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Everett Collection  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Aug 20, 2015 11:00 AM UTC Starting on Thursday, fans of the writer H.P. Lovecraft will gather in his hometown of Providence, R.I., for the annual NecronomiCon festival, this year marking what would have been Lovecraft’s 125th birthday. For an author of rather niche specialty—supernatural horror—his staying power within the culture has been impressive. In 1973, when new editions of several Lovecraft works were released, TIME’s Philip Herrera decided to get to the bottom of that appeal. Lovecraft’s talent, he decided, was a combination of “mesmeric” prose and the insight to know that inexplicable evil was scarier than any monster. Rather than rely on vampires or other stock demons, he turned to the “more intimate horror” of ancient and pervasive power that all our modernity could do nothing to stop. But, in order to reach that conclusion, Herrera really got into the spirit of things. Instead of writing a straightforward review, he summoned the image of three nightmares set at the Providence cemetery, each of which reveals something new about Lovecraft. And, in describing those dreams, he channeled Lovecraft’s signature style, to amusing results: --- > “” --- **_Read the full story here, in the TIME Vault:_** [The Dream Lurker](http://time.com/vault/issue/1973-06-11/page/119/) ## Transcript >> Man, I love the scene-- Tai Chi against the stars. I asked The Fountain, now that, that's a good movie. I'm Steven James Snyder, movie geek with TechLand and anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am obsessed with the 2006, Darren Aronofsky's film: The Fountain. A pretty trippy- tail of the past, the present, the future, a man trying to cheat death and it got mixed reviews when it came out but I'm pretty convinced that I like it more than anyone on the planet, probably including the director. For three months now on TechLand, we've opened up the debate as to the five most underrated sci- fi masterpieces of all time. First up, the 1972 Eco- space opera, Silent Running, which is about a spaceship called Valley Forge that's been dispatched from a dying planet earth, the last bits of human vegetation. It's a little preachy. There's a few jawn via songs about protecting the plant life that's a little over the top but some of the closing shots of this domes filled with the familiar green of earth being sent out into the cold black of space. It's pretty haunting. Number four, Gattaca, the 1997, Ethan Hawke thriller about a future in which humans are all genetically modified. The majority of humans have been genetically perfected and those who are born via natural means operate in a lower rung of society. They have been plenty of other thrillers about cloning, I mean, even when we talk about Replicants and Blade Runner, but something about this movie which didn't get much fanfare when it was put into theaters stuck with us in the notion of a genetically stratified society. >> You keep your workstation so clean Jerome. >> It's next to godliness isn't that what they say? >> And number three: Serenity, the 2005 Josh Whedon space- western. It was a huge hit among TechLand fan. The plot revolves around in alliance and the rebels who are on the run with a telepathic secret weapon and it all builds up to one of these hulky, huge climactic space battles that you never forgive. >> Target the [ unk ]. Target the [ unk ]. Target everyone. Somebody fire. >> Number two: Dark City. It's all about a man who wakes up in a bath tub one morning without a memory to speak of, accused of murder, who must go on the run through this crazy, foreign foreboding futuristic city. The most haunting image, the whole thing must be the strangers or the white- faced supernatural being seemed to control everything about this other worldly China town. And the ending is all about figuring out who the strangers really are and what their abilities really are. It has to be one of the great surprise endings of all time. >> Finds and wondering like lost children. But this one was different. Yes. >> What does the doctor say about this? >> His filthy report in and to Mr. Quick, no more Mr. Quick. Mr. Quick is dead. >> And the number one underrated masterpiece has to be a little 2004 film that was directed by a guy name Shane Carruth who raised $ 7, 000 and used his parents garage to create a film called Primer. Primer drops us into the middle of a conversation in progress as four engineers spent every night in the garage trying to come up with the next big inventions that's gonna make them rich. And what sets Primer apart is the short hand that they use. The way we try to keep up with them and it takes us a few minutes to realize the implications of this box that they've devised that can warp time space. It takes us a few moments, few beats to realize this is a time machine. It's trippy stuff. There's no doubt about it but it works not only on a scientific level but also in terms of philosophy and personal relationships as these two best friends start to travel back and forth three times, never realizing the larger ramification that could accompany Pandora's box. >> I don't even know for sure. >> So what do you think? Have you seen our five picks? Have another idea for an underrated masterpiece? You can join the debate. 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