Badmike wrote:Luckily the new Del Rey REH collections are pretty definitive. Man, I REALLY envy those that haven't read any Conan/REH yet!!! Don't forget the Solomon Kane collection...IMO that's some of his best stuff. Wings in the Night is my all time favorite REH story, and one of my top ten fantasy stories EVER.Mike B.
FormCritic wrote:It would be accurate to call Howard's stories "Lovecraftian." First, he wrote a number of stories in that genre. Second, he continually incorporated Lovecraft's ideas in his other stories. They corresponded...and HPL was clearly a large influence on REH.
Keith the Thief wrote:That's part of the Del Rey series of Lovecraft books, and works well as a starting point.Of all the non-Arkham House publishers, I prefer the newer Penguin series, but it's not like the stories are any different among the various editions, just the order and supplementary material from the editors.I'm a little envious. I would love to be just now starting on Lovecraft.
FormCritic wrote:Which HPL mythos story is it in which the protagonist dies writing, "The three-lobed gleaming eye!" ?The church that HPL based his story on is gone, but the church tower remained...at least as recently as two years ago. I saw it online.
I see it - coming here - hell-wind - titan blue - black wing - Yog Sothoth save me - the three-lobed burning eye...
FormCritic wrote:Who dies writing, "The three-lobed burning eye?" It's like dying while carving "Auuuugh!" on a stone. ("Perhaps he was dictating!")I think that The Haunter of the Dark and The Whisperer in Darkness are both pretty good stories. They seem like they could happen to real people. And, the old church building and the remote house are places we can all identify with.)
FormCritic wrote:Who dies writing, "The three-lobed burning eye?" It's like dying while carving "Auuuugh!" on a stone. ("Perhaps he was dictating!")
FormCritic wrote:It is interesting how far ahead of his time Lovecraft really was. His work anticipates the atomic bomb, innumberable scientific advances and the distopic world of the second half of the 20th century (...although those of you born in the 1980's will have missed much of all that...it's hard to explain to those who missed it that the Cold War really happened).In other ways, Lovecraft was such a part of his own era. The terrorist threats and religous madmen of the early 21st century would have fit nicely with Lovecraft's racial ideas. Osama Bin Laden and his compatriots exactly fit HPL's stereotypes of mongrel races infected with madness seeping up from R'lyeh. World War II was the direct result of the racial theories embraced by so many people like Lovecraft. I wonder what he would have thought or written about the Holocaust.
Badmike wrote:The REH collection referenced above is Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors. I have a copy in my Ebay bookstore if anyone is interested! Plus a lot of Lovecraft I haven't yet listed; let me know if you are interested and I can sell you a collection or two.Badmike3Books (ebay name)Mike B.
Badmike wrote:The protagonist in Haunter of the Dark, Robert Blake, is based on Bloch. Likewise, Bloch kills of a Lovecraft-like character in The Shambler From the Stars (by a Star Vampire, no less). The REH collection referenced above is Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors. I have a copy in my Ebay bookstore if anyone is interested! Plus a lot of Lovecraft I haven't yet listed; let me know if you are interested and I can sell you a collection or two.Badmike3Books (ebay name)Mike B.
Keith the Thief wrote:Mike,Do you sell any Arkham House editions? I've always been partial to that imprint. I already own the 4 primary collections by Lovecraft, plus 3 volumes of letters, plus the "The Watchers Out of Time" and "Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos". The trouble, of course, is that I'm not wealthy, so while I'd love a copy of "The Outsiders and Others", I doubt I'll be buying one in the near future.However, there are some AH editions of other anthologies that are in my price range.Thanks,Keith
FormCritic wrote:Well, Keith. I'm impressed that you own the volumes of letters. Those are always out of my price range!I always fantasize about finding a copy of The Dark Man and Others on a shelf at Goodwill or St. Vincent De Paul. But...the rise of the internet and Ebay means that fewer and fewer sellers are unaware of the value of what they're selling.