“When I was at Brown. In other words, I'd heard about [H.P. Lovecraft], but I didn't pay that much attention till I happened to go to a meeting about it. And then I got just totally turned on.” PayAttentionHappenedHeardMeetingsBrownLovecraft Author:Paul Laffoley
“I started with "Pickman's Model," because it was about Boston. I mean, what I loved about [H. P. Lovecraft], at first is his sense of scholarship of an area, setting an environment, enlivening it. I think that's one of the secrets of writing.” ThinkingWritingFirstsMeanSecretEnvironmentModelsAreasSettingSettingsBostonScholarshipLovecraft Author:Paul Laffoley
“In other words, you've got a journey as the plot, but it has to be in a lively environment, being able to create the mood. If you read "Pickman's Model," in other words, they're winding their way through the Boston Streets and [H.P.] Lovecraft researched what was there.” IfsWayAbleEnvironmentJourneyStreetsModelsMoodPlotBostonLivelyLovecraft Author:Paul Laffoley
“I think [H. P. Lovecraft] knew the whole gamut. He just didn't believe any of it! He probably liked to use the esoteric stuff because he knew it would tick people off and freak them out.” PeopleThinkingBelieveWholeUseStuffFreakTickEsotericLovecraft Author:Paul Laffoley
“It's called "Pickman's Mephitic Models," based on the story [Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft].Certain things about it many people don't realize. Pickman was a real painter who lived between 1888 and 1926. Now, there's a question mark [gesturing toward the writing in the margins of the painting], because Lovecraft claims that he turned into a ghoul. God knows how old he is now.” PeopleKnowsWritingRealStoriesCertainRealizingKnow HowPaintingModelsClaimsMarkPainterGod KnowsMarginsGhoulsQuestion MarkLovecraft Author:Paul Laffoley
“I belong to the Lovecraft Society, which meets at the University. They do things like follow in Lovecraft's footsteps, just like he followed in Edgar Allan Poe's footsteps. I mean the actual footfalls, you know, like they're going out looking for sasquatch, this kind of stuff.” KnowsKindMeanStuffUniversityGoing OutFootstepsLovecraftAllan PoeSasquatch Author:Paul Laffoley
“I mean, these are really dedicated people [in Lovecraft Society] when it comes to [h.P.] Lovecraft. But in the top floor of the John Hay Library, you have all of Lovecraft's archives. And messing around in there, I noticed, I said, what are these paintings? And the librarian told me, "Well, those are Pickman's paintings." I said, "I thought this was like something he made up, like The Necronomicon, that kind of stuff." And he said no, that the guy actually existed.” PeopleWellsKindMeanMadeSaidGuyStuffPaintingLibraryDedicatedLibrarianLike SomethingArchivesHayLovecraft Author:Paul Laffoley
“Now, we know this is what [H.P.] Lovecraft was into. Because he kept talking about how he wasn't interested in religion. In a heaven state there is no religion, meaning that you're seeing the whole thing ... I mean, to worship something means that it's something beyond you, right? In other words, it's not being revealed to you.” KnowsMeanStatesWholeHeavenTalkingSeeingWorshipLovecraft Author:Paul Laffoley
“For years [H.P] Lovecraft was defined as an atheist. Well, he wasn't saying anything about what he really was at all. He wasn't even an agnostic. That's exactly what the situation is, in other words, when you enter an eternal realm. You've got to know there is no religion.” KnowsYearsWellsSituationEternalAtheistDefinedRealmsAgnosticLovecraft Author:Paul Laffoley
“The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't invent it, he just put it all in one package. You get twelve fat books there sitting in any library. Whereas... I think if Joshi thinks [H.P.] Lovecraft was doing anything like that, just throwing together all this stuff to form a kind of anti-mythology, that's where I would disagree with him.” IfsThinkingWorldKindBookWholeTogetherFormStuffSittingLibraryMythologyFatsThrowingDisagreeTwelvePackagesMedievalLovecraftSt Thomas Author:Paul Laffoley
“I think [H.P. Lovecraft] recognized what he was dealing with, he was dealing with demons. And he was dealing with creatures that're suffering. There's no way out of this suffering.” ThinkingWaySufferingCreaturesDemonLovecraft Author:Paul Laffoley
“You know, Mick Jagger's "Sympathy for the Devil." I think it was inspired by that [H.P.Lovecraft stories]. You don't know who's reading what, you know. It just comes out once in a while in the pop culture.” ThinkingKnowsStoriesCultureReadingDevilInspiredPopsPop CultureJaggerLovecraft Author:Paul Laffoley
“I would say that it's probably impossible for a lot of people to even think what H.P. Lovecraft's theological state was.” PeopleThinkingStatesImpossibleTheologicalLovecraft Author:Paul Laffoley
“H.P.Lovecraft could've been trying to do a Marx to Hegel, that kind of thing, in other words, turn the thing upside down and crawl around inside it. But, look, the guy was eating poorly, he had like a quart of ice cream a day. He was suffering constantly near the end. He wasn't concerned with his body at all, not the way we're concerned with our bodies nowadays.” WayTryingLooksKindEndsBodyGuySufferingTurnsEatingConcernedDown AndIceCreamIce CreamUpside DownHegelLovecraftThings Upside Down Author:Paul Laffoley
“[H.P.Lovecraft] is thrust into some kind of outer space realm, like here [pointing toward the painting in progress]. In other words, he's recognized he's gone through R'lyeh, the Sunken City of R'lyeh, and then Cthulhu, the extraterrestrial, calls his band of worshippers home to recognize him as the anti-christ. This is all in The Necronomicon, something Lovecraft actually did make up.” KindHomeChristSpaceCitiesGoneProgressPaintingBandRealmsPointingThrustOuter SpaceWorshippersExtraterrestrialLovecraftAnti Christ Author:Paul Laffoley
“The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview” BlindIdiotInterviewsAmazonCapriciousGodlikeLovecraftWeavers Author:China Mieville
“The situation has a real Lovecraft feel to it. Though, you know, if you come over it'll be more of an Anne Rice situation. If you know what I mean." "Who's-" "Because you're gay.” IfsKnowsFeelsMeanRealSituationGayOver ItRiceLovecraft Author:David Wong
“The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti – while his imaginative reach is something uniquely his own.” MastersGenreProseImaginativeLovecraft Author:S. T. Joshi
“H.P. Lovecraft is for the summer between junior and senior years in high school. Cosmic fear hits you about then anyway -- you realize you'll soon have to Get a Real Job or Go To College or Both and in those days, Be Drafted. A dose of Cthulhu helps put these feelings in perspective.” YearsRealHelpingFeelingsSchoolJobsRealizingCollegePerspectiveSummerHigh SchoolCosmicSeniorJuniorsDoseReal JobsSenior YearLovecraft Author:Howard Waldrop
“Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me” WayDoneLovecraft Book:Danse Macabre Source: Danse Macabre
“I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.” ThinkingDoubtCenturyHorrorTalesClassicTwentieth CenturyLovecraft Author:Stephen King