yeah. i'm trying to resurrect it. guess i'm failing at it. ain't i?

Heh heh...not if we make enough replies to it.

I suppose you have officially resurrected one of the oldest topics on the forum. The original topic was along the lines of, "Is it possible that the Cthulhu Mythos contains a grain of truth?"

Lovecraft himself was of the opinion that it did, but not in the way one might expect. His tales reflected his philosophy, but the details were invented. He would tell anyone who asked that the Great Old Ones and the Necronomicon were fictional, and people did ask. It was the conceptual background that he considered valid.

"Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large. ...when we cross the line to the boundless and hideous unknown - the shadow-haunted Outside - we must remember to leave our humanity and terrestrialism at the threshold."
-H. P. Lovecraft

Discuss

yes i did. so here goes nothing
:it would seem to me that lovecraft might of open the doors to the past of humanity. with his stories. that is the dream of history more than what darwin came up with his theories of human origins. there is a common belief that humanity was influence by otherworldly intelligences. we find that in the stories of mesopotamia, egyptian, greek, and hebrew creation myths. i pretty much see lovecraft as robert e. howard and jrr tokkien trying to inspire us with the idea that we can lift ourselves up to a higher plane.

Lovecraft's writings are works of great Literature, nothing else. As such, they have far more authentic power than any bogus cult or supernatural faction. I do not say this to belittle those who practice the Dark Arts, I was once a Solitary Witch. But as a professional writer, I feel that we should honour Lovecraft's fiction as what he intended it to be -- the highest and noblest and most fantastic weird fiction in the history of Literature. I have found much magick in Lovecraft -- but it is the alchemy of ART. This, for me, is the most awesome force in existence.

Lovecraft was a writer in the vein of some of the writers that preceded him. Fortunately, his stories are much more interesting than others such as "The Great God Pan." Obviously he threw in some occult ideas in to the mix and being the solitary kind of person that he was, he was quite a bit more sensitive to things that others may never have recognized. It is no coincidence that he included mathematics and architecture into his stories. He realized the powers of change and the unsettling natures that certain things of that nature can have over people. Lovecraft was the last of the great mythologizers and perhaps this is why his stories have such a hold on certain individuals and why they are almost impossible to film correctly.