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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8809178" data-attributes="member: 4937">I think you are giving HPL way too much credit here, but I guess there is no harm in that.&nbsp; Like you, I don't want to discount the role of the reader in the communication either, least of all in rejecting the writer's take even once and especially once you understand it.For me though your take is tying back into my problem with attempting to scare modern readers with horror, in as much that even forced transformation and loss of humanity and an alien conspiracy that amounts to a cuckoo breeding strategy makes you shrug and go, &quot;Isn't it pretty!&nbsp; Look, he's coping with his mental illness by accepting his inner nature!&quot;You ever seen the original B&amp;W Dracula with Bela Lugosi?&nbsp; A real classic and worth watching, but it's impossible to watch as a modern viewer in the way it was originally received.&nbsp; Women were literally fainting with terror.&nbsp;&nbsp; The audience was screaming with horror.&nbsp; The original screening was so intense, that the actually edited the final release so that it never actually shows the vampires fangs because that was felt to be too graphic and horrifying.&nbsp; Now days, compared to the sort of stuff people take in and shrug at, it plays as a comedy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 8809178, member: 4937"] I think you are giving HPL way too much credit here, but I guess there is no harm in that. Like you, I don't want to discount the role of the reader in the communication either, least of all in rejecting the writer's take even once and especially once you understand it. For me though your take is tying back into my problem with attempting to scare modern readers with horror, in as much that even forced transformation and loss of humanity and an alien conspiracy that amounts to a cuckoo breeding strategy makes you shrug and go, "Isn't it pretty! Look, he's coping with his mental illness by accepting his inner nature!" You ever seen the original B&W Dracula with Bela Lugosi? A real classic and worth watching, but it's impossible to watch as a modern viewer in the way it was originally received. Women were literally fainting with terror. The audience was screaming with horror. The original screening was so intense, that the actually edited the final release so that it never actually shows the vampires fangs because that was felt to be too graphic and horrifying. Now days, compared to the sort of stuff people take in and shrug at, it plays as a comedy. [/QUOTE]

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