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Lovecraft had a amazing way of setting up eldritch situations and nameless horrors, didn't he?EofK said:^Oh, definitely! I made the mistake of reading the book I mentioned when our daughter was still waking up to eat every two hours at night and the story was so good I couldn't help read it... even at 3 am in a quiet, dark house. I can't count the times I had to cross myself walking down our the hallway back to bed!
Did you know that he was also very fond of cats? Here is a link to an essay he wrote:
http://terror.snm-hgkz.ch/lovecraft/html/catsdogs.htm
I love the line
"I have no active dislike for dogs, any more than I have for monkeys, human beings, tradesmen, cows, sheep, or pterodactyls; but for the cat I have entertained a particular respect and affection ever since the earliest days of my infancy."
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