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HP Lovecraft’s TALES of TERROR! 18 spoooooopy horrors from the master of cosmic neuroticism, including
“Oh Shit Weird Smells Are They Actually Cooking an Octopus?”
“Oh Shit I’m Not Actually White”
“It Was Cold and Everything Was Built After 1850”
@Leucrotta you know who else I believe this applies to? Bach.
Iirc he was not that famous in his time, but rose to prominence later because an asshole started digging deep to prove the supremacy of German music
@Leucrotta I guess that would have probably happened to Bach regardless if he had been popular in his time, but it still just really hits me sometimes how what is famous now is highly dependent on the pure luck of it having had been (re)discovered.
I think almost the most hilarious thing about Lovecraft is how he became famous by NOT becoming famous. He was only kinda sorta a name as a pulp author, so when people were casting around for stuff to reprint for GIs a few years after his death, HPL's stuff was cheap, and after the war there was lots of it around. Suddenly a much broader audience was reading Lovecraft's work and going "hey actually this is pretty good."