Saturday, October 14, 2006

All Predictable, Some Fun | Theater | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper:

All H. P. Lovecraft stories follow the same structure:

1. Something horrible is going to happen.

2. O, God! Something horrible is happening!

3. Something horrible—too horrible to explain—just happened.

It doesn't help that his dialogue is horrendous. In the play, an earnest farmer describes a dead animal: "The face bore an expression the likes no woodchuck ever bore."