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Post by deuce on Oct 3, 2017 14:33:06 GMT -5
"I agree that very few good vampire tales exist. 'Dracula' wouldn't be bad if it were all like the first or castle section, but unfortunately it doesn't maintain this level. It is really very hard to work with a superstition as well-known & conventionalised as those of the vampire & werewolf. Some day I may idly try my hand, but so far I have found original synthetic horrors much more tractable."
-- H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith 7 November, 1930
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Post by deuce on Oct 13, 2017 11:16:52 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Oct 24, 2017 11:55:28 GMT -5
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Post by mightythorjrs on Oct 30, 2017 11:10:03 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Oct 31, 2017 0:44:19 GMT -5
Stephen Fabian's awesome rendition of the phantasmagorical climax of The Horror at Red Hook...
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Post by deuce on Nov 10, 2017 14:17:36 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Nov 30, 2017 14:42:48 GMT -5
"Yes—it is amusing to speculate on what future psychologists would make of one’s stories. No doubt they would find a deep significance to Klarkash-Ton’s escapes from the terrestrial scene, in Two-Gun Bob’s orgies of slaughter, & in my own intimations of cosmic outsideness & excursions to bygone centuries in crumbling & witch-haunted Arkham."
-- HP Lovecraft to August Derleth, April 1933
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Post by deuce on Dec 9, 2017 1:55:34 GMT -5
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Post by robp on Dec 9, 2017 12:43:50 GMT -5
Wow, great cover!
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Post by deuce on Jan 3, 2018 3:15:53 GMT -5
I'm not sure about the intended subject of this atmospheric Stephen Fabian painting, but it could very easily be a scene from HPL's The Hound...
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Post by keith on Jan 3, 2018 5:05:12 GMT -5
Stephen Fabian's awesome rendition of the phantasmagorical climax of The Horror at Red Hook...
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Post by keith on Jan 3, 2018 5:06:35 GMT -5
Now that is completely awesome! As is all Steve Fabian's work. And "The Horror at Red Hook" is a favourite Lovecraft story of mine.
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Jan 17, 2018 14:51:16 GMT -5
... as I recall there were copyright issues with some of the stories as well (the Eddy ones, I think). A friend linked me to this article that seems to jive with your comment as to the copyright issues. Interesting take. Rarely do you hear of the family of some of these guys we're all so fascinated with doing anything with their famous progenitor's works. Also interesting that it was Hippocampus Press. I have a volume or two of theirs - Clark Ashton Smith's Black Diamonds being one. Narragansett man successful in lawsuit regarding his late grandfather’s short storiesNARRAGANSETT - In June, a motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction was filed in the United States District Court for the district of Rhode Island by James W. Dyer of Narragansett, preventing Derrick Hussey at Hippocampus Press of New York City from going forward with publishing four short stories written by Dyer’s grandfather, C. M. Eddy, Jr., the copyrights to which are now owned by Dyer...Continue reading at: www.ricentral.com/narragansett_times/narragansett-man-successful-in-lawsuit-regarding-his-late-grandfather-s/article_f858b5aa-a2a0-11e6-b226-fffa0182f95f.html
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Post by deuce on Jan 19, 2018 2:57:23 GMT -5
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Feb 6, 2018 13:37:00 GMT -5
The HP Lovecraft Historical Society released some cool updates. Their production of The Whisperer in Darkness is now available on DVD and Blueray. I watched the trailer; seems amazingly period and authentic. Had to order it. You can view the trailer by clicking on the link above. From their production of The Call of Cthulhu, the society, in the interests of raising funds to aid the UNIDOS Disaster Relief and Recovery Program to Support Puerto Rico, is selling raffle tickets. The prize is the last remaining nickel plated Legrasse Cthulhu Idol from the 2005 HPLHS motion picture, The Call of Cthulhu.. It's a chance to help a worthy cause, and maybe end up with a cool piece of Lovecraftian movie memorabilia. That sounds like a win-win. Read more about it here.
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