Comments on: October: H.P. Lovecraft Month!

By: The Boar’s Head Tavern »

The Boar’s Head Tavern » — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:38:08 +0000

[...] Fiction (following up on the sci-fi discussion), for anyone interested, at Sword of Gryffindor we’re doing a month-long discussion of 5 short stories by H.P. Lovecraft during October. Lovecraft’s horror stories have had quite the influence on the genre of horror over the [...]

By: Rebecca K

Rebecca K — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:43:17 +0000

Fantastic idea!! I am looking forward to joining the discussion.

By: reyhan

reyhan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:47:12 +0000

Just read The Shunned House. Again, the use of the one mundane word which strikes you with horror because of its implications.

And always with the italics.

By: reyhan

reyhan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:30:49 +0000

Omigosh. People are still reading Enid Blyton! I used to love the Adventure series. Could never understand their fascination with “tinned food” though. Maybe it was a post-war thing.

I’m reading Arthur Ransome to my 6 year old. And thinking of trying him with the original version of The Jungle Book.

Four writers, all very widely read. All writing juvenile fiction, but read and enjoyed by adults. But of very differnt stature. Blyton’s work is not “classic”, Kipling’s definitely is. Arthur Ransome? Rowling?

We should try to hammer out a definition of what is a “classic” one of these days.

By: Black Angus

Black Angus — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:22:11 +0000

Good point, Reyhan.
I just read The Call of Cthulhu for the first time and while I loved the language and I’m looking forward to the discussion, the racial slurs were surprising and many!
But then again I’m reading some Enid Blyton to the kids and have to quickly rephrase some unhelpful adjectives as I go!

By: reyhan

reyhan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:43:08 +0000

Just read The Rats in the Walls. I’d read it a long time ago, and forgotten most of it. But the one word brought it all back.

Must confess that that word (which I won’t name lest it give the whole show away) did send chills down my back.

Travis, you might want to post a notice warning people Lovecraft wrote in the early part of the 20th century, when racial slurs were not regarded as unacceptable.

By: korg20000bc

korg20000bc — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:30:41 +0000

This is going to be a lot of fun.

Roll on October!

Matthew