Well, it's no surprise that familiarity leads to reduced emotional impact. I agree that Nyarly has been sadly overworked, poor fellow. One of the reasons CoC was/is so cool is that most other "horror" tended to be about vampires and werewolves and ghosts and such, and CoC was weird and unfamiliar. It's still great because the underlying themes of Lovecraft's work can work in so many different situations - such as digging trenches in WWI, a submarine descending to the sea bottom, a group of escaped mental patients...
What's interesting to me is how, once vampires and werewolves become so familiar to us that they aren't so scary, we start getting interested in them as protagonists and even heroes. Anyone want to play a Deep One private eye? :)
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Date: 2008-12-18 03:57 pm (UTC)What's interesting to me is how, once vampires and werewolves become so familiar to us that they aren't so scary, we start getting interested in them as protagonists and even heroes. Anyone want to play a Deep One private eye? :)