DREDD V'S CTHULU !

[Dark Jimbo]

Fair enough, Mr Jimbo!

I've not read The Temple- but I shall track it, and The Tomb, down forthwith!

The Music of Erich Zann is another highly recommended non-mythos tale, if you've not already read that.

[TordelBack]

The galactic gourmet who tried to suck the cosmic egg.

Maybe reading that was the moment I started to have doubts about the direction Slaine was taking.  No, wait, that was: "I take my power... straight from the Grid!".  (Shakes head sorrowfully in Pat's direction).

The beauty (hah) of Lovecraft is that he wrote so much, and a great deal of it is very brief, so it's very easy to find lots of quite brilliant stuff to enjoy, amidst a fair amount of dross.  Wait, am I talking about Mills again?

[WoD]

Thanks..the preview on Amazon looked good...will try and get a copy.

[Kerrin]

Well worth it WoD. Thoroughly enjoyed reading the collected works. The general standard of prose is high though there are a couple of stories that may well seem to drag for the modern reader. You'll definitely have extended your vocabulary by then end of it as well. Great stuff.

[TordelBack]

You'll definitely have extended your vocabulary by then end of it as well.

So true!  I read the three collected volumes when I was 15 or 16 - I used to happily pass many English classes trying to find a way to use rugose, squamous, gibbous, tenebrous, chthonic etc. in my essays.  Yes, I was always this boring.

[ThryllSeekyr]

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I'm not even sure where to start with Cthulu. There are plenty of HP Lovecraft sites on the net with plenty of his stories.

I once brought the cheap novel. Five bucks it was!.

With the title 'COLD PRINT'

Anybody familer with that name. As it relates to a horror story at a Printing Press.

//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Print

Anyway, the rest of the book is filled mostly short horror stoires with the stuff of Cthulu or of similer ilk.

I beleive might still book around somewhere today.

//http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Print-Ramsey-Campbell/dp/0812516605

Of the stories, themselves I vividly recall the revolting fly like beings from "The Insects from Shaggai"

It months later when I saw the Dungeon n Dragons Rules for  "Call of Cthulu" for about fifteen dollars of which I didn't have at the time and when I had the money.

It was gone.

That book can still found on Ebay and perhaps a fantacy gaming store in your home town at a reasonable price.
If your Dungeon Dragons fanatic  that book is must have.

I was biddeing for some Cthulu art work books. Sort of like Cthulu artwork excyclopedia late last year and lost. Some of the art work shown inside was fantastic.

I  think this might be the book.

//http://www.amazon.com/Art-H-P-Lovecrafts-Cthulhu-Mythos/dp/1589943074

I'll be damned I could find it again on Ebay.



Star Gods, I found the description said something about 'Tentagles of Cthuluu"

I guess there is a likeness there

[Kerrin]

Not really Dredd vs Cthulu, but Cthulu none the less. If you fancy an entertaining update on the old mythos thang you should check out Charles Stross' 'The Atrocity Archives' and 'The Jennifer Morgue'. Should appeal to most board members, kind of a Caballistics inc. hint to them, ish.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

The Pan series of short horror stories (No 8) are some of the most amoral short stories I've ever read as some find Lovecraft too tame for their gory appetites.I love the half glimpsed horrors of Lovecraft but perhaps you might want something with more meat on the bone and the Pan series certainly delivers there. That said No 8 is the only one I've read so I've no idea if the other numbers in the series are as horrible and sick. As Hitchcok said 'Evil is everywhere.'