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Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
in innsmouth, the "hybrids" do occupy positions of influence and power, they own much of the town, and are wealthy enough to sport things like the misshapen tiara that sends the protagonist into spirals of horror.
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
is a frog being a reptilian being? are splitting hairs here? (scales?)(Oannes?)
I think their predominant color was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly. Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. I was somehow glad that they had no more than four limbs. Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked ... They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design - living and horrible.
Originally posted by berenike
A few years ago I found Simon's Necronomicon Spellbook and...All I can say is that the Spellbook worked very well for me and I'm grateful.
Originally posted by berenike
I hope this isn't too off-topic.
A few years ago I found Simon's Necronomicon Spellbook and was interested to see his version of the Necronomicon itself.
I just knew exactly where to find it in the City. I knew which shop to go (not the one where I found the Spellbook) and I even knew which shelf in the basement of the shop, which wasn't famous for its book department.
I read one of the links here that says Simon's version is a hoax and that the connections he made to the Mesopotamian Gods were a bit stretched. All I can say is that the Spellbook worked very well for me and I'm grateful.
Originally posted by Chiiru
Of course, there are others who deny this and claim the true necronomicon is housed in the Akashic records and Lovecraft was able to 'see' some of it through his dreams/nightmares.
Who knows?
Originally posted by SaviorComplex
They claim this on absolutely no basis, what-so-ever. Those who make such claims are engaging in nothing but a desperate stretch to convince themselves Lovecraft's stories may be real.
Lovecraft would have scoffed at any notion of an Akashic Record, and would have been disgusted to be associated with it.
[edit on 10-2-2009 by SaviorComplex]
Originally posted by berenike
I used some of the spells in the book and got the help I requested.
I do realise they had nothing to do with Lovecraft himself, I thought it might be an interesting story for readers of this thread.
Possibly more for the way I found the Simon version of the Necronomicon than my use of the Spellbook.
Originally posted by SaviorComplex
Originally posted by berenike
I used some of the spells in the book and got the help I requested.
I do realise they had nothing to do with Lovecraft himself, I thought it might be an interesting story for readers of this thread.
Possibly more for the way I found the Simon version of the Necronomicon than my use of the Spellbook.
Righty'o then.
I am sure you could power Providence from the amount of energy generated by Lovecraft spinning in his grave.
Originally posted by berenike
You seem to know so much about how Lovecraft would feel about these matters - do you have a hotline to him?
Originally posted by Wally Conley
I believe that H. P. Lovecraft is both a horror writer and a conspiracy historian. He has left many clues in all of his writings. 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward' is certainly one that has many such hints and suggestions in it.
Originally posted by berenike
Pardon my presumption, but when you posted your remarks immediately underneath a quote from me it did indeed look as if the ridicule was directed at me.
I have had an interest in Lovecraft for several years and always thought he had a fair old sense of humour. But I suppose one must possess such a trait in order to attribute it to someone else?
I know if I'd spent my time writing horror stories and they were still scaring the bejasus out of people generations later I'd be chuckling.
If anyone is interested, I will be posting my tribute to the genre in the Short Stories Forum later.