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Post by zarono on Feb 18, 2016 7:51:44 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 18, 2016 9:35:26 GMT -5
To the best of my knowledge, no. No mention in REH's letters, at least. Personally, I've always liked The Night Land and the "Carnacki" tales best. WHH had talent. It's a tragedy he died in the trenches of WWI.  |
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Post by zarono on Feb 18, 2016 10:18:10 GMT -5
To the best of my knowledge, no. No mention in REH's letters, at least. Personally, I've always liked The Night Land and the "Carnacki" tales best. WHH had talent. It's a tragedy he died in the trenches of WWI. Carnacki is good stuff, I'm surprised there hasn't been any pastiche done with the character especially given the rise of the steampunk genre in the last few years, the "Electric Pentacle" would fit right in. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2016 17:00:03 GMT -5
I stumbled across the abridged version of 'The Night Land' at Waterstones bookshop in London, they had a few shelves of secondhand horror books. I automatically scanned for Robert E Howard, no joy unfortunately... But right next to where a cheap copy of 'Skull face & Others, Arkham House 1946 edition' should have been! I was amazed to find 'The Dream of X' the Grant edition, illustrated by Stephen E. Fabian!! It was £65, a good price...
to be continued...
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Post by deuce on Feb 25, 2016 18:17:43 GMT -5
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Post by robp on Feb 26, 2016 6:54:11 GMT -5
Love HotB and the Carnacki stories. Found this recently on Youtube....Donald Pleasance as Carnacki!
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Post by zarono on Feb 26, 2016 7:30:11 GMT -5
I'm going to have to check out the new adventures of Carnacki! |
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Post by deuce on Feb 26, 2016 7:34:38 GMT -5
Glad I could help, Zarono.  |
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Post by zarono on Feb 26, 2016 8:39:19 GMT -5
The Boats of the Glen Carrig by WHH is worth looking into especially for Lovecraft fans (and I agree with Lovecraft that it disintegrates into romantic mush in the last part but it does have some very eerie scenes up to that point). I think the various weird tentacled monsters in the story influenced HPL almost as much as the"cosmic horror" aspect of Hodgson's "The House on the Borderland". Also of interest is the 1968 Hammer movie "The Lost Continent", it's based on Dennis Wheatley's book "Uncharted Seas" which was inspired by WHH's Boats of the Glenn Carrig and other sargasso sea/sea monster stories. It's a pretty cheesy movie by today's standards but fun if you like that kind of stuff.  Also here's a link to a video of the 1958 adaption of Hodgson's "The Voice in the Night" for the tv show "Suspicion", the quality is very poor though though: |
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Post by deuce on Feb 26, 2016 9:55:49 GMT -5
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Post by Ningauble on Feb 26, 2016 11:07:22 GMT -5
I think the various weird tentacled monsters in the story influenced HPL almost as much as the"cosmic horror" aspect of Hodgson's "The House on the Borderland". HPL discovered Hodgson in 1934, and since his solo fiction post-Hodgson consists of "The Shadow out of Time" and "The Haunter of the Dark" (in which the tentacle content is as good as nil), you must be mistaken as far as the tentacles are concerned. But the cosmic aspect of The House on the Borderland may be relevant to "The Shadow out of Time". |
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Post by paulmc on Feb 26, 2016 11:30:07 GMT -5
I'm going to have to check out the new adventures of Carnacki! Truth be told, Ulthar Press *might* have another Carnacki anthology of new stories coming out. I know it's on the slate but not sure when/if they will get to it. |
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Post by paulmc on Feb 26, 2016 11:33:22 GMT -5
And if we're talking Carnacki pastiches, anyway, William Meikle has done a couple. www.williammeikle.com/Carnacki: Heaven and Hell Carnacki: The Watcher at the Gate |
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Post by paulmc on Feb 26, 2016 11:35:14 GMT -5
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Post by paulmc on Feb 26, 2016 11:58:41 GMT -5
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