Has anybody else competently done his blend of dry-scholarly (think At the Mountains of Madness) and cosmic-melancholic style? Ligotti is too whiny and antagonistic, the other classic weird fiction writers like Ashton-Smith are too fabulistic, impressionistic and ''anti-materialistic'' or unscientific for my taste. Deep in my dream the great bird whispered queerlyOf the black cone amid the polar waste;Pushing above the ice-sheet lone and drearly,By storm-crazed aeons battered and defaced.Hither no living earth-shapes take their courses,And only pale auroras and faint sunsGlow on that pitted rock, whose primal sourcesAre guessed at dimly by the Elder Ones.If men should glimpse it, they would merely wonderWhat tricky mound of Nature’s build they spied;But the bird told of vaster parts, that underThe mile-deep ice-shroud crouch and brood and bide.God help the dreamer whose mad visions shewThose dead eyes set in crystal gulfs below!
>>25501104I'm not sure, but I'll bump anyway since I love Lovecraft's prose.
>>25501104cool pic
>>25501104>Has anybody else competently done his blend of dry-scholarly (think At the Mountains of Madness) and cosmic-melancholic style?Arthur C. Clarke, supposedly. Kubrick talked about it. But I guess he didn't specifically imitate a scholarly register in his prose.
>>25501104Hahaha, this passage is so awesome. I feel like such a faggot for just reading the Gou adaptations.
Machen?
>>255056242ndedAlso, might not be weird enough for OP, but some Borges stories give me that double feeling of scientific rigor and mindmelt. I'm thinking>Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius>The Aleph>The Library of Babel>The Circular Ruins
>>25501104Look at some of Lovecraft's influences and not contemporaries imo. Algernon Blackwood's stories can hit that scientific outlook / factual writing note a bit more than someone like Ashton-Smith. The Sacrifice would be my recommendation to try him out if you want an idea of his style, but most of Incredible Adventures would probably be up your alley.
>>25505635I've gotta check out some Borges.
>>25505707Immortal remains one of my favourite short stories. Give it a shot.
>>25501104have you read solaris? it sort of matches your description. i'd say dry-scholarly/cosmic-melancholic is what lem was going for, but he accidentily made his giant incomprehensible space monster care deeply about human beings while trying to claim that it does not.
