Random Lovecraft Story Generator
Thursday, April 9, 2009
H.P. Lovecraft may be long dead, but the verbose richness of the style he wrote in remains so thoroughly a part of his legacy that a "Random H.P. Lovecraft Story Generator" has been made. Of course, this Java Script is incapable of generating the novellas or longer tales HPL was known for. Sometimes, it also produces a non-Lovecraftian mishmash of impressive sounding words--usually, with hilarious results. Other times, it hits it almost right. In any case, you're guaranteed a new story every time you refresh it.
Today's primitive vignettes written by code herald an ominous question: will machines be the great weird writers of centuries to come? For now, this is far too weird a tale to contemplate beyond fun speculation, but it could be tomorrow's sanity-blasting truth.
-Grim Blogger