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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
oh well, who wasn't a racist back then
but that's beside the point, i think what makes lovecraft's stories
so difficult to translate onto the screen is because he tries to conjur
up images completely detached from reality and everyday experience
and doing that visually is a quite difficult task.
i think the only one i've seen is Dagon and it was a mess.
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I agree, as long as his works aren't hate literature or propaganda for his beliefs, the guy was a great horror writer and is seen as such. Would you all disparage Hunter S. Thompson for being a drug user?
Sure it certainly isn't exactly something you would want in a role model but all of that aside he was a fantastic writer who crafted worlds that people love to be in so much that fans created their own studies of his mythology.
And on his poem that Crowquill quoted, sure he wrote that but how many times did Mark Twain use that word throughout the books and stories he wrote, remember the "N bomb" was a commonly used word to describe black people up until the middle twentieth century.