Comments | ellakite: REVIEW: The 8th Annual H. P. Lovecraft Festival (Part One)

ellakite

REVIEW: The 8th Annual H. P. Lovecraft Festival (Part One)

Oct 19, 2016 17:18

Because someone explicitly asked me to post my opinion of what I saw at an early performance of THE 8TH ANNUAL H. P. LOVECRAFT FESTIVAL, I am doing so now. Overall, I generally enjoyed the presentations that I saw... but I will also admit that there were issues with both of them ( Read more... )

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anonymous October 20 2016, 04:53:38 UTC

Thank you! I'm not familiar with Lovecraft's work, in its original form, but I have been told that his work is referenced in much of what we take for granted in genre literature today.

Spoken theatre can be very intimate.

I hope you'll share your experience of the next installments. As for me, I am going to start reading Lovecraft.

murielle October 20 2016, 04:55:45 UTC

The above was from me. I forgot to log in. Sorry. :-)

ellakite October 20 2016, 11:45:36 UTC

No apologies needed regarding the log-in issue -- I've occasionally done the same thing myself.

To be specific, H. P. Lovecraft specialized in horror fiction... and Stephen King himself called Lovecraft "The Grandmaster of 20th Century horror". Sadly, Lovecraft's writing was not particularly respected while he was alive; he was destitute when he died in 1937.

Lovecraft's writing is now in the public domain in the United States, and so last year I was able to legally download a free PDF file containing all the stories that Lovecraft wrote or co-authored, so you should be able to do the same. I don't remember the exact web site where I acquired the file, but I'm sure there is more than one Internet site which hosts the stories. That being said, if you have any difficulty finding the tales on your own, please let me know and I'll see if I can track down an appropriate web site.