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I always wanted to do an homage to H.P. Lovecraft, the Grand Master of all horrors. I keep reading all his books over and over again, and everytime is like the first time, I surprised myself with all the amazing creatures, great landscapes and disturbing cosmic scenarios... a truly Master.My favorites stories?: 'The Dunwich Horror' and 'At The Mountains of Madness'
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No. Thank you for the giving Lovecraft the recognition he deserves 
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The Movie Adaptations don't give any justice to the books less than 10 minutes intoΒ Re-Animator i stopped watching they went to far off from the book in such a short amount of time
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One of things I love about Lovecraft is that he looked exactly like what central casting would want the actor who played him to look like.
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And yet Lovecraft had his critics. Lin Carter pointed out that he used a lot of shuddersome adjectives to describe a mood of terror, rather than create one. (A terrible valley, ghastly marble, unwholesome antiquity,a hideous proof [a watch interred in an old grave], the door rattled hideously...) .
Still, his reticence pales beside that of Arthur Machin.
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I think Lovecraft's strange choice of words fit his type of story perfectly.
His stories read like they were written by an alien that learned English from a dictionary and a mathematics textbook.
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That descript fits Clark Ashton Smith who DID just that to master English.
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Just that? He studied Both a dictionary AND a mathematics textbook. I Suppose I will have to look Ashton up.
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Β Sure you didn'tΒ commission Virgil Finlay to execute this ?Β
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Haha I'm pretty sure!!
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Yeeccchhh... Lovecraft. love the art man, but... His stuff needed Ol' man Henderson when he was writing em.
The man, talented though some think he was, was a strange, wretched little man. What people seem to not grasp is that when they read his stuff, they're seeing the world through the eyes of a sick delusional soul. Because he couldn't understand the world, he despised it and all within. He spent his days in his box and took spear thrusts at all and sundry because his rigid little mind couldn't wrap around things like the theory of relativity.
He was an outright racist (see his work The Negro) God and religious person despising nebish to boot. He was afraid of literally everything as well. Fat people, the cold, anyone who wasn't white, (his works on half fish people, for example, was based from his fear of the "Races" mixing) New York, doctors, disease, sea food, the list goes on.
He was a man to be pitied, but sadly a man beyond help
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Thank you for allowing The-Dark-Arts to share this great artwork on Lovecraft's 125th birthday today!
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Sure no problem, I'm glad that you liked it!
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Reminds me of that painting "The Hands Resist Him" but yours is way more artfully done.
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Great work! I love how Lovecraft looks. I especially like the background.
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Lovecraft. . . opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me.... it is his shadow, so long and gaunt, and his eyes, so dark and puritanical, which overlie almost all of the important horror fiction that has come since.β
Β - Stephen King
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You've made my day and earned yourself another watcher. Well done and keep up the good work!
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Great work man! Definitely nailed the HPL feel.
Yeah AtMoM is one of his greats, lets just hope Del Toro can finally get the movie adaptation done.
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Great, many thanks!
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Hi. I run a magazine called Surreal Grotesque and for October we are doing a tribute to Lovecraft issue. I love your art and I was wondering if you would let us use some of your pictures for that issue. All credit would remain with you and I could run a small bio. You can see the magazine here: www.surrealgrotesque.com. We are legit and also have a book on Amazon called: Aliens, Sex and Sociopaths. Unfortunately I canβt pay for art right now, all I can offer is exposure, we do have over 1000 fans on Facebook. Thank you for your time. Let me know what you think or email me at Surrealgrotesque77@hotmail.com.
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He has a nice, rugged jaw and a stern gaze. Not the type one would want to mess with.
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One of the best Lovecraft portraits I've ever seen. He was indeed a pioneer of modern horror. My own favorites include "The Call of Cthulu" and "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth."
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Cool, many thanks for your words!
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I love this piece! An amazing tribute to the master of the wierd science horror genere!
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This deviation certainly deserved a DD. Bravo!
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I am still amazed how many people have not read or even heard of Lovecraft. I once was disscussing him with this blonde I met at a friend's party and she thought I was talking about a porno film.
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Beautiful!
I think that's exactly how he used to see the world!
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I agree with you in that!, H.P. Lovecraft stories are awesome!! but I read his biography quite tragic like Hemingway.. really sad.. Another one that I like, a favorite I should say is Dante's Divine Comedy.. O__<
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He was such a creepy, scared, sad man. You really captured how messed up he was here.
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This is awesome.. would I be able to share this pic on my Horror page? I will of course credit you for it
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Thank you! yup no problem
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Sorry for late reply, Thank you for letting me share it. You have some awesome pics of old school horror characters which I'd love to share, would that be ok
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