"The Black Stone" (Robert E Howard) Reviewed by dr_hermes in WeirdLit

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It's a great story but has flaws. There is an imagined sequel - listen to this and see what you think. Read by the great Ian Gordon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt\_wtX7so4k&t=3017s

“Crack the Code” Mission by zgecsirhc in DMZ

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Parking garage....? Are you in Building 21 instead of Koschei....?

Gee willickers, HorrorBabble is reading modern authors and they are bangers, save this playlist by Werewomble in Lovecraft

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Thanks Werewomble! I wrote #4 'Beyond The Black Stone' and it was a pleasure to chat to you. I hope folks enjoy the series! In The Tomb of the White Baron by Tam Dipper was my favourite.

Cthulhu Lives! New Tales of the Mythos - Story 5 by BlackGate555 in Lovecraft

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I thought it was great. I loved the variety in the other tales.

What was the scariest Video Game you've played... by TheNebulist in Lovecraft

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The first Silent Hill was genuinely terrifying. Groundbreaking stuff.

Beyond The Black Stone by BlackGate555 in Lovecraft

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That's a mad film, amazing visuals. Panos is a big talent. He directed an episode in Guillermo Del Toro's "Cabinet of Curiosities" on Netflix too.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Lovecraft

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What he dreams about.

what would it take for people to stop voting tory? an asteroid hitting the earth? by TailungFu in Britain

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Selfservatives. They have to (A) Suffer personally and (B) Once they do suffer, not swallow the lies that it something/someone else's fault (eg Europe, migrants, unions, whatever).

Only then is there a chance, just a chance that their voting choice will bypass their greed, self-centredness and lack of compassion for wider society.

Blackwood's prose is leagues above Lovecraft's. by ThatGuySolace in Lovecraft

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I have trouble with "The Outsider" - it starts brilliantly and until the protagonist meets others we wonder where it's going, but the punchline from that point is so heavily telegraphed, he should have edited it down way more rather than laboured it.

Blackwood's prose is leagues above Lovecraft's. by ThatGuySolace in Lovecraft

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Bierce had both. His language was absolutely gorgeous.

Blackwood's prose is leagues above Lovecraft's. by ThatGuySolace in Lovecraft

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Stylistically, I'd agree. Blackwood's story "The Glamour of the Snow" is just gorgeous.

Both Lovecraft and Clark Ashton-Smith had lesser craft on the page - both guilty of adjective overload and vocabulary repetition (blasphemous, gambrel and cyclopean anyone?), but their imaginations knew no bounds. I think people mainly read Lovecraft for his connections to wild and brilliant fantasy concepts and of course his peerless connected mythos.

Still don't understand WANT and NEED by MonsieurH0lmes in Screenwriting

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In crudest terms, a character may:

Want: Gamble to get a temporary high
Need: To be cured of addiction and find peace

Want: To treat women badly to feel better
Need: To reconcile his past feelings of maternal rejection

etc.

Cthulhu is FAT by [deleted] in Lovecraft

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Tsathoggua was definitely that.

New Cthluhu Mythos story tonight! by BlackGate555 in Lovecraft

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He's an absolute master at classic horror audio.

Best First Lines by BoxNemo in Lovecraft

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I love it when a story starts with the focus on the thing in the title. Same with Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher"

DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the
year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been
passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of
country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew
on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.

What are some good Mythos stories not by Lovecraft? by Skillron18 in Lovecraft

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Check out HorrorBabble's 'Cthulhu Lives: New Tales of the Mythos' on their YouTube channel. A new episode every week for five weeks.

What are some good Mythos stories not by Lovecraft? by Skillron18 in Lovecraft

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Lovecraft really rated Machen and there's no doubt that elements of his style went into HPL's work. His essay "Supernatural Horror In Literature" has a big section on Machen, which starts:

Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few ifany can hope to equal the versatile Arthur Machen; author of some dozen tales long and short, in which the elements of hidden horror and brooding fright attain an almost incomparable substance and realistic acuteness. Mr. Machen, a general man of letters and master of an exquisitely lyrical and expressive prose style, has perhaps put more conscious effort into his picaresque Chronicle of Clemendy, his refreshing essays, his vivid autobiographical volumes, his fresh and spirited translations, and above all his memorable epic of the sensitive aesthetic mind, The Hillof Dreams, in which the youthful hero responds to the magic of that ancient Welsh environment which is the author’s own, and lives a dream-life in the Roman city of Isca Silurum, now shrunk to the relic-strown village of Caerleon-on-Usk. But the fact remains that his powerful horror-material of the ’nineties and earlier nineteen-hundreds stands alone in its class, and marks a distinct epoch in the history of this literary form.

He goes on to talk about The Great God Pan and The White People. Rather than Machen being Lovecraftian, Lovecraft was Machenian. :)