Lovecraft indeed ignited my horror-fantasy imagination in 1964 when I was 14. My Mom had brought home from the library for me a copy of The Dunwich Horror and Others. From that time on I was hooked on his cosmic horror. And, although he was an atheist, as a devout Catholic lad at the time, I felt a strange affinity and even familiarity with HPL's "liturgical" texts and conceptions - as when in The Dunwich Horror, Prof. Armitage reads a section of The Necronomicon over the hulking shoulder of Wilbur Whateley. What a cosmic, dark, trans-human document - and literary achievement!
@5:45 Lovecraft basically had to ditch the wife to get back his muse
Great interview.
Lovecraft indeed ignited my horror-fantasy imagination in 1964 when I was 14. My Mom had brought home from the library for me a copy of The Dunwich Horror and Others. From that time on I was hooked on his cosmic horror. And, although he was an atheist, as a devout Catholic lad at the time, I felt a strange affinity and even familiarity with HPL's "liturgical" texts and conceptions - as when in The Dunwich Horror, Prof. Armitage reads a section of The Necronomicon over the hulking shoulder of Wilbur Whateley. What a cosmic, dark, trans-human document - and literary achievement!
Darkness was His muse. When He returned to the black his font recharged and grew.