Posts Tagged ‘mythos 101’
And lo, the third and final Lovecraft Mixtape, and the end of HP Lovecraft month. Next week I’ll return to regular, non-themed articles, and I have some beauties coming up, including a guest post that puts most of my writing to shame :) HP Lovecraft Historical Society – If I Were a Deep One Eviscerate [...]
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Lovecraft – like Stephen King – doesn’t translate well to screen. So much of his effect relies on the choices and shapes of words on the page, on the reader’s own interpretations of “unspeakable” horrors, that “seeing” the horrors in a film context renders them no longer frightful. Directors struggle to capture the mood of [...]
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“The text is a fetish object, and this fetish desires me. The text chooses me, by a whole disposition of invisible screens, selective baffles: vocabulary, references, readability, etc.; and, lost in the midst of a text (not behind it, like a deus ex machina) there is always the other, the author.”–Barthes, The Pleasure of the [...]
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More HP Lovecraft-themed music for your enjoyment. Dayglo Abortions – The Spawn of Yog Shothoth Crazy awesome punk outfit from British Columbia, “The Spawn of Yog Shothoth” is probably one of Dayglo Abortions’ best songs – I love the D&D stats. Dark Moor – The Silver Key Based on Lovecraft’s story of the same name, [...]
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Since getting a Kobo ereader, I’ve been doing a lot more reading on my train ride to work (as opposed to staring creepily at cute boys or practising German, which probably isn’t a good thing) and I’ve been happily delving into the world of short fiction anthologies. I can read a story in one train [...]
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Review: Kasium – Exhale
Linking Horn: A Quest Into the 77th Link
Review and Album Stream: Aborted – Global Flatline
Review: Avatar – Black Waltz
Gig Review: ABSU, Heresiarch, Nullifier and Exordium Mors at the Kings Arms
