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H. P. Lovecraft

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There's a book called The Dark Gods by Anthony Roberts and Geoff Gilbertson, which mixes the ideas of HP Lovecraft with those of John Keel. It's out of print now (it came out in the early 1980s), but second hand copies aren't too hard to come by (I got a copy of ebay a few years ago reasonably cheaply). It takes the idea that Keel's ultraterresterials and Lovecraft's Old Gods are one and the same and they're working to cause chaos, fear and misery on Earth, it speculates they feed off negative emotions. If anyone's familiar with the comic strip Slaine, Pat Mills was inspired to base the Cythrals on the ideas in this book.
As far as I remember, a large part of Lovecraft's inspiration came fom dreams he'd had. Ironically, he was quite a rationalist, so I'd imagine the speculation that he hit on some ultimate truth would have him spinning in his grave!
 
xLordSummerislex said:
There's a book called The Dark Gods by Anthony Roberts and Geoff Gilbertson, which mixes the ideas of HP Lovecraft with those of John Keel. It's out of print now (it came out in the early 1980s), but second hand copies aren't too hard to come by (I got a copy of ebay a few years ago reasonably cheaply). It takes the idea that Keel's ultraterresterials and Lovecraft's Old Gods are one and the same and they're working to cause chaos, fear and misery on Earth, it speculates they feed off negative emotions. If anyone's familiar with the comic strip Slaine, Pat Mills was inspired to base the Cythrals on the ideas in this book.
As far as I remember, a large part of Lovecraft's inspiration came fom dreams he'd had. Ironically, he was quite a rationalist, so I'd imagine the speculation that he hit on some ultimate truth would have him spinning in his grave!
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Is there an online source?
 
I've had a quick look but I can't find a scanned copy of it online, anyone got a better idea of where to look? The second hand copies I've just seen online were a good bit more expensive than what I paid for it, Oxfam Online are selling it for £25- it's an enjoyable read but I wouldn't pay that much for it.
 
Experiencer7 said:
True. But I would rather confine the search to literary and historical influences.
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Well, I see what you're getting at however I think being raised by his mother, who had a history of mental illness, could have had some impact on both the formation of his personality but his literary muse as well. I need to drag his bio off the shelf and look through it again for clues.
 
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