Lovecraft's Letter to Penthouse?

The Parody Files website has uploaded a transcription of an alleged letter authored by H.P. Lovecraft to "Penthouse" Magazine. Never mind Lovecraft's well mannered, gentlemanly habits, nor the fact that "Penthouse" appeared decades after HPL's tragic demise. It's all in good fun, after all. Though the fun would be all the better if they had maintained the courage to go through with a full blown Lovecraft parody, rather than the shallow snippet provided. Nevertheless, the ridiculous paragraph does an ample job of mimicking Lovecraft's reserved persona and the notoriously lengthy, stilted prose observed at Cyclopean proportions in some of his prose.

The idea of Lovecraft hammering off a message to a gentleman's magazine is pretty hilarious in of itself. Never mind the disturbing and strange encounters that would prompt said letter, as this parody implies. You've got to feel bad for this sort of humor in a way, though, despite HPL being long dead. Were he alive, the old fellow would probably redden with ire or embarrassment at having his unknowable sexuality trotted out in circles of literary scrutiny and humor.

-Grim Blogger