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Post by zarono on Feb 26, 2016 12:58:11 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". Oh well, that sinks that idea. I always figured HPL had read WHH's sea monster stories a lot earlier since they had been around since the early 1900's. |
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Post by Ningauble on Feb 26, 2016 16:58:31 GMT -5
Oh well, that sinks that idea. I always figured HPL had read WHH's sea monster stories a lot earlier since they had been around since the early 1900's. After Hodgson died his books were virtually impossible to get hold of. HPL's friend H. C. Koenig stumbled on a Hodgson story in an anthology edited by Colin de la Mare and was hooked, and started hunting down his works. All the Hodgson stuff that HPL read he borrowed from Koenig; he was so impressed that he wrote an addition to "Supernatural Horror in Literature" dealing with Hodgson. It could be argued very plausibly that HPL was instrumental in the rediscovery and preservation of Hodgson's work. |
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Post by deuce on Feb 26, 2016 17:16:16 GMT -5
Oh well, that sinks that idea. I always figured HPL had read WHH's sea monster stories a lot earlier since they had been around since the early 1900's. HPL's friend H. C. Koenig stumbled on a Hodgson story in an anthology edited by Colin de la Mare and was hooked, and started hunting down his works. All the Hodgson stuff that HPL read he borrowed from Koenig; he was so impressed that he wrote an addition to "Supernatural Horror in Literature" dealing with Hodgson. It could be argued very plausibly that HPL was instrumental in the rediscovery and preservation of Hodgson's work. That would also be a good reason why Howard never mentioned WHH. |
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Post by zarono on Feb 26, 2016 23:01:52 GMT -5
A Hodgson style Sargasso Sea was the setting for the Jonny Quest episode "Mystery of the Lizard Men", no real monsters though just some commies in lizard suits testing out a laser.  |
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Post by deuce on Feb 27, 2016 0:23:46 GMT -5
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Post by zarono on Feb 27, 2016 8:47:18 GMT -5
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Post by zarono on Feb 27, 2016 8:57:48 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2016 12:34:27 GMT -5
Just picked up 'Dream of X' Read a few pages on the Underground. The Stephen Fabian art looks great.  |
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Post by zarono on Mar 14, 2016 9:42:02 GMT -5
Just picked up 'Dream of X' Read a few pages on the Underground. The Stephen Fabian art looks great. That looks great, are there interior illustrations as well? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2016 10:37:43 GMT -5
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Post by zarono on Mar 14, 2016 20:16:14 GMT -5
Those are awesome!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2016 4:06:43 GMT -5
Some Stephen Fabian art from Out of the Storm A Tropical Horror  Out of the Storm  The Finding of the Graikan  Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachtani
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2016 4:12:41 GMT -5
Here's some more.  Terror of the Water-Tank  The Albatross  The Haunting of the Lady Shannon |
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Post by deuce on Mar 16, 2016 6:27:01 GMT -5
You can't go wrong with Fabian. Thanks, Hun!
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Post by Don Bishop on Mar 18, 2016 13:20:04 GMT -5
Great Steven Fabian pieces, reminds me of Hannes Bok.
I found a pb version of House on the Borderland many years ago, it really blew me away. I read it quite a few times but when trying to remember back on it could only remember small parts, like waking from a really happening nightmare!
I sought out his work, read that he died fairly young in a foxhole in WW1, found The Boats of the Glenn Karrig and The Night Land, found some short stories in anthologies, loved every piece, but Borderland has remained my favorite.
It's a shame Howard never read any of Hodgson work, Hodgson did a number of sea stories, as did Howard, I'd have loved to have seen if he influenced any Howard stories, ah well.
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