NickolausPacione
I know there are many kinds of horror out there now but I was wondering if anyone out there writes dark traditional horror.
Urk. By comparison, Lovecraft's relatively sane and stable narrator persona is affected by events in a far more realistic and, to this reader, comprehensible manner, and usually without running around like an overmelodramatic chicken with no head. Maybe his dialogue is poor but Lovecraft is a better story and character builder. That's my "in a nutshell" interpretation anyway. Opinions are bound to differ, but I'm going to stick with my original stuffy and outdated assessment as far as Poe's work is concerned. I read Poe first and Lovecraft second, and I certainly know which I prefer. Not everything, mind, but some stories are highly memorable and when I think horror, I think of HPL. Poe's reputation benefits much from the film industry's treatment of his work.Almighty God! --no, no! They heard! --they suspected! --they knew! --they were making a mockery of my horror!-this I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! and now --again! --hark! louder! louder! louder! louder!