Comments Show 6 - The Female Stampede
Added 2018-10-30 05:12:41 +0000 UTCYou guys wrote things and then we read them and recorded it. Also, this is a true story.
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this is very old but i still think it should be labeled as containing lots of cruelty to rats. consider adding a warning to the post?
2020-09-19 02:15:02 +0000 UTCWho am I to argue with Vincent Price? Carry on then.
2018-11-02 16:16:50 +0000 UTCYou know, prompted by reading "The Shambler from the Stars" for the first time, I sought out every Bloch story I could get my hands on. Besides Psycho, which really is a masterpiece — but written by a Bloch quite different from the one that sent me on my quest originally — I have to say "the Shambler from the Stars" is still his best work in my opinion. And, to believe it was one of his first stories, published at the age of 18! The tale is genuinely scary and rather than merely hinting at some culminating madness, like Lovecraft seems to do (I'm thinking of the ending of the Dunwich horror here), Bloch forces the reader to confront a monster that breaks a man's bones as it folds his body in half and then drinks his blood leaving him a shriveled carcass. Through Bloch we finally got the satisfaction of being present for a Mythos event, rather than the usual skirting we got from Lovecraft. Though "Notebook Found in a Deserted House" definitely deserves some mention, I wish Bloch could have kept up this original vigor and vividness: ending with a bang, not a whimper!
2018-11-02 03:03:55 +0000 UTCThe character I'm playing in CoC nowadays is an anthropologist (yeah, not that original) but in studying the folklore on different continents he noticed similarities between cultures that had never had any contact. This started a more in depth study and comparison eventually leading to mind blowing realizations. Boom, knowledge about the mythos, no Lovecraft present.
Rickard Åström
2018-11-01 21:31:31 +0000 UTCYou haven't lived until you've read the Jason X novelization.
2018-11-01 13:30:04 +0000 UTCKinski? The best Dracula as Leiningen?
Mandy Reznor (She_It)
2018-10-31 23:30:14 +0000 UTCKlaus Kinski "classy" art house (421 Leiningen Versus The Ants)
2018-10-31 22:33:41 +0000 UTCPersonal request from a long time fan: Can you please make a short clip juxtaposing Chris' laugh with Burgess Meredith's iconic performance as the Penguin? It would really make my day.
2018-10-31 07:23:27 +0000 UTCI believe my favorite "ants invasion" story is Kings of the Wild Frontier by the acclaimed English author Adam Ant.
2018-10-31 02:11:37 +0000 UTCSpeaking of Alan Moore's Neonomicon and Providence, would you guys ever consider covering those on the show? They're a bit outside your usual parameters but I think it might be worthwhile. It was listening to the podcast that gave me enough knowledge of Lovecraft's life and influences to really appreciate Providence (Neonomicon is another kettle of fish).
2018-10-31 01:35:56 +0000 UTCI need to know what you are covering next so I can either read it or have some Hawthornesque self-flagellatory shame about not.
2018-10-31 00:07:38 +0000 UTCLying Vincent Price might be my favorite thing you guys have ever created.
The Screaming Moist
2018-10-30 23:28:07 +0000 UTCI too read many bad movie novelizations as a kid. Including such classics as Return to Oz, Flight of the Navigator, Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
2018-10-30 18:18:07 +0000 UTCYou could do it every year on its ANTiversary.
Alan Ricks
2018-10-30 14:26:59 +0000 UTCI can tie Vincent Price and the evils of the Dutch Language together. In Dragonwyck (1946) Vincent Price plays Nicholas Van Ry, a charming aristocratic Patroon lord who abuses his tenant farmers and generally poisons and murders people in his care. The patroons were the landed Dutch lords in New Amsterdam between the 17th-18th century. The Patroon system was feudalism here in America and is pretty fascinating.
Alan Ricks
2018-10-30 14:24:38 +0000 UTCJanANTuary is good, but come on...March of the Ants.
Ada Terrill
2018-10-30 13:26:55 +0000 UTCI love lying Vincent Price, please keep him for every show ❤️❤️❤️
Steven Vincent
2018-10-30 07:41:27 +0000 UTCOh, RE avoiding the "Lovecraft was right" trope: I think the only way to really include Lovecraft in cosmic horror fiction is if the source of cosmic horror is something original, and not one of Lovecraft's creations. Thus, the characters could infer a general idea of what's going on through Lovecraft without it becoming hokey--and without revealing any of the Thing's properties or limitations prematurely.
Mandy Reznor (She_It)
2018-10-30 06:22:18 +0000 UTCAlso, a Die Hard novelization? Chad, are you sure you didn't read Nothing Lasts Forever, the novel Die Hard is a (loose) adaptation of? <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Lasts_Forever_(Thorp_novel)" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Lasts_Forever_(Thorp_novel)</a>
Mandy Reznor (She_It)
2018-10-30 06:08:10 +0000 UTCI'm actually not a rat-owner--in fact, I have a kitten named Bastet I rescued off the side of the road. Just the same, I've looked into it; furry, feathered, scaled, slimy, or chitinous, nature provides a great bounty of cuddles.
Mandy Reznor (She_It)
2018-10-30 05:53:00 +0000 UTC
