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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 5016740" data-attributes="member: 5202">I'm glad you can read them and enjoy them.  I can't.  No idea if it's coincidence or not, but if it is, it's UNSPEAKABLE!!I think Hobo covers pretty well why it starts out well and goes south.We are discussing why an author does or does not evoke feeling and imagery for you.  I went ahead and gave some descriptions of something I've been reading recently that does a very good job of painting scenes in my head, plus he has a good command of language.  Maybe too many people around me took themselves far too seriously and went overboard anytime they would read Shakespeare, feeling the urge to perform it.  It certainly isn't anything I'm going to grab and read for fun.Actually the stage play directions are much more distracting to the story than the archaic style.There are plenty of examples of modern horror movies where you don't see the monster until near the end.  Along the way you get some shadows, maybe a quick view of part of it.  You have imagined a good portion of it thru careful reveal, but it isn't until the full final reveal that you have the whole picture.  Lovecraft either had final reveals that were very anti-climactic (All the buildup for THAT!?) or he never even gets past the most early stages of reveal.  Half of his monsters could have been anything.  lack of effective reveal is a large part of why his stories have een been scary or even creepy to me.</blockquote>

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