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@JesseMichels

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Um, in one of my books, I even talked about it in detail in one of my novels, in, uh, The Lovecraft Code.

I never read occult fiction, you know? So Lovecraft meant nothing to me. You know, it's a word that was

in the background somewhere, but I never read any short stories by Lovecraft. It was not my thing. You know,

odyssey of figuring out what this book is. You know, is it something that Lovecraft talked about?

Is it just a name? You know, and it has no relationship at all to Lovecraft. I had to

learn about Lovecraft. I knew nothing about it. So I had to learn about it. And I talked to my friend,

is. And so Larry Barnes went absolutely nuts because he was a total cartoon freak and a Lovecraft freak and

Oh, okay. Well, if you're a Lovecraft person, you have some ideas as to what must be in it.

That's what it is. And that's, and what's, but we didn't know what it was. What's the Lovecraft

writes about it or? Well, Lovecraft writes that it's a dangerous book that even possessing it

the Lovecraft scholars will say, no, that's not it. It's not, it's not Lovecraftian enough. Okay. I

Uh, we make the point in the book that, uh, uh, Lovecraft's famous arch weird connector between

about it. Lovecraft heard the name, you know, and crafted his idea of what the Necronomicon should be

there that says that screams Lovecraft. But there are pieces that do, you know?

@JesseMichels

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reading a lot of HP lovecraft stories lately. Yeah right. Maybe more than I should but

it's interesting like like so lovecraft has this like really pessimistic dark view of the world.

You're not you're not and so it seems like like like even someone like lovecraft you has this just