Happy Birthday, H.P. Lovecraft! Today we remember the powerful work of that great author of weird tales who changed the genre through his focus on “cosmic horror.” To Lovecraft, the old monsters were quite tame, and as an atheist/materialist he conjured bleak visions of a universe in which mankind was an insignificant by-product of experiments by an alien species which settled Earth in aeons past. Here is a taste of his work from THE CALL OF CTHULHU, published in 1928 and made into a very evocative silent film directed by Andrew H. Lehman. “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is […]
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