re: #138 Dr Lizardo

I’ve encountered young Americans here - English teachers, ironically - some of whom have a very difficult time reading H.P. Lovecraft, not because of the more, shall we say, unpleasant aspects of his writings, but because of the vocabulary he employed, with its British spellings and mildly archaic phraseology.

One young fellow couldn’t believe that “The Call of Cthulhu” was written by an American author in the Twentieth Century.

I’ve never had any desire to read Lovecraft; horror and science fiction are not genres I particularly enjoy.