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Post by Scott on Jun 7, 2016 15:27:04 GMT -5
This was HBO-made movie, I think, from 1991, and I haven't seen it since then. I saw that it was on HBO on demand, and I remembered it had a Lovecraft connection, so I decided to watch it. What a strange movie. Low budget, film noir, about a detective name Phillip Lovecraft hired to find the Necronomicon. Magic is commonplace, except for Lovecraft who refuses to use it. It's very much like a Harry Potter movie in the way it depicts magic. What a weird blast from the past.
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 7, 2016 16:37:08 GMT -5
I saw it back then and was disappointed because it came as a recommendation "must see".
I never finished watching that HBO TRUE DETECTIVE second season was that any good?
Heh, I can't keep up with HPL shit it seems everytime that I look up Lovecraft on the internet I get sucked into an antique store fetishists' mess. What is it? Steampunk LARPing? I hate that shit.
I might watch CAST A DEADLY SPELL because its a blur. What was it? A Cthulhoid at the end?
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Post by foster1941 on Jun 7, 2016 16:42:26 GMT -5
I never finished watching that HBO TRUE DETECTIVE second season was that any good? Nope!
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Post by Scott on Jun 7, 2016 20:29:11 GMT -5
It must have been slim pickings back in the early 90s because it was a 'must see' reccomendation for me too.
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 8, 2016 9:00:55 GMT -5
Everybody dumped on me as that "Cthulhu guy" so its probably why.
I mentioned my ceramic HPL-based creations but that was the tip of the iceberg. I had made all these art projects that were Cthulhu-based so even people who had no regard for fantasy knew the keywords "Cthulhu" and "Lovecraft" had something to do with something that I was doing. I had made a wax dyed (batik) flag based on the Bloch-Lovecraft "SHAMBLER/HAUNTER/SHADOW" tied-in short stories, made a brass Cthulhu amulet and had a literal gallery of HPL-based paintings in all types of mediums. The only thing that I have left that wasn't stolen is the amulet of these.
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Post by Scott on Jun 8, 2016 10:31:33 GMT -5
I'll make you an NPC if I ever run a CoC game.
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Post by GRWelsh on Jun 8, 2016 11:24:05 GMT -5
"The Unshaven Shambler from Queens."
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 8, 2016 13:17:43 GMT -5
Heh, I think some of them believed that I was a real worshipper too with all the "Satanic" shit from The Magickal Childe that I had laying around! I found a bookmark from there the other day and it must have been in a bag of candles because of the purplish grease and smell on it. I still have the Necronomicon pendant from there thats probably worth a fortune to some loon.
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 8, 2016 13:45:14 GMT -5
I just found a video by the Magickal Childe store that features the inside of the store circa early 80's in the beginning: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ZO0NGSpR0Heh, thats the guy who sold me the Necronomicon pendant. I think he ghost wrote it too.
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Post by GRWelsh on Jun 8, 2016 14:01:46 GMT -5
I know what you mean. I've had to deal with the misconception that because I'm into Lovecraft, D&D, etc. that I must also be "into" Satanism and the Occult ("Is that supposed to be the Devil?" pointing to the cover of the DMG). People don't seem to have this misconception as much, these days, but back in the 80's people had trouble understanding that D&D was just a game, and that Lovecraft as a materialist and regarded all of his fiction as just fiction (if you write or read stories about the Occult you must be "into" the Occult).
I was trying to figure out when I first got into Lovecraft stories, and I know my first Lovecraft book was BLOODCURDLING TALES OF HORROR AND THE MACABRE with the introduction by Robert Bloch. It seemed like almost everyone had that book. It was published in 1982, so I must have first bought it at a B. Dalton's or Waldenbooks in the early 80's at the local mall. I remember buying that fake NECRONOMICON a few years later and being so disappointed, since it was just pseudo-Sumerian occult nonsense. That's the thing about anything that purports to be "real" occult writing... it always turns out to be simply nonsensical or intentional fraud.
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Post by Scott on Jun 8, 2016 14:09:28 GMT -5
The Bastich Out of Space. I remember when the Necronomicon first made the rounds with my friends in high school. I had a copy, or two, but who knows where they're at now. I think I tried to make a pendant myself in jewelry class.
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 8, 2016 14:46:10 GMT -5
I had hand me downs of all the Lovecrafts in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series with the black covers and a fantasy "head". This blog has the images: 2warpstoneptune.com/2014/10/24/john-holmes-h-p-lovecraft-covers-1975-ballantine/Except the LOOK BEHIND THE CTHULHU MYTHOS which was a later Ballantine one with a landscape in an oval and THE DOOM THAT THAT CAME TO SARNATH was 76 edition with a fish flying. I later got the collected 1987 BLOODCURDLING TALES OF HORROR AND THE MACABRE paperback but I never got the separate ones that came out around that time.
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Post by Scott on Jun 8, 2016 15:21:24 GMT -5
I worked at an independent book store in the late 80s / early 90s. We used to get a lot of cool limited/special edition Howard, Lovecraft, etc. stuff. I used to have a pretty good collection, but I've sold most of it off over the years.
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 8, 2016 16:51:01 GMT -5
Someone I knew had the first Arkham House book once but it was one of these antique flipping ghouls who had it wrapped up. For years I thought they had brown covers but it was the wrapping.
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