(urth) Short Story 3 title correction: The Grave Secret

[David Stockhoff]

;)

I suppose everybody already knows about the debt to Lovecraft's 
Innsmouth story owed by An Evil Guest and A Tree Is My Hat?

On 5/1/2012 7:17 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> I agree completely.  my allusion section read:
>
> ALLUSIONS:  Clark Ashton Smith in such necromantic works as The Return of the Sorcerer and HP Lovecraft are channeled directly here
>
> oh yeah. [Hi C man busts through wall]
>
> --- On Tue, 5/1/12, David Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>  wrote:
>
>> From: David Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>> Subject: Re: (urth) Short Story 3 title correction: The Grave Secret
>> To: "The Urth Mailing List"<urth at lists.urth.net>
>> Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 3:14 PM
>> A Cthulhu Mythos story by Clark
>> Ashton Smith, THE RETURN OF THE SORCERER, may have been the
>> origin of this one. Working as a translator for a John
>> Carnby, the narrator reads from the original Arabic
>> Necronomicon:
>>
>> 'It is verily known by few, but is nevertheless no
>> attestable fact, that the will of a dead sorcerer hath power
>> upon his own body and can raise it up from the tomb and
>> perform therewith whatever action was unfulfilled in life.
>> And such resurrections are invariably for the doing of
>> malevolent deeds and for the detriment of other's. Most
>> readily can the corpse be animated if all its members have
>> remained intact; and yet there are cases in which the
>> excelling will of the wizard hath reared up from death the
>> sundered pieces of a body hewn in many fragments, and hath
>> caused them to serve his end, either separately or in a
>> temporary reunion. But in every instance, after the action
>> hath been completed, the body lapseth into its former
>> state.'
>>
>> This is of course exactly what happens to the protagonist of
>> The Grave Secret.
>>
>> On 4/4/2012 2:03 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>>> That must have been before science fiction was able to
>> afford editors. ;)
>>> On 4/4/2012 1:43 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>>>> "The Grave Secret" is basically a good _Weird
>> Tales_ entry for the
>>>> classic 30s/40s incarnation of that magazine.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:38 AM, David
>> Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>  
>> wrote:
>>>>> The Grave Secret is not a serious story, and
>> yet is not so bad in some ways.
>>>>> Detailed, but clumsy. I'd be proud of it if it
>> were mine, but I'd clean it
>>>>> up first. And it could be funnier; it gestures
>> toward humor but does not
>>>>> achieve it.
>>>>>
>>>>> And silly too. How did the ghost perform the
>> necessary magic? Best not to
>>>>> think about it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3/25/2012 1:03 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
>>>>>> My apologies, the third story is "the Grave
>> Secret"
>>>>>> Story #4 is "The Dead Man"
>>>>>>
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