[Magdalen] Horror and Fantasy Fiction, Lovecraft style (and sex) was R.I.P. Justice Scalia

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 2/15/16 11:59 AM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> On 2/15/16 9:01 AM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>> Well, just to show how out of it I really am, I first heard Lovecraft's
>> name recently and thought he was one of the authors of the vampire and
>> zombie series that seem so popular right now! It founded like that
>> kind of
>> name.Since I have no interest in those or the popular novels about
>> dystopian worlds, I paid no further attention.  I'm basically trying to
>> catch up on all the classic books I should have read, but haven't. Just
>> finished *The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter*, which is our local Big Read book
>> for this year. Next is W.E.B. DuBoise's *The Souls of Black Folk, *and
>> then
>> ..........lots more! I WILL read *Moby Dick* before I die!!
>
> Yeah, "LoveCraft" is precisely the pen name that a Romance writer would
> pick!  ;^)  And most of those in the current fad _are_ basically
> Romance, with very attractive sexy vampires or werewolves and lots of
> titillating description of "sculpted" "six-pack" muscles (the
> photographic male models for the covers must spend lots and lots of time
> on those specific-muscle machines in the gym! But I suppose photoshop
> helps.)  I don't suppose you can blame the kids who read and write these
> things: they're somewhat interested in fantasy, supernatural, or
> "paranormal", as the buzzword goes, but their hormones keep their
> interest also on hot sex.
>
> But H.P.L. did his writing in the early years of the 20th century, in
> the middle years of which I was a kid, and he was already "classic"
> horror Fantasy.  It's been so long ago that his made-up words and names
> and places are part of the getting-elderly SF fan generation's
> vocabulary.  I don't remember that he had or displayed much interest in
> sex (except for the breeding process of the birth of horrible repulsive
> monsters).
>
>


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