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<\/a><\/div>\nI realize this is now pushing hard on fifty years, but in my young adolescence I discovered H. P. Lovecraft<\/a>. No doubt his dark universe that spanned the course of much, maybe all of his writings, which if I recall had an evil race locked in mortal combat with an even more evil race, and that we humans were bred from apes as convenient labor and, in a pinch, for food, seemed just the thing for a boy noticing the world was not in fact constructed of peaches and cream. (At least this is how I carry my memory of Lovecraft. A perusal of the Wikipedia article which is linked to above, gives a somewhat different view\u2026)<\/p>\n As I recall he wasn\u2019t the best of writers. But he certainly was evocative enough for me. And his hanging horrors implied have to be more insidious to the psyche, and delicious, than the splatter that we mostly encounter in the film versions of his beloved genre. <\/p>\n