Gavin Callaghan wrote:
> I have to admit I find Lovecraft quite funny at
> times, albeit unintentionally; I love the line
> from The Colour Out of Space, where HPL refers to
> a woodchuck having "an expression on its face
> which no one had ever seen on a woodchuck before."
To defend the old gent: HPL's humour is understated, not unintentional.
Quote:The proportions of its body seemed slightly altered in a queer way impossible to describe, while its face had taken on an expression which no one ever saw in a woodchuck before.
It's more obvious here:
Quote:The "Dutchman's breeches" became a thing of sinister menace, and the bloodroots grew insolent in their chromatic perversion.
"The Colour out of Space"