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Wolter wrote:
tepista wrote:
eumaas wrote:p.s. Dagon is named after one story, but actually based on Shadow Over Innsmouth.
OK, I mainly just wanna read ReAnimator, but I figured if it's a collection, I'd want those other ones too.
Word of warning...they aren't that similar.

But, they are pretty rad.
It's like the 20s, right? I found a book called "Rivals of Frankenstein" thats a collection of short stories with a F-theme. Could be interesting. I like the concept of reading, but when it gets down to it I get distracted. Maybe I don't like the concept.

I bought an interesting collection of short horror stories a few years ago for a plane ride, I read like 2 and quit. :meh:
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tepista wrote:
Wolter wrote:
tepista wrote:
eumaas wrote:p.s. Dagon is named after one story, but actually based on Shadow Over Innsmouth.
OK, I mainly just wanna read ReAnimator, but I figured if it's a collection, I'd want those other ones too.
Word of warning...they aren't that similar.

But, they are pretty rad.
It's like the 20s, right? I found a book called "Rivals of Frankenstein" thats a collection of short stories with a F-theme. Could be interesting. I like the concept of reading, but when it gets down to it I get distracted. Maybe I don't like the concept.

I bought an interesting collection of short horror stories a few years ago for a plane ride, I read like 2 and quit. :meh:
In what environment are you reading? Is it quiet? Try the opposite. Go where it's busy or put something dull on the TV as background noise.

Zorn has a short attention span but rather than shut things out, he does more than one thing at once--puts on the TV, a record, maybe opens a book, and composes.
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eumaas wrote: In what environment are you reading? Is it quiet? Try the opposite. Go where it's busy or put something dull on the TV as background noise.
Interesting theory, perhaps I'll try. A few years ago, when I was riding the bus, I did some reading, but very little in the last few years.
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Wolter wrote:
tepista wrote:
eumaas wrote:p.s. Dagon is named after one story, but actually based on Shadow Over Innsmouth.
OK, I mainly just wanna read ReAnimator, but I figured if it's a collection, I'd want those other ones too.
Word of warning...they aren't that similar.

But, they are pretty rad.
I find the ending of the story, plus the WW1 stuff about a thousand times more rad than the movie's ending...but the movie does kick ass.

Ihe only two Lovecraft stories I haven't read yet are "the Case of Charles Dexter Ward" and "Through the Gates of the Silver Key". Memories of my experience with The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath pop into my head whenever I try to start them. The Dream Quest... was good but it was only with maximum effort that I got through the begining. Once the army of cats was on the moon I became hooked.
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Anybody like Robert E. Howard? I dimly recall being nominated IMCT's Robert Howard.
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eumaas wrote:Anybody like Robert E. Howard? I dimly recall being nominated IMCT's Robert Howard.
I like Howard a lot. I think "Rattle of Bones" maybe one of the best things I've ever read. Actually I like Soloman Kane more than Conan. "Skull-face" is the epitome of early 20th Cent. pulp. Opium dens, xenophobic portrayal of Asiatic enemies bend on assaination and then domination of the British Empire. I was rivated the whole way through.
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Bankrobber wrote:
eumaas wrote:Anybody like Robert E. Howard? I dimly recall being nominated IMCT's Robert Howard.
I like Howard a lot. I think "Rattle of Bones" maybe one of the best things I've ever read. Actually I like Soloman Kane more than Conan. "Skull-face" is the epitome of early 20th Cent. pulp. Opium dens, xenophobic portrayal of Asiatic enemies bend on assaination and then domination of the British Empire. I was rivated the whole way through.
I've only read a few of his stories. I was surprised to find no decent PDF editions of his stuff online, not like you find for Lovecraft.
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eumaas wrote: Zorn has a short attention span but rather than shut things out, he does more than one thing at once--puts on the TV, a record, maybe opens a book, and composes.
Until it got so bad I had to take COMPLETELY LEGAL SPEED, I did the same.
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eumaas wrote:
Bankrobber wrote:
eumaas wrote:Anybody like Robert E. Howard? I dimly recall being nominated IMCT's Robert Howard.
I like Howard a lot. I think "Rattle of Bones" maybe one of the best things I've ever read. Actually I like Soloman Kane more than Conan. "Skull-face" is the epitome of early 20th Cent. pulp. Opium dens, xenophobic portrayal of Asiatic enemies bend on assaination and then domination of the British Empire. I was rivated the whole way through.
I've only read a few of his stories. I was surprised to find no decent PDF editions of his stuff online, not like you find for Lovecraft.
Maybe the owner of Howard's work wasn't in dispute after his death like Lovecraft. I've been meaning to pick a collection called the Horrror Stories of Robert E. Howard.
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Just finished Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman on the train today.

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Still going through The DC Showcase: Unknown Soldier Vol. 1..

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Also thumbing through Chip Kidd: Book One, Work 1986-2006. It's a huge book with more visual information than you can shake a stick at. Lots of good info as to his design process, but you kinda have to dig for it as it's in a memoir form and also as image captions.

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AAAAND... Still researching old letterforms and hand-lettering in: Men's Adventure Magazines in Postwar America

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eumaas wrote: I've only read a few of his stories. I was surprised to find no decent PDF editions of his stuff online, not like you find for Lovecraft.


You should pick up the three volumes called The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard which collects all of his contributions to Weird Tales. They are quite cheap, around $7 each.
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modskin wrote:Still going through The DC Showcase: Unknown Soldier Vol. 1..

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Awsome. Are those D.C. Showcases like those Marvel omnibus editions that are only in black and white and on cheap paper?
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Bankrobber wrote:
modskin wrote:Still going through The DC Showcase: Unknown Soldier Vol. 1..

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Awsome. Are those D.C. Showcases like those Marvel omnibus editions that are only in black and white and on cheap paper?
I'll answer: They are.

I have the War the Time Forgot and a Superman one that (for 9.99) pretty much rules.
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Bankrobber wrote:
modskin wrote:Still going through The DC Showcase: Unknown Soldier Vol. 1..

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Awsome. Are those D.C. Showcases like those Marvel omnibus editions that are only in black and white and on cheap paper?
Yessir they are. This is the first one I've bought, and I plan on getting "The War That Time Forgot" and both of the Sgt. Rock volumes in the coming weeks.. Haunted Tank also..
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modskin wrote:
Bankrobber wrote:
modskin wrote:Still going through The DC Showcase: Unknown Soldier Vol. 1..

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Awsome. Are those D.C. Showcases like those Marvel omnibus editions that are only in black and white and on cheap paper?
Yessir they are. This is the first one I've bought, and I plan on getting "The War That Time Forgot" and both of the Sgt. Rock volumes in the coming weeks.. Haunted Tank also..
Sgt. Rock in particular, but DC war comics in general, taught me that machine guns go budda-budda-budda.
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