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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1910124" data-attributes="member: 2205">Naturally, many people don't.&nbsp; However, I think some objective analysis of his craft as a horror writer can be done, and it's not good.&nbsp; He lacks the craft.&nbsp; He apparently thought that constantly saying something was scary (along with a lot of eldritch, blasphemous, Cyclopean, and other arcane vocabulary) was an acceptable substitute for actually making it scary.Quite often the people who disagree with me say, &quot;it's an intellectual kind of horror&quot; which is more or less the same as what I said; he's got some good ideas, but lousy execution.&nbsp; Frankly, one of the best executions of the Mythos is the d20 conversion of the CoC game.&nbsp; That's got more actual horror atmosphere then anything Lovecraft himself wrote.Quite right.&nbsp; And unfortunate, because then they miss out on what the idea of the Mythos really is.&nbsp; It has rarely been translated well by his imitators or pastiche authors.&nbsp; Even folks like Brian Lumley and August Derleth seemed to miss the point.Indeed.&nbsp; Although I thought of making the same point as demiurge1138, so at least there's an excuse.&nbsp; As for how I pronounce it; exactly as it looks: k-'thūl-hū, so alternate spellings affect how I'd say it a bit.&nbsp; Cthulu would be pronounced k-'thūl-ū, for example.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 1910124, member: 2205"] Naturally, many people don't. However, I think some objective analysis of his craft as a horror writer [i]can[/i] be done, and it's not good. He lacks the craft. He apparently thought that constantly [i]saying[/i] something was scary (along with a lot of eldritch, blasphemous, Cyclopean, and other arcane vocabulary) was an acceptable substitute for actually [i]making[/i] it scary. Quite often the people who disagree with me say, "it's an intellectual kind of horror" which is more or less the same as what I said; he's got some good ideas, but lousy execution. Frankly, one of the best executions of the Mythos is the d20 conversion of the CoC game. [i]That's[/i] got more actual horror atmosphere then anything Lovecraft himself wrote. Quite right. And unfortunate, because then they miss out on what the idea of the Mythos really is. It has rarely been translated well by his imitators or pastiche authors. Even folks like Brian Lumley and August Derleth seemed to miss the point. Indeed. Although I thought of making the same point as demiurge1138, so at least there's an excuse. As for how I pronounce it; exactly as it looks: k-'thūl-hū, so alternate spellings affect how I'd say it a bit. Cthulu would be pronounced k-'thūl-ū, for example. [/QUOTE]

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