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The Dark Man from Priestess CoraSahn's blog
The Dark Man
Stephen King
Published in "Ubris", 1969 and later in Moth, 1970.
I have stridden the fuming way
of sun-hammered tracks and
smashed cinders;
I have ridden rails
and bumed sterno in the
gantry silence of hob jungles:
I am a dark man.
I have ridden rails
and passed the smuggery
of desperate houses with counterfeit chimneys
and heard from the outside
the inside clink of cocktail ice
while closed doors broke the world -
and over it all a savage sickle moon
that bummed my eyes with bones of light.
I have slept in glaring swamps
where musk-reek rose
to mix with the sex smell of rotting cypress stumps
where witch fire clung in sunken
psycho spheres of baptism -
and heard the suck of shadows
where a gutted columned house
leeched with vines
speaks to an overhung mushroom sky
I have fed dimes to cold machines
in all night filling stations
while traffic in a mad and flowing flame
streaked red in six lanes of darkness,
and breathed the cleaver hitchhike wind
within the breakdown lane with thumb leveled
and saw shadowed faces made complacent
with heaters behind safety glass
faces that rose like complacent moons
in riven monster orbits.
and in a sudden jugular flash
cold as the center of a sun
I forced a girl in a field of wheat
and left her sprawled with the virgin bread
a savage sacrifice
and a sign to those who creep in
fixed ways:
I am a dark man.
-end-
I believe Randall Flagg, didn't just come out of nowhere, as King posits. I believe that Nyarlathotep was a strong influence to develop this character in King's mind. Perhaps, even unconsciously.
See Wiki Page: Randall Flagg
See: Wiki Page: Nyarlathotep
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I'm always amazed at the images, and the correlations to be made. The style of artwork I used to represent R'lyeh in one of my recent blogs, is nearly exact to this image of the structure.
See: Lovecraftian Theocracy
www.scribd.com/doc/62323598/Lovecraftian-Theocracy
Stephen King is renowned for writing in a religious aura and about struggles between good and evil.
Randall Flagg, just came into being. He does remember living in different centuries, and as different characters. In essence, he has always been. He shape-shifts, but prefers the man-like form.
King preferred the Dark Cowboy look, vs. the Slender Pharoah, but both archetypes, have similarities.
Nyarlathotep wanders through time and space gathering followers.
Randall Flag attracts followers which are drawn to destruction.
In both cases, once the followers have their leader they lose sight of everything else, outside that sphere of reality. The new reality is:I serve the Dark Man. Anything beyond that, doesn't exist.
Stories featuring Nyarlathotep:
The Dream-quest of Unknown Kadath
Dreams in the Witchhouse
The Rats in the Walls
The Haunter in the Dark
and the poem, Fungi from Yuggoth
Nyarlathotep is mentioned in name only in The Shadow out of Time, and The Whisperer in the Darkness.
Shadow Man is a psychological phenomena, in which people claim to see a shadow man manifest, even as adults.
The Shadow People Archives: shadowpeople.org/
Shadow People on Crystallinks: www.crystalinks.com/shadowpeople.html
Speaking from direct experience as a child which saw a shadow person, and a mother with a child that experienced a shadow person; my conclusion is that we manifest these things, when we feel we need them. I find it to be a psychological condition vs. a super-natural one.
When I think back to the time when I had a Shadow Man, I was 5 years old. This Shadow Man both terrified and comforted me. He lived in the hall closet, the place where my mother stored her furs and the vacuum cleaner.
I remember the first encounter vividly. I was hiding in the closet, playing a game with the baby-sitter, and I saw him. I froze with fear, but then I wanted to investigate. So I reached for the man, and when I did...I remember feeling comforted and not afraid anymore. Beyond that,I don't recall much more. I can only conclude that by reaching for it, and realizing there was nothing there, I was comforted by the idea that I made it with my mind.
When my son was about 7-8, he had a Shadow Man, but it was his protector. He had developed a fear of the dark and the Boogeyman and this Shadow Man protected him at night and kept him safe. Later, he manifested a shadow girl, which was closer in his age (vs. the adult Shadow Man) but later terrified him more than the dark and the Boogeyman combined.
When I asked my son to describe it, he saw the Hat Figure.
When I was young, it was the Hood figure.
I've read many psychology reports on the manifestation of Shadow People, everything from an early sign of schizophrenia, to emotional projection.
Theories from Paranormal to Scientific: www.suite101.com/content/shadow-people-what-are-they-a93265
When I was 5, there could have been any number of scenarios which caused me to manifest the shadow man (on a number of occasions). My son's manifestation was directly tied to a belief in the Boogeyman.
I've been told that if the Shadow Man was not accompanied by a feeling of dread, it was something else. Initially I did feel dread, but then once I realized my mind was making this thing appear, I just felt sort of silly.
Nyarlathotep, could have been this Shadow Man manifestation to HPL, for any reason from his physical ailments to his mental state of un-rest.
Stephen King, chose him as Representative for particular stories.
There are several cultures which have a sort of dark specter in their midst. When I was looking for the history of the Boogeyman, I found a spelling variation Bogeyman, which lead me to the folklore and legend of Europe. Some of it was based in cultural lore, while others were invented to get children to behave. In Europe, it was sort of a hobgoblin that was known for carrying children away. Though, in places like Asia, it was a monstrous sort of sea pirate.
From what I was able to track down, the Europeans brought the tales over to Asia, and were peppered throughout their own cultural lore. I did find some references in the Oxford Dictionary, that states that the term was most likely in use hundreds of years before Europeans visited Asia.
There is even a sort of Boogeyman in Spain, Brazil, and Portugal. They call it the Sack Man. Child snatchers, that would carry misbehaving children off in a sack. There is some form of Boogeyman in nearly every country around the world.
Etymology Dictionary: www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bogey
Wiki-page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogeyman
" European languages: boeman (Dutch), buse (Nynorsk), bøhmand (Danish), bòcan, púca, pooka or pookha (Irish Gaelic), pwca, bwga or bwgan (Welsh), puki (Old Norse), pixie or piskie (Cornish), puck (English), bogu (Slavonic), buka (Russian), baubas (Lithuanian), bobo (Polish)"
SEE:
Strangers we recognize
www.paganspace.net/forum/topics/strangers-we-recognize-as
Lovecraft was exposed to a myriad of Mythologies, and there's no telling which culture was the most impacting. He did seem to have an interest in Ancient Persia, but there very well could be a lot of European Myths peppered into the development of Nyarlathotep.
cultofcthulhu.wall.fm/blogs/post/404
The Dark Man from Priestess CoraSahn's blog
The Dark Man
Stephen King
Published in "Ubris", 1969 and later in Moth, 1970.
I have stridden the fuming way
of sun-hammered tracks and
smashed cinders;
I have ridden rails
and bumed sterno in the
gantry silence of hob jungles:
I am a dark man.
I have ridden rails
and passed the smuggery
of desperate houses with counterfeit chimneys
and heard from the outside
the inside clink of cocktail ice
while closed doors broke the world -
and over it all a savage sickle moon
that bummed my eyes with bones of light.
I have slept in glaring swamps
where musk-reek rose
to mix with the sex smell of rotting cypress stumps
where witch fire clung in sunken
psycho spheres of baptism -
and heard the suck of shadows
where a gutted columned house
leeched with vines
speaks to an overhung mushroom sky
I have fed dimes to cold machines
in all night filling stations
while traffic in a mad and flowing flame
streaked red in six lanes of darkness,
and breathed the cleaver hitchhike wind
within the breakdown lane with thumb leveled
and saw shadowed faces made complacent
with heaters behind safety glass
faces that rose like complacent moons
in riven monster orbits.
and in a sudden jugular flash
cold as the center of a sun
I forced a girl in a field of wheat
and left her sprawled with the virgin bread
a savage sacrifice
and a sign to those who creep in
fixed ways:
I am a dark man.
-end-
I believe Randall Flagg, didn't just come out of nowhere, as King posits. I believe that Nyarlathotep was a strong influence to develop this character in King's mind. Perhaps, even unconsciously.
See Wiki Page: Randall Flagg
See: Wiki Page: Nyarlathotep
"]
I'm always amazed at the images, and the correlations to be made. The style of artwork I used to represent R'lyeh in one of my recent blogs, is nearly exact to this image of the structure.
See: Lovecraftian Theocracy
www.scribd.com/doc/62323598/Lovecraftian-Theocracy
Stephen King is renowned for writing in a religious aura and about struggles between good and evil.
Randall Flagg, just came into being. He does remember living in different centuries, and as different characters. In essence, he has always been. He shape-shifts, but prefers the man-like form.
King preferred the Dark Cowboy look, vs. the Slender Pharoah, but both archetypes, have similarities.
Nyarlathotep wanders through time and space gathering followers.
Randall Flag attracts followers which are drawn to destruction.
In both cases, once the followers have their leader they lose sight of everything else, outside that sphere of reality. The new reality is:I serve the Dark Man. Anything beyond that, doesn't exist.
Stories featuring Nyarlathotep:
The Dream-quest of Unknown Kadath
Dreams in the Witchhouse
The Rats in the Walls
The Haunter in the Dark
and the poem, Fungi from Yuggoth
Nyarlathotep is mentioned in name only in The Shadow out of Time, and The Whisperer in the Darkness.
Shadow Man is a psychological phenomena, in which people claim to see a shadow man manifest, even as adults.
The Shadow People Archives: shadowpeople.org/
Shadow People on Crystallinks: www.crystalinks.com/shadowpeople.html
Speaking from direct experience as a child which saw a shadow person, and a mother with a child that experienced a shadow person; my conclusion is that we manifest these things, when we feel we need them. I find it to be a psychological condition vs. a super-natural one.
When I think back to the time when I had a Shadow Man, I was 5 years old. This Shadow Man both terrified and comforted me. He lived in the hall closet, the place where my mother stored her furs and the vacuum cleaner.
I remember the first encounter vividly. I was hiding in the closet, playing a game with the baby-sitter, and I saw him. I froze with fear, but then I wanted to investigate. So I reached for the man, and when I did...I remember feeling comforted and not afraid anymore. Beyond that,I don't recall much more. I can only conclude that by reaching for it, and realizing there was nothing there, I was comforted by the idea that I made it with my mind.
When my son was about 7-8, he had a Shadow Man, but it was his protector. He had developed a fear of the dark and the Boogeyman and this Shadow Man protected him at night and kept him safe. Later, he manifested a shadow girl, which was closer in his age (vs. the adult Shadow Man) but later terrified him more than the dark and the Boogeyman combined.
When I asked my son to describe it, he saw the Hat Figure.
When I was young, it was the Hood figure.
I've read many psychology reports on the manifestation of Shadow People, everything from an early sign of schizophrenia, to emotional projection.
Theories from Paranormal to Scientific: www.suite101.com/content/shadow-people-what-are-they-a93265
When I was 5, there could have been any number of scenarios which caused me to manifest the shadow man (on a number of occasions). My son's manifestation was directly tied to a belief in the Boogeyman.
I've been told that if the Shadow Man was not accompanied by a feeling of dread, it was something else. Initially I did feel dread, but then once I realized my mind was making this thing appear, I just felt sort of silly.
Nyarlathotep, could have been this Shadow Man manifestation to HPL, for any reason from his physical ailments to his mental state of un-rest.
Stephen King, chose him as Representative for particular stories.
There are several cultures which have a sort of dark specter in their midst. When I was looking for the history of the Boogeyman, I found a spelling variation Bogeyman, which lead me to the folklore and legend of Europe. Some of it was based in cultural lore, while others were invented to get children to behave. In Europe, it was sort of a hobgoblin that was known for carrying children away. Though, in places like Asia, it was a monstrous sort of sea pirate.
From what I was able to track down, the Europeans brought the tales over to Asia, and were peppered throughout their own cultural lore. I did find some references in the Oxford Dictionary, that states that the term was most likely in use hundreds of years before Europeans visited Asia.
There is even a sort of Boogeyman in Spain, Brazil, and Portugal. They call it the Sack Man. Child snatchers, that would carry misbehaving children off in a sack. There is some form of Boogeyman in nearly every country around the world.
Etymology Dictionary: www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bogey
Wiki-page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogeyman
" European languages: boeman (Dutch), buse (Nynorsk), bøhmand (Danish), bòcan, púca, pooka or pookha (Irish Gaelic), pwca, bwga or bwgan (Welsh), puki (Old Norse), pixie or piskie (Cornish), puck (English), bogu (Slavonic), buka (Russian), baubas (Lithuanian), bobo (Polish)"
SEE:
Strangers we recognize
www.paganspace.net/forum/topics/strangers-we-recognize-as
Lovecraft was exposed to a myriad of Mythologies, and there's no telling which culture was the most impacting. He did seem to have an interest in Ancient Persia, but there very well could be a lot of European Myths peppered into the development of Nyarlathotep.