tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post8476914623153745577..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Aaaaah-CHOO!Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-27270664041623047232008-04-28T23:33:00.000-04:002008-04-28T23:33:00.000-04:00"I heard this weird keening and a skritch-skritch-..."I heard this weird keening and a skritch-skritch-skritch noise." <BR/><BR/>...at which point the cats stormed into the room and jumped square onto your stomach? <BR/><BR/>TW: "weibgscs"<BR/>More sneezing on the weib: "Gscs!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-52935327058468260872008-04-27T15:56:00.000-04:002008-04-27T15:56:00.000-04:00Sadly, Claritin stopped working for my wife. She'...Sadly, Claritin stopped working for my wife. She's on Zyrtec and Singulair right now and she's just getting back to where she can talk again.Fuzzy Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03802539927743643041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-57947543141379012272008-04-27T00:48:00.000-04:002008-04-27T00:48:00.000-04:00I bought a collection of Lovecraft's work publishe...I bought a collection of Lovecraft's work published by the <A HREF="http://www.loa.org/" REL="nofollow">Library of America</A>!<BR/><BR/>I finished it in 3 days... I was SOO hooked and "mountains" is one of my favorite stories in it!!Lesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09281676558516912247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-91309035670484664452008-04-26T21:52:00.000-04:002008-04-26T21:52:00.000-04:00I think Charles Dexter Ward was one of my favorite...I think <I>Charles Dexter Ward</I> was one of my favorites; but <I>Mountains of Madness</I> is up there close. <I>The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath</I> reminds me of some of Clark Ashton Smith's stuff, and I quite liked it. My first experiences with the genre were stuff by Derleth and Machen.BobGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405172215849046373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-75422032359947657352008-04-26T21:12:00.000-04:002008-04-26T21:12:00.000-04:00Kinda like reading A. Gordon Pym for your first Po...Kinda like reading A. Gordon Pym for your first Poe, I'd say.Brian J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10919837228673866495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-7638274600814595092008-04-26T14:37:00.000-04:002008-04-26T14:37:00.000-04:00I rather disagree on the quality of "At the Mounta...I rather disagree on the quality of "At the Mountains of Madness," but I may be coming at it from a different point of view. LIke "The Shadow out of Time," "Mountains of Madness" is properly seen as science fiction, not the supernatural horror/fantasy of "Dunwich Horror" or "Shadow over Innsmouth." <BR/><BR/>I agree that "Mountains" is largely an exercise in atmospherics, but I found much more to it than that. To a fossil geek like me, it's a fascinating tour de force in early-20th-century geology and palaeontology. Lovecraft really did his homework in trying to reconstruct Earth's geologic history for the 'records' left by the Old Ones. He used the very best sources available and took only limited liberties with them. It's a real shame that the sources he used were wrong in a lot of ways.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-64256241136688144222008-04-26T13:35:00.000-04:002008-04-26T13:35:00.000-04:00Mountains of Madness is actually one of HPL's weak...Mountains of Madness is actually one of HPL's weakest stories: just an extended exercise in atmospherics. The DreamQuest of Unknown Kadath is a similar idea, but much better done--and in fact it's more a fantasy than a horror story.<BR/><BR/>Probably his best ones are Charles Dexter Ward, Shadow over Innsmouth, and Dunwich Horror--all of which are so intricately plotted you need to reread them at least two or three times before you can hope to get everything he put into them. Several others fall in the same category, but they're shorter, so usually you only need one rereading.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com