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I think there is a big difference between seeing your buddies riped in two by machinegune fire and seeing froggy going through your garbage.
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... and I wasn't really making the two out to be the same...
Just saying, watching war movies doesn't prepare you for war. Watching horror movie doesn't prepare you for monsters.
I worked in a forensics lab with all sorts of body parts and organs... that doesn't insure that I won't wig out if I come home to find my girlfriend's guts scattered on the kitchen floor. The element of surprise and danger plays a big part in how people react.
I agree that MOST people aren't necessarily going to come unhinged over such things... but everyone has a breaking point.
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I kinda doubt there would be much Locvecraft stuff on the shelves now without CoC. Or that a lot of authors in the horror field considered him a major influence.
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Well, Stephen King and Ramsey Campbell mention him as an influence... definitely Thomas Ligotti... Clive Barker has several stories that have his airs about them... that's a pretty good starting line-up...
I really don't think COC has all that much to do with people knowing about Lovecraft and seeking out his books.
If I ask a random group of folks... lots more of them are going to have heard of Lovecraft than have heard of COC or Chaosium.
Most of the really bad fantasy I've read I can't name... cause I didn't finish it or keep the book.
A lot of it was attempting to out-Tolkien Tolkien... and instead read like someones record of their RPG sessions.