Via Gotham City Comics:
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― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 September 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
brilliant
post on FB so i can share it
― the late great, Friday, 14 September 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
that's terrific
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 14 September 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
xpost -- Already did! Check earlier in my timeline today.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 September 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8144
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 1 November 2012 11:55 (eleven years ago) link
Fuck, he was right!
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/rawfile/2013/03/Seal-660x933.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 March 2013 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
:D
VINDICATED
― multi instru mentat list (Jon Lewis), Monday, 11 March 2013 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
classic. fucking obsessed with this stuff right now.
― Ste, Sunday, 23 June 2013 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
Like Poe in that, assuming you're a certain kind of child, you go from taking the stories (and sensibility) overly seriously during early adolescence, perhaps dismissing it when you reach young adulthood, and then coming back to it and finding it's still possible to really enjoy and even take seriously these strange American authors.
An impossibly ancient city of lizard-things hidden under the desert, imagined in obsessive detail = immune to satire.
― cardamon, Monday, 24 June 2013 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
Also, everyday life in Arizona AMIRITE
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 June 2013 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
My new roommate is a fellow appreciator so if you ever hear about us being killed by squamous things you know what to blame.
good interview with pre-eminent Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshihttp://heathenharvest.org/2014/01/12/gods-of-the-godless-a-discussion-on-h-p-lovecraft-with-s-t-joshi/
― ian, Friday, 17 January 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
thanks for linking that!
― latebloomer, Saturday, 18 January 2014 22:26 (ten years ago) link
he looks like a badass
― socki (s1ocki), Sunday, 19 January 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
What if HP Lovecraft was Cornish?
http://cthrnwall.blogspot.co.uk/
― Branwell with an N, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 09:18 (ten years ago) link
thinking about reading some of the lovecraft i never read - what editions do you guys have? as a kid i had this one and it did the job: http://www.amazon.co.uk/H-P-Lovecraft-Omnibus-Mountains/dp/0586063226/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1445677683&sr=1-5&keywords=hp+lovecraft
there are tonnes on amazon. does it even matter?
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Saturday, 24 October 2015 09:10 (eight years ago) link
I have the Barnes and Noble edition of his complete fiction. It's a chronological compilation of the Joshi editions, it's a hardcover, it's cheap, and it's everything in one volume.
― I Was Picking Up A Teaspoon When Something Happened To My Spine (Old Lunch), Saturday, 24 October 2015 12:16 (eight years ago) link
as a kid I had the Ballantine paperbacks with John Holmes covers, those paintings still creep me out
― Brad C., Saturday, 24 October 2015 16:45 (eight years ago) link
arkham house editions for meeee
― ian, Sunday, 25 October 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
Those Ballantine covers really used to creep me out as well.
― Franzen Arcade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 October 2015 18:23 (eight years ago) link
Wow, I've never seen those, pretty gruesome
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Sunday, 25 October 2015 18:45 (eight years ago) link
Ballantine Adult Fantasy series editions for me (HP's and Clark Ashton Smith's stuff)
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 25 October 2015 18:55 (eight years ago) link
I always got the four Arkham House editions from the library when I was a kid- The Dunwich Horror and Others, At the Mountains of Madness, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, and The Horror In the Museum and Other Revisions. The current Penguin Classics (3 volumes) are pretty great, still under Joshi's stewardship, and AFAIK just as complete (albeit without the revisions and collaborations).
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Monday, 26 October 2015 03:31 (eight years ago) link
http://www.hippocampuspress.com/h.p-lovecraft/fiction/variorum-lovecraft
This is the definitive edition, there will be cheaper paperback versions eventually.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 26 October 2015 07:55 (eight years ago) link
Friends used to live near a sex shop called Lovecraft. Not very appealing. Now it's a deli, which is also unappealing because just how clean or those surfaces really?
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Monday, 26 October 2015 09:42 (eight years ago) link
I dig the annotated versions from ST Joshi
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Monday, 26 October 2015 23:45 (eight years ago) link
Has anybody read Victor Lavelle's "Ballad of Black Tom"? I really dug it. Much like Mat Johnson's _Pym_, you have modern black American writers taking some of HPL's really racist-ass shit and repurposing/reclaiming it to both comment on how fucked it was but also function as cosmic horror itself.
Here's Victor on Fresh Air a coupla months back:
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/29/468558238/the-ballad-of-black-tom-offers-a-tribute-and-critique-of-lovecraft
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Monday, 11 April 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I read it. It was good but too short. Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country is superficially related, and also well worth reading - one of the best books I've read so far this year, in fact.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 11 April 2016 18:40 (eight years ago) link
https://www.cnet.com/news/hagfish-spill-oregon-highway-101-slime-eels/
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 14 July 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
Turns out "Cthulhu fthagn!" is the sound of him sneezing on the highway.
― Puke and Other Poems (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 16 July 2017 12:33 (six years ago) link
This adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward as a podcast series is fun. It’s a bit cackhanded in places, which is inevitable, and suffers from English actors doing American accents a bit, but it’s otherwise pretty good i think.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 19 January 2019 08:51 (five years ago) link
i see with interest that the sound engineer is David Thomas. That’s surely a fairly common name, but when I see it was recorded in Brighton and Leeds where DT of Pere Ubu lives, it does make me wonder.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 19 January 2019 08:57 (five years ago) link
nope different guy. obviously.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 19 January 2019 08:59 (five years ago) link
David Thomas lives in Leeds??!!?
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 January 2019 09:02 (five years ago) link
ffs Lewes. autocorrect.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 19 January 2019 09:04 (five years ago) link
Phew, I wondered if the old fella had taken leave of his senses.
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 January 2019 09:07 (five years ago) link
i think i was the one who had taken leave of my senses thinking that an old cantankerous and ill rock musician would be doing sound engineering for a bbc radio series.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 19 January 2019 09:10 (five years ago) link
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/attachment/65a792d7-c485-4b78-b428-916f62ead13e/rspb20182792f03.gif
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2018.2792
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 12:04 (five years ago) link
Sollasina cthulhu! so cute!
― sexual consent... on the blockchain (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 12:05 (five years ago) link
....two columns of four adradial plates each and nine plated tube feet per ambulacral area; plates of non-peristomial tube feet arranged in longitudinal rows; aboral thecal plates with strong granular ornamentation.
accursed!
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 12:19 (five years ago) link
Awww, who's a cute little Old One?
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:00 (five years ago) link
Yes but did they worship shoggothshttps://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/Scientists-say-monster-penguin-once-swam-New-14302988.php
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
Racist. Bad writer. Inspiration for the most annoying nerd kitsch milieu. Dud.
― silby, Friday, 13 March 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link
I agree with half of that but still classic.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 13 March 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
I have read at least two and possibly more stories of his held out to me by a fan as “one of the good ones” or “the best one” and they have been bad. I don’t get it!
― silby, Friday, 13 March 2020 23:09 (four years ago) link
I shan’t be reading more but I’m generally curious why ppl think he’s good not bad.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, March 13, 2020
OTM
afaik why he's good not bad, HPL is to "cosmic horror" as chuck berry is to rock'n'roll. personally creepy, almost unbearably corny, and unassailably classic bc he invented that shit. the genre as we know it would be unimaginable without him.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 13 March 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link
possibly dud for loosing ST Joshi upon the world
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 13 March 2020 23:22 (four years ago) link
Great synthesiser of various strands of horror. Beautiful imagery, especially the labyrinthian quality, gnarliness and the wet darkness (this is often where he beats writers who try to do his thing). His emphasis on a kind of horrific transcendence. His essay "Supernatural Horror In Literature" is extremely important in mapping and preserving the genre.
The annoyances in his writing is just something I've grown to expect from a lot of genres I'm into. Most of the comics I like are burdened with deeply flawed writing. Clark Ashton Smith, William Hope Hodgson and Bram Stoker can be similarly challenging at times, sometimes for different flaws. Brilliance doesn't always come with consistently good writing, sadly. One of my least favorite things about his writing is something a lot of people tend to praise: the stories in a journal or correspondence mode get bogged down in boring details.
I'm not interested in Joshi's criticism anymore but he does help a lot of writers I'm interested in get their books printed.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 14 March 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
rogermexico otm
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 14 March 2020 00:20 (four years ago) link