I had just read a few Edgar Allen Poe stories before reading
Lovecraft, the writing style is very similar so the transition was very easy
for me. In fact, what I loved about Lovecraft was how much better I could
understand the writing. Which shows a modernization in writing techniques and
language, Poe had me regularly googling words I simply couldn’t understand.
Reading Kwaidan also prepared me for the atmospheric nature of The Unnamable, so
that I could better imagine the setting and also appreciate the speculative
journey I was going on as more details were being given to me. That build up
led to a great description of a creature that really caught me off guard, I
have never read Lovecraft before and since this was written in the 20s I had no
idea something like this would be written back then. I’m not sure if this was
meant to scare the reader, but maybe back then it did, I got the idea it was
trying to scare me with the way it was first about these 2 guys sitting on a
tomb, trying to convince each other of their differing beliefs, and out of no
where this terrible creature ambushes them. The very fact it was set in a
graveyard set up that horror vibe too, and the way Joel kept giving into his
fear of the unknown leading him to crack at the end gave me that same feeling
as well.
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