ghul
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Post by ghul on Nov 20, 2008 11:05:54 GMT -5
weirdtales.net/There is a 5-part HPL documentary done by the BBC here at their front page. Well worth the listen, about 30 minutes in total. Cheers, --Jeff T.
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Post by Scott on Nov 20, 2008 11:42:46 GMT -5
Thanks for that.
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Post by GT on Nov 20, 2008 19:37:57 GMT -5
Jeff, you rock! Coincidently, I just bought a compilation of horror stories that HPL liked and wrote commentary on from the bargain section of B&N today!
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Rhuvein
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Post by Rhuvein on Nov 20, 2008 20:00:29 GMT -5
Very cool! I'm going to wait for a more HPL moment though . . I know, Thanksgiving Day!  |
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Post by GT on Nov 20, 2008 20:02:11 GMT -5
Rhu, you are insane! ^__^
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Rhuvein
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Post by Rhuvein on Nov 20, 2008 20:06:34 GMT -5
I blame it on Dungeons & Dragons. The obvious danger in role playing in that game most certainly leads to devil worship or insanity. Since I don't believe in El Diablo, I took the easy way out!!
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Post by geneweigel on Nov 21, 2008 9:59:09 GMT -5
Jeff, you rock! Coincidently, I just bought a compilation of horror stories that HPL liked and wrote commentary on from the bargain section of B&N today! Well, that sounds good. Is Arthur Machen in it? |
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Post by GT on Nov 21, 2008 21:14:59 GMT -5
As a matter of fact, Yes!!! ^__^
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Post by geneweigel on Nov 22, 2008 10:02:03 GMT -5
Talk about seminal, I once proposed to Gary that Machen perhaps was the source of the source of D&D humanoids as he wasn't mentioned by him. Gary did reply that at the time he only recalled reading one story and he couldn't think of it. I asked if it was "THE SHINING PYRAMID" and he wasn't sure. But I believe from that story, Machen is the inspiration for all the D&D inspiration's "mundane goblins" (that is as flesh and blood primitives instead of as magical demons, etc.). Tolkien talked of Machen, Howard and Lovecraft talked of Machen so that Machen really got around. The Machen overall theme in his stories seems to me to be emerging legends into the modern world with horrifying realistic connotations some with very sexually shocking (for the time) ideas that didn't really get translated to the next generation in S&S and pulp. But they did get inspired by it for sure. Someone was discussing phantom theories and psychics with me and referred to Lovecraft's "FROM BEYOND" to say perhaps there is an unseen world that can be unleashed in the mind. And I was like you mean like in Machen's "GREAT GOD PAN"....? No? Oh forget it...  |
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Post by GT on Nov 22, 2008 19:45:23 GMT -5
Heh!! "Great God Pan" is the story included, although I already had that one! ^__^
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