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« Reply #30 on: April 01, 2011, 01:30:31 PM » |
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You know, I always thought the tickling thing with Night Gaunts was really stupid until I thought back to being a kid. Remember when a sibling would hold you down and tickle you until you almost passed out or choked? Remember how messed up that was? Now think of a slick plastic-like monster with now face and buzzing wings doing that to you several hundred feet above the ground. Yeah, it got kind of freaky after that line of thought...
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« Reply #31 on: April 01, 2011, 02:00:37 PM » |
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Oh yeah, absolutely. I think it's a testament to HP's desire to create disturbing incongruities to add a dimension of almost believability when he would write things like that. Being held aloft at some no small height and being tickled mercilessly by a nightmarish creature is certainly a horrifying thought, at any rate. And there was that moment when Carter's first introduction to the Night Gaunts was 'feeling' a presence behind him and then hearing his cutlass slowly being pulled out of it's scabbard. That is one helluva creepy moment.
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« Reply #32 on: April 01, 2011, 04:18:59 PM » |
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What!?!? No, one is voting for the HAIR from Medusa's Coil |
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'Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.'
Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
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« Reply #33 on: April 01, 2011, 04:34:25 PM » |
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Nah, the hair is only scary to a bikini line.  Bob |
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« Reply #34 on: May 13, 2011, 12:45:01 PM » |
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All time favorites are the Hounds of Tindalos. He only mentioned them in Whispers in the Dar but still when the story was written afterwards I was in love with them on so many levels. Also I would say the Cats of Ulthar even though it could be argues they were really monsters but hell bent revenge kitties.
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« Reply #35 on: May 13, 2011, 01:59:23 PM » |
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For me it's Nyarlathotep, tentacles-down. Norm Sherman's Drabblecast reading really brought it home for me. A close second is the vampire-thing from "The Shunned House." Ick!
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« Reply #36 on: May 16, 2011, 09:09:44 AM » |
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Does anyone else feel like Nyarlathotep is just used as a scapegoat for any generic, but unspecified supernatural villain in Lovecraft stories like I do? It seems that any time someone meets with something unknown in the woods it's got to be Nyarlathotep. Kazhia Mason makes a deal with the devil: that's not the devil, it's Nyarlathotep. Something is talking with the Mi-Go on the wax cylinder: it's Nyarlathotep. A ton of snakes drive a lady in Oklahoma mad: it's Nyarlathotep. Sheesh, does this guy ever sleep? Sorry MediaGhost, that wasn't a personal bash by any means (and I actually do like Nyarlathotep when he is used), I just kind of think he gets tossed under the bus a a lot. Also, I've had that rant pent up for a bit.  Bob |
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« Reply #38 on: May 16, 2011, 12:54:20 PM » |
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Yeah, you got me there. Bob |
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« Reply #39 on: May 16, 2011, 12:56:00 PM » |
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Of course, we should remember the Cthulhu Mythos motto: When in doubt, fuck it, it's Nyarlathotep. |
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« Reply #40 on: May 16, 2011, 08:28:46 PM » |
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Of course, we should remember the Cthulhu Mythos motto: When in doubt, fuck it, it's Nyarlathotep. I can't name a form of Nyarlathotep I would fuck. They mostly tend to be men and non-sexy aliens. |
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« Reply #41 on: May 17, 2011, 08:15:27 AM » |
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Oh come on, Jack. Everyone loved the "love scene" in "Galaxy Quest" with the alien babe. Just admit it and you'll feel much better about yourself. Bob |
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« Reply #42 on: May 17, 2011, 11:23:39 PM » |
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Oh come on, Jack. Everyone loved the "love scene" in "Galaxy Quest" with the alien babe. Just admit it and you'll feel much better about yourself. Bob There's a small difference between Missi Pyle with CG tentacles and what Wikipedia describes as "a bloated, batlike creature with a single, burning, three-lobed burning eye which appears able to kill by fear alone." I don't think that's redundancy, either; it's doubly burning. |
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« Reply #43 on: May 18, 2011, 08:43:27 AM » |
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Doubly burning means twice as hot, Jack. You just have to know how to spin these things.
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« Reply #44 on: May 19, 2011, 12:41:51 PM » |
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... Ohhh-kaaaaay.
Getting back onto the subject, I'm going to tick the box for the Colour as my favourite monster. It's just so imaginitive and unique.
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