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Post by mh on Jan 25, 2014 0:05:14 GMT -6
i recently noticed you can listen to a few h.p. lovecraft books on youtube for free! his writings are all public domain. babu, you may remember 'mushmoth' used to post places you could read lovecraft online. now ewxcuse me, while i get my scare on
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Post by Ariana Grande's Armpit on Jan 25, 2014 0:29:18 GMT -6
Is it normal for the walls to melt and explode into random colors while playing the videos, or is it because my browser needs a plugin to play the videos?
EDIT: Okay, I ascended into godhood and got eaten by giant flying centipedes. There is clearly something wrong with my browser.
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Post by mh on Jan 25, 2014 0:38:34 GMT -6
Is it normal for the walls to melt and explode into random colors while playing the videos, or is it because my browser needs a plugin to play the videos? EDIT: Okay, I ascended into godhood and got eaten by giant flying centipedes. There is clearly something wrong with my browser.
neilencio, i don't want to alarm you, but you might want to get out of the house. some lovecraftian deity might be ready to explode up thru yer floor. and please, i beg you, don't burn a cd of this & play it in yer car
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Post by Doc Quantum on Jan 25, 2014 0:44:32 GMT -6
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Post by mh on Jan 25, 2014 13:11:12 GMT -6
thanks doc!!!! wow, cool.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Jan 25, 2014 14:23:27 GMT -6
I really need to check that out.
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Post by mh on Jan 27, 2014 23:27:17 GMT -6
i saw a full dunwich horror movie on youtube from 2009. it has the re-animator guy and dead stockwell in it -- have not watched it yet. i've only fairly recently realized i can access youtube thru Comcast on the teevee.  but since i have been taking full advantage of it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3sx_NGoiLM
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Post by Killian on Jan 31, 2014 10:41:39 GMT -6
I remember reading Lovecraft for the first time. As is common, it was The Call of Cthulhu. Man, what a feeling. I put off reading any other of his tales for a long while. My first serious entry, Dagon, had a smaller literary cap, and with its gradual descent into madness, discovery of otherworldly ruins and artifacts, and big final reveal, it feels like Cthulhu in miniature. HUH HOY! That's when I got him.
Among my favorite tales are Pickman's Model, for the sugoi desu mameshibas; The Outsider, one of his finest stories; The Haunter of the Dark, which toward the end, I felt had the most terrifying atmosphere out of all his tales; and The Shunned House, a cautionary tale for basement dwellers.
I think most are familiar with his survey, Supernatural Horror in Literature. It was advanced for its time, but missed out on horror on a global scale. Even in the revised versions, there was no mention of Bruno Schulz, for instance. Though to be fair Schulz wasn't translated into English at the time. I also wish he had embellished more on the methods of horror fiction.
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Post by williscorto on Feb 4, 2014 2:59:39 GMT -6
Me too. I had to read this for an American Literature class in 1988. Zounds. Easy on the opiates, HP!
Warren Ellis recounts in one of his books an anecdote where Alan Moore learns that Julius Schwartz (a now dead DC editor) met HP Lovecraft when Schwartz was somehow involved in Lovecraft's publishing company. Moore was fascinated - here was someone who had met Lovecraft himself! Moore asked Schwartz, "So, what was Lovecraft like?" Schwartz says, "At the time I said, I better fucking remember so I can tell Alan Fucking Moore all about it 50 fucking years later." Or words to that effect.
Which, as Ellis says, says a lot more about Schwartz than it does about Lovecraft.
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but since i have been taking full advantage of it
