{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5185", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 5185, "subject": "Slightly Off-Topic: HPL", "messages": 7, "voices": 6, "first": "2008-10-14T23:42:06+00:00", "last": "2008-10-17T16:45:13+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "<83ce1d850810141642l3835065alce2ef7ce1da91d0@mail.gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Ryan Bonneville", "address": "ryan.bonneville at gmail.com" }, "date": "2008-10-14T23:42:06+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Slightly Off-Topic: HPL", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Hi all,\n\nI finished An Evil Guest and I'm looking to read some HPL for background.\nThere's a lot of it and it seems like it's all sort of tenuously connected.\nAny suggestions for a reading list or order?\n\nBest,\nRyan" } ] }, { "message_id": "<44fb53d10810141819l6e9465b6g759dabd730a7ccd1@mail.gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Matthew Keeley", "address": "matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com" }, "date": "2008-10-15T01:19:04+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Slightly Off-Topic: HPL", "in_reply_to": "<83ce1d850810141642l3835065alce2ef7ce1da91d0@mail.gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Ryan Bonneville\n wrote:\nHi all,\n\nI finished An Evil Guest and I'm looking to read some HPL for background.\nThere's a lot of it and it seems like it's all sort of tenuously connected.\nAny suggestions for a reading list or order?\n\nBest,\nRyan" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "(Implicit Spoilers for An Evil Guest)\n-\n-\n-\n-\n-\n-\n-\n-\n-\n-\n-\n\n\nThe most obviously relevant stories are probably \"The Call of\nCthulhu\", \"The Whisperer in Darkness\", and \"Nyarlathotep\". You might\nwant to look at some of the Randolph Carter stories - \"The Statement\nof Randolph Carter\" and \"The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadadath\". (I\nhaven't read \"Dream Quest\" myself, but people tell me it's somewhat\nimportant to the Lovecraft canon.. and it features Randolph Carter,\nwho may or may not be referenced in AEG)\n\nIf you want to go a bit further, I'm a great fan of \"The Rats in the\nWalls\", \"The Outsider\", and \"The Nameless City\" (the last of which\nscared me half to death when I was nine or ten).\n\nhttp://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html\n\n-Matt" } ] }, { "message_id": "<47A3369E-128E-49C4-BDA3-0FAD1F3493FF@io.com>", "from": { "name": "Adam Thornton", "address": "adam at io.com" }, "date": "2008-10-15T03:30:08+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Slightly Off-Topic: HPL", "in_reply_to": "<83ce1d850810141642l3835065alce2ef7ce1da91d0@mail.gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Oct 14, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Ryan Bonneville wrote:\nHi all,\n\nI finished An Evil Guest and I'm looking to read some HPL for \nbackground. There's a lot of it and it seems like it's all sort of \ntenuously connected. Any suggestions for a reading list or order?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "In no particular order, off the top of my head, *I* think the really \ngood stuff is:\n\n_The Call of Cthulhu_\n_The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_\n_At the Mountains of Madness_\n\"Pickman's Model\"\n\"The Rats In The Walls\"\n\"The Color Out Of Space\"\n\"The Dreams In The Witch-House\"\n\"The Thing On The Doorstep\"\n\"The Dunwich Horror\"\n\nNo doubt other people will add their picks, and I will say \"Oh! \nYeah! Wish I'd remembered *that* one!\"\n\nAdam" } ] }, { "message_id": "<48F57F5B.1050103@io.com>", "from": { "name": "Jeff Wilson", "address": "jwilson at io.com" }, "date": "2008-10-15T05:27:55+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Slightly Off-Topic: HPL", "in_reply_to": "<47A3369E-128E-49C4-BDA3-0FAD1F3493FF@io.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Adam Thornton wrote:\n\nOn Oct 14, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Ryan Bonneville wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Hi all,\n\nI finished An Evil Guest and I'm looking to read some HPL for \nbackground. There's a lot of it and it seems like it's all sort of \ntenuously connected. Any suggestions for a reading list or order?" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "In no particular order, off the top of my head, *I* think the really \ngood stuff is:\n\n_The Call of Cthulhu_\n_The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_\n_At the Mountains of Madness_\n\"Pickman's Model\"\n\"The Rats In The Walls\"\n\"The Color Out Of Space\"\n\"The Dreams In The Witch-House\"\n\"The Thing On The Doorstep\"\n\"The Dunwich Horror\"\n\nNo doubt other people will add their picks, and I will say \"Oh! Yeah! \nWish I'd remembered *that* one!\"" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "_The Whisperer In Darkness_ stands out as somewhat Wolfean, with \nunreliable or downright mendacious narrators, cryptic nested epistolary \nstories, and alien conspiracies. Jolly good ambiguous fun!" }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com\n< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >" } ] }, { "message_id": "<845125.6995.qm@web63902.mail.re1.yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "Fred Kiesche", "address": "recursive_loop at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2008-10-16T01:47:56+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Slightly Off-Topic: HPL", "in_reply_to": "<83ce1d850810141642l3835065alce2ef7ce1da91d0@mail.gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Some of my personal favorites are listed below. You can get them in the single-volume set from Library of America and multiple trade and mass market paperback collections. They are also all available online from Project Gutenberg or Manybooks.net and other sources.\n\nThe Call of Cthulhu\nAt the Mountains of Madness\nThe Whisperer in Darkness\nThe Color Out of Space\nThe Shadow Out of Time\nThe Music of Eric Zahn\n\n...and many others, but those ought to get you started!\n\nF.P. Kiesche III \"Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?\" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children and TexasBestGrok!\n\n--- On Tue, 10/14/08, Ryan Bonneville wrote:\nFrom: Ryan Bonneville \nSubject: (urth) Slightly Off-Topic: HPL\nTo: urth at lists.urth.net\nDate: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 7:42 PM\n\nHi all,\n\nI finished An Evil Guest and I'm looking to read some HPL for background. There's a lot of it and it seems like it's all sort of tenuously connected. Any suggestions for a reading list or order?\n\n\nBest,\nRyan" } ] }, { "message_id": "<385578.95501.qm@web63908.mail.re1.yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "Fred Kiesche", "address": "recursive_loop at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2008-10-16T01:49:20+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Slightly Off-Topic: HPL", "in_reply_to": "<47A3369E-128E-49C4-BDA3-0FAD1F3493FF@io.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "What he said on the ones I did not mention. Long day, early morning, not enough coffee..\n\nF.P. Kiesche III \"Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?\" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children and TexasBestGrok!\n\n--- On Tue, 10/14/08, Adam Thornton wrote:\nFrom: Adam Thornton \nSubject: Re: (urth) Slightly Off-Topic: HPL\nTo: \"The Urth Mailing List\" \nDate: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 11:30 PM" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Oct 14, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Ryan Bonneville wrote:\nHi all,\n\nI finished An Evil Guest and I'm looking to read some HPL for \nbackground. There's a lot of it and it seems like it's all sort\nof \ntenuously connected. Any suggestions for a reading list or order?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "In no particular order, off the top of my head, *I* think the really \ngood stuff is:\n\n_The Call of Cthulhu_\n_The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_\n_At the Mountains of Madness_\n\"Pickman's Model\"\n\"The Rats In The Walls\"\n\"The Color Out Of Space\"\n\"The Dreams In The Witch-House\"\n\"The Thing On The Doorstep\"\n\"The Dunwich Horror\"\n\nNo doubt other people will add their picks, and I will say \"Oh! \nYeah! Wish I'd remembered *that* one!\"\n\nAdam_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "<12510133617.20081017184513@poczta.fm>", "from": { "name": "Stanisław Bocian", "address": "sbocian at poczta.fm" }, "date": "2008-10-17T16:45:13+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Slightly Off-Topic: HPL", "in_reply_to": "<83ce1d850810141642l3835065alce2ef7ce1da91d0@mail.gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "An HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: " } ] } ] }