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Autismus Maximus Reborn said:
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This is slander against my cracka Howard. His early works may have leaned a little heavily on breathless uses of "indescribable," "incomprehensible," etc., but by the time he got to writing the stories that people generally think of when they think "Lovecraftian," he was doing the exact opposite thing. "At the Mountains of Madness" contains lengthy and precise descriptions of the Elder Things, and "The Shadow Out of Time" does the same with the Yithians. Even in a work like "The Colour [sic] Out of Space," which is explicitly dealing with something that is incomprehensible to humans and cannot be described, he still goes out of his way to try and show what its's like, giving lengthy descriptions of the meteorite's chemical and physical properties, and having one of the most visually exciting climaxes in all of horror literature.

He even is very explicit about the reasoning behind this in one of his most well-read stories! To quote from the narrator in "Pickman's Model":

And the queer part was, that Pickman got none of his power from the use of selectiveness or bizarrerie. Nothing was blurred, distorted, or conventionalised; outlines were sharp and life-like, and details were almost painfully defined. And the faces!
It was not any mere artist’s interpretation that we saw; it was pandemonium itself, crystal clear in stark objectivity. That was it, by heaven! The man was not a fantaisiste or romanticist at all—he did not even try to give us the churning, prismatic ephemera of dreams, but coldly and sardonically reflected some stable, mechanistic, and well-established horror-world which he saw fully, brilliantly, squarely, and unfalteringly. God knows what that world can have been, or where he ever glimpsed the blasphemous shapes that loped and trotted and crawled through it; but whatever the baffling source of his images, one thing was plain. Pickman was in every sense—in conception and in execution—a thorough, painstaking, and almost scientific realist.
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Anyway, thread image tax:

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