“In terms of reading, the early Bradbury played a part (although I did not discover him until my teens), the early Bloch, and a number of '40s paperback editions of Lovecraft that I found in an aunt’s attic. Lovecraft struck me with the most force, and I still think, that for all his shortcomings, he is the best writer of horror Fiction that America has yet produced”…
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Lovecraft was very imaginative, but he was a medocre writer at best, with prose that’s alternately stilted and self-consciously purple.
… and yet, here we are.