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Are there any German equivalents of HP Lovecraft?
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Date: September 8th, 2013 5:50 PM Author: glassy exhilarant half-breed like it seems the dark brooding teutonic imagination would be good at this cosmic horror shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2357401&forum_id=2#24015399) |
Date: January 16th, 2018 4:49 PM Author: glassy exhilarant half-breed MPA? anyone know? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2357401&forum_id=2#35170114) |
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Date: January 16th, 2018 5:08 PM Author: Boyish Alcoholic Sanctuary Regret Sadly no although as others have noted, Hoffman isn’t too far away
I actually am not familiar with that much German horror |
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Date: January 16th, 2018 4:55 PM Author: underhanded greedy tanning salon dragon Nope. HPL was one of a kind, created an entirely new genre and rescued horror fiction from hocus-pocus superstition-y irrelevance. Despite all his exposure today Lovecraft is still underrated as a visionary and prose stylist. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2357401&forum_id=2#35170150) |
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Date: January 16th, 2018 4:56 PM Author: glassy exhilarant half-breed surely there must be some fucked up yet still literary Russian writers in the same vein (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2357401&forum_id=2#35170156) |
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Date: January 16th, 2018 4:59 PM Author: underhanded greedy tanning salon dragon Closest thing to Lovecraftian horror, as in true pessimistic hopeless cosmic void horror (not just reheated monster tales based on HPL) is Thomas Liggoti, who is some kind of Sicilian-American lapsed Catholic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2357401&forum_id=2#35170180) |
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Date: January 16th, 2018 5:07 PM Author: Boyish Alcoholic Sanctuary Regret (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2357401&forum_id=2#35170248) |
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Date: January 16th, 2018 5:03 PM Author: spectacular high-end fortuitous meteor senate there is lots of very depressing surrealist soviet literature like andrei platonov's foundation pit or bulgakov's heart of a dog. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2357401&forum_id=2#35170221) |
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Date: January 16th, 2018 5:09 PM Author: Boyish Alcoholic Sanctuary Regret I wouldn’t say HPL created a whole new genre. Stuff like Machen and Chambers and Lord Dunsanay were doing similar things
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Date: January 16th, 2018 5:14 PM Author: underhanded greedy tanning salon dragon He certainly drew inspiration from them, even was outright derivative of Dunsanay in his early 'Dreamlands' stuff. But it's hard to argue that Machen and Chambers could have written something like the Colour Out of Space or The Rats in the Walls. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2357401&forum_id=2#35170297) |
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Date: January 16th, 2018 5:18 PM Author: spectacular high-end fortuitous meteor senate wasn't lovecraft influenced psychologically by "the night land"? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2357401&forum_id=2#35170330) |
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Date: January 16th, 2018 5:22 PM Author: underhanded greedy tanning salon dragon Probably, I know he wrote about it in his big essay. Really he worshipped Poe and loved astronomy, but was also oppressed by the implications of the cosmos he studied. Every one of his later stories is an expression of epistemological despair and anxiety about human degeneration, which was already well underway in his time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2357401&forum_id=2#35170370) |
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Date: January 16th, 2018 5:19 PM Author: Boyish Alcoholic Sanctuary Regret Agreed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2357401&forum_id=2#35170346) |
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Date: January 16th, 2018 5:06 PM Author: ultramarine place of business E T A Hoffman. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2357401&forum_id=2#35170236) |