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Post by dem bones on Sept 16, 2021 13:49:29 GMT
Sod The Necronicom. I'll have a copy of Sir Ivor Pelham Morley's Tales of Terror for Tiny Tots, as features in Michael Arlen's The Gentleman from America, any day, thanks very much.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 16, 2021 13:51:26 GMT
Let's read some of Fungoids together! TO A YOUNG WOMAN THOU ART, WHO HAST NOT BEEN! Pale tunes irresolute And traceries of old sounds Blown from a rotted flute Mingle with noise of cymbals rouged with rust, Nor not strange forms and epicene Lie bleeding in the dust, Being wounded with wounds. For this it is That in thy counterpart Of age-long mockeries THOU HAST NOT BEEN NOR ART! NOCTURNE Round and round the shutter'd Square I strolled with the Devil's arm in mine. No sound but the scrape of his hoofs was there And the ring of his laughter and mine. We had drunk black wine. I scream'd, "I will race you, Master!" "What matter," he shriek'd, "to-night Which of us runs the faster? There is nothing to fear to-night In the foul moon's light!" Then I look'd him in the eyes And I laugh'd full shrill at the lie he told And the gnawing fear he would fain disguise. It was true, what I'd time and again been told: He was oldāold.
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Post by helrunar on Sept 16, 2021 14:16:08 GMT
In Sax Rohmer's Sumuru novels (veteran Vault residents, sighing wearily: Oh god, here he goes again), the insidious Marquise Sumuru is the author of a work, Les Larmes de Notre Dame (Tears of Our Lady) which poisons the mind of many a pert young miss and several super-rich society matrons, convincing them that only a purposeful ideological stance against the male sex can save the human race. The books are sprinkled with select maxims from this work, and crisp instructions such as "Re-read Tears, chapter 2, on the fundamental inferiority of men."
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 16, 2021 14:22:51 GMT
Sod The Necronicom. I'll have a copy of Sir Ivor Pelham Morley's Tales of Terror for Tiny Tots, as features in Michael Arlen's The Gentleman from America, any day, thanks very much. I have that one.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 16, 2021 14:40:11 GMT
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 16, 2021 14:46:17 GMT
These must be real as jojo says he has them. As we all know jojo is a trustworthy source I'm afraid they don't qualify.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Sept 16, 2021 15:49:40 GMT
I'm a sucker for fictional books within works of fiction. The Revelations of Glaaki by Ramsey Campbell. In the same vein as this and the Necronomicon: The Pnakotic Manuscripts (stories by H. P. Lovecraft and others) The Book of Eibon (stories by Clark Ashton Smith and others) The Book of Iod (stories by Henry Kuttner and others) The Eltdown Shards (stories by Richard F. Searight and others) Unaussprechlichen Kulten (stories by Robert E. Howard and others) De Vermis Mysteriis and Cultes des Goules (stories by Robert Bloch and others) In The Fall of the House of Usher, don't the narrator and Roderick Usher read various occult works? Are any of those made up? Mad Trist, by Sir Launcelot Canning.
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Post by Dr Strange on Sept 16, 2021 17:00:30 GMT
I'm a sucker for fictional books within works of fiction. One that has always stuck in my mind is The Grasshopper Lies Heavy by Hawthorne Abendsen, a work of alternative history that explores what might have happened if the Allies had won WW2, in Philip K Dick's The Man in the High Castle (a work of alternative history that explores what might have happened if the Allies had lost WW2).
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 14, 2021 0:42:57 GMT
The Dynamics of an Asteroid by Professor James Moriarty. I'm pretty sure jojo has read this.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 14, 2021 0:51:20 GMT
I'm in bed but I can't sleep, if only I had The Dynamics of an Asteroid to keep me company.
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 14, 2021 0:53:22 GMT
I'm in bed but I can't sleep, if only I had The Dynamics of an Asteroid to keep me company. If you have any on hand, you can always try an Oliver Onions ghost story....
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 14, 2021 0:56:41 GMT
I'm in bed but I can't sleep, if only I had The Dynamics of an Asteroid to keep me company. If you have any on hand, you can always try an Oliver Onions ghost story.... My tablet just shut down, I forgot to recharge it. Oops. I'm now on my phone. I'll look for one, what is a good one?
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Post by sabenaravna on Dec 15, 2021 20:25:32 GMT
Definitely the writings of Baron Joachim von Hartog from The Vampire Lovers and the books from Lust for the Vampire. Karnsteins: History of Evil!
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 15, 2021 20:40:28 GMT
If you have any on hand, you can always try an Oliver Onions ghost story.... My tablet just shut down, I forgot to recharge it. Oops. I'm now on my phone. I'll look for one, what is a good one? I assumed you were being sarcastic. I found all Onion's ghost stories too long & lacking in a satisfying ending. So if you need something soporific, I recommend him. The Beckoning Fair One is his most famous, from what I can tell.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 15, 2021 21:25:18 GMT
My tablet just shut down, I forgot to recharge it. Oops. I'm now on my phone. I'll look for one, what is a good one? I assumed you were being sarcastic. I found all Onion's ghost stories too long & lacking in a satisfying ending. So if you need something soporific, I recommend him. The Beckoning Fair One is his most famous, from what I can tell. I didn't realise Oliver Onions is notorious for being boring. I started The Beckoning Fair One but, and I'm not saying it was the fault of the story, I got tired and went to sleep. I should keep going to see what it is like.
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