Posted: 9/4/2022 11:05:37 PM EDT
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I have to say it isn’t what I expected. Several thoughts would include that I didn’t realize it was a short story, it has a prose from another age which I didn’t expect from a 20th century novel, and it was just not what I expected. I found it intriguing. If you like the manner in which Sherlock Holmes stories are written then this is up your alley. I think I am still processing it a bit to decide how I feel. I might really like it, or conversely I may be disappointed. I know that is a strange dichotomy but here we are. ETA: I love the Sherlock Holmes stories by the way. I think where I am struggling with this is it feels incomplete. It leaves you wanting more. More answers, more action, more C’thulu. |
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Quoted: I have to say it isn’t what I expected. Several thoughts would include that I didn’t realize it was a short story, it has a prose from another age which I didn’t expect from a 20th century novel, and it was just not what I expected. I found it intriguing. If you like the manner in which Sherlock Holmes stories are written then this is up your alley. I think I am still processing it a bit to decide how I feel. I might really like it, or conversely I may be disappointed. I know that is a strange dichotomy but here we are. ETA: I love the Sherlock Holmes stories by the way. I think where I am struggling with this is it feels incomplete. It leaves you wanting more. More answers, more action, more C’thulu. Read the mountains of madness. Then read this. http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm |
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Quoted: Thought this was going to be a Metallica thread it is now. CLIFF!!!!  Metallica - The Call Of Ktulu w/LOUD BASS (Live at Lyceum Theater, London, 1984) |
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Quoted: If you read the "Call of C'thulu" and were unplussed, you lack imagination. Take some mushrooms or LSD, read it again, and report back. I think my imagination is a little overactive. But in this case the story is only 47 pages. In that you really don't get much to be honest. Mostly it is the nephew looking for information or talking about reactions from others. We do have the Norwegian's limited account which evokes some cool imagery but is only a few paragraphs long. It is an intriguing start, but honestly felt like the first chapter of a book. I will read more to see what the rest of the mythos is like. |
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. |
 Metallica - The Call of Ktulu (HD) |
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I have this big bastard that I really haven't gotten into yet. I'm planning a solitary SUV camping trip to northern Michigan this fall; anyone got a suggested order of reading that will have me shivering and gripping my lever gun, alone in the wilderness, hearing everything? I've only read Call and part of Mountains. Attached File |
| If you prefer to listen tales to terrify has mountains of madness. https://talestoterrify.com/episodes/tales-to-terrify-no-82-h-p-lovecraft-part-1-of-at-the-mountains-of-madness/ |
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Quoted: Scare the fuck out of me, make me wish I'd purchased NV in time to get it beforehand; only to futilely scan the deep woods for the presence I'll never see coming. I love scary reads when camping alone .I'll be camping deep in the forest on some logging roads no longer used next month . It has to be stories about creatures because not a big fan of ghost tales . I'll be in my truck camper .  and ETA I'll have my thermal |
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Quoted: I think my imagination is a little overactive. But in this case the story is only 47 pages. In that you really don't get much to be honest. Mostly it is the nephew looking for information or talking about reactions from others. We do have the Norwegian's limited account which evokes some cool imagery but is only a few paragraphs long. It is an intriguing start, but honestly felt like the first chapter of a book. I will read more to see what the rest of the mythos is like. Quoted: Quoted: If you read the "Call of C'thulu" and were unplussed, you lack imagination. Take some mushrooms or LSD, read it again, and report back. I think my imagination is a little overactive. But in this case the story is only 47 pages. In that you really don't get much to be honest. Mostly it is the nephew looking for information or talking about reactions from others. We do have the Norwegian's limited account which evokes some cool imagery but is only a few paragraphs long. It is an intriguing start, but honestly felt like the first chapter of a book. I will read more to see what the rest of the mythos is like. A 47 page book? Now that's something I might read! Does it have pictures also? |
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I cut my teeth in grade school on a lot of literature that is about one hundred years old now. When I revisit it, The richness of the vocabulary and complexity of the structure hammers home what an absolute shit bunch of mouth breathing, unlettered peasants most books are tailored for now. |
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Quoted: Shadow over Innsmouth is a great read. I love Lovecraft. I know we hate him, but King used a lot of the Lovecraft mythos. Hmmm...interdasting... I just saw something that I didn't know. That King has his own mythos that connects the Gunslinger series with his castle rock/Salem's Lot stuff... I know king is an asshole, but I read a lot of his books growing up.. |
Two of my recommendations....I was just discussing Anthony Boucher yesterday and I recommend this collection and the nice little horror stories in it. It also has light fantasy and humour.  Failed To Load Product Data On the other hand, David Drake is known for writing military sci-fi, BUT his horror tales are quite nice. Failed To Load Product Data |
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Only books I've ever had to read with a dictionary close at hand. You may get the urge to read the Necronomicon. Don't bother. It's crap. I still have my copy around here somewhere. I used to play the Call of Cthulhu RPG in college. Interesting game. There are only two possible outcomes: you either die horribly or you live long enough to be driven insane. Lovecraft was a hard-core racist / product of his times. |
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Quoted: I have to say it isn’t what I expected. Several thoughts would include that I didn’t realize it was a short story, it has a prose from another age which I didn’t expect from a 20th century novel, and it was just not what I expected. I found it intriguing. If you like the manner in which Sherlock Holmes stories are written then this is up your alley. I think I am still processing it a bit to decide how I feel. I might really like it, or conversely I may be disappointed. I know that is a strange dichotomy but here we are. ETA: I love the Sherlock Holmes stories by the way. I think where I am struggling with this is it feels incomplete. It leaves you wanting more. More answers, more action, more C’thulu. @Canoeguy You’d probably like Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows by James Lovegrove and Sherlock Holmes vs Cthulhu by Lois H. Gresh. |
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You might like this book, although I don't know how to read, so I listened to the audio book : https://www.amazon.com/14-Peter-Clines/dp/1618684981 |
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Quoted: There's a whole mythos that springs from it. I found the call of cthulu itself underwhelming, but it ties so much together once you read the rest of his work. Sort of like how almost everything Stephen King does references the dark tower. Yea "The Cult of Cthulu" as people call themselves. |
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The Shadow over Innsmouth is the only one I've read, and that's mostly because I played the Call of Cthulhu video game years ago. What I kinda took away from it is that the Cthulhu mythos is about the fear of the unknown to start, like how you see that the people and the town are a little off, and you feel like you're always being followed and watched and you know something isn't quite right, but you can't put your finger on it. Then the pieces start to come together and you have the realization and absolute pants-shitting horror when you do finally learn what Cthulhu and Dagon and the elder gods and all of that stuff is about. Like mind-bending, drive you insane to the point where you kill yourself type horror. |
Here's a silent movie adaptation of The Call of Cthulhu from 2005. It's in 240p unfortunately. Failed To Load Title I bought the DVD in like 2008 or so. The DVD has a behind the scenes 'making of' section. Most of the actors and production crew were theater kids who never heard of HP Lovecraft, but they really liked working on this quirky project. |
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Lovecraft was a weird motherfucker. I enjoyed Mountains of Madness more. The weird thing about Lovecraft is he takes a fundamentally different view of some base philosophies of the world. Most of us were raised with the idea that more knowledge and understanding are the path to enlightenment, peace and happiness if only we could understand the real truth of the world. Much of our culture is based on this cheerful philosophy. Lovecraft believed that truly understanding the universe would yield pain, horror, and insanity. |