moderan

Well, sure. Your points there are inarguable...and since the member I responded to is "banned" (at least theoretically), it's fighting a battle of wits with the unarmed. Or at the very least the literary equivalent of a seance.
The point of the thing was to say that there are markets for such fiction...and not to have others be discouraged by such negativity.

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lin

Same as before he was banned.

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moderan

So I've gathered. Not the first, the last, or the only one of those, I'm sure.
And yes, HPL pastiches are a cottage industry...and mocking the critters and settings is as well. I see there is a lolzcthulhu site, which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
Certainly Lovecraft had some problems as a human-but who doesn't? He had some problems as a writer also...his style is wordy and prone to digression, the pacing is determinedly Victorian, and a goodly percentage of the characters are cardboard cutouts. He certainly wasn't making a living selling pieces to Weird Tales, and spent far more time writing letters than he did working on salable text.
Still, the characters, concepts, and scenes he created have a certain resonance, and have managed to survive a number of interpretations of varying quality. His short book Supernatural Horror in Literature has moments of insight and is recommended reading for any aspiring horror writer.

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