Anyone NOT a fan of expanded Mythos?

[T. Kelly Lee]

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.

I was actually think of doing it serious-style.  I had an idea for some creepy dude who's doing sick stuff with prostitutes getting more than he bargained for. 

[Bob Lovecraft]

That sounds like an interesting premise, but having the word "booty" in the title is going to shoot that right down. It is an intrinsically silly word, which would really hurt the point you are trying to get across with the Cthulhu tie-in. Maybe 1-900-Cthulhu? But even then, the 1-900 number craze has been over for years. So yeah, I don't know.

Personally, I think "Booty Call of Cthulhu" has probably already been made and is either a tentacle-porn hentai or an extremely uncomfortable fetish video.

Bob

[T. Kelly Lee]

That sounds like an interesting premise, but having the word "booty" in the title is going to shoot that right down. It is an intrinsically silly word, which would really hurt the point you are trying to get across with the Cthulhu tie-in. Maybe 1-900-Cthulhu? But even then, the 1-900 number craze has been over for years. So yeah, I don't know.

Personally, I think "Booty Call of Cthulhu" has probably already been made and is either a tentacle-porn hentai or an extremely uncomfortable fetish video.

Bob

I always think back to Poppy Z. Brite's great story "Are You Loathsome Tonight" about the last days of Elvis.  The story is not paranormal at all and actually quite tragic, though it appears in a horror anthology.  It's an experiment in "atmospheric" horror.  Sometimes the addition of a silly title adds a touch of irony to the thing. 

[Drew Unspeakable Name]

Perhaps  "The Bootie Call of Cthulhu"? About a woman who is knitting footsies for her soon to be born baby monster's little tentacles?  Come to think of it, it could be a sequel to Alan Moore's "Necronomicon".


((Or perhaps I should wait till after I'm fully awake/and or the drugs wear off to type on this forum...))

[Professor Lake]

The Booty Call of Cthulhu has already been done. Yog-Sothoth and Lavinia Whately, boom-chicka Ia! Ia! 

[whpugmire]

There's a fabulous new book out called A LOOK BEHIND THE DERLETH MYTHOS: ORIGINS OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS, by John D. Haefele, that is an in-depth discussion of Derleth's ideas concerning and treatment of the Lovecraft Mythos, his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos, the history of the posthumous collaborations, and all the rest.  It is extremely well-researched and non-biased, although its author is indeed an Augie champion.  The book is a fabulous counterpart to S. T.'s THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS.  I now kid S. T. that he has become the "new August Derleth," as he has edited a huge new anthology of Cthulhu Mythos fiction for Centipede Press, A MOUNTAIN WALKED, that will include reprints of Joshi's favorite Mythos tales and some new original stories; and for Titan Books he has edited a two-volume anthology of all-new original tales, each of which has some connection to AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS.  He's also following Derleth's footsteps in editing a non-Lovecraftian anthology (although the story I sold to him for the book is Lovecraftian-up-ye-arse) for Fedogan & Bremer called SEARCHERS AFTER HORROR (the opening line from HPL's "The Picture in the House").  August Derleth has yet to be acknowledge for the awesome anthologies of weird fiction and weird poetry that he edited and published with Arkham House and others.

[ARCClarke]

Not a fan of Derleth or Lumley's contributions to the Mythos (although the latter's Necroscope novels are a lot of very cheesy fun). Ramsey Campbell's writing is somewhat Mythos-inspired. I know he also wrote Lovecraftian pastiches in his youth, but haven't read any of those.

Gaiman is a genius, and the two Mythos stories I've read (Emerald and I, Chtulhu) were brilliant, but very tongue-in-cheek.

There have been some good Mythos expansions, The Discovery of the Ghooric Zone by Lupoff and Charles Stross' work, especially A Colder War, which I'd say were even better written than HPL's stories. HPL's work continues to inspire writers new and old - there will be a lot of not-so-great stuff, but there will also be some excellent contributions to the Mythos.