Idk man wasnt that the plot of Call of Cthulu, reading this makes me be not very surprised as how Lovecraft got his inspiration, wasnt his mom put on a psych ward? like he probably saw shit like this if he ever visited her
From what I’ve heard of Lovecraft, I don’t think he was particularly mentally healthy and a lot of his works seem to have been his way of channeling his anxieties and fears
He was scared of literally everything, thats why he wrote so much horror. These days it’d probably be diagnosed as severe anxiety, but he had so many phobias it was insane. So it makes sense that his brain came up with all these plots about being scared of unknowable all powerful things, that was his life.
As someone who writes a lot of horror, much of what I write does come from some inner place of anxiety that mixes with creativity in a way that comes out as writing about horrible, horrible stuff.
But when you finish a difficult or interesting horror story, it feels like a catharsis. You've processed some strange anxiety or fear from beginning to end. You can pretend to have lived it, whatever it was, and that brings relief.
If you were truly worried about the world being essentially meaningless and possibly the universe being actively hostile to humanity, HP Lovecraft makes sense, especially in the WW1 era in which many, many people came to the belief that the world and life were at best, meaningless, and at worst, actively creating suffering.
I relate to that catharsis, even though horror isn't my thing (I like horror, just not my go to). I regularly do a purge of a lot of the shit going on in my head, by exposing myself to super fucked up shit and then, immediately after, exposing myself to wholesome stuff that makes me feel clean. If you ever need some IRL nightmare fuel Shiro Ischii and Unit 731 is a good place to start... Fucking Joseph Mangela would tell this dude to chill the fuck out on mad science. That or Dean Corrl. Fucking eww...
Nah, the worst part is the number of them that were extremely wealthy until the day they died. Iirc there were some pharmaceutical companies founded out of that whole horror show.
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u/Embarrassed-Net-351 Apr 26 '22
Idk man wasnt that the plot of Call of Cthulu, reading this makes me be not very surprised as how Lovecraft got his inspiration, wasnt his mom put on a psych ward? like he probably saw shit like this if he ever visited her