"There was something of stolid resignation about them all, as if they walked half in another world between lines of nameless guards to a certain and familiar doom."
(H.P. Lovecraft on the Gardner family in "The Colour Out Of Space. I know I've quoted it before, but it's such a perfect description.)
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Come down to see us at Conception next year Laban. You can indulge your Lovecraftian fixation to your heart's content at the gaming tables and all will applaud.
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I read Dreams in the Witch House about 35 years ago and went to sleep with the light on for a week. I still hardly dare open the book. The thought of the New Labour undead avoiding the light, or trying to slip into a dimension of reality and haunt me is now what REALLY frightens me - lights on again tonight. They must draw on some strange dark power from beyond (underneath?) our world.
The sainsbury adverts are antidote to this madness. Look at the cosy world portrayed. With nice Mr Oliver.
"The Colour Out Of Space" is a great story. Some of Lovecraft's work is a bit rambling, but that is a classic, along with "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward".
I vote for 'Pickman's Model'.
HPL held, shall we say "robust", views on certain ethnic/religious communities that, were he to rise from the dead (and that would be quite in character for him) and post here, his comments would very likely be deleted.
If anyone finds a portrait of him under the wallpaper above the mantlepiece, let me know.
Anon - you're thinking of "The Street".
As a child we lived in an old sandstone farm cottage - that had remained as the railway came and a street of Victorian terraces grew round it. My room had wonky walls and a ceiling that came down in one corner.
Probably not the best room in which to read for the first time The Dreams in the Witch-House - in a yellow-covered Gollancz omnibus - 'At the Mountains of Madness and other Novels of Terror'.
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