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Old 07-22-2005, 07:47 AM
Miskatonic Miskatonic is offline
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Lovecraftian?

I wouldn't really agree that EoS is quite "Lovecraftian." The Great Old Ones in Lovecraft are really not malevolent or cruel... they're just horrifically alien and indifferent to human suffering. Just like I don't go around seeking the smush ants, but I don't have any grief about poisoning an entire anthill if I need to.

Maybe "Derlethian" would be a better descriptor... but I suppose that doesn't quite have the same ring.

"Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft" is of course not a phrase that can be called into question. But, uh, it has in the past been used to promote some truly wretched crap.

None of this is a knock to EoS, by the way. But I think literary "purists" may be a little taken aback by this particularly depraved (and I mean that in the most complimentary way!) vision.
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