Awesome.

Put me down for another order of a print version. Very cool.

that's like a pail of awesome that is so full it is overflowing!

wow...are we looking at the same book? I tried to read the book about Chtulu. Can someone tell me what it's about? Apparently it's above my pay grade. I made it to about page 20, but I wanted to hang myself. What is it about the book that's so appealing that I'm clearly missing?

dukwbutter: wow...are we looking at the same book? I tried to read the book about Chtulu. Can someone tell me what it's about? Apparently it's above my pay grade. I made it to about page 20, but I wanted to hang myself. What is it about the book that's so appealing that I'm clearly missing?

A sense of humor.

No. bel. prize.

But...but..how did Johansen get away?

Would buy.

dukwbutter: wow...are we looking at the same book? I tried to read the book about Chtulu. Can someone tell me what it's about? Apparently it's above my pay grade. I made it to about page 20, but I wanted to hang myself. What is it about the book that's so appealing that I'm clearly missing?

I love Neil Gaiman's take on it: HP Lovecraft was a terrible writer (his language is painful to read and some of the endings have goofy "I am writing this story as I'm being devoured/turned incoherently mad" twists) but damn he created a fascinating mythology. He's an author who has created a universe where humanity is truly insiginificant; beings of greater scope and significance lie just under the surface of our world, and anyone who comes to realize this fact are shattered by the revelation.

I love this take on this so much I would like to purchase a copy as well.

Another voice in the chorus saying, "I want to buy that."

And another. Made of eldritch win!

Anyone mentioned how awesome a real dead tree version would be?

/unimpressed
//but kinda impressed

Great Cthulhu approves and would like everyone to know that subby will be eaten first.

brigid_fitch: /Bought friends' new son "Dick and Jane and Vampires" (new window)

That looks more like Dick and Jane and Jerry Sandusky.

want

Great find, subby.
Also, Deviant Art is a gold mine. I spend an hour or two almost every day browsing that site.

It's great (especially the illustrations), but the scansion is off.

Still, it's great.

Do want!

turbidum: It's great (especially the illustrations), but the scansion is off.

Still, it's great.

I'm still not sure "begin" and "fthagn" rhyme.

But then, I could be mad at this time.

the minions of yog-sothoth approve

Someone should say they would buy it if it went printal.

/ I know I would

I love that song.

Finally made my way to this particular short story. So they bumped into the blob, and it disappeared, re-formed, and then put itself back in its house?

I didn't get it, or I was asleep. Yet I read half of another one after that, so I don't think it was me.

Still enjoyable, although I would have preferred the "fresh off the presses" magazine experience.

Xenu's Giant Pink Replicock
Finally made my way to this particular short story. So they bumped into the blob, and it disappeared, re-formed, and then put itself back in its house?

The stars weren't right, or something, I don't know, it doesn't really make any sense. The only thing Call of Cthulhu has going for it is the imagery of Cthulhu and R'lyeh. The Dreamlands stories are way better, although they're not the same genre (surreal fantasy vs cosmic horror). "At the Mountains of Madness" is pretty good, although a little too explicit (way too much just spelling shiat out, 'and then this drawing says they fought the flying polyps, and this drawing says they did this, etc'; not very refined). Really, most Lovecraft is "holy crap weird alien shiat!!!" with the subtlety of a sledgehammer; it's just the few creepy and mysterious parts that are well done.