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I don't care what you say.  H.P. Lovecraft could beat up Edgar Allan Poe any day.  Okay, so they are both dead.  But, let's assume they're not.  Let's also assume that this is a fight to the death by writing.  Lovecraft wins hands down.  The man was a brilliant wordsmith.  If you don't know his work, go out and find it.  There are several resources on the net that have his complete works.  I'd recommend starting out with "The Call of Cthulhu."  

His short stories are better known, but his poetry is  also good.  I was assigned homework (not a full-blown project, just something simple here)where I had to illustrate a poem using three images - one photograph I took, one scanned image from a magazine, and one image from the interweb.  We also had to incorporate the text of the poem into the image.  So, we didn't have all the freedom in the world, but what I came up with is below.  I chose a poem Lovecraft wrote as an Ode to Poe:

Where Once Poe Walked
by H.P. Lovecraft

Eternal brood the shadows on this ground,
Dreaming of centuries that have gone before;
Great elms rise solemnly by slab and mound,
Arched high above a hidden world of yore.
Round all the scene a light of memory plays,
And dead leaves whisper of departed days,
Longing for sights and sounds that are no more.

Lonely and sad, a specter glides along
Aisles where of old his living footsteps fell;
No common glance discerns him, though his song
Peals down through time with a mysterious spell.
Only the few who sorcery's secret know,
Espy amidst these tombs the shade of Poe.

Below is a resized version of my finished product.  The original is about twice as large, so the text is actually readable.  Click the link to see it larger than the board auto-resizes it to.

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Beter than Poe?  I'll have check him out.  Awesome pic too.

H.P. Lovecraft does indeed rock.

Movies based on his stuff are pretty cool.

Yeah Lovecraft rocks. Sure The Raven is spectacular but that's about all Poe has going for him. You gotta check out Robert E. Howard too, Conan creator, he and Lovecraft were buddies and both died young. (I think, I could have just made that up)

You are correct. Lovecraft did in fact correspond with Robert E. Howard. Their stories were also published in some of the same publications.

i saw a book in Waldenbooks today.
It looked like freaky shit.

I knew the name was familiar and here is where i heard it from.

A book in waldenbooks? Weird.

You should have bought it, Lovecraft is teh pwn.

I don't like buying books.
lol

I usually only buy books that i REALLY am interested in owning for the long run or can't get elsewhere.

Other than that i borrow or rent them for free ;)

I don't buy books either, not when there's a whole library full of em right down the street.