In the middle of reading Mountains of Madness now. Is that a good starting point for the Cthulhu Mythos? Not sure what to read next.

This will be fun.

Returning later for pix of fun.

Octupussessessssses

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!

\\Boy spell check had fun with that...

The BBC article (new window) has pictures. The pink one is cute!

Octopi. What are octopuses?

What's a lovecraft?

FTA: Octopuses apparently spread around the world after Antarctica became covered with a continent-wide ice sheet more than 30 million years ago, a shift that helped create oxygen-rich ocean currents flowing north, a report said.

For some reason, I think this is just awesome.

TheRameres: In the middle of reading Mountains of Madness now. Is that a good starting point for the Cthulhu Mythos? Not sure what to read next.

I'd say it's a fairly good place to start. I've always drifted aimlessly with Lovecraft's work, never really sticking to any kind of order when jumping from story to story. I'd say just get a nice thick collection and skip around.

Vote Cthulhu! Why bother with the lesser evil?

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Hmoob: Octopi. What are octopuses?

Oh you don't get a banana! The only correct plural of octopus is octopuses.

some swedish girl: What's a lovecraft?

A tv show from the 1970s where a lot of washed up actors go on a cruise every week and hook up.

Hmoob: Octopi. What are octopuses?

Careful. the Great Old Ones have little use for proper conjugation.

LongCthulhu has arisen

In the middle of reading Mountains of Madness now. Is that a good starting point for the Cthulhu Mythos? Not sure what to read next.

It's not bad. If you can, pick up the trade paperback Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, which conatins the majority of his best work. IIRC, the Library of America volume is also pretty good.

Avoid the Dusney dreamlands stuff (Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, etc.).

Fowler's Modern English Usage states that "the only acceptable plural in English is octopuses", and that octopi is misconceived and octopodes pedantic."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopi

GAD

TheRameres: In the middle of reading Mountains of Madness now. Is that a good starting point for the Cthulhu Mythos? Not sure what to read next.

The Call of Cthulhu.

Doc Batarang: Oh you don't get a banana! The only correct plural of octopus is octopuses.

It's OK. I don't like bananae anyway.

LawrencePerson: Avoid the Dusney dreamlands stuff (Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, etc.).

Awwww, hell no! I love Dream-Quest!

Tabatha Static : [food]

Inaccurate as the first part of that is on evolutionary terms, I laughed all the same.

Alchemist93: TheRameres: In the middle of reading Mountains of Madness now. Is that a good starting point for the Cthulhu Mythos? Not sure what to read next.

I'd say it's a fairly good place to start. I've always drifted aimlessly with Lovecraft's work, never really sticking to any kind of order when jumping from story to story. I'd say just get a nice thick collection and skip around.

I bought an anthology a while back which started with The Rats in the Walls. I'd never been so creeped out.

Sanity Shattering Bathuhlu!

/Who the hell do you think I am? I'm the god damned Bathuhlu!
//My fail photo shop is fail

WFern: I bought an anthology a while back which started with The Rats in the Walls. I'd never been so creeped out.

The Rats in the Walls is his finest story, in my opinion. Real, true horror. At the Mountains of Madness is a great starting point, since it touches on most parts of the Mythos. Other ones of special mention, if you want a Lovecraft intro, are The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Shadow Out of Time, Pickman's Model, and Dreams in the Witch House.

LawrencePerson: Avoid the Dusney dreamlands stuff (Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, etc.).

I agree with this statement. I was unimpressed with that book.

WFern:

I bought an anthology a while back which started with The Rats in the Walls. I'd never been so creeped out.

"Rats In The Walls" was the first Lovecraft story I ever read. It had a similar effect on me at the time.

WFern: I bought an anthology a while back which started with The Rats in the Walls. I'd never been so creeped out.

That story + Pickman's Model + the one where the guy cuts the dudes feet off for the coffin (I have this hollow wooden thing that I had to walk on near my house, at night and drunk, whoa) scared the hell out of me when I first read them way back when.

Senescent Dawn:
The Rats in the Walls is his finest story, in my opinion. Real, true horror. At the Mountains of Madness is a great starting point, since it touches on most parts of the Mythos. Other ones of special mention, if you want a Lovecraft intro, are The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Shadow Out of Time, Pickman's Model, and Dreams in the Witch House.

Personal Fave: "The Colour Out Of Space"

Lovecraft is the only writer I've ever read that actually creeped me out and gave me the heebie-jeebies. Most modern 'horror' writers try and pull 'scary things' out of their asses, and they just end up being stupid.

Senescent Dawn: WFern: I bought an anthology a while back which started with The Rats in the Walls. I'd never been so creeped out.

The Rats in the Walls is his finest story, in my opinion. Real, true horror. At the Mountains of Madness is a great starting point, since it touches on most parts of the Mythos. Other ones of special mention, if you want a Lovecraft intro, are The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Shadow Out of Time, Pickman's Model, and Dreams in the Witch House.

And don't forget to watch all the Re-Animator movies. They really capture the antediluvian, eldritch, cyclopean nature of his ichoric narrative.

Somacandra: Personal Fave: "The Colour Out Of Space"

I almost forgot about that one! Yes, that's right up there.

Ixly: And don't forget to watch all the Re-Animator movies. They really capture the antediluvian, eldritch, cyclopean nature of his ichoric narrative.

...all tucked away under gambrel roofs...

All this stuff and nobody pointed out that it's the Old Ones and the Shoggoths that come from Antarctica, and they aren't Cthonic? For shame!

Hounds of Tindalos cannot be far behind.


/Looks nervously around for the sign of Hastur

We've had several Cthulhu threads in the last couple weeks, maybe the stars are right.

/for a greenlight

The eco-drive commercial doesn't seem like comedy this season.

oops

Ixly: Senescent Dawn: WFern: I bought an anthology a while back which started with The Rats in the Walls. I'd never been so creeped out.

The Rats in the Walls is his finest story, in my opinion. Real, true horror. At the Mountains of Madness is a great starting point, since it touches on most parts of the Mythos. Other ones of special mention, if you want a Lovecraft intro, are The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Shadow Out of Time, Pickman's Model, and Dreams in the Witch House.

And don't forget to watch all the Re-Animator movies. They really capture the antediluvian, eldritch, cyclopean nature of his ichoric narrative.

Yeah.. Ixly's messing with you. Just watch the first one. The second one when you're drunk. The third one when you wanna jerk off to that cute chick that in it.

Well damn it, where were all of you last week??? I thought the Elder Gods were supposed to win the election!

t3knomanser: All this stuff and nobody pointed out that it's the Old Ones and the Shoggoths that come from Antarctica, and they aren't Cthonic? For shame!

Sorry, I was in the can.