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Post by Char-Vell on Sept 20, 2018 12:06:31 GMT -5
I'd like to see it happen, it's one of HPL's finest works and with the right director and budget it could be great. Can't really say if Stanley's the guy who can do it since all I've seen from him is "Hardware" and the segment in "Theater Bizarre" that was based on CAS's "Mother of Toads" but he is wearing a Shub-Niggurath t-shirt in that pic so I'll give him some XP for that.  If it ever does get made the bar for movie adaptations of Colour is pretty low, I haven't seen Die Farbe but Die Monster Die isn't that great and The Curse tries to follow the original story a bit closer but ends up being goofy, however Claude Akins space acne is a high point.  Space Acne! Fortitude save for half damage!
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Post by johnnypt on Sept 20, 2018 12:36:28 GMT -5
I'd like to see it happen, it's one of HPL's finest works and with the right director and budget it could be great. Can't really say if Stanley's the guy who can do it since all I've seen from him is "Hardware" and the segment in "Theater Bizarre" that was based on CAS's "Mother of Toads" but he is wearing a Shub-Niggurath t-shirt in that pic so I'll give him some XP for that. If it ever does get made the bar for movie adaptations of Colour is pretty low, I haven't seen Die Farbe but Die Monster Die isn't that great and The Curse tries to follow the original story a bit closer but ends up being goofy, however Claude Akins space acne is a high point. Space Acne! Fortitude save for half damage!
Sheriff Lobo's retirement as a beekeeper doesn't go as well as Sherlock Holmes did... |
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Post by zarono on Sept 22, 2018 8:24:56 GMT -5
Space Acne! Fortitude save for half damage!
Sheriff Lobo's retirement as a beekeeper doesn't go as well as Sherlock Holmes did... Shame they didn't do a Sheriff Lobo meets the Colour Out of Space crossover while they had Claude on the payroll. |
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Post by deuce on Oct 15, 2018 12:18:49 GMT -5
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Nov 27, 2018 11:08:01 GMT -5
I'm on my 3rd listen of the Dark Adventure Radio Theatre production of The Call of Cthulhu. This is an incredibly immersive experience. No dull, boring solo voice here. Each character has a different-voiced actor, with killer, suspenseful music accompanying realistic sound effects. Even my 8 yo "got into it." The scene where Cthulhu leaves his lair . . . hair raising! Check out the teaser from the HPLHS site below.  (Photo from the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society) |
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Post by KiramidHead on Nov 27, 2018 15:44:31 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Dec 12, 2018 2:00:55 GMT -5
When you read early stuff like this from HPL, it's easier to see why he took to Howard's tales... The Teuton´s Battle Song
The mighty Woden laughs upon his throne,
And once more claims his children for his own.
The voice of Thor resounds again on high,
While arm’d Valkyries ride from out the sky:
The Gods of Asgard all their pow’rs released
To rouse the dullard from his dream of peace.
Awake! Ye hypocrites, and deign to scan
the actions of your “brotherhood of Man”.
Could your shrill pipings in the race impair
The warlike impulse put by nature there?
Where now the gentle maxims of the school,
The cant of preachers, and the Golden Rule?
What feeble word or doctrine now can sway?
Too long restrain’d, the bloody tempest breaks,
And Midgard ‘neath the tread of warriors shakes,
On to death, Beserker bold! And try
In acts of Godlike bravery to die!
Who cares to find the heaven of the priest,
When only warriors can with Woden feast?
The flesh of Schrimnir, and the cup of mead,
Are but for him who falls in martial deed:
You luckless boor, that passive meets his end,
May never in Valhalla’s court contend.
Slay, brothers, slay! And bathe in crimson gore;
Let Thor, triumphant, view the sport once more!
All other thoughts are fading in the mist,
But to attack, or of attack’d, resist.
List, great Alfadur, to the clash of steel;
How like a man does each brave swordsman feel!
The cries of pain, the roars of rampant rage,
In one vast symphony our ears engage.
Strike! Strike him down! Whoever bars the way;
Let each kill many ere he die today!
Ride o’er the weak; accomplish what ye can;
The Gods are kindest to the strongest man!
Why should we fear? What greater joy than this?
Asgard alone could give us sweeter bliss!
My strength is waning; dimly can I see
the helmeted Valkyries close to me.
Ten more I slay! How strange the thought of fear,
With Woden’s mounted messengers so near!
The darkness comes; I feel my spirit rise;
A kind Valkyrie bears me to the skies.
With conscience clear, I quit the earth below,
The boundless joys of Woden’s halls to know.
The grove of Glasir soon shall I behold,
And on Valhalla’s tablets be enroll’d:
There to remain, till Heimdall’s horn shall sound,
And Ragnarok enclose creation round;
And Bifrost break beneath bold Surtur’s horde,
And Gods and men fall dead beneath the sword;
When sun shall die, and sea devour the land,
And stars descend, and naught but Chaos stand.
Then shall Alfadur make his realm anew,
And Gods and men with purer life indue.
In that blest country shall Abundance reign,
Nor shall one vice or woe of earth remain.
Then, not before, shall men their battles cease,
And live at last in universal peace.
Thro’ cloudless heavens shall the eagle soar,
And happiness prevail for evermore.
~ H. P. Lovecraft ~ |
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Post by zarono on Dec 22, 2018 13:24:24 GMT -5
Question to anyone:
I know the character "Howard" in Frank Belknap Long's 1928 story "The Space Eaters" is a fictional version of HPL but in REH's 1931 story "The Children of the Night" you have this;
"But in such tales as Poe's Fall of the House of Usher, Machen's Black Seal and Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu—the three master horror-tales, to my mind—the reader is borne into dark and outer realms of imagination."
Is this the first direct reference to the real world HPL in a work of fiction?
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Post by deuce on Dec 24, 2018 12:29:28 GMT -5
Question to anyone: I know the character "Howard" in Frank Belknap Long's 1928 story "The Space Eaters" is a fictional version of HPL but in REH's 1931 story "The Children of the Night" you have this; "But in such tales as Poe's Fall of the House of Usher, Machen's Black Seal and Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu—the three master horror-tales, to my mind—the reader is borne into dark and outer realms of imagination." Is this the first direct reference to the real world HPL in a work of fiction? As far as I know, it is. I've pointed that out to REH/HPL scholars like John Haefele and Don Herron, though Jeffrey Shanks might've been the first one to notice it for what it was. Joshi has bitched about Derleth doing this, but here we have an example that HPL totally signed off on. There is no evidence from his letters to REH or anyone else that he had a problem with it. |
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Post by almuric on Dec 24, 2018 13:46:27 GMT -5
Lovecraft gets a brief shout-out in Aquaman. The Dunwich Horror is one of the books in Tom Curry's lighthouse.
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Post by zarono on Dec 26, 2018 21:55:11 GMT -5
Question to anyone: I know the character "Howard" in Frank Belknap Long's 1928 story "The Space Eaters" is a fictional version of HPL but in REH's 1931 story "The Children of the Night" you have this; "But in such tales as Poe's Fall of the House of Usher, Machen's Black Seal and Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu—the three master horror-tales, to my mind—the reader is borne into dark and outer realms of imagination." Is this the first direct reference to the real world HPL in a work of fiction? As far as I know, it is. I've pointed that out to REH/HPL scholars like John Haefele and Don Herron, though Jeffrey Shanks might've been the first one to notice it for what it was. Joshi has bitched about Derleth doing this, but here we have an example that HPL totally signed off on. There is no evidence from his letters to REH or anyone else that he had a problem with it. Very cool  |
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Post by zarono on Jan 23, 2019 21:34:57 GMT -5
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Jan 24, 2019 9:48:03 GMT -5
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Post by Grim Wanderer on Jan 24, 2019 12:04:11 GMT -5
To what otherworldly god did Cage have to submit to in order to get this gig? I have a feeling we'll all be paying for this one. |
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Post by charleshelm on Mar 15, 2019 20:27:29 GMT -5
Today marks the anniversary of Lovecraft's death...and we are watching The Whisperer in Darkness with dinner and will have a small toast afterward in his honor.
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