Just finished reading "The Call of Cthulhu" for the first time. Must say I liked the story a lot, not only for its contents but even more so because of its literary style. Lovecraft's use of synonyms, old phrases and words to describe the horror of the mystery is amazing.
The richness of Lovecraft's vocabulary makes the story not only quite a difficult one to read for a person of our time, but forced me to look up words in a dictionary virtually in every sentence.
This also made me wonder. The story was written in 1928. Yet the richness of language in it reminds me of the literary traditions of earlier times, like the Victorian era. Of course, there are other 20th century authors with literary style as impressive, like Tolkien, but I can think of few of them.
Interestingly enough, it seems like Lovecraft was intentionally making an effort to make the language of his works as rich as possible, and even posted a list of rules for novice authors in that regard:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/32284/11-tips-hp-lovecraft-had-novice-writersI would like to hear your comments about this epic story. Also, do you know of any other modern authors who place such importance on vocabulary in their works?