Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown Page #11

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were into playing these Lovecraft "The Call Of Cthulhu" games and so forth

and they know all of the Lovecraft creatures but they had never ever read Lovecraft

and they don't know what his other stories were

his images are so utray and ghastly and macabre and colorful

that they influenced all kinds of rock n' roll bands

I think he also, literally appeals to the outsider

and the person who is not well-accepted in society, who is a little bit of a loner

I think one of the reasons of Lovecraft is so popular today

is that his view which is a very dark one, you know that man is lucky to be ignorant

I think it's what he used to say Because if he knew the truth he could either go crazy or he would kill himself, it's one that

everyone can relate to these days

Every election, you'll see the bumper sticker saying: "Vote for Cthulhu! Why settle for the lesser evil!"

such is Lovecraft's fame, that some occultists insist that the Cthulhu mythos

is no myth

I know every religion begins as the delusion of one or two people

and once enough people sign on, it's become the world view and as if you can inhabit in it

and live everyday life and no longer seemed sane and

when you are one of the very few who have believed in it there is a kind of intensity

that results in unbalanced character and that sort of

what I'm afraid of with cultists that

actually believed there are Old Ones

I think that every time somebody comes out with a world that's fully flashed on as Lovecraft creates

you are bound to find people that will start to speak in Klingon

or dressing like a "hobbit" to go to the supermarket or

believed they could really channel in a couple of Old Ones into their living room

You know and I believe that somebody have actually even died trying to evoke some of the Ancient Gods

I knew people that handled "Star Wars" this way

they were so absorbed in it, one of them wished it were true, you could tell

and another believed it was all true in a parallel world

and you know you began to go off to the deep den

so ,you know, I would defiantly not advised to put too much money or effort into

invoking that"Shoggoth" into the kitchen but, it's up to you

The oldest and strongest emotion of man kind is fear

and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

we live in a world in which

even if you don't know who "Cthulhu"is,even if you've never read any Lovecraft

you can kind of get the jokes

and well certainly far too many people not limits me imitating him too closely

he also had a profound influence on people divers as

Fritz Leiber, as Poppy Z Brite, Caitlin Kiernan, T.E.D Klein you name it

for me what the brilliance of Lovecraft, what so important about Lovecraft is, um

Is simply his imagination

it's incredible, to think that this guy who was this recluse living in this you know little house

In Providence, Rhode Island ends up spawning you know essentially modern-day horror

it's the duality of Lovecraft:

it's the fact that people can take the ideas almost as the basis of a religion

People can take the ideas from a serious academic point of view

or for a writing point of view and then you can

Then if you are just drawing great big monsters

Lovecraft has waiting for you to

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