The Lovecraft Thread

[Blacklabel]

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/td.aspx

from The Thing on the Doorstep

The caller had on one of Edward's overcoats—its bottom almost touching the ground, and its sleeves rolled back yet still covering the hands. On the head was a slouch hat pulled low, while a black silk muffler concealed the face. As I stepped unsteadily forward, the figure made a semi-liquid sound like that I had heard over the telephone—"glub . . . glub . . ."—and thrust at me a large, closely written paper impaled on the end of a long pencil. Still reeling from the morbid and unaccountable foetor, I seized this paper and tried to read it in the light from the doorway.

GLUB GLUB! How Terrifying!

Yeah.. this story was a bit shit.

[OmegaZilla]

Concept's terrifying. Not one of the best, but I do like that story.

[Cvalda]

Hey, it's not meant to be cosmically terrifying It's a domestic tragedy with cosmic horror overtones!

/apologist

[Blacklabel]

Glub Glub.... it's just a silly story and never becomes horrifying at all.

[Cvalda]

"Glub, glub" is the sound rotting, putrescent vocal chords would make, you fool!

[Blacklabel]

GLUB GLUB!

[OmegaZilla]

you fool!

Spoiler

Warren is dead!

[close]

[Blacklabel]

Spoiler

You forgot to put that in BIG LETTERS. the hack writers way of making things REALLY IMPORTANT. :p Dat lovecraft.

[close]

[Cvalda]

GLUB GLUB!

Haters gonna hate

you fool!

Spoiler

Warren is dead!

[close]

Spoiler

You forgot to put that in BIG LETTERS. the hack writers way of making things REALLY IMPORTANT. :p Dat lovecraft.

[close]

SHUN THE NON-BELIEVER

[Aspie]

So no Mountains of Madness because of Prometheus, huh?

[Cvalda]

So no Mountains of Madness because of Prometheus, huh?

I'm not bothered, considering Del Toro's script was terrible.

Then again, so was Prometheus.

[OmegaZilla]

I would've rather had Del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness than Prometheus, personally. In one case, it's a crummy -- admittedly, and surprisingly -- adaptation. The novel is untouched. In the other, it's a thematic demolition of a series of films. Brutal.

[Nightmare Asylum]

Yeah, as much as I would love to see del Toro tackle that film that script, from what I heard, didn't really sound all too appealing.

With some rewrites I still think he would be the perfect man for the job, however.

[OmegaZilla]

Yeah, as much as I would love to see del Toro tackle that film that script, from what I heard, didn't really sound all too appealing.

With some rewrites I still think he would be the perfect man for the job, however.

Exactly. The script needs a LOT of refurbishing.

[Aspie]

So no Mountains of Madness because of Prometheus, huh?

I'm not bothered, considering Del Toro's script was terrible.

Then again, so was Prometheus.

I would've rather had Del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness than Prometheus, personally. In one case, it's a crummy -- admittedly, and surprisingly -- adaptation. In the other, it's a thematic demolition of a series. Brutal.