I'm back, I'm back.
We're buying a house. Did you know that takes of lot of time and work? Me neither.
Though now I do.
I finished off the first volume of Squirrel Girl, and, needless to say, just fucking read it.
Back to Lovecraft/Cthulhu now.
I have a thought. Is the secret of a good Lovecraftian story that there is an undertone of racism in it? Is that the horror that we're reacting to, on some instinctual level? Writers always seem to go back to New England, the earliest of colonial settlements, and to the horrors of the woods around them, as did the forebears of Lovecraft and his ilk. Is there something horrific there about the entrenched, decrepit whiteness of so many of Lovecraft's protagonists. Very likely he was trying to show us the dangers of miscegenation, but perhaps instead, through both his life and work, he was showing us the grim, unspeakable ending that virulent whiteness leads to.
Maybe.
I liked both of the adaptations in here. The title story is more a sequel, I think, or a reimagining, than it is a faithful adaptation, but the second story, "The Hound," uses Lovecraft's words to illustrate some creepy atmosphere pieces by menton3. I unfortunately do not have any more of this series, but I assume it all turns out terribly for the main characters. Not really a Cthulhian story if they get through okay.
"It's loose."
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