03 September, 2005

Being Howard P. Lovecraft

Many times I wondered where did Lovecraft got the inspiration from is writings, in my "mini-search" for his origins on my trip to Providence I understood a couple of things, its easy when you actually see the attics, drains, woods and old streets where he lived.

But that's only the material part, thousand of other "Providenceer's" have gone and go through this same place and there's still only one Damned, Lovecraft.

Howard did not had a happy life (neither had his "mentor", Poe), but what always caught my attention is the generational horror that he inspired in his writings. One of his bios talk about his childhood in which Lovecraft spend most of is time locked in his house, reading books fom his grandfather's library.

Some kind of Hermit.

Now, these books, what kind of books could have sparked these damned images? I'll never know, but recently I've been adquiring some books that start to remind me of Lovecraft's Library: Bloom, Feyerabend, Hume, Khun, Campbell and Jung's Alchemy...

... and to think someone made a game out of this.

KX.- Damned.