He's a famous horror writer
of the early 20th Century. Did the Necromicon. Lots of Gothic style, all very sinister and macabre, and a big influence on Stephen King. Though he wrote in quite an old-fashioned way.
Also a big anti-semite.
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I know who he is and what he wrote
just never read it so am unaware if he's a good writer or not
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HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:51,
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Read everything of his (as a teen, natch).
Very much of-his-era. Somewhat clunky prose, dialogue & narrative. Some nice imagery, imagined-mythology.
His short story "The Colour out of Space" is my favourite, foreshadowing nuclear-worries soon to come- however, genuinely eerie/unsettling.
(at the risk of sounding like a cunt- none of the authours listed above are obscure at all, what's the most unusual authour that's come up?)
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 14:35,
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"The Colour out of Space"
(as above)
Though there was one set in the antarctic that was quite atmospheric I remember. Avoid "The Shadow over Innsmouth" that I seem to remember was hideously racist/anti-semitic (which is what I meant by "of-the era").
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 14:49,
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Yay for Project Gutenberg!
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600031h.html#03
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That's the bugger
For full effect, save to read on a dark night in winter, in bed, alone.
You'll shit fish.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 15:17,
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