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Yes, but August Derleth is the Devil and Brian Lumley is his prophet. I'll accept 'The Burrowers Beneath' but everything else he's written is claptrap in my opinion.
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I think it's pretty cool and I would buy one!
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Oct 16, 2015 03:56
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If I can ask, why did you go with Starry Wisdom? If its specific to the Cthulhu stories I almost think the Rl'yeh Texts would make more sense?
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Oct 16, 2015 23:31
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So I just got a new book of Lovecraftian stories called Cthulhu's Daughters, edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles. The gimmick here is that all the stories are written by women, which I find endlessly interesting because the only female authors I've seen take a run at Lovecraft previously are Caitlin R. Kiernan and Zealia Bishop. None of the stories are very long, some of them are very, very good, and there are even illustrations which is a rarity in this particular genre. Of particular interest is 'Lavinia's Woods' which is, of course, a story about the neglected Lavinia Whately, and the positively dread-inducing 'Violet is the Colour of your Energy' which is a modern take on 'The Colour out of Space'.
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Nov 26, 2016 15:15
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I'd be OK with it, but Mountains of Madness is my favourite Mythos tale and has been since I first read it. Arthur C Clarke did a short satirical piece on it in which the Elder Things are very nice, well-brought-up people who are mostly worried about asking the human explorers to bring them some tea when they come back, but I don't' recall the title of the story.
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Black August posted:Mountains is one of my tops too, and it made me kind of want to write a short story of the Elder Things, how they even managed to become an empire and survive Pangaea facing what was there at the time (a shitload of peak-Mythos empires and colonies). The reveal being it's found they used to have a powerful dream presence in eras past, before their greater sicence, and the birth of the shoggoths corresponded entirely from one legendary figure learning the old ways and undertaking the Dream Quest to reach Kadath, succeeding, and coming back with the raw material needed to I would read the hell out of this.
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