H.P. Lovecraft is the author that has had the most impact on my writing (oddly, the close second is Bob Salvatore. i havent written any fantasy in years) I figured i would start a little shrine to the man, considering some of the younguns (and some of the olduns) here are woefully undereducated on him.
here is a great site:
http://www.hplovecraft.com/
i have found some excellent artists who have done great pics of many of his creatures. I'll post them as i dig them up again.
He originally was from Newb's neck of the woods (Rhode Island), and set the stage for Stephen King to make New England out to be a hellhole of inbreds and monsters.
His motto should hacve been the same as Guinness "Often imitated, never copied" (i think thats guinness....)
He brought weird to a whole new level, and is pretty phenominal for not really wiriting too many stories on old subjects (not really any vampires or werewolves in Lovecraft)
And you have to respect a guy who makes up an entire pantheon that is still being added to and pulled from now.
Now, maybe someday they will make a GOOD movie based on one of his stories. Dagon was just a crappy, bastardized version of "Shadow over Innsmouth". They even named the spanish city where it was set "imbocca" (spanish for "In Mouth"):rolleyes: