Comments on: A Haunted Mind

By: purrlcat

purrlcat — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:08:39 +0000

Well, Lovecraft liked cats, so that is a plus in my book….

By: HulkSmashNow

HulkSmashNow — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:50:09 +0000

I wonder if the author touches on Lovecraft’s relationship with Conan the Barbarian creator (among other great fictional characters) Robert E. Howard, another gifted writer with few social skills and a penchant for bigotry.

By: Fhqwhgads

Fhqwhgads — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:02:23 +0000

I profoundly disagree with calling him a “tremendously gifted writer.” He wrote like a 9th grader who had just been introduced to Roget’s Thesaurus. That, together with a ridiculously exaggerated fear of seafood, is all that distinguishes him from any of a thousand hacks.

By: alan borky

alan borky — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:47:51 +0000

Nick I don’t know if this point’s brought out in the book but to be fair to Lovecraft nowadays many of his difficulties’d be attributed to autism with all the inabilities to relate to or identify with others and even oneself that can bring about.

Add to which he was born to elderly parents by the standards of the time with all the social and emotional remoteness that can result from that.

Plus he lived with the knowledge from an early age not only’d his dad gone off his rocker but he himself might eventually end up in a padded cell too.

By: coelacanth1938

coelacanth1938 — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:41:10 +0000

Lovecraft scholars positively hate this book. It is full of lies and outright ignorance. It is doubtful that the ‘author’ has read more than a few of Lovecraft’s stories. It is painfully obvious that “A Haunted Mind” is no more than a feeble attempt to capitalize on H. P. Lovecraft’s popularity. Dr. Curran should be very grateful that the Mythos are mere fiction, or otherwise H. P. Lovecraft fans would be summoning a virtual army of unearthly horrors to settle his hash.