After about age fifteen I began to find Lovecraft a comforting old eccentric, not the least bit "horrifying". He's America's genteel poverty-stricken old peculiar for most of his fans, I think.
But before fifteen I couldn't read him at all. Too scary.
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Date: 2006-05-30 03:19 pm (UTC)But before fifteen I couldn't read him at all. Too scary.