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Hypnos, What the Moon Brings, Azathoth

Holy shit the narrator in Hypnos is gay asf (very fair). Interesting that we've had two stories about sculptors and they're both like that, was Lovecraft trying to say that sculpting is gay?

Idk what to say about the prose poems except that I love them, please read them

The blurb before Azathoth spoils one of the novels further back which I'm yet to read, thanks editor =_=

Dzięki za naprawienie moich goodreadsowych rekomendacji Kimi, choć wolałbym żeby nie były po Fińsku...

Co jakiś czas zdarzają się irytujące literówki. Wydaje mi się czy obecnie jest ich w książkach więcej niż kiedyś?

Herbert West - Reanimator

It was alright, a bit better than I remembered, but I never particularly cared for this one and I still don't. "Mad scientist tries to defeat death and finds out why it's a bad idea" is a rather tired trope, is it not?

Nie uwierzycie co żeśmy z ojcem wyhaczyli w Biedrze za dychę :DD

(To znaczy może może uwierzycie ale ja się nie spodziewałem)

"PoZiOm ŚwIaDoMoŚcI jAk WyGlĄdAjĄ zDrAdY jEsT nIsKi" jestem przynajmniej świadomy tego, że jeśli czujesz się niekochany, to związek możesz po ludzku zakończyć, zamiast skakać w bok i fundować patnerce/rowi i dziecku traumę i problemy z zaufaniem na resztę życia (눈_눈)

The Moon-Bog, The Outsider, The Other Gods, The Music of Erich Zann

It just now hit me that The Outsider is kind of The Tomb in reverse... Also, I will forever love the Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones version of the character ;3;

Ok FINE, maybe I DO have some issues. Whatever.

Sweet Ermengarde, The Nameless City, The Quest of Iranon

Ok this one is legitimately funny XDD Lovecraft's sense of humour doesn't often shine through, but it's pretty good!

Lovecraft's "indescribable" begins to read to me as the creepypasta writer's "hyperrealistic"

Truly, the Dream Cycle is just depression, depression, and more depression...

Last time I felt this called out by my reading material was in My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, what is going on

The Picture in the House, Ex Oblivione

Stories like Ex Oblivione and Celephaïs exhibit exactly the kind of thinking and I feeling I used to have when my depression was at its deepest. Those tales were so comforting back then...

It's flabbergasting how almost all described symptoms of daddy issues fit me to a T, but in my case they stem from autism and social trauma... Same result, different source, how fascinating is that?

Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, Celephaïs, From Beyond, Nyarlathotep

Grandpappy shags a monke, that's it that's the story

Nyarlathotep is the first properly weird tale here, and a proper cosmic horror - I love it so much <33

So many books I WANT TO read, none I FEEL LIKE reading... ://

The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Terrible Old Man, The Tree, The Cats of Ulthar, The Temple

POLAND MENTIONED [polska_gurom.gif]

I conclude that you cannot write a story set in ancient Greece and not have gay undertones in it, it's simply not scientifically possible.

The one thing Lovecraft and I can shake on is what should happen to people who abuse animals. Karma!

Karl = Stroheim lol, funniest protag so far

The Street, The Doom That Came to Sarnath

He just can't bloody help himself, can he? He has to throw something xenophobic into every tale or he's going to explode. The first time around it made me laugh with how blatant and stupid it was, but now I'm just sick of it. Over 1000 pages left btw

I've always headcanoned Bokrug as a Mosasaurus and I'm dying on that hill

Reading Goodreads reviews is a mistake I keep making; just saw people rating Mediaeval literature one star and whining that it doesn't adhere to modern writing standards... I'm tired boss

The Transition of Juan Romero, The White Ship

Lovecraft borrows another existing deity into his mythos, but while everyone knows Dagon, Huitzilopotchli tends to go forgotten... Probably because it's harder to spell.

The White Ship always reminded me of The Neverending Story, I gotta re-read that again sometime (fav childhood book fr)

(Note to self: play Sona-Nyl of the Violet Shadows already)

Old Bugs

Painfully preachy in its moralism, that one, but that's precisely what it was meant to be, so good job ig?

Man I hate this website I keep finding books I want to read immediately but I can't afford 100 books a month LMAO

Either that or they are not available anywhere anymore, now I want to read them immediately but can't, possibly ever. I'm not sure which is worse.

Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Memory

Add hillbillys to the list of people Lovecraft Does Not Like. His more poetic works are really pretty, wish he did more of them.

A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson, Polaris

I distinctly remember that on first reading Polaris made me very sad. It still is a sad story, but I wasn't as depressed this time, even though I didn't remember much of what happened before re-reading.

The attitude towards the Inuit is awful in this one ofc, but what did you expect from Mr Xenophobic Paranoia over here...

The Beast in the Cave, The Alchemist, The Tomb, Dagon

For years I couldn't read Lovecraft due to some related trauma, I'm so glad to finally be able to do this again...

I've read most of it, but never ALL of it... Which is quite shameful, considering that it is also a cornerstone of my taste!! Time to hop to it (and with a slowly filling progress bar to keep me company this time)

Of course seeing number go up and bar fill up gets me to break trough the wall. Of course it does.

I'd rather admit that there are things I don't know than to turn my nose up at available resources and flail around like an asshole

In that frustrating spot where I want to keep reading and I have the time to, but executive disfunction just won't bloody let me. Those last two chapters are taking longer than the rest of the book ://