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Squeaked the geeky yet intrepid explorer as he descended the cyclopean steps of the twilit cavern.

• Spivak 11y ago
  I'm suddenly really interested in his stories because of how the universe was described, but is that really what his writing style is like?
  • 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y ago
    You tell us: http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/src.aspx http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/src.aspx
  • mrec 11y ago
    Nah, it doesn't use "gibbous", "squamous" or even "rugose" at all. Null points, 0xdeadbeefbabe, null points. Parody sites like http://thedoomthatcametopuppet.tumblr.com/ http://thedoomthatcametopuppet.tumblr.com/ actually give a pretty good sense of his signature style.
    • 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y ago
      “Things–presences or voices of some sort–could be drawn down from unknown places as well as to standard out.” is what I meant to say. Edit: Now I know puppet is horrible after all.
      • qznc 11y ago
        When I played with Markov chains, I used Lovecraft and some scientific papers. It mixed frighteningly well. Example: Field of research were allowed to deadlock, but I still intend to accept the situation might be available for a unification algorithm.
  • duskwuff 11y ago
    No; his real writing style is even more florid than that. Lovecraft's writing is marked by complex sentence structure and a heavy use of archaic terms. Compare the opening of "Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" for an example: http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/literature/lovecraft/novellas/dreamque.htm http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/liter...