(urth) Stingray

Son of Witz sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org
Tue Nov 4 10:23:40 PST 2008


>The Rats in the Walls as well.

I picked up the HPL Necronomicon compendium recently.  Figured I'd start with these recommendations as I've heard them mentioned as standouts before.



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>On 11/4/08, Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 4, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Son of Witz wrote:
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>> >
>> > I haven't read AEG or much Lovecraft, but did anyone see that "Call of
>> Cthulu" silent film that was made recently?  It was very good up until the
>> monster showed up, then the whole film went POP.  How can a movie get
>> everything pretty good, then fail on the most important part? Seriously
>> disapointing.
>> >
>>
>> I haven't seen it, but one could argue the novella suffers the same flaw.
>> Well, *most* of Lovecraft does.  The reveal is much less scary than the
>> build-up, most of the time.  There are of course exceptions.  "The Color Out
>> of Space" and "The Dreams In the Witch-House" are two exceptions that leap
>> to *my* mind.
>>
>> Adam
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