Countdown to Cthulhu: Is that a shoggoth in your sewer...?
Is that a shoggoth in your sewer...
...Or are you just happy to see me?
"But we were not on a station platform. We were on the track ahead as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy speed and driving before it a spiral, rethickening cloud of the pallid abyss vapor. It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter. Still came that eldritch, mocking cry- "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" and at last we remembered that the demoniac Shoggoths—given life, thought, and plastic organ patterns solely by the Old Ones, and having no language save that which the dot groups expressed—had likewise no voice save the imitated accents of their bygone masters."
--At the Mountains of Madness, H. P. Lovecraft
About two years ago, a monster was recorded living in the sewers of Raleigh, North Carolina. This seething blob made the rounds of YouTube as a viral video, prompting viewers to make horrible guesses as to what it might actually be. Eventually, the pulsing mass was identified by "various experts" as either a colony of tubifex worms (AKA "sludge worms) or a colony of Bryozoans ("moss animalcules"), rarely-seen aquatic animals. Experts, ha! My money's on it being a shoggoth. "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!"
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March of the Centipede
Centipede Press, publisher of some of the best-looking books out there (seriously, these guys are a bibliomaniac's dream), has just launched an Opinions section on their website, featuring outstanding essays from two of The Book of Cthulhu's contributors: "Reflections on S. T. Joshi," by W. H. Pugmire (The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams, The Tangled Muse) and "The Tiger Stripe," by Laird Barron (The Imago Sequence, Occultation). Well worth a read.
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H. P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book
Another contributor to The Book of Cthulhu, Bruce Sterling (editor of Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, author of a personal favorite, The Artificial Kid, and self-admitted "fringe member of the Lovecraft Circle"), yesterday posted H. P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book to Wired.com. Ever wonder about the ideas, images, and sketches behind the stories? Wonder no more.
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And Happy Birthday to author Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (Blood Will Have Its Season, SIN & Ashes), whose "To Live and Die in Arkham" will also be appearing in The Book of Cthulhu.
...Or are you just happy to see me?
"But we were not on a station platform. We were on the track ahead as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy speed and driving before it a spiral, rethickening cloud of the pallid abyss vapor. It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter. Still came that eldritch, mocking cry- "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" and at last we remembered that the demoniac Shoggoths—given life, thought, and plastic organ patterns solely by the Old Ones, and having no language save that which the dot groups expressed—had likewise no voice save the imitated accents of their bygone masters."
--At the Mountains of Madness, H. P. Lovecraft
About two years ago, a monster was recorded living in the sewers of Raleigh, North Carolina. This seething blob made the rounds of YouTube as a viral video, prompting viewers to make horrible guesses as to what it might actually be. Eventually, the pulsing mass was identified by "various experts" as either a colony of tubifex worms (AKA "sludge worms) or a colony of Bryozoans ("moss animalcules"), rarely-seen aquatic animals. Experts, ha! My money's on it being a shoggoth. "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!"
---
March of the Centipede
Centipede Press, publisher of some of the best-looking books out there (seriously, these guys are a bibliomaniac's dream), has just launched an Opinions section on their website, featuring outstanding essays from two of The Book of Cthulhu's contributors: "Reflections on S. T. Joshi," by W. H. Pugmire (The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams, The Tangled Muse) and "The Tiger Stripe," by Laird Barron (The Imago Sequence, Occultation). Well worth a read.
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H. P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book
Another contributor to The Book of Cthulhu, Bruce Sterling (editor of Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, author of a personal favorite, The Artificial Kid, and self-admitted "fringe member of the Lovecraft Circle"), yesterday posted H. P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book to Wired.com. Ever wonder about the ideas, images, and sketches behind the stories? Wonder no more.
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And Happy Birthday to author Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (Blood Will Have Its Season, SIN & Ashes), whose "To Live and Die in Arkham" will also be appearing in The Book of Cthulhu.
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