H.P. Lovecraft stuff.

Lovecraft supposedly suffered from "sleep paralysis" where you feel awake but cannot move because your body is still in REM sleep state. It's said he saw horrifying visions during this paralysis and this informed some of his writings including the idea that there were supernatural realms filled with horror and monsters just beyond our perceptions.

It's pretty potent stuff, its likely why he still resonates 100 years after he was writing.

No.

If so-called "supernatural" beings really exist they'd not be supernatural. The rewilding types would be filling old stately homes with them!

Lovecraft simply had a good imagination and knew how to write frightening works of fiction - but also note SumKindaMunsta's reference to him thought to have been inspired by many instances of sleep-paralysis accompanied by horrible visions.

I don't know if that is correct but it is certainly is plausible, because such incidents are not very rare and likely formed the basis for many "ghost" stories and supposedly religious "visions".

I have had occasional "falling" sensations and been frightened by hypnagogic hallucinations - but we now know these have nothing whatever to do with any supposed "supernature". They are just very brief nightmares.

oddly,, if you dig deep he makes a case that the "old ones" were actually not so much different from us
sympathetic really
he made it all up
there was NO Necronomicon, No abdul el Hazfad
but i have convinced people I went to Miskatonic University

there is a youtube channel horrorbabble,, that has many well read stories
good for bed time

Lovecraft was incredible – he made "pulp fiction" an art form. He sold his output to cheap "pulp" magazines of the day, and I'm not sure if contemporary readers fully realized that there was a genius among the authors.
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Lovecraft was a xenophobe and had a fear and loathing of anything that was unlike himself. This is all well documented through letters he wrote. It's been surmised that the Gods and Monsters he wrote of came from this fear and repulsion inside him.

A really talented writer and the biggest influence on modern horror. But he had issues.
As far as actually communing with monsters, there's been fictional stories written about that. Just fictional stories.

On the other hand Philip K Dick claimed he got his sci-fi stories from voices from the future, or something like that.

I do enjoy his works. The racist undertones were hard to deal with but I like the cosmic horror genre is so good.

Oh yeah. Yeah him and Cthulu were old pals, really. They'd laugh about how scared everyone got because of their stories.

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