Funny / H. P. Lovecraft

• Lovecraft once wrote a highly humorous T. S. Eliot parody entitled "Waste Paper."
• Despite his reputation, Lovecraft has a lot of comedic short stories, such as "Ibid", "A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson", "The Battle That Ended The Century", and of course Sweet Ermengarde.
• Just the fact that the Hereditary Curse in "The Alchemist" is something so mundane as an immortal being both petty enough and determined enough to just straight-up murder the people in the family he "cursed".
  • The funniest part is that the titular alchemist is named Charles Le Sorcerer.
  • CHUCK WIZARD'S CURSE OF SHOOT YOU IN THE FACE!
• The fact that Lovecraft was inspired to write The Shadow Over Innsmouth, particularly its concluding twist, after learning that he was—Gasp!—part Welsh!!!
• The Statement of Randolph Carter's final line can be amusing in a Black Comedy sort of way.
• Someone noticed that Lovecraft's poem "Nemesis" is set to the same meter as Billy Joel's song "Piano Man", leading to this.

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