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00:24 >> He defined the themes and obsessions of 20th century horror, and as we chug on into
00:34 the 21st century, it doesn't seem to be going away.
00:37 >> He let drop away all the trappings of what is called horror, and he moved into some narrative
00:43 peculiar to himself.
00:44 He invented his own genre, really.
00:47 >> Lovecraft tells you about the scale of man in the cosmos.
00:52 You know, so he is really the most articulate about saying there is an indifference from
00:59 the ancient gods to man.
01:01 Lovecraft takes that and ups the ante to the cosmos.
01:05 >> If you can think of a kind of supernatural horror fiction, it's almost certain that at
01:09 some point in his career, Lovecraft applied himself to it, and when he got it right, as
01:14 he often did, nobody could beat him.
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