H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast Forums
May 25, 2013, 05:20:46 AM *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

Login with username, password and session length
News: If you encounter any unknowable eldritch forum problems, shoot Manndroid a missive at mmann(at)modsprocket(dot)com!
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register  
H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast Forums > Mythos Matters > Lovecraft Literary Talk (Moderators: Genus Unknown, Kaelestes) > HPL Ghost Story
Pages: [1]
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: HPL Ghost Story  (Read 935 times)
stevenroy
Blissfully Ignorant
*
Posts: 37



View Profile WWW Email
« on: September 22, 2010, 08:25:20 PM »
Question:  Did HPL ever write a straight ghost story?  If not what would be the closest thing to a ghost story?
Logged
Kaelestes
Cultist
Mind-Blasted
*****
Posts: 384


SI.VM E.T AV.VM


View Profile WWW
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2010, 10:23:58 PM »
Perhaps The Haunter of the Dark with its creepy abandoned church and the haunter that haunts it? Grin I don't know of any straight ghost stories - I doubt Lovecraft was much for ghosts with his aversion to religion and propensity for science - but a lot of his tales have a similar feel.
Logged
The Colour scorched my lands
 and burned away my family.
  Need money for Eldersign.
old book
Committed for Life
******
Posts: 1347


View Profile
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2010, 10:24:08 AM »
Wasn't Two Black Bottles sort of a straight ghost story?
Logged
We live on a placid Rhode Island and Providence Plantations of ignorance in the midst of the black seas of an infinity of dark foreigners, and it was not meant that we should voyage too far.
Genus Unknown
Cultist
Committed for Life
*****
Posts: 1186


Spam Buster


View Profile
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2010, 05:29:55 PM »
More of a zombie story, really.

Let's see... there was "The Ghost-Eater," (pretty bad) and I think "Deaf, Dumb and Blind," (but I haven't read that one) with C.M. Eddy, Jr.

"The Tomb" is kind of a ghost story. And "The Temple," kinda sorta not really.
Logged
weird:[140] -- Weird Fiction in 140 Characters or Less
stevenroy
Blissfully Ignorant
*
Posts: 37



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2010, 09:02:54 PM »
Thanks,

I was mostly just curious as I know a lot of his contemporaries and those that came before him (not necessarily influences) wrote a great deal of ghost stories.

I will definitely look at some of the suggested stories in this thread, so thanks a lot.
Logged
stevenroy
Blissfully Ignorant
*
Posts: 37



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2010, 09:02:33 PM »
I just read The Shunned House.  It's kind of a ghost story.
Logged
Wilbur Whateley
Blissfully Ignorant
*
Posts: 2



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2012, 03:13:29 PM »
I liked The Ghost-eater.  It was so similar to The Picture in the House without the stupid cleansing bolt of lightning.
Logged
Genus Unknown
Cultist
Committed for Life
*****
Posts: 1186


Spam Buster


View Profile
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2012, 01:06:37 PM »
Quote from: Wilbur Whateley on October 02, 2012, 03:13:29 PM
I liked The Ghost-eater.  It was so similar to The Picture in the House without the stupid cleansing bolt of lightning.

I don't know, I'll take "The Picture In The House," convenient lightning bolt and all, over a ghost werewolf eating another ghost any day.
Logged
weird:[140] -- Weird Fiction in 140 Characters or Less
Pages: [1]
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.16 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!