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<blockquote data-quote="Hammerhead" data-source="post: 314903" data-attributes="member: 73"><p>Actually, in most of the Lovecraft stories I read, the characters usually seem more terrified than mad.&nbsp; They often think they're mad, because they see impossible things, but, assuming the narration is reliable, they don't seem in too bad of shape.&nbsp; From my point of view, the only stories (that I've read) in which the protagonist goes mad are The Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Insmouth (or whatever the one with fish people is called), and the one about the monkey (Arthur Jeryn?).&nbsp; In 2/3 cases, the character goes mad because he's not exactly human, and does deal with it well.&nbsp; In Shadow out of Time (where the guy is &quot;possessed&quot; by the creatures from the far past, and then tries to find evidence of them), the guy seems to actually be driven sane as he recovers his memories - assuming the stuff he found at the end was real and he didn't make it up.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Hammerhead, post: 314903, member: 73"] Actually, in most of the Lovecraft stories I read, the characters usually seem more terrified than mad. They often think they're mad, because they see impossible things, but, assuming the narration is reliable, they don't seem in too bad of shape. From my point of view, the only stories (that I've read) in which the protagonist goes mad are The Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Insmouth (or whatever the one with fish people is called), and the one about the monkey (Arthur Jeryn?). In 2/3 cases, the character goes mad because he's not exactly human, and does deal with it well. In Shadow out of Time (where the guy is "possessed" by the creatures from the far past, and then tries to find evidence of them), the guy seems to actually be driven sane as he recovers his memories - assuming the stuff he found at the end was real and he didn't make it up. [/QUOTE]

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