Member Introductions

[Inner Prop]

Hello, I'm from Chicago, UIUC grad (90), living and working in Lake County, IL.

I've written for Anotherealm.com and Whortleberry press.  I've had two of my Lovecraftian stories read on Cthulhupodcast.

Been listening to the show for a while.  I listen at work, so shh don't tell anyone.

I'm looking forward to chiming in.

[kittiwake]

Hello everyone. My name is Kate and I live in Nottingham, England.

I've been listening to the podcast for about 18 months, and reading the stories as they come up in the podcast. I've read some of them before, but not all, and I hadn't read any of the ghost-written ones. My favourites so far are The Colour Out of Space and At the Mountains of Madness, and my least favourite is the one with the demonic pony-tail that crawled around like a snake : )

I had a bit of trouble signing up to the forums, but Mike and Chad sorted it out for me (thank you !) so here I am, ticket for next week's event in Leeds bought and paid for!

[Drew Unspeakable Name]

Just introducing myself. Relatively new to Mr. Lovecraft, but now a fan. I'm from Birmingham, Alabama and I have it on good authority that something evil is afoot----because Evil usually is a lousy flier.
                        Drew

[RedRetroRobot]

Salutations. My name is Rx3. I often go by as Retro, Red, or a long list of various handles.
Been listening to the podcast since "Polaris" due to a recommendation from a Star Wars Saga podcast of all places! Been a happy camper ever since. Sure as hell makes work constructive and energetic.

I first encountered Lovecraft in grade school due to a workshop about Poe. My first stories were "The Shunned House" and "The Colour Out of Space". My ultimate favorites have been "The Temple", "The Music of Erich Zann" and "Pickman's Model".

Along with Poe and Lovecraft, I'm a big fan of Dan Simmions, Asimov and Roald Dahl.

I also really, really, _really_ like robots. <3

Keep up the great work guys!

[ultraturquoise]

Heips, I'm Hanna, from Finland.

Been reading Lovecraft's stories since I was 20 I think (so just 5 years ). First one was Charles Dexter Ward, which is still one of my favourites, but definite favourite story is The Colour out of Space. And I actually registered over a year ago but better late than never I suppose...

[T. Kelly Lee]

Hi, all - Been listening to the Podcast for a couple of years now and finally decided to chime in.  I'm in Washington, DC and been an HPL fan since I was a kid.  I collect Lovecraftiana of all manner, including rarer items like his personal letters.  I've had about a half-dozen horror stories published and I'm currently working on a book of short fiction I'm going to self-publish at Amazon just for my own amusement. 

[Inner Prop]

I also really, really, _really_ like robots. <3

Lovecraftian robots, that's a cool idea

[DustyTome]

Hello Everyone!
My name's Erin and I'm a long time listener of the podcast but for one reason or another, I've not signed up for the forums. I thought I'd go ahead and rectify that. 

I'm a huge Lovecraft fan, having discovered him through one of Stephen King's short story collections. He called one story his obligatory nod to HPL, one of the masters of horror. That piqued my curiousity. Here was an author I'd never heard of being recommended by a writer who regularly scared the bejeezus out of me.

I managed to get my hands on the collection of Lovecraft's work with the robed, skeletonized figure on the cover. To be honest, I couldn't figure out what the fuss was about. Yeah, Lovecraft was good but there was something off about the writing that I couldn't put my finger on.

Fast forward fifteen years, to a time when I was living in Chicago. A friend worked at an amazing fantasy-science fiction-horror specialty bookshop in town. We got to talking about HPL one day and he told me that what I'd initially read was not what Lovecraft had written but a basterdized version. My friend strongly urged me to read the corrected text, which just happened to be on sale at the bookshop where he worked. Funny, that. 

Wow. Once I read the copy as Lovecraft intended, I was hooked. When he's on his game, Lovecraft is one of the best ever.

[Graf von Altenberg Ehrenstein]

Hi there,

I am an compatriot of iron-willing, temple-haunting Karl-Heinrich, my parents also took the liberty of calling me Karl. Although I never took the habit of gunning down my colleagues in the work place...
Actually it was South Park that dragged me into Lovecraft... Ähm, yes. In my defence I have to say that in my glorious homecountry HPL is best known as the author of a graphic novel called the Necrocomic. Curious about that fancy monster with that fancy name I read some stories and soon got hooked. Most stunning however I found the various echoes of HPLs work in contemporary pop culture I was hitherto unaware of.
Groping blindly through the interabysses one of the first things I stumbled upon was the Podcast. Chad and Chris helped me finding an access to Howard ´s ... ahm ... less awesome stuff. I can now read "He" as the great parody it unfortunately does not seem to be ment.   
Since none of my friends are into Lovecraft, I hope to find some interesting conversations here.


So best regards from Prussia and please excuse my sometimes inexplicable and dreadful English...

[DustyTome]

Hi there,

I am an compatriot of iron-willing, temple-haunting Karl-Heinrich, my parents also took the liberty of calling me Karl. Although I never took the habit of gunning down my colleagues in the work place...
Actually it was South Park that dragged me into Lovecraft... Ähm, yes. In my defence I have to say that in my glorious homecountry HPL is best known as the author of a graphic novel called the Necrocomic. Curious about that fancy monster with that fancy name I read some stories and soon got hooked. Most stunning however I found the various echoes of HPLs work in contemporary pop culture I was hitherto unaware of.
Groping blindly through the interabysses one of the first things I stumbled upon was the Podcast. Chad and Chris helped me finding an access to Howard ´s ... ahm ... less awesome stuff. I can now read "He" as the great parody it unfortunately does not seem to be ment.   
Since none of my friends are into Lovecraft, I hope to find some interesting conversations here.


So best regards from Prussia and please excuse my sometimes inexplicable and dreadful English...

Hi Karl!
Yep, HPL did write some atrocious stuff. I'm surprised I made it through the podcast on 'The Street' without retching.  When he was on his game though, wow was he good. I'm re-reading The Haunter of the Dark and the sense of dread is just amazing. I hope all's well in Prussia.

[Graf von Altenberg Ehrenstein]

Yes thanks, things are just fine. Since Prussia is not a place in the real world anymore but a (rather dull) state of mind it `s easy to be fixed up with a couple o`quarts o`beer.
Oh man, The Street as such a nasty one. I got that on audiobook and listened to it on my way to work. During those ten or so minutes I nearly crashed the car three times! It `s so bad it could you!

[Dr Strangelovecraft]

Hello, Puny Humans!

I'm a Brazilian Lovecraft fan from São Paulo. Been listening to the show since I found about it back at Cthulhumas at Tor.com, and after fearfully lurking in the forums for Aeons (in internet time, you know) I decided to join.

I've been reading Lovecraft for quite a while now and since I started listening to the show I've been interested Lovecraft himself, his life and times.

Well, that's it for now. Sorry for the "Engrish" (been struggling with it for a while now, one of the reasons I took the time before joining the forums), hope I can come up with some interesting stuff.

Best of Luck to everyone, specially Chad and Chris (thanks for the show, you guys!)

[DustyTome]

Don't worry about your English, mate. I'm a native speaker and I still screw it up. Glad to have you and I love your username!

[Dr Strangelovecraft]

Hey, thanks for the warm welcome, Dusty Tome. I would have replied sooner but it was a working weekend for me.

I had other ideas for the username, but this was the best sounding one, so I went with it.

[LambethWarp]

Greetings all! My name's Ollie but I chose LambethWarp as my username here after an infrequently updated blog I write, which can be found at http://dointhelambethwarp.wordpress.com/ - there's a general theme of cosmic horror and Weird Goings-On in London, where I lived for 12 years until recently.

Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself a bit. I'm a theoretical physics graduate (Dreams in the Witch House, anyone? ) and late studied particle physics at CERN - colleagues of mine there were searching for extra dimensions, and the Lovecraft fanboy in me doesn't know whether to hope they succeed or fail. I'm currently an engineer of sorts for a large tech firm. Probably a fairly typical resumé for an HPL devotee, I should think.

I've been a fan since I discovered his writing as an undergraduate and began writing short stories of my own a couple of years ago. (Don't want to look like a spammer so I'll see if I can find a more appropriate thread for links.)
As far as HPL goes, I would have to say The Colour Out Of Space is my favourite, though I like most of his other longish works, especially Charles Dexter Ward, Mountains of Madness, The Shadow out of Time and of course TCoC. Also got a lot of time for some of the Dreamlands strories, especially the Silver Key ones. I've listened to probably half of the podcasts so far, been working my way through them in order but I've also listened to some of the most recent ones and a few here and there that I picked out from among my favourite stories. Just listened to the first part of the live event in Leeds and looking forward to part 2!