Thread:Mesektet/@comment-3581997-20160615160106/@comment-3581997-20170731095833

Depends who you ask. Howard Phillips Lovecraft would say yes, run you can not hope to overcome a being who exists entirely on another dimension imperceptible to you, you are a dust mite by comparison. Stephen King seems to favor the method of fight, fight, fight, no matter what horrors stand before you, because if you give into fear, even if all is for naught the cosmic horror has already won. Lord Dunsany expressed a desire to understand the unknowable things that creep in the dark, that it was not the unknown creatures that must be overcome, but the concept of the unknown itself.

Lovecraft - Unknown horrors must be feared.

King - Unknown horrors must be fought.

Dunsany - Unknown horrors must be understood.

Though don't let the hype around any of these men get in the way of who they were and why they wrote what they did. Keep in mind who each of these horror icons were in reality.

Lovecraft was an obsessive compulsive crank who never left the house and thought Jews and Africans involved from fungus and crabs.

King is an author who has long since stated he doesn't write to sell books, he writes to express his creativity, people just seem to be willing to pay money for them, which consequently is why his writing can often get silly but he doesn't really care about criticism because the writing itself is his reward.

Dunsany explored the English, Welsh and Irish country sides as a lone traveler before he was obligated to return home and tend to his barony due to inheritance, every horror story he wrote was to try to continue the start of mysteries he found in the folklore of the locals. He basically fan-fictioned superstition.