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Post by cromagnonman on Jun 30, 2020 22:27:25 GMT
I know you're correct Doc, but that Bierce bears a helluva resemblance to Mark Twain, doesn't he? And surely Blackwood was only around 45 at the time of the book's setting. Oh the perils of inadequate reference material.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jun 30, 2020 22:49:37 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Jun 30, 2020 23:44:06 GMT
The hilarity continues!
I'm American so I know you will all understand when I fulsomely state that I love you guys!
cheers, Hel
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jul 1, 2020 5:54:27 GMT
The one bad review. Out of a total of two reviews. True. Being unbiased I look forward to giving it my own objective review. The second reviewer is a friend of Joshi. Yes, such creatures exist.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 1, 2020 6:51:41 GMT
True. Being unbiased I look forward to giving it my own objective review. The second reviewer is a friend of Joshi. Yes, such creatures exist. Actually he does not exist anymore.
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Post by David A. Riley on Jul 1, 2020 9:40:59 GMT
The second reviewer is a friend of Joshi. Yes, such creatures exist. Actually he does not exist anymore. Yes, alas, Wilum Pugmire died from heart failure in March last year aged 67. He had a troubled life, being a gay Mormon who was volunatrily excommunicated from his church for 25 years.
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Post by cromagnonman on Jul 1, 2020 11:12:01 GMT
Probably just me: but I always pictured him as Tattoo to Joshi's Mr Roarke - proprietors of Lovecraft Island.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 1, 2020 11:26:01 GMT
Yes, alas, Wilum Pugmire died from heart failure in March last year aged 67. He had a troubled life, being a gay Mormon who was volunatrily excommunicated from his church for 25 years. Apparently he was a Mormon missionary in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s, which must have been... interesting terrifying.
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Post by helrunar on Jul 1, 2020 12:59:08 GMT
Lovecraft Island--I can definitely see that. There's a new TV show my friends have told me about, based on a book I think, called Lovecraft Country. I played a trailer for it but couldn't figure out much about it. Willum Pugmire being interviewed and discussing how he got into Lovecraft, as well as his personal view of the "Lovecraftian" fiction he wrote. He mentions a Panther paperback edition of HPL's tales. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n91u5g7pExMVideo lasts 4 minutes. H.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jul 1, 2020 13:22:58 GMT
Lovecraft Island--I can definitely see that. Maybe that would pair well with The Lovecraft Boat, where guest stars find romance while sailing past newly risen islands that drip with green ichor.
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Post by helrunar on Jul 1, 2020 13:47:08 GMT
Good one, Cauldron!
H.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 1, 2020 14:01:12 GMT
There's a new TV show my friends have told me about, based on a book I think, called Lovecraft Country. I played a trailer for it but couldn't figure out much about it. I read the book a couple of years back, but wasn't impressed. A lot of people were though.
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Post by cromagnonman on Jul 1, 2020 14:01:22 GMT
Wildly off topic. But it can be quite amusing trawling through the cast lists of long running episodic tv series and making the genre connections. The cast list for Fantasy Island on imdb is enormous, and the show's casting directors must have gone through central casting like a dose of typhoid. There are significant Bond and Batman compliments with Walter Gotell, Robert Brown, David Hedison, Jill St John, Martine Beswick and Yaphet Kotto appearing in it for the former and Adam West, Yvonne Craig, Julie Newmar and Lee Meriwether for the latter. Star Trek chips in with James Doohan, Levar Burton, Diana Muldaur and Jonathan Frakes. Battlestar Galactica with Richard Hatch and Maren Jensen and Buck Rogers with Pam Hensley, Wilfred Hyde White and Erin Gray.
Pamela Franklin, Gayle Hunnicutt and Roddy McDowell from Hell House all appear, as does Linda Blair who appeared in some horror film or other.
There were two Tarzans in Mike Henry and Ron Ely.
Among the soon-to-be-famous guesting are Michelle Pfeiffer, Heather Locklear, Victoria Principal, Tanya Roberts and Geena Davis.
Going in the opposite direction: Shani Wallis from Oliver is found in the talent stretching part of "wife with towel".
Trapped in Hawaii forever seemingly Larry Manetti from Magnum and James MacArthur from Hawaii 5-0.
And lastly, for the benefit of Dem who I knows cares deeply about this, Danny Bonaduce was in it. (But sadly no Cas reunion as far as I can see: one fantasy too far evidently).
Indulge me. Its a slow news day.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 1, 2020 14:04:39 GMT
There is a very recent horror film based on Fantasy Island - I just got "recommended" it by Am*zsh*t yesterday.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 1, 2020 15:10:16 GMT
There is a very recent horror film based on Fantasy Island - I just got "recommended" it by Am*zsh*t yesterday. This film, does it have a name?
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