The H.P. Lovecraft Reading Club

[Sly Boots]

Sure, reckon so.

[Stormbringer]

Very well. While we are touring the rural backwaters of the Miskatonic Valley, let us travel to the place known as the "blasted heath" in...

THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/tex ... on/cs.aspx

[Snowy]

I have read this. I will post thoughts at some point soon

[Sly Boots]

Speaking of which, where did Doug get to?

Can someone check his man-den in case he's cracked his head on one of those beams

[Snowy]

Just because of the time of year and my general missing of this thread

[Sly Boots]

RIP HPL thread

Also, for those of us into such things, I just spotted this on Steam - basically a Lovecraft-themed narrative adventure - and it's FREE



Currently sitting at Overwhelmingly Positive, so think it could be a bit good. Downloading now.

[Snowy]

I would be up for resurrecting this thread.

[Stormbringer]

I would be up for resurrecting this thread.

How about...

...wait for it...

...REANIMATING it?

With HERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR?

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/te ... n/hwr.aspx

[Snowy]

Works for me

[Sly Boots]

Heck yeah, let's do it

[Stormbringer]

I had this kind of clever plan, back in former years, to guide us through his works based on common themes with connective links between them, but I think the new method will just be "think of random tale we haven't read yet and throw it up when we're ready for the next one".

[Stormbringer]

I'll tell you what the best H.P. Lovecraft video game ever is.

This one:



There's nothing else like it. A class of its own.

It's a cross between a classic point-and-click adventure and a poor student survival RPG. It took me several attempts, but I finally figured out how to succeed at it. I believe I got the best possible ending too. I don't think I can ever play it again, as I would never be able to top the experience that it gave me two years ago, but I can highly recommend it.

[Snowy]

Just to reassure, I am currently working my way through Re-animator. I am just rather stupidly busy at the moment and getting little time to read. But I am working through it!

[Stormbringer]

Same; still working on it!

[Snowy]

It is read.

In fairness I had read it before.

It's a good tale, a good take on the Frankenstein story. It is funny that, in true Lovecraft fashion, it is written from the perspective of a loyal companion. I was thinking from early on that the narrator was rather thick not to realise that the quest for fresher and fresher corpses would eventually reach the obvious line, and at that point being friends with Mr Herbert West might become a precarious position from a longevity perspective. Thankfully he did get there, but took his time

Some uncomfortable references and referenced theories once again, which really are distasteful. It's funny, I always thought that having been brought up in the 1970s and having been exposed to the most open and blatant racism, that going back to content from a previous time - whether TV/film or literature - I would still be able to enjoy the content and look past the beliefs. Turns out that's not as easy as I thought it might be. I fully accept that he is a product of his time, in an age where I didn't exist and have no frame of reference for. Still icky though.

Not a favourite for me, as the elder gods and the mythos are completely absent, but still a good tale (mostly) well told.