(urth) AEG: Is AEG Lovecraftian?

Adam Thornton adam at io.com
Mon Nov 3 13:11:15 PST 2008


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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