Kay Shapero wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 KS> on Jan 27 05 12:06, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Robert Bull:

 RB>> Did you ever read Lovecraft?  I haven't, so wondered if he's
 RB>> classified  fantasy, horror, either with an admix of SF, or what.

 RJT> I've not read any that I recall,  but from what I rememeber hearing 
 RJT> about his stuff it's more horror than anything else.

 KS> A bit of all three, really.  Usually the protagonist slowly (or not
 KS> so slowly) discovers something that horrifies him (the picturesque
 KS> villiage with not-quite-human inhabitants, weird alien lifeforms
 KS> frozen in Antarctica, but not QUITE dead, the ancient tome with
 KS> unthinkable contents), then goes mad or gets carried off by
 KS> something nightmarish or something along those lines.  Mind you,
 KS> after awhile a number of Lovecraft's friends, including Robert
 KS> Bloch, Clark Ashton Smith and August Derlith joined in writing in
 KS> his universe, inventing more and more weird gods, naming characters
 KS> after each other (witness references to the Atlantean priest,
 KS> Klarkashton), even killing each other off in weird ways.  After
 KS> awhile, it gets a little silly.  I've been known to play around
 KS> with his universe myself, though not being horrified by space and
 KS> time I wouldn't call the result horror, exactly.

 KS> Be it noted that not EVERYTHING HPL came up with was in what's
 KS> referred to as the "Cthulhu Mythos" - he also did some pretty good
 KS> fantasy in the mode of Lord Dunsany, which is worth looking for.

Hm.

Well,  if any of it were to come my way,  I wouldn't turn it down.  I'm at
the point,  though,  where I don't buy anywhere near as much stuff as I
used to, there's just too much of it out there,  and I apparently only have
a finite amount of space for books -- who'd a thunk it!  :-)

I'm happy to also be collecting stuff in electronic form,  while I'm at it. :-)

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