I definitely liked the darker twist to the ancients. *Two thumbs up* The lurking consciousness beyond human sight, peering through unperceivable dimensions into the world we inhabit. *plays spooky music* ;)
That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death shalt die
Big HP Lovecraft fan. One of my favourite short stories of his is called "Pickman's Model" (http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/pickmansmodel.htm). I've been in the process of reading a few of his stories between novels (they're probably not appropriate material for me to read inside catholic primary/elementary schools while I fix their computers... heh).
One short story by Neil Gaiman is worth reading (after you've read a few Lovecraft ones) called "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar". It's an homage and a tounge in cheek poke at Lovecraft's verbacious writing style (namely some of the unusual and archaic words he uses). *chuckle* A traveler gets holed up in a tiny English coastal town and chats with a couple of semi-inebriated locals at the pub whilst searching for an open purveyor of foodstuffs. The topic turns to HP Lovecraft and his writing...
"Anyway. H.P. Lovecraft. He'd write one of his bloody good sentences. Ahem. 'The gibbous moon hung low over the eldritch and batrachian inhabitants of squamous Dulwich.' What does he mean, eh? What does he mean? I'll tell you what he bloody means. What he bloody means is that the moon was nearly full, and everybody what lived in Dulwich was bloody peculiar frogs. That's what he means." "What about the other thing you said?" asked Wilf. "What?" "Squamous. Wossat mean, then?" Seth shrugged. "Haven't a clue," he admitted. "But he used it an awful lot."
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Date: 2006-07-27 01:20 pm (UTC)That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons even death shalt die
Big HP Lovecraft fan. One of my favourite short stories of his is called "Pickman's Model" (http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/pickmansmodel.htm). I've been in the process of reading a few of his stories between novels (they're probably not appropriate material for me to read inside catholic primary/elementary schools while I fix their computers... heh).
One short story by Neil Gaiman is worth reading (after you've read a few Lovecraft ones) called "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar". It's an homage and a tounge in cheek poke at Lovecraft's verbacious writing style (namely some of the unusual and archaic words he uses). *chuckle* A traveler gets holed up in a tiny English coastal town and chats with a couple of semi-inebriated locals at the pub whilst searching for an open purveyor of foodstuffs. The topic turns to HP Lovecraft and his writing...
"Anyway. H.P. Lovecraft. He'd write one of his bloody good sentences. Ahem. 'The gibbous moon hung low over the eldritch and batrachian inhabitants of squamous Dulwich.' What does he mean, eh? What does he mean? I'll tell you what he bloody means. What he bloody means is that the moon was nearly full, and everybody what lived in Dulwich was bloody peculiar frogs. That's what he means."
"What about the other thing you said?" asked Wilf.
"What?"
"Squamous. Wossat mean, then?"
Seth shrugged. "Haven't a clue," he admitted. "But he used it an awful lot."