Archive for: H.P. Lovecraft

Adapting Lovecraft

Adapting Lovecraft

On H. P. Lovecraft and his cartooning adherents.

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Hideously Inexpressible

Canonical writers of popular fiction — Stevenson, Wells, Conan Doyle, Poe— are usually renowned for lucid prose, deft allegory, vivid description, and, most of all, a mastery of pacing. H.P. Lovecraft is a titanic — or as he would say, a Cyclopean — exception. His prose is a clotted, lumbering mush, as if a septuagenarian [...]

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