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« Reply #45 on: April 14, 2012, 03:02:56 PM » |
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old book; we're second largest in the world after Russia. Yeah, there is a lot of square footage in this country that is largely covered with forest (and no people). But much of it isn't too enjoyable. The setting is probably Quebec or Ontario. If you want a true outdoor Canadian experience, BC is the best, though. Of course  And yeah, that cube makes me think of the Lament Configuration. "You're suffering will be legendary! Even for Hell!" |
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« Reply #46 on: April 17, 2012, 03:47:05 PM » |
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Sorry, Eric, second-largest. I sort of imagined the woods in Southern Alberta for some reason.
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« Reply #47 on: April 17, 2012, 04:33:30 PM » |
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Alberta has woods? When I was there all I saw was brown, dusty prairie land. If anyone's gonna find something weird while camping in the Canadian woods, it's BC or bust.  |
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« Reply #48 on: April 17, 2012, 09:56:12 PM » |
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Alberta has woods? When I was there all I saw was brown, dusty prairie land. If anyone's gonna find something weird while camping in the Canadian woods, it's BC or bust. I've seen this movie, it ends badly if your ancestors screwed over lepers... |
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« Reply #49 on: April 18, 2012, 08:24:09 AM » |
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I was listening to The Willows on audiobook recently and lost interest in it. I should finish it, but it just made me want to go back and listen to more Lovecraft Is that the one from Librivox? I have to say that reader is terrible. Sorry. It sucks all the creep out of it. It really is a creepy story - especially if you've done a lot of camping and spent time in very lonely wilderness. I find it's one you sorta have to read to really get the mental picture of what's going on. My chief problem with Blackwood is that he would be fine if he were writing pure atmospherials, but a lot of his stories go TOO FAR with the revelation. I think HPL was sensitive to that and thus, so often, left his monsters clouded in a bit of darkness. |
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« Reply #50 on: April 18, 2012, 12:19:12 PM » |
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I'm pretty sure that was the one. It just seemed out of date for me now. But I will try to finish it. Gothic Weird Horror canon and all that Actually, I'm now reminded of The Blair Witch Project. If that movie didn't make you leery about camping in the woods, I don't know what would. I frickin' love that movie. And it's actually kind of Lovecraftian in a way. I was listening to The Willows on audiobook recently and lost interest in it. I should finish it, but it just made me want to go back and listen to more Lovecraft Is that the one from Librivox? I have to say that reader is terrible. Sorry. It sucks all the creep out of it. It really is a creepy story - especially if you've done a lot of camping and spent time in very lonely wilderness. I find it's one you sorta have to read to really get the mental picture of what's going on. My chief problem with Blackwood is that he would be fine if he were writing pure atmospherials, but a lot of his stories go TOO FAR with the revelation. I think HPL was sensitive to that and thus, so often, left his monsters clouded in a bit of darkness. |
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« Reply #51 on: April 18, 2012, 01:45:20 PM » |
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I'm pretty sure that was the one. It just seemed out of date for me now. But I will try to finish it. Gothic Weird Horror canon and all that Actually, I'm now reminded of The Blair Witch Project. If that movie didn't make you leery about camping in the woods, I don't know what would. I frickin' love that movie. And it's actually kind of Lovecraftian in a way. Yup. Love the Blair Witch Project. Especially since I've run across some funky stuff in the woods over the years. People get up to weirdness when they're left alone!! This came up in another thread - have you read Bloch's Notebook Found in a Deserted House? It helped to inspire Blair Witch. Might be a good antidote for the Willows! |
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« Reply #52 on: April 18, 2012, 01:47:28 PM » |
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have you read Bloch's Notebook Found in a Deserted House? It helped to inspire Blair Witch. Say what now? I didn't know there was any connection between them. |
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« Reply #53 on: April 18, 2012, 02:01:23 PM » |
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have you read Bloch's Notebook Found in a Deserted House? It helped to inspire Blair Witch. Say what now? I didn't know there was any connection between them. I can kind of see it. The theme of isolation in a rural area, knowing that you are being stalked by unseen forces. I get it. Of course, you never see the witch in Blair Witch, but you damn well see the creatures in Notebook. Bob |
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« Reply #54 on: April 18, 2012, 02:07:22 PM » |
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have you read Bloch's Notebook Found in a Deserted House? It helped to inspire Blair Witch. Say what now? I didn't know there was any connection between them. I can kind of see it. The theme of isolation in a rural area, knowing that you are being stalked by unseen forces. I get it. Of course, you never see the witch in Blair Witch, but you damn well see the creatures in Notebook. Bob Bloch actually writes a damn good reveal here! |
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« Reply #55 on: April 18, 2012, 04:33:27 PM » |
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This came up in another thread - have you read Bloch's Notebook Found in a Deserted House? It helped to inspire Blair Witch. Might be a good antidote for the Willows!
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« Reply #56 on: April 18, 2012, 09:36:24 PM » |
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Alberta has woods? When I was there all I saw was brown, dusty prairie land. If anyone's gonna find something weird while camping in the Canadian woods, it's BC or bust. On Albertas boarder with B.C. there is the rocky mountins which has very nice forest. Of course, there is a reason why Alberta has gotten the name "Canadas Mordor".  |
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« Reply #57 on: April 18, 2012, 10:44:58 PM » |
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The scene in Avatar when the shuttle is approaching for a landing on Pandora, you get a glimpse of the mining operations going on. That scene reminds me exactly of the Tar Sands at Fort McMurray |
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« Reply #58 on: April 19, 2012, 08:57:07 AM » |
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Episode 190: Growing a mustache like a BOSS!
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« Reply #59 on: April 20, 2012, 04:49:54 PM » |
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I did find the Merritt story I think Chad (?) was curious about. It is Dwellers in the Mirage featuring golden pygmies and the kraken god Khalk'ru. There it lay, sprawled out within the bowl, black tentacles spread fanwise
from its bloated body, its huge black eyes staring inscrutably up
into mine!
Resurgence of the old horror swept me. I jumped back with an oath.
The pygmies were crowding around my knees, staring up at me intently. I
knew that my horror was written plain upon my face. They began an
excited trilling, nodding to one another, gesticulating. Evalie watched
them gravely, and then I saw her own face lighten as though with
relief.
She smiled at me, and pointed again to the bowl. I forced myself to
look. And now I saw that the shape within it had been cunningly carved.
The dreadful, inscrutable eyes were of jet-like jewel. Through the end
of each of the fifty-foot-long tentacles had been driven one of the
crux ansatas, pinioning it like a spike; and through the monstrous body
had been driven a larger one. I read the meaning: life fettering the
enemy of life; rendering it impotent; prisoning it with the secret,
ancient and holy symbol of that very thing it was bent upon destroying.
And the great looped-cross above--watching and guarding like the god
of life.
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