October 1979

[pasithea]

The HP Lovecraft issue of Heavy metal. Every story and comic inspired by Lovecraft. I've still never read any Lovecraft, but I believe I've now distilled it into the following:

I am a man of SCIENCE!
I or a friend become obsessed with DARK TEXTS!
He/I also have a strange attraction to oak forests.
He/I learn an archaic WRITING!
He/I learn the names of he who shall not be NAMED.
He/I decide to FREE he who shall not be named.
He/I descend into a dark UNDERGROUND place (basement/crypt)
He/I deliver some last word about horror and vanish.

Other things I learned.
Philippe Druillet can convincingly draw 'excerpts from the Necronomicon' in such a away as to induce temporary madness. Particularly when one has just imbibed 120 proof rum.

Salami is a tool of the devil.

Comments

[paka.livejournal.com]

I can't reccomend HPL enough. He's not an easy read - mostly because he really wishes the 1700s were still going, and it shows in his writing style - but he's worth it. The man wasn't insane, but he was incredibly neurotic, so that really gives an edge to his writing. The biggies - the stuff that everyone mentions - really are the ones worth reading. At the Mountains of Madness, Call of Cthulhu, Pickman's Model, and so on.

[azikale.livejournal.com]

I have to say i love this entry. It pretty much sums up most Lovecraft stories, but i would recommend reading them, even if you already have a pretty good idea of plot. They are fun :)