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>Describe it? Can't. It's like, not of this world, so no words for it. It's SUPER scary tho.
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>>25457047
>“10:15 P.M. Important discovery. Orrendorf and Watkins, working underground at 9:45 with light, found monstrous barrel-shaped fossil of wholly unknown nature; probably vegetable unless overgrown specimen of unknown marine radiata. Tissue evidently preserved by mineral salts. Tough as leather, but astonishing flexibility retained in places. Marks of broken-off parts at ends and around sides. Six feet end to end, 3.5 feet central diameter, tapering to 1 foot at each end. Like a barrel with five bulging ridges in place of staves. Lateral breakages, as of thinnish stalks, are at equator in middle of these ridges. In furrows between ridges are curious growths. Combs or wings that fold up and spread out like fans. All greatly damaged but one, which gives almost seven-foot wing spread. Arrangement reminds one of certain monsters of primal myth, especially fabled Elder Things in Necronomicon. These wings seem to be membraneous, stretched on framework of glandular tubing. Apparent minute orifices in frame tubing at wing tips. Ends of body shrivelled, giving no clue to interior or to what has been broken off there. Must dissect when we get back to camp. Can’t decide whether vegetable or animal. Many features obviously of almost incredible primitiveness. Have set all hands cutting stalactites and looking for further specimens. Additional scarred bones found, but these must wait. Having trouble with dogs. They can’t endure the new specimen, and would probably tear it to pieces if we didn’t keep it at a distance from them.”
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Lovecraft always wrote from a self-insert perspective. He was evidently a pretty normal guy for the time, asides from you know his peculiar interests. But you can at least relate to HP Lovecraft, you know he's just a white guy that tries to make a living by bashing out words on a typewriter.
Let's get the trained battlemage to narrate Cool Air instead
>this weirdo has no life sense, nope doesn't breathe or have a heartbeat either
or The Colour out of Space
>yup the space rock is radioactive and it's blowing off tangible energy and warping space. Seems everything is normal here, the humans should probably leave though
Wow what horror, what tension! What about the Terrible Old Man using vibrating sympathy in those bottles to communicate with people? Let's get the fuck out of there, those types have half a dozen ways to know something is off.
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>>25457047
“Bigger’n a barn . . . all made o’ squirmin’ ropes . . . hull thing sort o’ shaped like a hen’s egg bigger’n anything, with dozens o’ legs like hogsheads that haff shut up when they step . . . nothin’ solid abaout it—all like jelly, an’ made o’ sep’rit wrigglin’ ropes pushed clost together . . . great bulgin’ eyes all over it . . . ten or twenty maouths or trunks a-stickin’ aout all along the sides, big as stovepipes, an’ all a-tossin’ an’ openin’ an’ shuttin’ . . . all grey, with kinder blue or purple rings . . . an’ Gawd in heaven—that haff face on top! . . .”
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>>25457061

>The colour, which resembled some of the bands in the meteor's strange spectrum, was almost impossible to describe; and it was only by analogy that they called it colour at all
>...skunk-cabbages coming up through the mud by the woods across the road. Never were things of such size seen before, and they held strange colours that could not be put into any words...
>not far from the Gardner place bagged a very peculiar specimen. The proportions of its body seemed slightly altered in a queer way impossible to describe, while its face had taken on an expression which no one ever saw in a woodchuck before.
>It happened in June, about the anniversary of the meteor's fall, and the poor woman screamed about things in the air which she could not describe.
>At this point, as the column of unknown colour flared suddenly stronger and began to weave itself into fantastic suggestions of shape which each spectator later described differently, there came from poor tethered Hero such a sound as no man before or since ever heard from a horse.
>What it is, only God knows. In terms of matter I suppose the thing Ammi described would be called a gas

taken from 1 short story btw
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>>25457047
Wittgenstein: the limits of my language are the limits of my world.
Lovecraft: I limit my language to expand the limits of your world.
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>>25457089
that woodchuck just needs some tylenol for that inflammation
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>>25457047
And the lack of description ends up making it scarier than any other horror lit
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>>25457094
>i dont read
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What a complete and total meme.
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>>25457047
Lovecraft wrote non-fiction. All his stories are real. How about you see such a creature in real life, then try to describe him. Because I have seen, and I could not describe.
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Half the time he says something is indescribable and then ends up describing it anyways. Bonus Elder Thing he sketched.
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>>25458118
That's pretty neat. Me on the top right

>>25458047
Retarded druggie
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>>25457047
>I've never read Lovecraft
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>My favorite work by Lovecraft?
>Why, "On the Creation of Niggers," of course.
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>Mi-go
>The Great Race of Yith
>Shoggoths and Elder Things
>The Dunwich Horror (at the very end of the story)
All have descriptions
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Butthurt or what
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>>25457061
>>25457089
utterly bodied that freak
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>>25457047
this dingus really thought his audience would be scared if he kept saying how scared his protagonists were

his long essay Supernatural Horror in Literature is a more enjoyable read than pretty much all of his fiction
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>>25457047
Fucking Zuckerberg man



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