AEG: Is AEG Lovecraftian?

Adam Thornton · 03 Nov 2008, 21:11 · from 2008-November.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:11:15 -0600
Subject: (urth) AEG:  Is AEG Lovecraftian?
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On Nov 3, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Dave Tallman wrote:

> Even Lovecraft allowed the forces of good to succeed sometimes, for  
> example in "The Dunwich Horror." Even he could not help rooting for  
> humanity against the monsters.

One can make the argument that "The Dunwich Horror" is like that  
precisely *because* it is a Machen pastiche, and Arthur Machen was a  
Christian who did not share the Lovecraftian view of the world.  That,  
indeed, is exactly Ken Hite's argument.

Adam
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