Re: The H.P. Lovecraft Reading Club
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:27 am
Sly Boots wrote:Racism-wise there's a deep suspicion of things South Pacific, their indigenous people being a strange lot of fish-f*****s. But then the caucasians end up doing the same so there you go. Unless I've missed it I couldn't see any influence of the dastardly Dutch this time.
3. The Picture in the HouseH.P. Lovecraft wrote:Around the pillar in a rough circle were seven high-backed Gothic chairs still largely intact, while behind them, ranging along the dark-panelled walls, were seven colossal images of crumbling, black-painted plaster, resembling more than anything else the cryptic carven megaliths of mysterious Easter Island.
H.P. Lovecraft wrote:Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places...they linger around the sinister monoliths on uninhabited islands.
H.P. Lovecraft wrote:Then we reached the crest and beheld the outspread valley beyond, where the Manuxet joins the sea just north of the long line of cliffs that culminate in Kingsport Head and veer off toward Cape Ann. On the far, misty horizon I could just make out the dizzy profile of the Head, topped by the queer ancient house of which so many legends are told
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (which I doubt we'll read, as it's fairly long, and -- controversially -- I find it quite tedious ¬_¬) is where the mysterious Yog-Sothoth makes his debut appearance. However, in it, it's not really clear what it is except a name that is chanted as part of occult rituals. In The Dunwich Horror, Yog-Sothoth's purpose and power is not exactly clear, but we do at least find out that "he" is capable of impregnating human women, much like Zeus, as you suggest, but with more hideous offspring.
I think this is a good time to introduce this little "story":Snowy wrote:It might also be the first mention of the dread Necronomicon being held in the Miskatonic University but I am not sure on that point.
It must be allow’d, that these Blasphemies of an infernall Train of Daemons are Matters of too common Knowledge to be deny’d; the cursed Voices of Azazel and Buzrael, of Beelzebub and Belial, being heard now from under Ground by above a Score of credible Witnesses now living. I my self did not more than a Fortnight ago catch a very plain Discourse of evill Powers in the Hill behind my House; wherein there were a Rattling and Rolling, Groaning, Screeching, and Hissing, such as no Things of this Earth cou’d raise up, and which must needs have come from those Caves that only black Magick can discover, and only the Divell unlock.
The Great God Pan is a great story [text here], and I do recommend it!“Great God, what simpletons! Shew them Arthur Machen’s Great God Pan and they’ll think it a common Dunwich scandal!
Arthur Machen made up this "Aklo" language for use in his story The White People [text here]. Also a really fun, creepy little story.The text was, he found, in the dark Aklo language used by certain cults of evil antiquity, and known to him in a halting way through previous researches.