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Jan. 12th, 2011 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crantzTwo quick Lovecraft bits!
Just read Call of Cthulhu, and Herbert West: Reanimator, both by HP Lovecraft.
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Call of Cthulhu: New platform for reading didn't help, still doesn't wow me. It does, however, have some awesome lines. While The Tomb had 'darkest of the hillside thickets' (which probably stood out to me because I love the band. Check them out, they sing Cthulhu rock), Call of Cthulhu had these lines:
I do like how the narrator of Call of Cthulhu spends most of the book doing a dead on Scully impression.
Herbert West: Reanimator: Hilarious, for Lovecraft. Not sure if it was on purpose. It's a zombie story! Herbert West, (the story was published in parts, I think, so each part starts with how Herbert is small, blond, softspoken and probably pretty) is determined to raise the dead. But unfortunately it's just one long line of fuck-ups for him and his life partner/assistant.
Notable for them running screaming into town the first time they succeed in raising a corpse.
This story features: Zombies, really unfortunate scene with a black boxer, a 'little tow-head fiend', and a Canadian badass.
Herbert West: Reanimator is now fighting with The Thing On The Doorstep and Rats In The Walls for my favourite Lovecraft story.
Just read Call of Cthulhu, and Herbert West: Reanimator, both by HP Lovecraft.
Call of Cthulhu: New platform for reading didn't help, still doesn't wow me. It does, however, have some awesome lines. While The Tomb had 'darkest of the hillside thickets' (which probably stood out to me because I love the band. Check them out, they sing Cthulhu rock), Call of Cthulhu had these lines:
"In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming"
"Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises heard"
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die. (Cthulhu! *jazz hands*)
I do like how the narrator of Call of Cthulhu spends most of the book doing a dead on Scully impression.
Herbert West: Reanimator: Hilarious, for Lovecraft. Not sure if it was on purpose. It's a zombie story! Herbert West, (the story was published in parts, I think, so each part starts with how Herbert is small, blond, softspoken and probably pretty) is determined to raise the dead. But unfortunately it's just one long line of fuck-ups for him and his life partner/assistant.
Notable for them running screaming into town the first time they succeed in raising a corpse.
This story features: Zombies, really unfortunate scene with a black boxer, a 'little tow-head fiend', and a Canadian badass.
Herbert West: Reanimator is now fighting with The Thing On The Doorstep and Rats In The Walls for my favourite Lovecraft story.