H.P. Lovecraft is often considered the king of cosmic horror and racist pet names, but I’m here to tell you that despite being the arguable inventor of Lovecraftian horror, a genre that has kept pretentious indie horror filmmaking alive, he is actually a hack fraud.
Lovecraft’s stories often feature mythical beings that are left in large part to the readers’ imaginations. Lovecraft sometimes implies that even attempting to describe these monsters would cause insanity in the seer or the listener. Here is a direct quote from At the Mountains of Madness, one of Lovecraft’s most famous texts.
“It was a terrible, indescribable thing…”
Unscary Fraud Author
Bullshit. As an esteemed writer myself, I can’t help but feel frustrated by Lovecraft’s unwillingness to tell his audience about the cool things he made up. I often take the extra time to explain the jokes I write, just to ensure my readers feel like they’ve been accurately described and because I want to make sure they got them since they didn’t laugh.
I want to finally put to rest this idea that Lovecraft was a genius master of horror, even though he couldn’t describe a simple squid man. That is why I will be easily describing a Lovecraftian horror.
Big Octopus
Kind of too easy? GG skinny weirdo.