The countdown has begun, and I have drawn the pentagram, invoking mode, and prepared the black candles for the flame. The stars are almost right -- can't you hear the titanic lapping of the Others on the edge of this world?
In other words, if you're writing a novel in the tradition of the great H. P. Lovecraft, declare yourself proudly and make some writing co-cultists, er, buddies via this thread!
My proposed NaNo:
Title: Servitor
Attracting the attention of an ancient wizard and his master Nyarlathotep, Soul and Messenger of the Elder Gods: how cool would that be? RPGer Sean Wyndham gets the chance to find out in real life, but what is a fifteen year old to do with a large, heavily tentacled and increasingly hungry familiar?
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Oct 31, 2007 - 06 19
The closest thing I have to Lovecraft in my Nano is the mention of a Satyr of the Woods with a Thousand Tentacles, and the dread, depressing tome of Emomancy, the Emonomicon, which is a collection of Emo poetry and Angst channelling spells. But I am a Lovecraft fan, and that New Englander has inspired a bit of my work in his own right. In my failed serial (which will become just a normal novel series now) Lovecraft is a Changeling Superhero who got his prejudices brutally beaten out of him over weeks of training by an Undead Superhero called The Banshee... you can download the free ebooks of the issues from Lulu.com by searching my Lulu page:
http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=1187919
This is not a plug for my work, this is just informing people of my love of Lovecraft's legacy, to the extent that I made him into a anti-heroic Superhero turned schoolteacher in a serial.
We salute you Howard.
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Apr 15, 2008 - 23 39
I imagine Lovecraft would be tickled Pink. or a lighter shade of crimson.
I found a book called Lovecraft at Last by Willis Conover and I would encourage everyone to read it as it is probably one of the best written Fan-based books about the writer.
Specifically the correspondace Willis Conover had in the twilight years of Lovecraft. Conover was fifteen at the time. It's excellently paced and even has a few unpublished shorts from Lovecraft. Just a meandering or two.
One of my personal favorite themes Lovecraft used was the fact that humans rarely got more than a glimpse at what was really going on. I also wonder if something like that were to happen on a massive scale, exposure that thousands would bear witness to, as opposed to the rare few, could it still be as frightening?