Crow
March 25th, 2010, 11:04 PM
I have a confession,
H.P. Lovecraft's stuff is too scary for me to read more than a little bit at a time. I actually started reading his stuff because of the whole reincarnation bit/theory/thing and wanted to see what it was all about. I learned it was hella old and I figured that it couldn't be too scary. After all I had read the entire Necroscope series up to that point. I didn't realize that the Necroscope while in the horror genre was more stylistically a hero's journey with some seriously horrifying aspects to it.
Reading, "The Dunwich Horrors" made so I had trouble sleeping for a bit and after reading that I remember distinctly thinking that dude was way scarier the Lumley. I was mistaken.
I picked up what I'm guessing was a reprint of "The Whisperer and Other Voices" while trying to get my fix on new material (this was before the web was really hitting it's stride) and thought it won't be too bad. I read it about 10ish years ago and haven't read it since. I think my subconscious, in a desperate act of self preservation, "lost" it for me somewhere in my travels. Occasionally certain passages still surface and remind me that Lumlian teeth are very sharp and their bite is terrifying.
I don't know what the prevailing attitude about the reincarnation business here is; I'll just say that if I had to choose between reading the Dunwich or the Whisperer alone on a dark night, I'm not really sure which would scar me worse, but it would be a distinct deep scarring either way.
-Crow
H.P. Lovecraft's stuff is too scary for me to read more than a little bit at a time. I actually started reading his stuff because of the whole reincarnation bit/theory/thing and wanted to see what it was all about. I learned it was hella old and I figured that it couldn't be too scary. After all I had read the entire Necroscope series up to that point. I didn't realize that the Necroscope while in the horror genre was more stylistically a hero's journey with some seriously horrifying aspects to it.
Reading, "The Dunwich Horrors" made so I had trouble sleeping for a bit and after reading that I remember distinctly thinking that dude was way scarier the Lumley. I was mistaken.
I picked up what I'm guessing was a reprint of "The Whisperer and Other Voices" while trying to get my fix on new material (this was before the web was really hitting it's stride) and thought it won't be too bad. I read it about 10ish years ago and haven't read it since. I think my subconscious, in a desperate act of self preservation, "lost" it for me somewhere in my travels. Occasionally certain passages still surface and remind me that Lumlian teeth are very sharp and their bite is terrifying.
I don't know what the prevailing attitude about the reincarnation business here is; I'll just say that if I had to choose between reading the Dunwich or the Whisperer alone on a dark night, I'm not really sure which would scar me worse, but it would be a distinct deep scarring either way.
-Crow