I'm not a big fan of reading typically, I like it, but I spend more time doing art and computers.
But anyway I just thought I'd share this link I came across:
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lov...index.html
Basiclly it's a collection of Lovecraft's tales (Most famously Call of Cthulu), most of them were written way back early last century, but funnily they still seem spooky, even to today's audience used to chainsaw massacres and CGI gore, probably because most play on that paranoia and supernatural instinct that exists even into adults.
I found most of them intresting at any rate.
Sweet dreams :twisted:
Lovecraft is one of my favourite authors ever (and he was AS!). "At the Mountains of Madness" is genuinely terrifying.
It's years since I read H.P. Lovecraft, but I still remember,
The Colour out of Space, The Music of Erich Zann, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shunned House, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Shadow over Innsmouth, and
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
Lovecraft's novellas and tales may be read online here:
http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/...plnovellas
At the Mountains of Madness and Shadow out of time; are my two favorites! "Dunwich horror" is not far behind!
For a man who never travelled very far, his mind and imagination certainly went to places that we can only dream/scream about. :wink:
I just finished reading a short biography of him; "H. P. Lovecraft: Against the world, against Life" by Michel Houellebecq. Published by Believer Books, San Francisco, CA.
http://www.believermag.com
Peace
Lovecraft is one of my favorite authors (and he makes me proud to have Asperger's). I have even written one and a half stories set in his "universe". Has anyone here ever read Robert Howard? Everyone makes fun of Conan nowadays, but I read some of his stuff when I was doing research for a fantasy pulp of my own, and he's a good writer. Very good at creating settings, political situations, which evoke parallels from real-life history--he did his research well.
And anyone here like Moorcock's Elric series?
Yes, Robert E. Howard is one of my all time favorites!
I went thru a Michael Moorcoock phase, I started to like it when I finally understood his confusing weaving of stories together. My favorite series of his is the "Runestaff" series. Moorcock certainly liked to play with the multiverse idea. I also love his "Warrior of Mars" trilogy, set in the dim martian past. Sort of like a "John Carter of Mars" clone.
Peace
Hi. Good to hear from you; your posts make you sound kind.
I've only ever read the Elric series; how is "Runestaff"?
I just noticed the Lovecraft reference on your Location section.
The Runestaff series is pretty good, in fact I think it's the best of Moorcock's work....IMHO!
I try to be kind, it's part of my nature, even though I can be peevish, when I reach the point of no return of frustration with the world!
Yes, I like to use Lovecraft references for location or when I can make my own title on other forums. Depending upon my mood/whimsy.
Peace
Oh my golly. I just Lovecraft. Did not know he was an aspie too. I have been reading him since the late 1970ies when I happened upon a short story collection that had quite recently been translated to swedish. I still remember my laying in my bed on a weekend reading "The colour out of space", and my mom yelling from down stairs, dinner! but I kept reading and she yelled again and I kept reading until dad stormed through the door DINNER. Had to take time to eat then.
The rats in the wall is a favorite and the Outsider.
Then I also found the translation of "The case of Charles Dexter Ward" and that was love at first read. I read it several times until someone stole it from the library. But for the last years I have read the original at least once a year.
Still waiting for a definitive movie based on anything by him. What I have seen has not been much fun.
Check out Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. He wrote a short story as some kind of hommage to Lovecraft.
MAGNA MATER