There was a time when I liked his fiction but recently I can't help but feel that it is just too pessimistic to be read, really. As I like to say, the opinion of a pessimist is worth nothing no matter how intellectual he is.
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shooraijin wrote:H.P. Lovecraft bothers me quite a bit. Kaori already mentioned the pessimism in his works, that people are ultimately powerless ants beneath the bestiary of the Elder Gods, but also the occultic elements and the fascination with obviously evil or highly primal/id-like creatures such as Cthulhu himself make me very uneasy with his works. Not all of this is spawned by his fans, either (although the fanfics themselves really run away with those concepts o.O).
As C.S. Lewis observed in the Screwtape Letters, it's not a good idea to have an abnormal fascination with demons, and the fact that Lovecraft always describes his Elder Gods as malignant puts them squarely in that category for me, fictional or not.
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