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<blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5018582" data-attributes="member: 80487">I think Lovecraft's importance to D&amp;D lies in his being a writer not so much of &quot;horror&quot; in particular as -- naturally enough, in the context -- of fantasy. Much of his work also falls into the overlapping science-fiction category, as the fantastic is clearly &quot;technological&quot; and the gods and monsters extraterrestrial but not supernatural. File him with the (once much more famous, I think) Abe Merritt.The stories of his &quot;dream cycle&quot; are at first clearly imitative of the great Lord Dunsany. &quot;The Doom That Came to Sarnath&quot;,&nbsp; &quot;The Cats of Ulthar&quot;, &quot;Celephais&quot;, &quot;The Other Gods&quot;, &quot;The White Ship&quot; and &quot;The Quest of Iranon&quot; are, I think, in the same vein as that which led to the sword and sorcery tales of Clark Ashton Smith, Fritz Leiber and Jack Vance.&quot;The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath&quot; is a tour de force, but shorter works may be preferable if his style does not suit one's ear.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ariosto, post: 5018582, member: 80487"] I think Lovecraft's importance to D&D lies in his being a writer not so much of "horror" in particular as -- naturally enough, in the context -- of [I]fantasy[/I]. Much of his work also falls into the overlapping science-fiction category, as the fantastic is clearly "technological" and the gods and monsters extraterrestrial but not supernatural. File him with the (once much more famous, I think) Abe Merritt. The stories of his "dream cycle" are at first clearly imitative of the great Lord Dunsany. "The Doom That Came to Sarnath", "The Cats of Ulthar", "Celephais", "The Other Gods", "The White Ship" and "The Quest of Iranon" are, I think, in the same vein as that which led to the sword and sorcery tales of Clark Ashton Smith, Fritz Leiber and Jack Vance. "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" is a tour de force, but shorter works may be preferable if his style does not suit one's ear. [/QUOTE]

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