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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flexor the Mighty!" data-source="post: 1999047" data-attributes="member: 1013">I love Lovecraft.  When I read a story, the story and ideas are far more important than things like the dialog and the characterizations.  Not that they aren't important, but I can read a book with flat characters if the ideas behind the story are brilliant.  Whereas no matter how snappy the dialog is, if the ideas bore me I'm going to drop the book.  Lovecraft delivers very good stories IMO.  A wierd creepy vibe is very present througout, and I can get into the horror his characters are going through.   I don't get scared while reading a horror novel, if I will get scared it's becuase an idea of terror is planted in my brain and later I encounter something that brings it to the surface.  IT did that too me after I read it, I would be walking at night and I'd be half expecting the clown to peer at me in the distance.  When I read Stephen King's story "1408" I was was thinking I bet the phone is going to ring and I'm going to crap my pants when it does.  I was visualizing the scene in the book and it really creeped me out at the time.  I still think that's one freaky story. P.S. I think we should just call King a writer, he crosses too many genres to just be pidgeon holed as a horror novelist.</blockquote>