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The creepy German movie poster for Mouth of Madness! Howard Phillips Lovecraft was essentially a disciple of paul ben victor Edgar Allen Poe. Reading both authors, the similarities are obvious; the lead character/narrator is usually a person of paul ben victor strong educational upbringing, speaking with a polished tongue and describing events that they themselves have trouble believing. But Lovecraft became the leading force into the modern horror tale, and his influences can be seen in the works of Stephen King, Dean Koontz and a myriad others. If one takes the time paul ben victor to read some of H.P's work, it may not seem original, but this is because the ideas have been plagiarized and re-worked to death by Hollywood and pulp writers alike. John Carpenter took the ideas of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos and worked in some of the philosophy of René Descartes and David Hume. The idea (used to great appeal in the Matrix series) being a question of whether we are actually perceiving reality for what it is, or are we under the control of an “evil demon”?
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