HP Lovecraft interview

[PennLady]

A friend posted this on FB and it was neat -- HP Lovecraft discussing a story via postcard.

http://revelatormagazine.com/from-the-vaults/brattleboro-days-yuggoth-nights/

 

[DemianBiros]

Great find!I lived in that neck of the woods for a few years,even fished Cascade,and it still has a strange somber beauty when you get out past the "tawons" and back up into the hills.

 

[Bramblethorn]

A friend posted this on FB and it was neat -- HP Lovecraft discussing a story via postcard.

http://revelatormagazine.com/from-the-vaults/brattleboro-days-yuggoth-nights/

Oh wow. That's fascinating, but the guys who transcribed it have much more patience than me!

 

[TE999]

A truly fascinating artifact. H.P.'s one of my favorite horror writers of the Pulp mag era. He gets rather florid at times, but his purple prose is one of his intriguing attributes. In the postcard correspondence exchange he refers to his 'Yog-Sothoth Bestiary' which describes his stable of horrific creatures quite succinctly.

What's interesting is that he never described the inhabitants of his 'Bestiary' to any great extent leaving it up to the readers imaginations to imagine what they looked like.

 

[jomar]

I am a fan of HP, but I hate, hate, hate, internet articles that don't provide a date so tend to discount them! Ugh!

 

[lovecraft68]

A truly fascinating artifact. H.P.'s one of my favorite horror writers of the Pulp mag era. He gets rather florid at times, but his purple prose is one of his intriguing attributes. In the postcard correspondence exchange he refers to his 'Yog-Sothoth Bestiary' which describes his stable of horrific creatures quite succinctly.

What's interesting is that he never described the inhabitants of his 'Bestiary' to any great extent leaving it up to the readers imaginations to imagine what they looked like.

Hp was one asked by one of his circle as to why he never wrote his famous Necronimicon.

His answer was simply how could he deliver something that according to his writings could drive a man to madness with its words?

he cited the first law of magic which dictates never to call up what you can't put back down.

His great old ones who so utterly alien to us and so horrific to behold he would never be able to do them justice.

He also wrote at a time where everyone went by their imaginations and did not need everything shown or spelled out to them.

a far cry from today's works where every detail of every rape/murder/ torture/dismemberment has to described in vivid detail in the books and shown in the movies.

HPL wrote suspense and let the reader determine what his bad guys looked like. It would never fly in today's instant gratification generation.