OFF: was Monster Magnet, now HRGiger

[Paul Mather]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:21:21PM -0400, Nick Medford wrote:

=> The kind of people that have difficulty distinguishing fantasy and reality
=> often have a particular enthusiasm for Lovecraft, and may claim that his
=> stories were based on another plane of reality that revealed itself to him
=> in his dreams, and that the Necronomicon really exists, and sundry other
=> foolish things.

Hey!  The _Necronomicon_ *does* exist!  Avon put out a mass-mark
paperback edition of it years ago! :-)

On a tangential BOC-L-related note, I have a dim recollection that
Lovecraft's _Necronomicon_ was inspired by the fictional book _The
King in Yellow_, mentioned in R.W. Chambers' short story _The Yellow
Sign_.  Like the _Necronomicon_, reading _The Yellow Sign_--especially
the forbidden second part---destined the reader for certain madness
due to the Hideous Truths[tm] contained therein.

So it goes.

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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