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Post by kesher on Dec 21, 2012 9:47:59 GMT -6
I've been on a Lovecraft binge, including re-reading my much-battered copy of the Simon Necronomicon. I stumbled across another version by Donald Tyson. There is SO MUCH that can be yanked out of this book straight into a CoC game, or a Carcosa campaign for that matter. Awesome. |
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Post by geoffrey on Dec 21, 2012 13:08:01 GMT -6
Donald Tyson's Necronomicon was certainly an indirect inspiration for my Carcosa. Check out his companion novel about the life of the author of the Necronomicon, entitled Alhazred. It is 666 pages long. ;D
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Post by kesher on Dec 21, 2012 14:13:01 GMT -6
You beat me to it, Geoffrey; I was going to ask you if it was an influence. I sorta figured it had to be when eating small white spiders in a fungous cave enables the seeker afte knowledge to see the spirits and demons wandering The Empty Space...  |
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Post by terje on Dec 23, 2012 6:03:04 GMT -6
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one reading this kind of stuff for fun! Earlier this year I started writing a blog on this subjet: sapientastellarum.blogspot.se/There's a chronology of the development of the genre and some links to online sources. I meant to write some more posts during the year, but then life happened. |
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Post by Finarvyn on Dec 23, 2012 7:05:31 GMT -6
That is so awesome!  |
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Post by kesher on Dec 26, 2012 15:52:50 GMT -6
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one reading this kind of stuff for fun! Earlier this year I started writing a blog on this subjet: sapientastellarum.blogspot.se/There's a chronology of the development of the genre and some links to online sources. I meant to write some more posts during the year, but then life happened. Dood, you were off to a good start! However, I understand all too well the gravitonic pull of life... |
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Post by stevemitchell on Aug 12, 2013 13:45:06 GMT -6
Peter Levenda is often suspected of being the author the Simon Necronomicon. He has just had a new book published called The Dark Lord, which explores common themes in the writings of Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Grant, and H. P. Lovecraft. I'm not an occultist, but I do find the work of Crowley, Grant, and their fellow travelers to be interesting byways in the development of human thought. Levenda elaborates on concepts from Grant's Typhonian books to suggest that the basic tenets of the Cthulhu Mythos are real, and that Lovecraft was an unwilling seer of the Mythos entities and forces through his dream-visions.
Just a few days before starting The Dark Lord, I had a nightmare in which two deformed mutants with mental powers created a tulpa of Cthulhu, despite my urgent pleas for them to refrain from such incredible folly. Sure enough, once the tulpa appeared, we were all running and screaming through the streets. . . .
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Post by terje on Oct 7, 2013 11:34:06 GMT -6
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