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To: kawhill

His writing is terrible. Had he ever met another person?


7 posted on 07/24/2025 3:55:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

He was married for a short time, if that’s what you mean.


9 posted on 07/24/2025 4:14:43 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: nickcarraway
His writing is terrible.

He has a tendency to overwrite. Too much prose, too little dialog.

His strength was his originality and "forceful" vision. As if compelled to write what he did.

11 posted on 07/24/2025 4:16:12 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: nickcarraway
His writing is terrible.

The stuff HPL was publishing in the 30s was actually pretty typical of pulp SF of the time. (Dire.)

One wonders what he would have written like if he lived long enough to write for Unknown Worlds.

29 posted on 07/24/2025 5:42:07 PM PDT by Lee N. Field ("And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" Gal 3:29)
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To: nickcarraway
He was unusually prophetic:

".. published his first poem, "Providence in 2000 A.D.," in the Providence Evening Journal in 1912. The poem is a satire that describes a future where the white descendants of English heritages have been pushed out by waves of immigrants, who begin to rename everything along their own cultural leanings."

30 posted on 07/24/2025 5:57:16 PM PDT by nwrep
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