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"Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference between those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other."
- The Silver Key ?️

Suet624 Great quote! 1mo
Bookwomble @Suet624 There's a rather philosophical start to this story that I like, and which shows that Lovecraft could be more than a pulp writer when he wanted to be. His publisher reported that there were a lot of complaints from his regular readers about this one, but it's become one of his best regarded over time. 1mo
Suet624 That‘s so interesting. 1mo
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"Three times Randolph Carter dreamed of the marvellous city, and three times he was snatched away while he paused on the high terrace above it."
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

Included in the anthology I'm reading, this story is more whimsical than "At the Mountains of Madness", though it is linked to Lovecraft's horror stories through its main protagonist, Randolph Carter, and a selection of Cthulhu Mythos gods, notably Nyarlathotep. ⬇️

Bookwomble And while the Cats of Ulthar are cute, they will definitely eat you if you piss them off! 🙀
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
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The title story is one of my favourites of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos stories. If "The Call of Cthulhu" is his "Lord of the Rings" then this story is his "Silmarillion" - ok, Tolkien is orders of magnitude greater in terms of literature and sheer depth and complexity of conception, but Lovecraft is great in his own area.
There is no dialogue as the story is the first-person statement of polar expedition lead, William Dyer, who may be a great ⬇️

Bookwomble ... geologist, but is surely no psychologist as his stated purpose in giving his account of the mysteries and horrors which lie at the heart of unexplored Antarctica is to discourage a new expedition, whereas it would surely make it all the more likely (and, to be fair, Dyer does express concern about this possibility).
Recounting the findings of the doomed expedition of which he is one of two survivors, and the only one still close to sanity, ⬇️
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Bookwomble ... he describes the history of earth's pre-human inhabitants from billions of years ago to the relatively recent Pleistocene, encompassing the creation of mundane life as a whim of the alien Elder Things, charting their conflicts with extradimensional beings, their ultimate decline into decadence, and the fall of their civilization. Most of this is presented as his description of ancient carved murals in one of their abandoned (or, is it?) ⬇️ 1mo
Bookwomble ... cities, so this is where the reader either loves or hates being told rather than shown. Me, I 💚 1mo
The_Book_Ninja Excellent review 1mo
Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja Thank you ☺️ 1mo
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"Both on land and under water they used curious tables, chairs and couches like cylindrical frames - for they rested and slept upright with folded down tentacles - and racks for the hinged sets of dotted surfaces forming their books."

Similarly to the Elder Things, I like to know my books are safely shelved and racked before I settle into my sleeping frame and fold down my tentacles for a quick millennium-or-two nap. ???

RaeLovesToRead Hahaha. I'm remembering a YouTube vid I watched once on how to pronounce Lovecraftian words, and the comments section was great... "Oh rh'lyeh?" 1mo
RaeLovesToRead "That's what I'm F'tagn about!" 1mo
Bookwomble @RaeLovesToRead Who knows what the Ph'nglui it all means? 🤷🏻‍♂️ 1mo
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My flibbertigibbet brain is struggling to settle, so I'll feed it something I've chewed before, although not previously this edition, which as well as the title novella includes several Dreamland stories which I also like.
Ian Miller's cover art of an Elder Thing is fantastically chaotic & likely to induce the madness that overruns an ill-fated Antarctic expedition.
Lovecraft's aliens evoke the strange body plans of the vastly ancient Ediacaran ⬇️

Bookwomble ... biota, and although fossil examples had been found in the 19th century, I don't think it was widely known until some years after Lovecraft wrote his stories, which is kinda spooky (unless I've got my history wrong - not unlikely).
#ReadingOceania2024 #Antarctic 🇦🇶
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BarbaraBB I kind of enjoyed this book 🙀 2mo
Librarybelle Sometimes it‘s great to revisit an old favorite, even if it is a different edition! 2mo
Bookwomble @BarbaraBB I kind of love it! 😁 2mo
Bookwomble @Librarybelle Agreed 😊 I already feel settled in with it. 2mo
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Horror for the Holidays | Scott David Aniolowski
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Sent out my #CreepyChristmas package today!

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Horror for the Holidays | Scott David Aniolowski
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All #CreepyChristmas matches have been sent! Please confirm one you've received it. If you haven't, please check spam folders and then let me know if it's still not there.

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The Haunter of the Dark | H. P. Lovecraft
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The 4th season of The Lovecraft Investigations, The Haunter of the Dark, was as bat-shitly occult-conspiracy-theoryesque as previous seasons, which you definitely need to listen to to make any sense of it. There's often a lot of exposition between action sequences, but this one seemed to lean a bit too heavily into that, so 4⭐ rather than 5. Some amusing/disturbing caricatures of political figures, & a ton of stuff about UK establishment fascism.

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The Haunter of the Dark | H.P. Lovecraft
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Yay! Series 4 of The Lovecraft Investigations, The Haunter of the Dark, has been released on Radio 4! I'm excited to listen to this over the next few evenings.
The show follows fictional true crime podcasters who get pulled deeper & deeper into cultish machinations, espionage, ancient conspiracies & dealings with cosmic horrors from the Outer Darkness! Each series is an updated version of an HPL story, & while I guess they can be listened to ⬇️🐙

Bookwomble ... separately, I'd recommend listening to them in order as they do build on each other.
Link is to the new series via the BBC Sounds app, but it should be easily discoverable on the Radio 4 website, too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0gkgh5m?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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The Lurking Fear | H. P. Lovecraft
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4✨ I really like how Lovecraft writes. He makes it even creepier with his word usage and mystery. In this short story our MC is in the middle of two people when they are killed on either side of him. There is a lot of death on this hill and for a time he believes it to be a vengeful spirit. However, the lurking fear is even creepier than that. #Scarathlon #BatBrigade @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks Fantastic! 🦇 7mo
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