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I am a huge fan of Lovecraft. When I get bored with him, I like to go back to his big inspirations, especially Lord Dunsany (get this collection! and Robert Chambers get this, even though most of it is kind of lame, The King in Yellow is utterly brilliant. Dunsany has the absolute best prose of anybody, period. I went on to buy a lot of his other works, and while nothing really touches Pegana, it's still fascinating. Ornamented Death posted:Twitch...twitch... I hate Derleth with such a passion. Not only did he pervert Lovecraft's mythos to suit his own stupid neo-Christian scheme, but he made up so much bullshit that is now thought to be canon it makes me sick. Every time somebody calls Hastur the King in Yellow, I want to go dig up Derleth's corpse and spit in his face. Cthulhu's 'half-brother?' C'mon, you stupid poo poo, the Great Old Ones have no need for relations - they always have been, and always will be. Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn! CornHolio fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Feb 18, 2012 |
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Yggdrassil posted:I've order the Simon Necronomicon from amazon a few days ago, after reading the Call of Cthulhu and exploring the Lovecraft universe. I wanted to know... what should i expect to find within it? The Mad Arab's story? The spells? Im just curious, because i haven't managed to get much info about it. I own it and have read it from cover to cover. It's stupid. Also, I ordered this from the internet:  I love Robert Chambers.
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Shonagon posted:That is cool, but NB you can get Chambers free on Project Gutenberg if you have a Kindle. Mind you, everything that isn't King in Yellow has been crap so far. Oh I know. I downloaded it to my phone. I also have the collection of his weird tales. So technically I already had two copies of The King in Yellow. Doesn't mean owning the old musty version with the cool artwork is a bad thing!
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