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The original HP    [ Rants ]

Not Hewlett-Packard, but Howard Phillips Lovecraft.   If you've been around the 'net or gaming or alternative subculture for any length of time, you've probably seen lots of references to his fiction.   I had read some excerpts and short stories of his a long time ago, but hadn't read that much of his work until I was at home over the past two days and stumbled across a great collection of his writing in HTML and PDF format.

Some of them are rather short, less coherent and read like he was writing on deadline (Nyarlathotep), but others (The Music of Erich Zann, The Call of Cthulhu) are simply wonderful in eerieness, foreboding and varying degrees of subtle and not-so-subtle horror.   A mountain walked or stumbled, and all that.

And all of this from the comfort of my laptop with an 802.11b wireless card - this is what the Internet is all about, being able to find information and great works and enjoy them from anywhere, on any device.   "hp invent", indeed.