Monsters and Flowers

I know it’s not cool to like HP Lovecraft at the moment, but I really like HP Lovecraft. I agree with ST Joshi that he was closely connected to the world he was living in, yet that he was extremely progressive for his time, which you can see in his fiction, in his personal politics, and in the way he treated actual human beings. I’m not stanning him, but I don’t think he was a bad person or a bad writer.

I actually admire Lovecraft’s prose style a great deal, but it’s true that he had a few stories he really liked to tell, and that he told them over and over. Thinking about this made me realize that I have three types of stories I like to write.

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