Parody: H.P. Lovecraft Meets Twitter

The ever popular social networking site Twitter has been introduced to H.P. Lovecraft in a clever jab at the writer's legendary penchant for labyrinthine sentences. The culprits are from "The Parody Files" website, which was also responsible for this recent faux letter by Lovecraft to "Penthouse." It's difficult to imagine how Lovecraft would have reacted if his life had been moved up about a century. Developmental influences of the pre-computer age aside, it's likely Lovecraft would have found the rise of textspeak more than frustrating, a mortifying bastardization of the literary beauty and archaic complexity of the English language he admired.

Interestingly, "The Parody Files" even went so far as to create a real Twitter account for H.P. Lovecraft. It doesn't look likely it will remain active, but future truncated posts by the irritated Lovecraft could definitely generate ongoing laughs.

-Grim Blogger