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« Reply #15 on: October 10, 2011, 11:09:36 AM » |
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Yeah, that seems to be Lovecraft's approach to all his revisions. I like to imagine him returning manuscripts with just the words "Where's all the f*cking monsters?!" written in the margins in red ink.
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JulieH
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« Reply #16 on: October 10, 2011, 04:48:08 PM » |
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I thought the statues in the woods were eerie in a "Blair Witch"-y sort of way. I once ran into a beautifully constructed maze out in the middle of nowhere. It was made out of chicken wire and corn stalks and it kinda weirded my out. Not the kind of thing one expects to run into out on the prairie. Turns out is was just a bored farmer and his kids, but it was a real "Children of the Corn" moment for me. So I can see how running into a perfectly sculpted dog in a forest could creep a guy out.
But otherwise, yeah, it wasn't a very good story.
Of all things, in the middle of Seattle (well, north of the middle, but still very urban, and fairly upper middle class), on a busy boulevard in front of a community college, many years ago, I saw a deer's head. No deer in the vicinity, and not accidental, either - it was cleanly severed, and left sitting upright on its truncated neck. It was there for a couple of days, too, as I observed going in and out to attend classes (it was right next to the entrance driveway, in plain sight). Also not a stuffed head - the eyeballs were still real, as the flies could attest. No actual blood in sight, though. Just weird. I kept intending to take a picture, but this was before I had a camera phone or anything. Book of Eibon |
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JulieH
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« Reply #18 on: October 11, 2011, 05:00:39 PM » |
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North Seattle Community College - spitting distance from Northgate
And if it had been an entire deer,that might have made sense, but the idea that someone removed a head, and transported it to this particular spot and set it nicely on its base.....
... I always figured it was some misguided attempt at putting a curse on the school.
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« Reply #19 on: October 11, 2011, 09:23:10 PM » |
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North Seattle Community College - spitting distance from Northgate
And if it had been an entire deer,that might have made sense, but the idea that someone removed a head, and transported it to this particular spot and set it nicely on its base.....
... I always figured it was some misguided attempt at putting a curse on the school.
I can't find anything on this event through the usual sources (Google, newspaper archives, forbidden tomes, etc.). Maybe it was just a taxidermy job that lost its base and was thrown away. Not so thrilling or intriguing an answer but sadly a likely one, methinks. |
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« Reply #20 on: October 12, 2011, 02:07:55 AM » |
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This would have been.... 1989? And I never checked to see if it was in the news - and it had meat and eyeballs - i did look.  Just a creepy prank... |
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« Reply #21 on: October 12, 2011, 02:38:13 AM » |
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This would have been.... 1989? And I never checked to see if it was in the news - and it had meat and eyeballs - i did look. Just a creepy prank... It is random unexplained stuff like this that is the stuff of good stories... especially weird fiction stories. :p |
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« Reply #22 on: October 12, 2011, 01:22:52 PM » |
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Well, if one isn't keen on trophies, there's not a lot to do with a deer head except take the horns if they're mature. I'm guessing it was roadkill in Lynnwood, someone stopped for it, the thing got messy in the trunk and the head got discarded before the meat reached the garage.
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« Reply #23 on: October 13, 2011, 02:41:39 AM » |
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« Reply #24 on: October 13, 2011, 05:59:02 AM » |
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The framing is slopppy but I think this is an interesting story. I did quite enjoy the POV of a fifth generation sorcerer using the Book of Eibon to get petty revenge on his wife, something you don't see too often. Enjoyed it.
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« Reply #25 on: October 13, 2011, 08:33:23 AM » |
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I thought the statues in the woods were eerie in a "Blair Witch"-y sort of way. I once ran into a beautifully constructed maze out in the middle of nowhere. It was made out of chicken wire and corn stalks and it kinda weirded my out. Not the kind of thing one expects to run into out on the prairie. Turns out is was just a bored farmer and his kids, but it was a real "Children of the Corn" moment for me. So I can see how running into a perfectly sculpted dog in a forest could creep a guy out.
But otherwise, yeah, it wasn't a very good story.
Of all things, in the middle of Seattle (well, north of the middle, but still very urban, and fairly upper middle class), on a busy boulevard in front of a community college, many years ago, I saw a deer's head. No deer in the vicinity, and not accidental, either - it was cleanly severed, and left sitting upright on its truncated neck. It was there for a couple of days, too, as I observed going in and out to attend classes (it was right next to the entrance driveway, in plain sight). Also not a stuffed head - the eyeballs were still real, as the flies could attest. No actual blood in sight, though. Just weird. I kept intending to take a picture, but this was before I had a camera phone or anything. Book of Eibon And WHY have you not built an episode around this yet? Book of Eibon? Bob |
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« Reply #26 on: October 13, 2011, 10:11:59 AM » |
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[Just carrying on the Book of Eibon name-dropping from a previous comment.]
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« Reply #27 on: October 13, 2011, 01:00:41 PM » |
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I actually liked this podcast. What was read out loud was understated and more than a little sophisticated in it's terror. I don't know that I would ever search it out to read, though.
Speaking of weird findings in the woods, some years ago, some friends and myself were off on a camping trip to the west coast of Vancouver Island (not far from Seattle!!) and as we were driving along a logging road to get to the campsite we noticed a black shape on the side of the road a few hundred feet ahead of us. As we drew closer we saw that it was a dead black bear. Probably about a year old as it wasn't that big, but it wasn't small enough to be a cub.
The really disturbing part was that it was missing all four of it's paws and it's head. And the way it was lying in the ditch made it look almost human like. I never got a full reckoning of what was going on there, but assumed based on things that I had heard that it was someone after those particular parts to sell to the black market as aphrodisiacs, I believe. Ultimately, and ironically in a way, I hope that's what was going on. Any other explanation would be far more perverse and potentially sanity blasting, I fear.
Oh and Book of Eibon.
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« Reply #28 on: October 13, 2011, 01:06:10 PM » |
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[Just carrying on the Book of Eibon name-dropping from a previous comment.]
Sorry, JulieH, there wasn't supposed to be a "?" behind that last bit. Book of Eibon. Bob |
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« Reply #29 on: October 13, 2011, 02:46:30 PM » |
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"It is good to be a cynic... better to be a contented cat... best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing... we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice... If we were sensible we would seek death—the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed." -HPL
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