Munafik wrote:My favorite fantasy novel of all time is Sax Rohmer's Brood of the Witch Queen, with Abraham Merritt's The Moon Pool a close second. The former revolves around the resurrection of an ancient Egyptian queen and the latter around the discovery of a lost colony of Atlantis situated beneath the real-life island of Ponape. Both are brimming with prismatic prose, inventive plots, and exotic locales. However, for those who are interested, these are _not_ sword and sorcery fantasies ala those of R.E. Howard and C.L. Moore, but, rather, are lost race romances similar to those penned by H. Rider Haggard and Edgar Rice Burroughs. N.B. The Rohmer novel is a bit hard to find, being as it was last printed, to the best of my knowledge, in the early twenties. The Moon Pool is more readily available, being is it has been in print, more or less, since its original date of publication in the early teens of the previous century.
Keith the Thief wrote:Simmons' Hyperion Cantos (Hyperion & Fall of Hyperion) could be easily translated into a D&D adventure.
Beyondthebreach wrote:Now don't get me wrong - I love Hyperion & Fall of Hyperion. They are probably the two best books I have EVER read. Absolutely brilliant.However, I am not sure I would say they could be easily translated to D&D . . . Do you just mean the general theme of a pilgramage? I've thought about the Cruciform before as something that could be easily incorporated . . . but everything else is either hard Science Fiction and/or deeply developed character plotlines. Plus, a strong tribute to John Keats . . .
Beyondthebreach wrote:Call of CthulhuWhisperer in DarknessDunwich HorrorThing on the DoorstepShadow Over InssmouthHaunter of the Dark
Beyondthebreach wrote:It's a "Best Of" book, but it seems to have most of the titles I've heard of before:Call of CthulhuWhisperer in DarknessDunwich HorrorThing on the DoorstepShadow Over InssmouthHaunter of the Darketc. etc.
Keith the Thief wrote:.Those stories are a great place to start. Do you happen to know which "best of" anthology it is (i.e., who's the editor?).Keith
Beyondthebreach wrote:"Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre" with an introduction by Robert Bloch.
Keith the Thief wrote:I'm a little envious. I would love to be just now starting on Lovecraft.
Beyondthebreach wrote:Recently, a friend of mine got me all the Robert E. Howard Conan stories - I've read about half of them. They are really fantastic. I still have several more to go . . . I kind of spread them out so they aren't all done at once.
Keith the Thief wrote:Interesting you should mention that, because I was thinking about this thread earlier, and about all the various authors mentioned here, and how I'd never read any REH. That might well be worth checking out.I do remember reading a number of Fritz Leiber's "Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser" books back in the day. Those were very enjoyable.
Beyondthebreach wrote:I have to travel to Charlotte, NC for my job this week - I'll be there Sunday through Friday. This will actually give me quite a bit of free time to read . . . so I stopped by the local used book store and finally picked up some H.P. Lovecraft . . . I've yet to ever actually read any Lovecraft, so I'm looking forward to it.It's a "Best Of" book, but it seems to have most of the titles I've heard of before:Call of CthulhuWhisperer in DarknessDunwich HorrorThing on the DoorstepShadow Over InssmouthHaunter of the Darketc. etc.
jasonw1239 wrote:I have been working my way through some of the Chaosium collections of Lovecraft based work, some are good and others are...just ok.Robert M. Price is the series editor and writes the intros for the stories. He was the editor of Crypt of Cthulhu publication for 17 years and is a professor of theology so he brings an interesting perspective to the overall mythos.In my opinion some of the better books from that series are:Tales Out of InnsmouthThe Disciples of CthulhuThe Dunwich CycleThe Nyarlathotep CycleThe Necronomicon: Selected Stories and EssaysI am not sure if they are all still in print, but they do come up quite often on eBay.The Pagan Publishing fiction is also quite good and still in print.Denied to the EnemyDark TheatresRules of EngagementThey can still be ordered through the Pagan Publishing siteTynes Cowan Corporationor through Arkham BazaarArkham Bazaar: H.P. Lovecraft DVDs, Cthulhu T-shirts and stickers, Miskatonic University, Role-playing and board games, Movies, Sculptures, Books, Posters, Gifts, and more