.
Josiah Young
Check out Clark Ashton Smith, he fills out the triumvirate of weird pulp's first wave along with HP and Robert E. Howard and was a friend of them both. He is similar to both of them in someways, the three of them all drew inspiration from each other, and took turns in writing shorts in the style of the other as a homage.
Smith writes weird and cosmic horror like Lovecraft but his prose style is lighter and less thundering. A Mozart to H.P's Beethoven maybe - think of Lovecraft's Dreamcycle, concerned with tales of strange lands and times, but darker and more structured.
Connor Hernandez
No, not what I meant. I'm jusy overtired. He was quite interesting but wasn't for me.
Asher Morris
The cosmic element to Lovecraft has always been less interesting to me than his works which, on their own, seem to imply only Witchcraft or a Daemonic power.
Angel Nelson
Have you read Gene Wolfe? He’s not weird fiction through and through, but be has good moments of weirdness.
Unless you like Lovecraft for the reddit-tier atheism, in which case you’ll dislike Wolfe
Juan Harris
Just wait for a hyper-real VR AI simulation to live in
Wyatt Hernandez
The Dreams in the Witch House is one of my favorites.
Ian Price
> Any other cosmic horror writers that aren't just a bootleg copy of HPL?
But HPL invented the genre. Any other guy would feel like a bootleg.
Ryan Martin
Rats in the Walls is still the spookiest story.
>there could be a skeleton in your house RIGHT NOW
Lincoln Foster
I have heard that skeletons often congregate in graveyards but I cannot confirm.