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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jun 11, 2021 16:42:36 GMT
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Post by Knygathin on Jun 12, 2021 10:04:45 GMT
While I agree that most art that depicts Them is disappointing, I still think efforts are worthwhile for the sake of creative imagination, and the pure fun of attempting it. Although an extremely difficult endeavor, if being ambitious about it. From your mentioning of George Russel's paintings, I assume you prefer to see the little people as spiritual presences or "angels". I see them as physical beings, with magical or mystical skills. More physical than faery nature spirits, such as dryads. Sort of like trolls, but more directly related to biological anthropoids. My first mature encounter with the little people in fiction, was Machen's "The Red Hand" and I still think it is the most powerful one, even though very little is actually shown. I was slightly disappointed with "The Shining Pyramid" where They are more directly exposed; the expectations of their physical presentation fell flat. In "The Red Hand" we are only given a suggested glint into Their abode by the end of the story, grabbing firm hold of us after much built-up suspense, and it is up to our awed imagination to fill in the rest. It terms of depiction in art, I like the dwarfed demon children in Cronenberg's The Brood. I see them, more or less, in Machen's "Out of the Earth".
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Post by andydecker on Jun 12, 2021 12:42:46 GMT
Here is another version of the Little People, done by Barry Windsor-Smith and Tim Conrad for Marvel Comics in 1976, an adaption of R. E. Howard's Worms of the Earth, a Bran Mak Morn story. Bran Mak Morn was Howard's doomed Pict hero, after the Romans were in Britain.
At the beginning they did so many great adaptions in the black and white Savage Sword of Conan that it is difficult to rate them. But this one is in the top five. It was later colorized.
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Post by Knygathin on Jun 12, 2021 14:33:58 GMT
Here is another version of the Little People, done by Barry Windsor-Smith and Tim Conrad for Marvel Comics in 1976, an adaption of R. E. Howard's Worms of the Earth, a Bran Mak Morn story. Bran Mak Morn was Howard's doomed Pict hero, after the Romans were in Britain. ...
I like the landscape illustration, with the beautiful clouds and sunset. But the characters and monsters in the top two pictures are really cheesy. It is children's comic book cheap entertainment.
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Post by dem bones on May 28, 2022 11:44:38 GMT
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Post by weirdmonger on Sept 13, 2022 9:10:46 GMT
A.B.O. by Walter de la Mare? What mad genius. What strange, unusual writing. Very effective, and goes straight to the core of disintegrating terror. It made me afraid after I had put the book down, and I almost didn't dare go out into the garden in the night, for fear of bumping into a "little one". . A significantly effective horror storyā¦ no half measures at all!A:B:O by Walter de la Mare I also feel it is somehow connected with OH WHISTLE. Please see both reviews, on my site, if interested.
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 26, 2023 11:08:32 GMT
J. S. Le Fanu - "Laura Silver Bell" (1871). Not overtly horryfying, but a creepy fairy tale with symbolic implications to real life. Dark and unpleasant. Not sure why Le Fanu used a "giant", but this is still the fairy folk. He may be Pan or the Devil. Concerns the cruel seduction of a young girl. {Spoiler}The resulting offspring seems to be Wilbur Whateley - fully learned the moment he pops out. Rosmary's baby pales in comparison.
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 29, 2023 12:18:19 GMT
"The Child That Went with the Fairies" (1870). About as good as "Laura Silver Bell". Tragedy, dressed in fairy mythology. Overall competent, with imaginative fairy details, and some seeming, to me, out of place. Such as the black evil looking woman; not sure what that was all about.
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