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Post by valdemar on Apr 9, 2013 13:16:40 GMT
I have a copy of this with exactly the same cover, and it's been bugging me for ages what it reminded me of, and after months, my thick brain clunked into gear. The figure on the cover is tremendously similar looking to the alien interlopers in John Carpenter's greatly entertaining movie 'They Live'[1988]. I wonder if Carpenter had seen the book cover in the past? The images are not identical, but are damned close.
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Post by valdemar on Apr 9, 2013 14:00:09 GMT
I was enjoying this thread, until it swerved from dealing with HP Lovecraft to a kind of playground verbal slapping match as to whether women were better than men at writing ghost/horror/fantasy. What the hell? In all your bickering [it started out light hearted, but there was a desperation creeping in]. Nobody mentioned the one person without whose work, we'd have nothing interesting to talk about in this area of literature - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. 'Frankenstein'. Possibly the most durable image in fantastic, and indeed, all fiction. Yes, the idea of the Homunculus was not new, but Shelley's concept of an Homunculus created by SCIENCE rather than magic [and yes, I am aware that science, poorly observed, can appear as magic], was the boot up the arse that fiction needed. Your strange descent into 1970's sexism puzzles me. As far as I am concerned, women are as capable of writing ghost/horror/fantasy as well as, and possibly better, than the next man - however, there are possibly less female writers of this material. Likewise, how many male writers write romances? I expect they DO, but under a pseudonym. Right, Handbags down, and get your heads back in the books, and let's not hear any more of this sort of stuff - or I'll come round your houses, and jump on all your toys... And I weigh 18 stones.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2013 14:29:38 GMT
Here's something from my collection:
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Post by andydecker on Apr 9, 2013 19:26:47 GMT
This is one of the first original Lovecraft's I ever bought. Found it in the mid-seventies in a little bookstore. They had a few odd english paperbacks. It was hard to read - with the Little type - and even harder to comprehend. My school English was a sad joke. So after some frustrating efforts the book went on the shelf. But I never got rid of it.
I love the title story. It is quite ironic that it is like a blueprint for all those later bad pastiches.
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Post by killercrab on Apr 10, 2013 2:51:42 GMT
Great piece of original art - did it set you back much?
KC
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2013 10:38:52 GMT
Great piece of original art - did it set you back much? KC I don't ask you how much you earn in a year, do I?
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 11, 2013 1:47:25 GMT
Here's something from my collection: That's a nice piece of art. And we all know, books and art are an investment - you'll be able to pay for your daughter's wedding with that!
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Post by killercrab on Apr 11, 2013 10:02:37 GMT
I don't ask you how much you earn in a year, do I?
What's that got to do with it?
KC
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Post by weirdmonger on Dec 22, 2021 19:28:08 GMT
Naïvety Play
There seems to be a lot of references on the news recently to The Necronomicon (The Book of the Dead) …
or even The Nemonicon (the subtitle of ‘Weirdmonger’ book) !
Stay Safe.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 22, 2021 19:33:21 GMT
Naïvety Play There seems to be a lot of references on the news recently to The Necronomicon (The Book of the Dead) … or even The Nemonicon (the subtitle of ‘Weirdmonger’ book) ! Stay Safe. Ha ha! Indeed.
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Post by Dr Strange on Dec 22, 2021 20:01:05 GMT
Naïvety Play There seems to be a lot of references on the news recently to The Necronomicon There is a new Evil Dead film ( Evil Dead Rise) due for release next year, about which Bruce Campbell (who is co-producing with Sam Raimi, but is not appearing in it) has said "It's book-centric. It's all about the Necronomicon." The director is Lee Cronin (who directed 2019's The Hole in the Ground, set in Ireland and based on the changeling myth).
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 22, 2021 20:03:34 GMT
Naïvety Play There seems to be a lot of references on the news recently to The Necronomicon There is a new Evil Dead film ( Evil Dead Rise) due for release next year, about which Bruce Campbell (who is co-producing with Sam Raimi, but is not appearing in it) has said "It's book-centric. It's all about the Necronomicon." The director is Lee Cronin (who directed 2019's The Hole in the Ground, set in Ireland and based on the changeling myth). You did get the joke, right?
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Post by Dr Strange on Dec 22, 2021 20:07:56 GMT
You did get the joke, right? I think so... naïvety/nativity, right? Still, it's "good news" (εὐαγγέλιον) about the film.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 22, 2021 20:12:38 GMT
You did get the joke, right? I think so... naïvety/nativity, right? Still, it's "good news" (εὐαγγέλιον) about the film. Oh never mind.
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Post by Dr Strange on Dec 22, 2021 20:15:15 GMT
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