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« Reply #30 on: May 23, 2012, 03:33:57 PM » |
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Not read 'The Hound' - I don't think it's on the 'complete' works I've got on my Kindle. I'm sure it's online along with everything else but I haven't got round to it yet.
If you ask Ruth nicely, she might let you grab a copy of her personal e-book collection of HPL stuff. Of course, I don't know if she still has a copy for public consumption, so take the advice with a grain of salt. Bob It is a good one!!!!! Yep, it's on my website http://cthulhuchick.com/free-complete-lovecraft-ebook-nook-kindle/...that's the public one anyone. I may have a copy for myself with collabs. <_< |
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« Reply #31 on: May 23, 2012, 11:19:20 PM » |
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Lovecraft was a Holmes fan, and this was part of his inspiration for playing detective as a kid ... with a real revolver.
I've seen Cast a Deadly Spell, it didn't do much for me other than Warner's dialogue near the end. Yes, Ward isn't bad in it, but overall it was basically a horror movie attempt at Roger Rabbit, but one that didn't work too well IMO. The sequel drags in a lot of places, but I find elements of it more memorable and weird (the Frank Lloyd Wright/Aztec brothel, Julian Sands is just weird, and the great speech implosion with the lizard and such).
I will agree that the weakest bit of the Resurrected is the PI angle. A PI investigation would work fine as a frame without the overt and anachronistic noir styling.
A Study Emerald isn't bad, especially in the format it appears on Gaiman's site with the graphic ads, but like every time I've seen Gaiman take on Lovecraft, it seems to mostly be an exercise in taking the wind out of HPL's sails.
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« Reply #32 on: May 24, 2012, 01:38:29 PM » |
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Yeah the P.I. thing is something I cannot stand--i feel like it comes up a lot in movies that can't think of a unique way to string their more fantastic events together, and it's always boring
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« Reply #33 on: May 24, 2012, 01:51:21 PM » |
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I guess for me, the extended mythos stuff is really hit or miss. Some of it is really good, some is total crap. I may have said this before, but honestly, I'm not going to go back to the beginning are reread this thread. The danger I have found is that if you let the extended stuff influence your ideas of the original stuff, you run the risk of diluting the original feel the works instilled in you in the first place.
That is why I was never a fan of the pulpy quality of the RPG, it relegated fantastic ideas and an eerie of dread and hopelessness into stats and D&D style dungeon crawls. Of course, I am trying run a game base on HPL right now, and it is tough to ride the line between RPG and roll-playing. Anyone of you who knows the difference can probably relate to this conundrum.
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« Reply #34 on: May 24, 2012, 07:11:18 PM » |
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Not exactly a related topic to this post, but I was watching tv not too long ago with my eight year old cousin and he wanted to watch a show with Scooby Doo in it (Scooby Doo, Incorperated I think), and I was pretending to enjoy it with him ( I'm indifferent to the Scoobies) and a character called Professor Howard Hatecraft popped up, and he's fighting some sort of ghost villain (and kicking butt, as well, which made me cheer!). I giggled so loud him mom was concerned. I had to explain why it was funny later to both of them. Now he wants me to read me some of his work at bedtime... ((I'm thinking Cats of Ulthar maybe since he loves cats))
Anybody have any thoughts on this, sort of odd melding of genres?? It is sort of a melding teenDetective/Weird fiction thing and I'm not really annoyed by it. And it seems to be a great gateway drug for new cultists, I mean, introduction to younger fans?
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. ~H. P. Lovecraft
Yay, crime, perversion, and insanity! Sounds like a party! ~me
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« Reply #35 on: May 25, 2012, 09:37:21 AM » |
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Not exactly a related topic to this post, but I was watching tv not too long ago with my eight year old cousin and he wanted to watch a show with Scooby Doo in it (Scooby Doo, Incorperated I think), and I was pretending to enjoy it with him ( I'm indifferent to the Scoobies) and a character called Professor Howard Hatecraft popped up, and he's fighting some sort of ghost villain (and kicking butt, as well, which made me cheer!). I giggled so loud him mom was concerned. I had to explain why it was funny later to both of them. Now he wants me to read me some of his work at bedtime... ((I'm thinking Cats of Ulthar maybe since he loves cats))
Anybody have any thoughts on this, sort of odd melding of genres?? It is sort of a melding teenDetective/Weird fiction thing and I'm not really annoyed by it. And it seems to be a great gateway drug for new cultists, I mean, introduction to younger fans?
Actually, I love this stuff. I love seeing little HPL references pop up - like the reference to "Arkham Reef" in the Fog. One of the coolest modern HPL pastiches is in "The Real Ghostbusters" - the Collect Call of Cthulhu episode. I have to admit that I am a Scooby Doo fanboy - except the two movies. Dreck. |
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« Reply #36 on: May 25, 2012, 10:04:43 AM » |
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You know, now that I think about it, has there ever been a member of staff at Arkham Asylum in Batman named after a Lovecraft character? It seems pretty odd that I've never heard of one.
Bob
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« Reply #37 on: May 25, 2012, 01:54:27 PM » |
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Just as an aside; wasn't there a character in Avatar who's last name was Lovecraft? I know Cameron named one of his characters that in one of his movies as a direct nod to his love of HPL.
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« Reply #38 on: May 25, 2012, 02:39:02 PM » |
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You know, now that I think about it, has there ever been a member of staff at Arkham Asylum in Batman named after a Lovecraft character? It seems pretty odd that I've never heard of one.
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I don't know, but if you haven't read it, you should try to get your hands on Mike Mignola's The Doom that Came to Gotham, which is more or less exactly what you would probably imagine from the title. Some of it I wasn't a huge fan of, but many of the choices made are quite neat (and it continues Mignola's obsession with frogs as well). |
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« Reply #39 on: May 25, 2012, 02:52:22 PM » |
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Just listening now - fun but hella cheesy.  Edit: "we were troubled by frequent fumblings in the night" - ahaha, brilliant! Edit the second: "So me and my mate were robbing graves and we found a magic necklace and then we went to stay in this big old spooky house and were constantly haunted by the sound a giant ghostly dog and then my friend got et by a giant ghostly dog so I took the magic necklace I'd nicked from the grave back to the grave and blow me if the skellington inside didn't look like it had just been half-et by a giant ghostly dog!" Amazing.  |
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« Reply #40 on: May 29, 2012, 06:10:34 PM » |
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Not exactly a related topic to this post, but I was watching tv not too long ago with my eight year old cousin and he wanted to watch a show with Scooby Doo in it (Scooby Doo, Incorperated I think), and I was pretending to enjoy it with him ( I'm indifferent to the Scoobies) and a character called Professor Howard Hatecraft popped up, and he's fighting some sort of ghost villain (and kicking butt, as well, which made me cheer!). I giggled so loud him mom was concerned. I had to explain why it was funny later to both of them. Now he wants me to read me some of his work at bedtime... ((I'm thinking Cats of Ulthar maybe since he loves cats))
Anybody have any thoughts on this, sort of odd melding of genres?? It is sort of a melding teenDetective/Weird fiction thing and I'm not really annoyed by it. And it seems to be a great gateway drug for new cultists, I mean, introduction to younger fans?
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« Reply #41 on: May 30, 2012, 08:30:43 AM » |
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See it's weird, because though generally expanded mythos isn't my bag, I LOVE references like that---That episode of Ghostbusters is awesome!
That episode was written by the great Michael Reaves, one of the finest writers you've never heard of. He wrote a ton of TV shows back in the day and contributed the brilliant story "Red Clay" to the Childred of Cthulhu anthology. Some of his novels are quite good, too. The Real Ghostbusters was a great show! It had some amazing writers. J. Michael Straczynski, Steve Perry, David Gerrold, and a ton of other great writers contributed episodes to that thing. |
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« Reply #42 on: May 30, 2012, 11:40:33 AM » |
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One of the coolest modern HPL pastiches is in "The Real Ghostbusters" - the Collect Call of Cthulhu episode.
There's an episode of The Grim Adventures Of Bill And Mandy called 'The Prank Call Of Cthulhu' - pretty silly, as you can imagine, but quite cool. |
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« Reply #43 on: May 30, 2012, 12:01:47 PM » |
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One of the coolest modern HPL pastiches is in "The Real Ghostbusters" - the Collect Call of Cthulhu episode.
There's an episode of The Grim Adventures Of Bill And Mandy called 'The Prank Call Of Cthulhu' - pretty silly, as you can imagine, but quite cool. I have been wanting to write a story with the title "Booty Call of Cthulhu" for about five years, but I've got no plot!! |
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« Reply #44 on: May 30, 2012, 12:53:45 PM » |
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I don't know if the short story is really the most appropriate form for "The Booty Call of Cthulhu." That's the sort of thing that needs to be either animated in the Japanese style, or filmed on a handheld camera in a seedy motel room.
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