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Post by professerackley777 on Apr 23, 2008 14:47:46 GMT -6
If you can remember....what was the first HP Lovecraft story you ever read?
Mine was Dagon. After that I was pretty much obsessed with his work.
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Post by saxo on Apr 30, 2008 19:42:09 GMT -6
The Tomb. Before this...
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Post by professerackley777 on Apr 30, 2008 20:30:15 GMT -6
I read the Tomb at school.
I remember I was very tired, so it seemed really vague to me.
Although, the Tomb's story seemed like something that would happen to me...
IA!
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Post by Shaz'rahjeem on Apr 30, 2008 20:56:21 GMT -6
The call of cthulhu.
Strange enough, i was into satanic magic, and chaos magic. wich got me involved with this cult, this cult lead to my reading lovecraft. most people seem to be the other way around.
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Post by professerackley777 on Apr 30, 2008 23:47:56 GMT -6
I actually got into HP Lovecraft by going into the book store and looking for something decent to read and stumbled across him.
The book title was Waking up Screaming and I was drawn to it.
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Post by saxo on May 2, 2008 7:14:34 GMT -6
In my city we dont have a decent book store I just found a little book one time, "The Tomb and other stories"(I think its the english title, because here is "A tumba e outras histórias"[Portuguese]). After this I bought The Call Of Cthulhu(In english). I still searching for more Lovecraft books.
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Post by professerackley777 on May 2, 2008 14:03:54 GMT -6
I actually have all his stories, in a variety of books of course. Although, if you want a good place to read Lovecraft's stories go to www.dagonbytes.com and then find "Library of the Classics" after that click on HP Lovecraft IA!
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Post by saxo on May 2, 2008 17:10:23 GMT -6
Thanks! This link is pretty good.
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Post by professerackley777 on May 2, 2008 17:51:06 GMT -6
Yeah, I like it. I found it a long time ago, and thought it was cool.
Also, HP Lovecraft wrote a few poems which can be found on Wikipedia.
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Post by nox on May 6, 2008 7:14:06 GMT -6
Here's another great link for reading HPL's works. These include his stories, poetry, and collaborations: www.templeofdagon.com/
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Post by saxo on May 9, 2008 18:34:24 GMT -6
Good link. Any1 know where I can find a download of The Book Of Dagon orsomething like that? OFFTOPIC: I Found a old picture of ma grandfatha, And he was identical to Lovecraft!
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Post by professerackley777 on May 9, 2008 21:22:03 GMT -6
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Post by saxo on May 10, 2008 17:04:00 GMT -6
I hate nazis...
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Post by professerackley777 on May 10, 2008 19:20:10 GMT -6
Yes, Nazis especially Neo-Nazi philosophy are really misplaced in America today. I mean Hitler created the "True" Nazi party in order to unify Austria and Germany and he thought the Jews were supporting their separation. America today has none of those problems.
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Post by saxo on May 10, 2008 20:49:12 GMT -6
I dont like any kind of nazi, neo or not. Nazism is fake philosophy, Hittler just make this to can kill without get in prision. If U wanna make a killin spree, do it by Cthulhu ;D hahahahaha Joke...
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Post by professerackley777 on May 10, 2008 22:49:59 GMT -6
I don't like the actual Third Reich Nazis either, I'm just saying that they actually had a logical reason for forming the party in the first place, and neo nazis do not.
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Post by luxcthonis on May 11, 2008 9:36:18 GMT -6
I don't like the actual Third Reich Nazis either, I'm just saying that they actually had a logical reason for forming the party in the first place, and neo nazis do not. well stated.
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Post by saxo on May 11, 2008 12:09:05 GMT -6
watever... I just wanna killa a nazi, then Ill can die happy
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Post by professerackley777 on May 11, 2008 21:56:44 GMT -6
If you think about it logically and actually think about the Nazi party, it is technically not racist. When the party was first formed in German, it stood for the Nationaliste Socializte Deutche Arbeiter Partei, or NSDAP. Once Hitler came along he shortened it by calling it nazi. All Nazism is is National Socialism, which is technically not racist. Hitler was trying to rally the people and decided to place the Jews as number one enemy to gain support and make people believe he could save their failing country.
I didn't write this to defend Nazism or to make some sort of political statement, I just wrote it to highlight a fact that most people overlook.
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Post by saxo on May 12, 2008 10:30:36 GMT -6
Yeah, but U forgot 1 thang: The neo-nazis R racistis! Fuckin bastards. THe luv kill jews, punks, negros...N they do it for fun!!!
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Post by professerackley777 on May 12, 2008 14:34:16 GMT -6
Yes, I most certainly agree. They are idiots.
If you are going to kill someone, at least do it for a good reason
I was just speaking technically, I personally have never heard of a Nazi that wasn't racist.
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Post by saxo on May 13, 2008 8:47:23 GMT -6
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Post by mari66 on Aug 15, 2008 15:32:54 GMT -6
"Dreams in the Witch House", is my favorite. He really understood the Old Religion regarding a witch's familiar being a creature ,created in the astral plane by the witch, then took on a solid form in the material plane.
excerpt from Lovecraft's "Dreams in the Witch house".
"The dreams were wholly beyond the pale of sanity, and Gilman fell that they must be a result, jointly, of his studies in mathematics and in folklore. He had been thinking too much about the vague regions which his formulae told him must lie beyond the three dimensions we know, and about the possibility that old Keziah Mason - guided by some influence past all conjecture - had actually found the gate to those regions. The yellowed country records containing her testimony and that of her accusers were so damnably suggestive of things beyond human experience - and the descriptions of the darting little furry object which served as her familiar were so painfully realistic despite their incredible details.
That object - no larger than a good-sized rat and quaintly called by the townspeople "Brown Jenkins - seemed to have been the fruit of a remarkable case of sympathetic herd-delusion, for in 1692 no less than eleven persons had testified to glimpsing it. There were recent rumours, too, with a baffling and disconcerting amount of agreement. Witnesses said it had long hair and the shape of a rat, but that its sharp-toothed, bearded face was evilly human while its paws were like tiny human hands. It took messages betwixt old Keziah and the devil, and was nursed on the witch's blood, which it sucked like a vampire. Its voice was a kind of loathsome titter, and it could speak all languages. Of all the bizarre monstrosities in Gilman's dreams, nothing filled him with greater panic and nausea than this blasphemous and diminutive hybrid, whose image flitted across his vision in a form a thousandfold more hateful than anything his waking mind had deduced from the ancient records and the modern whispers. "
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Post by fahy92 on Oct 2, 2008 15:59:49 GMT -6
I started out with the rats in the walls creepy!
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Post by Madguten on Oct 3, 2008 4:00:33 GMT -6
Cool
I dont remember the details of that particular story ( i seem to remember it being about a room) but i think that it was one of the first Lovecraft stories i ever read. I found it in a "horror stories collection" on my school library translated to Danish along with some Stoker and other big names in the same book. Back then i was mostly on the prowl for werewolf stories.
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Post by I AM the Way on Oct 3, 2008 10:17:33 GMT -6
The Rats in the Walls is a great story. Madguten, you should definitely re-visit this. the end is full of madness!
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Post by sin on Oct 3, 2008 14:31:42 GMT -6
For me it was seeing the film Re-Animator (1985). I was hooked on the stories after that, I was never really 'into' the Cthulhu Mythos until my interactions with Venger and had to re-acquaint myself with the rest of Lovecraft's works. I have the majority of Lovecraft's tales on audio because I did a lot of driving in my old sales job. Radio on long road trips is completely lame to me, I need more stimulation than that. Re-Animator, read by Jeffrey Combs - man, I could never get tired of listening to that story! He was at a Horror Hound event a couple of years ago, and I would have given my right arm to meet him. I just want him to say 'Arkham' and 'Miskatonic University' in my ear :-)
I have all the Re-Animator films.
If I had to pick my favorites (aside Re-Animator), I'd say: (1) The Call of Cthulhu, (2) At the Mountains of Madness, and (3) The Rats in the Walls.
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Post by wizardwhateley on Oct 3, 2008 19:18:45 GMT -6
I read the Shadow over Innsmouth on some online book site and I was hooked (no pun intended). The imagery of the underwater cities, the undying deep ones etc - I also love "The Rats in the walls", "the other gods(?)" and of course, "The call of Cthulhu" 93, Wordforge www.youtube.com/wordforge
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Post by Madguten on Oct 4, 2008 4:12:48 GMT -6
The Rats in the Walls is the second story in the Lovecraft collection i have. I think i shall begin reading (again) it tonight. Ia! I have sent you a friend request.
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Post by fahy92 on Oct 4, 2008 15:53:03 GMT -6
Rats in the Walls was the first story in the collection that I have
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