From time to time we here at the ol’ raincoaster blog like to get out for a stroll around strange and eldritch parts (no dirty jokes, Metro!) and see what we can discover. We have just returned from such a journey, one that has left us strangely shaken, ill at ease, suspecting that behind the homely reality that we have come to know as “the world” lie unutterable gulfs of madness, spiralling into the great abyss for eons beyond time…
So we thought we’d show you this. Prepare yourselves, mortals!
“How odd it looks!” said Miss Kitty Fluffington. “Very non-Euclidian.”
“Yes,” said Brown Snuggly Bear, “but thank goodness it isn’t squamous.”
“Or gibbous,” said Mister Bright Eyes.
“It seems to be covering something,” said Miss Kitty Fluffington. “Let’s see!”
Events proceed predictably…
Yes, plush Cthulhu! The stars were right again and a band of innocent stuffed animals had released Him into the world by accident.
“Uh, oh,” said Baby Boy Fluffy Bunny.
Another soul-chilling tale of terror from the posthumous hand and cruelly unhinged mind of the master of horror.
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So do you read Neil Gaiman? He did a story called Shoggoth’s Old Peculier that was apparently inspired by a drunken conversation about Lovecraft with another writer in which they started doing impressions of Dudley Moore and Peter Cook as Derek and Clive, only in a country pub discussing the coming of Cthulhu.
the story (and the story of how the story came about) may well appeal to you..Possibly
I’ve only read the Sandman. It’s good, though. I hear lots of good things about Neil Gaiman, but my favorite in the genre is Thomas Ligotti, who’s a lot harder to take, actually.
I really love Gaiman, though if I was objective I’d think that occasionally his prose is a bit ..erm rigid?…disjointed?…something like that…Anyway, his ideas are fantastic, and he’s got better as its gone along. American Gods is Great, as is Stardust. (one darker, the other lighter). But sometimes it seems a bit cliched fantasy. Having said that he inspires me more than most. I’ve not heard of Ligotti (though I have heard of Gyorgy Ligetti..the 20th Centry Art music composer…great stuff) but I’ll keep an eye out. Anyway, there’s a Gaiman book of stories called Smoke and Mirrors, sneak into your local oversized bookshop, pick it up and hide in a corner reading the story mentioned above…then the ‘explanation’ offered in the introduction. Its an amusing little piece. Plus its partly about beer. And I lie beer.
^like…though some times I do lie in beer
Best book title I ever saw was “Lying in Bed”. Can’t recall the author.
Ligotti’s very secretive, and it’s not even clear if he’s still alive. I recommend you start with Songs of a Dead Dreamer: it caused a sensation when it was first printed. Don’t buy a larger book until you know whether or not you like his stuff. When some of these overwraught horror writers like Lovecraft go on about stuff that “should never be written down, lest it corrupt the very souls of men” Ligotti’s what they’re talking about, I’m not kidding. I write horror for fun, and I personally know a serial killer, but I find Ligotti’s stuff so strong I can’t read more than one or two stories at a time before putting the book away for a few weeks at least.
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Oh, VERY cool! Thanks for that!