DEL opened this issue on Jul 04, 2000 ยท 32 posts
CharlieBrown posted Thu, 06 July 2000 at 9:43 AM
{I remember seeing a book in a united store when I was about 6, the cover art really disturbed me...the book was "I have no mouth, but I must scream, I believe it was by HPL.} Nope - this was one of the first published works of Harlan Ellison. I haven't read it myself, but from what I've heard it's VERY disturbing, and very good. HPL wrote "The Dunwich Horror"; it was his (IIRC) fourth longest single story (the Dream Series was his longest "composite" story, and his longest stories were "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", "Herbert West: Reanimator" (the VERY loose basis of the three Reanimator movies, two of which I've seen parts of, and "At the Mountains of Madness"). It featured a professor from "Miskatonic University" dealing repeatedly with the Evils of the Whately family, who may have been descendents of Salem witches and who trafficked with beings from Beyond... One of my favorite HPL stories - and one of the first I ever read - was "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," which might have made a decent (and, for his stuff, relatively low budget) movie back in the days of black and white (in color, I think it would lose some of its creepiness, though). There is a book called "Flicker" which I have yet to find a copy of but from what I've heard, it begins as a discussion of the movie adaptations of his work (including some serious reviews), but then spawns out into a horror novel in its own right... Anyone here familiar with the Canadian grunge band "Darkest of the Hillside Thickets"? They have based about 90% of their music on the Cthulhu mythos (they also use comic books for inspiration - one neat song was based on a story arc from Mike Mignola's Hellboy). Along these lines, in the sixties, a band called Traffic recorded an album called "HP Lovecraft;" allegedly also based on his works. I've seen copies of it but never actually listened to it.