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The Droid posted:the story about how some foreigners traveled through a town and when the rear end in a top hat old couple killed their cat the foreigners cursed them and all the cats in the town showed up to their house devoured them a few nights later Cats of Ulthar. Are...are we playing a game?
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Stick Figure Mafia posted:Maybe I'm getting The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Hound mixed up or something or maybe 'cause there is character named St. John and John Watson or I don't know wtf. I remember thinking that when I read it but I was probably just high out my mind. Yeah, the Hound's a bit Poe-ish, but Lovecraft didn't hide that Poe was a huge influence on him. He'd gush about Poe the same way a modern nerd will gush about Lovecraft.
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Oct 10, 2014 07:42
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:Yeah, the Hound's a bit Poe-ish, but Lovecraft didn't hide that Poe was a huge influence on him. He'd gush about Poe the same way a modern nerd will gush about Lovecraft. He flat out quotes Poe like three times in that story.
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Oct 10, 2014 07:53
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Stick Figure Mafia posted:He flat out quotes Poe like three times in that story. troof
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Oct 10, 2014 07:55
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Stick Figure Mafia posted:He flat out quotes Poe like three times in that story. ... Yeah, he really, really liked Poe. I already said that. I'm not gonna read one of his worst stories again just so I can remember exactly how Poeish it was. The jealousy angle is flat out wrong, though. The Hound is one of the first things he managed to publish and get paid for. Bit early for him to think he should be as famous as the guy he swoons over.
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Oct 10, 2014 08:05
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well how 'bout this then. he had a tiny mouth
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Oct 10, 2014 08:09
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Stick Figure Mafia posted:well how 'bout this then. he was a goony
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Oct 10, 2014 08:13
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Stick Figure Mafia posted:well how 'bout this then. in his older photos it becomes clear that he was Barnacle Jim's ancestor
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Oct 10, 2014 08:14
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Stick Figure Mafia posted:well how 'bout this then. did he have a tiny mouth or did he have a really monster jaw
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Oct 10, 2014 08:55
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butplug accident posted:This dude old enough to be my dad has a huge beef with me for calling him gay a few times in GBS which is loving funny to me, and he's gullible as gently caress too wow I'm just now starting to realize how good of a mod franco actually is because now I can easily constrast him to redshirt, who is a really bad mod.
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Oct 10, 2014 08:59
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when you give a guy called 'redshirt' modship you've gotta kinda expect they're gonna go on a tear getting petty revenge against all the cool kids who made fun of them
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Oct 10, 2014 09:00
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Harime Nui posted:did he have a tiny mouth or did he have a really monster jaw He came from a small fishing village where men transformed into Jay Leno as they aged, in accordance with ancient and blasphemous rites.
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Oct 10, 2014 09:06
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I don't know what beef they have, I just know that his constant mod sass was getting annoying. I don't care if redshirt is 45 years old. I have sex with older men. It's just a 6 hour probation anyways. Chill IMO
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Tsinava posted:I don't know what beef they have, I just know that his constant mod sass was getting annoying. I don't care if redshirt is 45 years old. I have sex with older men. It's just a 6 hour probation anyways. Chill IMO what's your favorite Lovecraftian yarn, friend
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Oct 10, 2014 09:07
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Tsinava posted:I have sex with older men I forget is this one Herbert West Reanimator or what
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Oct 10, 2014 09:08
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Tubgirl Cosplay posted:I forget is this one Herbert West Reanimator or what http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Bugs
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Oct 10, 2014 09:10
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I like to have sex with old guys because most of them know what they're doing.
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Oct 10, 2014 09:12
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I actually really liked at the mountains of madness, but really lovecraft was pretty loving pretentious and overall a lovely guy. Kind of like Gould, he has some good qualities but overally wouldn't reccomend.
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Oct 10, 2014 09:12
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Is there a Lovecraft story about having sex with olds. There should be
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Morkyz posted:I actually really liked at the mountains of madness, but really lovecraft was pretty loving pretentious and overall a lovely guy. Kind of like Gould, he has some good qualities but overally wouldn't reccomend. Agreed. Also liked that one story about hillbillies who liked banging their cousins so much they turned into cannibal mole people, he had a few good ones mostly despite being a total nutbar
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h.p. lovecraft is good. and i am fully on board with redshirt's reign of terror, because i too am a nerd who likes star wars and got shoved into lockers in high school while the hot girls who put out laughed at me. i can only hope to be half the man redshirt is when i'm his age, which is 60 or something i think.
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Oct 10, 2014 09:15
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best lovecraft stories: the music of erich zann the case of charles dexter ward the dreamquest of unknown kadath hth
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Benedick Cuckold posted:h.p. lovecraft is good. and i am fully on board with redshirt's reign of terror, because i too am a nerd who likes [REDACTED] and got shoved into lockers in high school while the hot girls who put out laughed at me. i can only hope to be half the man redshirt is when i'm his age, which is 60 or something i think. umm better edit that out before he sees it (hes aa trekie)
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Oct 10, 2014 09:19
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Morkyz posted:umm better edit that out before he sees it (hes aa trekie) it took me a while to realize all these posts are made by "Morkyz" but now I'm onto you and your reign of terror
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Oct 10, 2014 09:20
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Dream quest of unknown kaldath and the other ones about cats own. Also the ones about creepy inbred hillpeople are pretty cool and would make a good setting for a show or videogame and rhen shooting them while escaping would be cool imo. Also there was a good one about a church with a tower with a creepy room at the top that i also enjoyed.
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Oct 10, 2014 09:25
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I also thought The Color Out Of Space was neat but that's probably mostly from association with that one bit of Metal Slug because I'm a manchild mere decades out from modship
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Oct 10, 2014 09:27
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Morkyz posted:umm better edit that out before he sees it (hes aa trekie) naw redshirt's on the level. clever "typo" btw anyway i know it's a cliche but call of cthulhu really is an almost perfect lovecraft story. there's a reason it's so popular
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Tubgirl Cosplay posted:I also thought The Color Out Of Space was a neat idea but I have trouble decoupling it metnally from that one bit of Metal Slug because I'm a manchild mere decades out from modship That was also a really good one. It was about minorities ruining property prices right?
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Harime Nui posted:it took me a while to realize all these posts are made by "Morkyz" but now I'm onto you and your reign of terror umm what? If you have a problem with my posting please be direct.
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katlington posted:Also the ones about creepy inbred hillpeople are pretty cool and would make a good setting for a show or videogame and rhen shooting them while escaping would be cool imo. They are giving it a second season  http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_America_with_Sarah_Palin
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Helical Nightmares posted:They are giving it a second season lmao
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Helical Nightmares posted:They are giving it a second season lol
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Guy de Maupassant's La Horla trumps anything Lovecraft put out. It has that subtle but lingering syphilitic brain rot kinda terror.
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Tonsured posted:Guy de Maupassant's La Horla trumps anything Lovecraft put out. It has that subtle but lingering syphilitic brain rot kinda terror. Which you do realize Lovecraft cited in Supernatural Horror in Literature as an influence? "Relating the advent in France of an invisible being who lives on water and milk, sways the minds of others, and seems to be the vanguard of a horde of extra-terrestrial organisms arrived on earth to subjugate and overwhelm mankind, this tense narrative is perhaps without peer in its particular department." -HPL
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Momohime Katsumi posted:I thought I'd get in the HJallow en spirit by listening to some HP Lovecraft audiobooks. I wasn't familiar with his work but I thought that it'd be cool because he's the cthulu guy, and I'm pretty nerdy, and nerds like cthuly. it seemed to make sense. Anyway, I've listened to two stories so far -- Call of Cthulu and The Shadow Over Innsmouth -- and I think I have his whole shtick down: black, monolithic Cyclopean architecture (wtf is that), ooze, non-Euclidean geometryu (I don't know what that is either), cosmic, uninmagineable terror. You mix those things together and some gibberish nonsense words made of all consonants and you have an HP Lovecraft story. Seriously, like I don't even need to read any more of his stuff because it's just gonna be the above + doomsday occultish poo poo and people either dying or going crazy from "abominable" horror. Like, bro, have some breadth. 
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charles stross wrote a really really good lovecraftian novella called a colder war that fuses the fear of destruction at the hands of a nuclear war with cosmic horror it is probably my favourite lovecraft fiction not written by the man himself: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm brian hodge's for whom the gods would destroy is a real good lovecraftian novella as well (not in the mythos though). his worlds of hurt anthology is awesome as well although not as explicitly lovecraftian some of laird barron's stories like hallucigenia and mysterium tremendum are quite good as well although not everyone likes his style also the probation above is loving sad
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Neurosis posted:also the probation above is loving sad H.P. Modsass
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h p lovecraft was all ideas and very little writing talent
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Oct 10, 2014 10:31
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Professor Shark posted:h p lovecraft was all ideas and very little writing talent that's not true at all. he obviously had a lot of raw writing talent. his prose is unassailable on a technical level, and almost no one writes more clearly, and with more creative structure, than he does. but he had an unfortunate tendency to overuse certain adjectives and often descended into purple prose. but it's not a fatal flaw in most of his writing imo.
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katlington posted:That was also a really good one. It was about minorities ruining property prices right? no, that was the civil rights related one, the coloreds out of place
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