Stephen King, author extraordinaire, interviewed with Salon.com on 09-98 regarding his book, Bag of Bones, which was pointed out to me recently. Of course in the interview, the old gent came up. He, in all of his trailer park eloquence, described Lovecraft’s work as something best read by 13 to 15 year olds and is basically composed of gigantic disembodied vaginas. Albeit very true that whilst in that age, I was very much interested in vaginas, I hardly found Lovecraft a source for blatant pornography. NOW KING on the other hand, was always good for a pointless 300 pages describing in detail a character with some overly perverse obsession with some bizarre fetish that has really nothing to do with the story besides of course, securing the MA rating on his books. Continue reading »