Talk:The Sims: Sonny the Tragic Clown/@comment-28993925-20160711040348/@comment-31077845-20170216212009

HP Lovecraft did a completely different type of horror. The person is already clearly familiar with Stephen King, who did horror that was...well, Lovecraft's stories were usually more fantasy horror, where as Stephen King usually deals with horror that's a little more grounded in reality, I guess. This isn't fantasy horror, he's not talking about terrifying entities from other dimensions or something, he's talking about a scary clown coming out of a videogame. If you had to place that on a spectrum that's definitely closer to Stephen King than Lovecraft (although in IT pennywise WAS supposed to actually be a creature who came from the darkness beyond the edge of the universe. The miniseries was actually better than the book, which contained a lot more nonsensical fantasy stuff). Sorry you're a fan of Lovecraft, but that doesn't mean every work of horror needs to be similar in style. There's already enough Lovecraft fans trying to emulate his work.