Does anyone else here think Lovecraft genuinely transcended the "good / bad" dichotomy?

Does anyone else here think Lovecraft genuinely transcended the "good / bad" dichotomy?

His writing is totally unique. It's amazing.

I haven't gone to barnes and nobles lately, i'm trying to read other authors, sorry about that.

His prose style is like Poe on bath salts. I think it is fair to call it 'bad'.

He's good. In tailoring his own genre, he became its primary example and his oft-criticized writing style is crucial to the genre's weird atmosphere. You cannot call him a bad writer, for what he predominately wrote. He struggled with dialogue, but he knew that and rarely ever attempted it. Nevertheless, his influence during his lifetime and beyond it was and is vast. What more can be said of the man?

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This.
Also I found his very specific type of racism somehow added to his universe and was probably the main reason he had the themes he did. That and him living in Providence.

He perfected a very core foundation of horror, namely an existential one. You have to give him that at least, even if you simply don't enjoy him.

>I do tho desu

No. You're just a genrepleb.

Thanks for the laugh user. It's funny because it's true.

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The people he ripped off wrote way better than him. Also Clark Ashton Smith was better.