Best non-lovecraft Mythos tale?

[benedictjjones]

what do you lot reckon??

for i'd say it is probably TED Kleins 'blackman with a horn'.

[corpsecandle]

For me it has to be Grendel.

[The Lurker In The Shadows]

It's ages since I've read much HPL or other Cthulhu Mythos stuff, though I did enjoy Neil Gaiman's "A Study in Emerald" from the Sherlock Holmes/Lovecraft crossover anthology "Shadows Over Baker Street" (which reminds me, I must get round to reading the other stories in the book some day).

[David Kartos]

I think the only other tale, besides the Belknap Long "Hounds of Tindalos" story ive read was "A lurker at the threshold" so im gonna say that.

[Calenture]

This thread could be interesting. Klein's Black Man With a Horn (mentioned above) is one I remember well. Another from New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos is A A Attanasio's The Star Pools.

I wasn't so keen on Lumley's House of Cthulhu from what I remember (it was in a Stephen Jones anthology, I think).

There was a vaguely Lovecraftian short novel by Long Journey into Darkness which didn't really bear re-reading.

I probably have write-ups of a lot more which I'll try to find when I get home again later. I had a sleepless night last night, spent cheerfully finishing Cone Zero, and there's a great new reworking of The Dreams in the Witch House in that that I've already posted on. See An Oddly Quiet Street.

Also see stories in Plague of the Living Dead posted on a day or two back.

But as soon as I get back and add some more content to this site - there's a lot that I never thought people would be keen on at the Vault but would be OK here - must get the Cone Zero write-ups finished before the authors names are revealed tomorrow. *gasp* *phew*

There was also a Stephen King one which wasn't bad - I remember a man shaped hole in a garden in a London garden...?

[The Lurker In The Shadows]

Mar 3, 2009 16:28:53 GMT Calenture said:

There was also a Stephen King one which wasn't bad - I remember a man shaped hole in a garden in a London garden...?

Was that "Crouch End", from "Nightmares and Dreamscapes"? I remember enjoying that one, but it's a loooooooong time since I read it. I did try to watch the TV adaptation from the N&D series, but it was woeful, and the location scouts had clearly never seen London before.

[David Kartos]

Any specifications? Because quite frankly, I think the idea of pairing up something out of Lovecraft's millieu and Sherlock Homles is just.......stupid. I can indulge alot, but this would seem just to much "hey, lookey what I did" from the likes of it. God knows how pairing him of with The King in Yellow fared in "The Adventure of the Yellow Sign" by G. Warlock Vance (a coincidence? I think not) .

And since the millieu's have been fairly mixed up, let me talk about Rehersals for Oblivion.

The best in there, if I remember corectly , is William Laughlin's "The dream leach". While it can be it is the first that deals with the play being staged, an ocurence you will find in alot of the other stories, it stil achieves generaly horrific visions, even if I don't like me swear words in me King in Yellow stories. Problem is, the idea of the play being staged, while nice alone, is so easy that evryone does it. But Chambers himself never did, so a jarring diference peaks up at you.

Chartreuse by Michael Minnis is again beter then the lot, thanks to its scenery.

Cat with the hand of a child is horrificaly dreadfull, but not in a good way, mind you. Someone started a story he couldnt finish, so he just slaped a "surreal" ending on it and whoa, heres a story, when do I get paid?

Lilloth......well, the feel of the thing seems slightly like fanfiction. The author just can't handle the hiints of the girl trying to "pass" into another dimension without sounding even more clumsy then I do. I did a full review of all of these a while back, so it would save time to remember while posting those.

[benedictjjones]

meant to say that china mievilles "details" is excellent it was in his collection 'looking for jake and other stories' and also (i think) in 'children of cthulhu'. if 'hounds of tindalos' is the one im thinking of then it shares some of the same elements of how 'things' enter our world.

[David Kartos]

It was later writen into the milieu,so you can name it, I guess.

[benedictjjones]

also meant to add i really didn't like 'crouch end' - stephen king just didnt do it for me.
'children of night' by Robert E Howard was brilliant - possibly as Machen inspired as it was HPL.