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Old 07-09-2006, 11:45 PM
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Originally posted by urgeok
although i do enjoy his work .. i do find that lovecraft does one incredibly annoying thing - a lot ..

he will describe a creature as a thing of 'undescribable horror !!'
something that is so horrible to behold that it renders the viewer mad and uncomprehensible (in otherwords - too far gone to describe what he saw)

i can understand how he's attempting to build terror but after the second time it started to seem like a cop out - as if the octopus/whatever just didnt sound scary enough -and he knew it - so better just describe the terror of the person who saw it VS the thing itself..
HA!!! I knew I couldn't be the only one that thought Lovecraft was using that 'undescribable horror' bit to avoid having to describe it in detail!

I always thought I was some kind of horror genre geretic for thinoing that, but no more! :D
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