"The most primitive and intense human emotion is fear, and the oldest and strongest fear is the unknown."
The person who can really manipulate people's hearts, who does not exist, but who can manipulate fear, is called H.P. Lovecraft Lovecraft.
He is an American horror science fiction writer who wrote more than 70 short and medium-length horror fantasy novels during his lifetime.
With Ellen. Poe, Ambrus. Burse is also known as "America's three great horror novelists".
Master of horror Stephen. King called him "the greatest writer of classical horror fiction of the last century".
His work built a mythological system for later generations - Cthulhu.
It is understandable that he is the dark version of Andersen.
Hans Christian Andersen sings the praises of truth, goodness and beauty, and the story often results in the beautiful princess and the brave prince living happily ever after.
And Lovecraft's work is full of pessimism.
He believes that people are very small, just a small race in the universe that cannot help the wind.
There are dominators beyond man, and The Other Gods beyond the universe.
The human mind simply cannot understand races other than itself, so the universe is extremely terrifying and cruel for human beings.
Human beings can only abide by the world they live in, and if they cross the border to explore the mysterious realm outside of themselves, they will be killed.
His life was as difficult as a curse.
He died young at the age of 47, and was not famous in his lifetime, and was only valued after death.
Many of his works were published by friends after his death, and he made a fortune.
Today, although his titles are more than the combined of several contemporary horror masters, these honors can no longer be enjoyed by death.
He was unable to complete his studies due to frailty, family bankruptcy, mental breakdowns, and his parents died one after another...
By the time he died of cancer, he had never published a single book.
Psychosis seemed to have been choked up from the moment he was born like an evil spirit that could not be shaken off. Lovecraft
He lost his father at the age of 8, and his father happened to die of mental illness.
When he was 3 years old, his father was diagnosed with mental illness and sent to a mental hospital.
He hardly ever felt what his father loved, and his father was almost absent from his entire life.
When he was 14 years old, his grandfather, the pillar of the family, died, and the family fell into poverty ever since.
When I was almost 30 years old, my mother was also diagnosed with mental illness and went to my father's mental hospital.
Two years after admission, the mother died of mental illness.
The death of relatives one after another has caused a big blow to the young. Lovecraft
At one point, he was replaced by major depression and tried suicide countless times. As for himself, he has not been normal since he was a child,
And he was too weak to go to school, so he hid at home to read Edgar Allan Poe's horror novels.
However, he loved astronomy, which inspired his imagination and thinking about the universe.
He always stayed up late studying science and astronomy, as well as reading and writing, and began to fall asleep at dawn.
So he has a blood-sucking zombie-like pale face.
It was only when he was 27 years old that he actually published his first horror novel. Lovecraft
Although he kept writing, it didn't make him live better.
In addition to causing a nervous breakdown, poverty also caused him to be malnourished for many years. Lovecraft
He was diagnosed with small bowel cancer at the age of 46 and died the following year.
After he died, he didn't even have a separate tombstone, so he engraved his name on the tombstone of his mother's family.
Many years later, he became popular, and the fans who loved him erected a monument to him.
The tablet is inscribed with I AM PROVIDENCE.
It has both the meaning of the Provençal people and the meaning of the devotee.
Oh yes, he only got married when he was 34.
His wife said that Lovecraft on the matter of sex, compared... Indifferent.
When he married at the age of 34, he was still a virgin.
Every time his wife asked to roll the sheets, he would be frustrated.
In the end, the marriage lasted only a few short years.
It's such a sad person
What kind of dark world has been created?
It's a dreaming physique. Lovecraft
From the age of 6, he would wake up at night with nightmares, and the terrifying scenes and people and things in his dreams became the inspiration for his creations.
This is the prototype of the terrifying creature he portrayed in The Cthulhu Mythos.
His horror stories all have a clear routine:
The protagonist stumbles upon a terrifying thing that violates natural common sense in his life, and is driven by curiosity and desire for survival, he continues to explore, and finally goes crazy or dies.
The horror things in these works are very magical.
Sometimes weird-looking mysterious species, sometimes eerie mysterious places.
And his best writing technique is to leave white space and let you think for yourself.
Now, turn off the lights and let's feel this horrible void.
The following story, condensed from his short horror novel "Dagon"
During World War I, I sailed alone to uninhabited waters in the Pacific Ocean and was captured by the German Navy. On the fifth day of my captivity, I stole a small boat to escape, and drifted alone in the boundless sea for two days and two nights. When I woke up, I found myself in a desolate swamp full of rotting fish and animal carcasses. As I crossed this muddy field for help, I accidentally found a mysterious stone tablet carved with strange hieroglyphs and reliefs of a strange creature that was half human, half fish.
At this moment, there was a loud noise, and I looked in the direction of the sound, and a huge creature slowly appeared in the distance, exactly like the terrifying creature depicted on the relief. I was scared half to death and ran frantically back to my boat, after which I fell into a coma. When I woke up again, I found myself in a hospital bed in San Francisco.
"Could that be just an illusion?" After escaping from the German battleship, I was exposed to the sun on an unsheltered boat and lost my mind?" Whenever I ask myself this, a vivid picture of horror emerges before my eyes: "I dream that one day they will rise out of the waves and drag weak human beings exhausted by war into the deep sea with their fetid giant claws; I dream that one day the earth will sink and the dark ocean floor will rise in the noise of the universe." Suddenly, I heard a bang on the door, and a slippery huge body slammed heavily against the door.
Oh no! I won't be found by it, will I?! Oh, my God! That hand ~~~ah~ah~ah~
After reading this story, probably 7% of babies will have nightmares tonight.
You don't know what this terrible creature is, and you don't make it clear. Lovecraft
So when you finish reading this story, you will also be like me, trapped in endless fantasies and imaginations, torturing yourself.
This mythical system created was later known as the "Lovecraft Cthulhu System".
During his lifetime, the Cthulhu Mythos was only a concept, not a real system.
After his death, a friend named Dres, sorted out and perfected all his works, added a lot of new content, and gradually formed the Cthulhu mythos system today.
The charm of the Cthulhu Mythos lies in its unique worldview:
Human beings are fragile, facing the vast universe and unknown darkness, too much curiosity and exploration will eventually lead to death.
In his novels, readers are given a psychological cue everywhere:
Beyond your field of vision, there is hostile darkness everywhere, which may not immediately rush over, but it surrounds you all the time, and these sleeping sealed old dominators, once awakened, will cause incomparable disaster.
This worldview, in the 20th century with the rapid development of human science, is a fear and resistance to science.
With this little bit of human strength, to explore the earth and the universe is simply death.
Such a negative energy idea, in the 20th century with Einstein, was obviously not respected.
But now?
In the battle against nature, the losses of human beings are really too heavy.
Aren't the frequent occurrences of natural disasters caused by global warming all punishment for human arrogance?
Isn't the outbreak of the global new crown epidemic a satire on human beings claiming to be the highest level of the food chain?
Looking at the current mainstream movies and games, Cthulhu has long been silently invaded.
There are too many works influenced by Cthulhu, such as the horror game "Silent Hill", which was inspired by Stephen King's novel "The Mist", and the Mist was influenced by Cthulhu.
There is also Arkham Asylum in Batman, which is from the story of Lovecraft.
There is also an episode in South Park where Cthulhu kills Justin Bieber.
The object "Book of the Dead" that appeared in the movie "Ghost Playman" is also derived from his story.
The most complete collection of horror novels in the country, Lovecraft
"Book of the Dead" was also a prenatal education book for my family's little winter melon, and it took Seventh Brother two full years to gnaw this thick brick-like divine book.
I have to seriously think about what is the meaning behind the dark power?
By chance, I discovered an amazing coincidence,
Psychosis in the art world - Van Gogh, died on July 29, 1890.
After 23 days,
On August 20, 1890 was born a neuropathy in the literary world - Lovecraft,
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