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This story is real bad! A bit like "H.P. Lovecraft the Bounty Hunter". One thing about this is that Lovecraft stories is that they take place in place that H.P.L don't take place. Still not as bad as say, "The Street"!
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« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2011, 06:31:59 PM » |
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Ok....just realized I still have to read this one. Yay?
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« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2011, 08:34:32 PM » |
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"What?! You mean this 'electrocution device' on my head is in fact exactly what I was told it was? I could not have foreseen this!"  EDIT: So I just listened to the episode, and the story actually goes pretty differently from the way I remember it, which makes this comment completely nonsensical. |
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« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2011, 03:02:12 AM » |
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For some reason, while reading this story...I can't *not* hear it narrated in Paul McGann's voice. What the crap is up with that? What weird alien beam from outer of space is tweaking my brain to make it go "Oh, here's a story called The Electric Executioner and it's not going to be all that good and, as a bonus....um...you're going to vocalize every word and it's going to sound like Paul McGann...good day."
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Chris Lackey
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« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2011, 03:13:07 AM » |
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I need to hit the forums more. This episode is now up.
And yes. It's a terrible story.
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« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2011, 08:23:20 AM » |
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For some reason, while reading this story...I can't *not* hear it narrated in Paul McGann's voice. What the crap is up with that? What weird alien beam from outer of space is tweaking my brain to make it go "Oh, here's a story called The Electric Executioner and it's not going to be all that good and, as a bonus....um...you're going to vocalize every word and it's going to sound like Paul McGann...good day."
Especially if he was reading it in the character of Golic from Alien3. Or in one of his "my thumbs have gone weird" moments from Withnail & I. Either way, totally insane... |
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« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2011, 02:25:34 PM » |
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The question is...is there anyone out there who actually enjoyed this story? I guess we've all had to do things we're not proud of at times in order to make a little cash.
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Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
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« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2011, 02:38:00 PM » |
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I have to say this story got at least a chuckle out of me. The predictability and the hammines made it at least so bad it's good in my eyes. But yeah...maybe I'm in a minority.  |
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« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2011, 03:17:29 PM » |
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I have to say this story got at least a chuckle out of me. The predictability and the hammines made it at least so bad it's good in my eyes. But yeah...maybe I'm in a minority. I wouldn't go so far as to say that I liked it. But I liked it better than the last collab these two did. Bit of a chuckle & it wasn't the most painful thing I read. Looking forward to next week because I like Yig much better than either of the de Castro ones. |
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« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2011, 04:35:22 PM » |
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I tend to agree that this is a pretty weak story. I'm not sure I actively hate it as much as some of the others here, but it is rather bland and predictable. Throughout the whole beginning of the story where the protagonist was experiencing delays on the train I was very bored. I think he even mentioned something along the lines of the whole thing being a waste of time which certainly rang true for me!  Still, I do like reading some of his lesser known stuff. I just recently found this podcast (which is amazing, of course), and am going through the back-episodes while keeping up on the new ones. Finding a lot of stories I haven't read yet which is great. |
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« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2011, 06:33:19 PM » |
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Man, stepping straight from the crappiness of "The Electric Executioner" to the awesomeness of "The Mound" is gonna be quite a transition.
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« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2011, 09:45:13 PM » |
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I got through this by imagining Bugs Bunny as the protagonist and Elmer Fudd as the madman.
"Now hold on a minute, Doc! Let a fella write his will first!"
"Well okay...but I weally am gonna ewectrocute you after that!"
Almost made it readable. Almost.
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dadavoodoo
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« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2011, 01:19:28 AM » |
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well I think that if he only got pay $16.00 for this then he was trying to give it to him!
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« Reply #13 on: February 11, 2011, 06:25:36 AM » |
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I just read the translation and it was horrible. I agree with Chris: this is the worst HPL story ever.
But how about the CM Eddy stuff "The beloved dead" and "Deaf, dump and blind". There is lot to say aubout the stories and about HPL's friendship with Eddy.
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« Reply #14 on: February 11, 2011, 09:39:45 AM » |
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I got through this by imagining Bugs Bunny as the protagonist and Elmer Fudd as the madman.
"Now hold on a minute, Doc! Let a fella write his will first!"
"Well okay...but I weally am gonna ewectrocute you after that!"
Almost made it readable. Almost.
EXACTLY what I was thinking...  To be fair though - the crazy guy makes a good point about wasting all that electricity on the whole body when just frying the head will do... but still what's up with the teleporting thing - was that his selling point to the folks in New York? "My electric executioner is self-cleaning!" Was he gonna kill everyone and let their bodies all pile up in the "corpse-shaped haunted mountain"? If so, why did the helmet go with him.... I just don't get it... Anyway - "Corpse-shaped Haunted Mountain" would be a good name for a roller coaster in Lovecraftland. |
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