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Post by Swampirella on Dec 5, 2020 18:13:27 GMT
I guess I'm not surprised that there is no Vault Advent Calendar this year. There isn't? I'm frankly blindsided, but thinking about it, I can understand why.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 5, 2020 18:24:52 GMT
I can understand why, of course. Please explain.
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 5, 2020 18:33:06 GMT
I can understand why, of course. Please explain. Writers not in the mood to write or focused on more important things? Life gloomy enough for everyone involved in it's production? I don't know....
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 5, 2020 20:02:19 GMT
Writers not in the mood to write or focused on more important things? Life gloomy enough for everyone involved in it's production? I don't know.... But it would cheer everybody up!
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Post by Dr Strange on Dec 5, 2020 22:22:35 GMT
I guess we will just have to make our own entertainment, like we did in olden times (the 1990s).
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 5, 2020 22:27:31 GMT
Writers not in the mood to write or focused on more important things? Life gloomy enough for everyone involved in it's production? I don't know.... But it would cheer everybody up! I agree 100%!
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 5, 2020 22:30:21 GMT
I guess we will just have to make our own entertainment, like we did in olden times (the 1990s). As Mr. X asked me, "Please explain"
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Post by helrunar on Dec 6, 2020 2:09:47 GMT
The genuine ghost story thread and James Doig's incredible shopping finesse and refined elegance in wielding a scanner have offered me consolation in these grim times.
I'll have to look through Kev's old posts recounting tales of cray-cray vampire fandom back in the storied 1990s to chivvy out some more juicy tit-bits.
cheers, H.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 19, 2021 10:55:06 GMT
And yet, and yet - part of me wishes he'd shelled out the money (as suggested by Edward Arnold - see Cox p.139) to have H.J. Ford do the illustrations. While I thought the same when I saw this reprinted in an issue of Ghosts & Scholars, I think that James McBryde's less formal illustrations have more life in them. You can see the above and more of H. J. Ford's illustrations in MRJ's Old Testament Legends here: archive.org/details/oldtestamentlege00jameiala/mode/2upOr if you want a heavier read you can access his Apocryphal New Testament here: archive.org/details/JAMESApocryphalNewTestament1924/mode/2upGenuinely, I intend to read his Preface to this.
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 19, 2021 12:34:32 GMT
While I thought the same when I saw this reprinted in an issue of Ghosts & Scholars, I think that James McBryde's less formal illustrations have more life in them. Or if you want a heavier read you can access his Apocryphal New Testament here: archive.org/details/JAMESApocryphalNewTestament1924/mode/2upGenuinely, I intend to read his Preface to this. Coincidentally I’ve just written a piece on MRJ's Apocryphal New Testament, among other things grumbling about MRJ’s deliberate omission of Gnostic texts. My piece isn’t for the likes of you though (just kidding!) - it’ll be for the Everlasting Club!
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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 19, 2021 19:34:05 GMT
Coincidentally I’ve just written a piece on MRJ's Apocryphal New Testament, among other things grumbling about MRJ’s deliberate omission of Gnostic texts. My piece isn’t for the likes of you though (just kidding!) - it’ll be for the Everlasting Club! You're going to have to include me in this as I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm agnostic, honest to God!
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 20, 2021 13:57:06 GMT
Coincidentally I’ve just written a piece on MRJ's Apocryphal New Testament, among other things grumbling about MRJ’s deliberate omission of Gnostic texts. My piece isn’t for the likes of you though (just kidding!) - it’ll be for the Everlasting Club! You're going to have to include me in this as I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm agnostic, honest to God! Look up Gnosticism! I’m not a Christian either (though I’m also not agnostic or atheist), but if I were, I'd be a Gnostic (technically, a Sethian Gnostic). For a start, you could reread my article (on the G&S website) “James Wilson’s Secret” on the possibility of the maze-builder in “Mr Humphreys” being a Gnostic.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 20, 2021 18:19:44 GMT
You're going to have to include me in this as I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm agnostic, honest to God! Look up Gnosticism! I’m not a Christian either (though I’m also not agnostic or atheist), but if I were, I'd be a Gnostic (technically, a Sethian Gnostic). For a start, you could reread my article (on the G&S website) “James Wilson’s Secret” on the possibility of the maze-builder in “Mr Humphreys” being a Gnostic. Must I?
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Post by andydecker on Apr 21, 2021 8:25:17 GMT
I actually did a long time ago. It was prompted by an interest in the Fourth Crusade and the Cathars and some horror novels which incorporated topics like Manichaeism. I can't remember much about the particulars, it seemed awfully complicated and of course the catholic church destroyed it at best as it could, the usual behavior. The psychology was interesting though, the bit with the Demiurg and so on. An elaborate construct.
It is always interesting how genre writers used to incorporate such topics into their tales. How Stoker put the catholic faith and its tools so much into the foreground in Dracula or how American pulp writers like Hoffman Price, Quinn and the gang took the nonsense about the Yazidis for granted and made them devil worshippers.
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 21, 2021 8:51:29 GMT
I actually did a long time ago. It was prompted by an interest in the Fourth Crusade and the Cathars and some horror novels which incorporated topics like Manichaeism. I can't remember much about the particulars, it seemed awfully complicated and of course the catholic church destroyed it at best as it could, the usual behavior. The psychology was interesting though, the bit with the Demiurg and so on. An elaborate construct.
It is always interesting how genre writers used to incorporate such topics into their tales. How Stoker put the catholic faith and its tools so much into the foreground in Dracula or how American pulp writers like Hoffman Price, Quinn and the gang took the nonsense about the Yazidis for granted and made them devil worshippers.
I’m more interested in the early Gnostics (not that the Cathars aren’t also interesting). It’s been argued (tenably, I think) that some of their books predate some of the ones in the canonical New Testament. But my favourite is the second-century Apocryphon of John which offers vast amounts of potential for incorporating into supernatural fiction (all those weird animal-headed angels that the demiurge created, for instance). It’s certainly an elaborate construct - one Gnostic book (third century, I think), the Books of Jeu, continues to be as unfathomable as the Voynich Manuscript! Still, I find them just as believable (or unbelievable) as the canonical books (I did say I’m not a Christian - I could never forgive Jesus for the way he treated pigs and fig trees - and Judas!).
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