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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 1513568" data-attributes="member: 149">I've never found HP Lovecrafts stories to be scary in the "Make you jump" sense, but they are somewhat unnerving at an intelectual level because of the kind of universe they present. His universe is a very cold, dangerous and indiffrent place. We're incapable of understanding that universe because trying to do so will drive you mad and essentially we are just ants scurring around the feet of the Old Ones, hoping that they won't accidentally squash us. There's an old saying that the thing about Aliens is that, they're Alien. HP was one of the few writers who ever really seemed to be able to capture that feeling. His Old Ones are alien. Which is one of the reasons why his stories occupy a place of respect for me. Personally, I would avoid any of the stories that were written by the other writers of the Mythos. It's incredibly easy to write a bad Mythos story, like most good horror movies what is suggested and implied is far scarier than what is laid out for you. A lesson that none of the other writers I've read seem to have figured out.</blockquote>