Lovecraft wrote this when he was fifteen. Just let that sink in. I'm aware that this isn't on par with his later work - especially not with his final pieces - but it's still a damnably good story. Hail Lovecraft.
The first Lovecraft story I ever read. What I love about Lovecraft's writing is his rich descriptions. The man is one of the greatest literary masters for creating descriptively rich atmosphere. Despite figuring out the twist at the end of the story I still enjoyed it because the writing is fantastic.
This was also my first Lovecraft story read. It took me about 20 minutes to finish it but when I was done I felt like I had watched an entire movie. He is so very descriptive in his story telling, not a word is wasted.
If you start learning how to write professionally, you'll quickly run into an endless wall of people telling you that being too descriptive is a bad thing. Those people are the kind that probably hate Lovecraft, London, etc.
Beautiful descriptions, love the language. I don't care if ppl think this one is amateur next to his later works, it still rocks. The end gave me chills... brilliant, totally knew what was coming though. Movies like the Descent and Bleeders, totally drew inspiration from this.
Word to that. Many several horror movies are total rip offs of old Lovecraft stories. Thing is all of his stuff is in the public domain so they can be ripped off by anyone.
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It still does. The Mastermind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs uses the term. Talk about some kickass books. Synthetic men of Mars from a grocery store in 198? started a whole bookcase, I was around 11 or so. So did Robert E Howards Conan saga. Found H.P. in the late 90's
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This is considered to be Lovecraft's juvenile writing. You can tell it's early work. He has good knowledge of vocabulary, but tries too hard to be descriptive. Still, I'm sure there are a lot of English teachers that would have wanted a teenager like this in their classrooms.
It's a shamed that half of the descriptive words used in this would become scribbled over for being "archaic", or using archaic sentence structure, that is no longer considered correct. I Grew up reading stories of this era, as such I learned all those words that are no longer "acceptable" to use.
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How soon before you heard him say it did you realize it had been a man at one time? I think it was when I heard it walked on two feet at times. That was a hint, but I was certain when he said the toes were not prehensile.
It was so namelessly unspeakably unutterably horrific with anthropoid attributes as well as... Try taking some psychedelics and read this guy. You'll be laughing for days!
