I Write Like H. P. Lovecraft

caricature by Bruce Timm

Trying to catch up with some of my favorite bloggers, I decided to give one of Fresca's suggestions a try.

Giggle!

It turns out that I write like H. P. Lovecraft!

American literature's greatest bad writer...

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THE CRITICS CALLED H.P. LOVECRAFT (1890 - 1937) one of the worst writers of the twentieth century. But his cult of fans thought his weird tales made him one of the most compelling writers of all time. Born into an insane family, haunted by night terrors, Lovecraft led a double life...

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[A] pulp writer of passing fancy...

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The Lovecraftian style blends Dunsany with Burroughs...

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Why study H. P. Lovecraft? In the minds of some critics and scholars this question still evidently requires an answer, and will perhaps always require an answer so long as standard criticism maintains its inexplicable prejudice against the tale of horror, fantasy, and the supernatural. In the space I have I cannot hope to present a general defense of the weird tale; but I can at least suggest that Edmund Wilson's condemnation of Lovecraft's work as "bad taste and bad art" ("Tales of the Marvellous and the Ridiculous" [1945]) may, at the very least, have been a little myopic. Wilson wrote his offhand review forty-five years ago, and the vicissitudes of Lovecraft's recognition – his adulation in the science fiction and fantasy fan magazines of the forties; the stony silence of the fifties; Colin Wilson's vicious attack of Lovecraft as a neurotic in the sixties; and the systematic clearing away of misconceptions about the man and his work by his many supporters in the seventies and eighties – would make an interesting study in itself.

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Lovecraft... very skillfully crafted his works on the timeless horrors of the self facing the dark and unknown.
A variable writer...

I write like
H. P. Lovecraft

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{if you submit several writing samples to be analyzed, odds are that you will end up writing "like dan brown." i am not sure what that means. go on, give it a try -- you know you want to!}