![]() I can't believe it's took me this long to get into it. No I didn't dress up for it! But that otherworldly, cosmic horror that was too terrifying to comprehend really captured my imagination. ![]() I've always liked the idea of Lovecraft's style of horror, since playing the Call of Cuthulu roleplay game in my teens. That was all the motivation I needed to read this famous tale. ![]() I already knew that HP Lovecraft is a tremendous influence on modern horror authors but was surprised when I was reading Mr X by one of my favourite authors, Peter Straub, and discovered that it was pretty much a homage to the man himself with The Dunwich Horror in particular featuring. ![]() "The dense, unvisited woods on those inaccessible slopes seemed to harbour alien and incredible things, and I felt that the very outline of the hills themselves held some strange and aeon-forgotten meaning, as if they were vast hieroglyphs left by a rumoured titan race who's glories live only in rare, deep dreams." ![]()
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