Thread: H.P. Lovecraft!

Originally Posted by Leyline

1) What's the point in mis-spelling 'Cthulhu'? It's not a trademark.

2) If you can't draw a face, don't do a comic strip.

Chaosium has a few trademarks with Cthulhu in them. Doesn't appear as though the comic strip really comes close to any of them, so I doubt it's an issue, but maybe people are just overly-cautious.

I've not been paying attention to this forum, and only now noticed the thread on H-P Lovecraft. Near the top was a response by Leyline who said, quote, 'I can only handle Lovecraft in very small, infrequent doses...', unquote.

That is also me approach. I first read a few sentences of a Lovecraft story when I was ten or 11. At around age 35 I finished the paragraph. Somewhere around my 55th birthday I started on the second paragraph, but got bogged doswn halfway through the first sentence. I plan to continue reading the story some time in the next decade, and hope to finish the second paragraph before I die.

Speaking of dying, a local station apparently broadcast a news flash this morning that I had died on Tuesday. The station's news director called my house to find out about funeral arrangements and was surprised when I was the one who answered.

Originally Posted by garza

Speaking of dying, a local station apparently broadcast a news flash this morning that I had died on Tuesday. The station's news director called my house to find out about funeral arrangements and was surprised when I was the one who answered.

It's a shame you're not a fiction writer. That's a great catalyst for a story, in my mind.

Do you think old H-P could have made something out of it? All I've gotten is a lot of kidding.

'If you look up from where you are, can you see the oil spill?'

A missed opportunity to quote Mark Twain, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated".

I love Lovecraft. No pun intended. Even though is prose can be a little rough in the dialog, but I think his overall creativity in the general horror area is outstanding. I was initially driven to read his stories after getting Iron Maiden's album Live After Death and it has a quote from Call of Cthulhu. I try to include stuff about him in any project or paper at school.