HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rsopicki@pro-amber.cts.com (Randy Sopicki)
Subject: Re: Koontz list
Organization: ProLine [pro-amber] -- Spring Valley, Ca
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 09:04:03 PST

I too missed the list. BTW what are his various pen names?
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From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Newsgroups: alt.horror,rec.arts.movies
Subject: The Culkinator! Was: Re: JACOBs LADDER
Date: 14 Dec 92 21:51:04 GMT
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <Bz94MG.E4I@newcastle.ac.uk> S.E.Rigden@newcastle.ac.uk (SER) writes:
>
> I don't know if this post belongs in alt.horror, but what I want to know is :
>
> Is that kid in Jacob's Ladder the same one who's in those pathetic Home Alone
>movies?

Yes.


_Home Alone 2_ has now grossed over $90 million.

	** Macaulay Culkin: HE MUST BE STOPPED !!!! **
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From: fi@grebyn.com (Fiona Webster)
Subject: Re: T.E.D Klein
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:35:10 GMT

Patrick S. Clark writes:
>>     Can anyone tell me what was good about _The_Ceremonies_?  Is it
>>just a personal taste issue, or did I miss something?  Really.

I can't really tell you "what's good" about it, because in some ways,
it's a failure, and certainly has a dopey ending.  However, it might
help to know that it was a long, nearly neurotic, labor of love for
T.E.D. Klein to write that book--one of those novels that almost 
swallows the author before it's finished.  It started as a shorter
tale titled "The Events at Poroth Farm," and basically it's an
extended homage, one might even say rewrite, of Arthur Machen's
famous novella, "The White People."  Klein admires Machen (pronounced
to rhyme with "blacken") a great deal.  If you're interested in
learning more about Machen, one source is S. T. Joshi's _The_Weird_
_Tale_, which has chapters on Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Black-
wood, M. R. James, Ambrose Bierce, and Lovecraft.

						--Fiona Webster

P.S.  I've said this more than once, and I'm sure I'll say it again:
please, when you're talking about books (and even movies) of near-
universal interest, don't restrict your distribution field.  This
one had "usa"!!  We have readers in Australia, the Netherlands, Fin-
land, etc.--let alone good ol' familiar Canada and the UK.  Of the
writers mentioned above for example, only Klein, Lovecraft, Joshi,
and Bierce are American--the rest are Brits.
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From: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
Newsgroups: alt.horror,rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: The Culkinator! Was: Re: JACOBs LADDER
Date: 15 Dec 1992 10:46:39 -0500
Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
NNTP-Posting-Host: function.mps.ohio-state.edu

>	** Macaulay Culkin: HE MUST BE STOPPED !!!! **

Puberty just around the corner... imagine...

-- 
  Gerald A. Edgar                Internet:  edgar@mps.ohio-state.edu
  Department of Mathematics      Bitnet:    EDGAR@OHSTPY
  The Ohio State University      telephone: 614-292-0395 (Office)
  Columbus, OH 43210             -292-4975 (Math. Dept.) -292-1479 (Dept. Fax)
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From: d40937@aiken (Jean Yves Desbiens)
Newsgroups: alt.horror,rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: The Culkinator! Was: Re: JACOBs LADDER
Date: 15 Dec 92 04:09:23 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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Elizabeth G. Levy (egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
: 
: _Home Alone 2_ has now grossed over $90 million.
: 
: 	** Macaulay Culkin: HE MUST BE STOPPED !!!! **

Can't be more right, wow is he a dud. Home alone I, god was it
predictable, it was barely good enough to be mediocre; only the
bandits made me stay till the end, I wanted them to kill the little
bastard. Boy was I disapointed when he survived. Imagine the second
one where most scenes are rehashes of the first one ...
I shudder at the tought of being forced by maniacs to see it.   
Maybe, If in one scene he was beaten by gang of street punks, 
it would be worth the price of admission. I never so much wished
for a happy ending ( his demise ) in my whole life. I am thinking of 
proposing alt.caulk.culkins.smirky.smile as a group so 
we can releive our anger at his degrading of the north 
american industry.                 

NEXT movie will be : Home alone III, lost in prison... Ha, ha, ha
		     but I hold the key. 
--
SEIZE THE DAY, MAKE YOUR LIFE EXTRAORDINARY .  "Dead Poets Society"

Jean-Yves Desbiens                  | d40937@info.polymtl.ca
Etudiant en genie informatique      | 
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Can | To indeed be a god ...,
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Subject: T.E.D. Klein
From: wsadler@netlink.cts.com (Wayne Sadler)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 11:08:12 PST
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

ric@netcom.com(Richard A. Bretschneider) writes:
>...to the best of my recollection, T.E.D Klein is actually
>a collaborative pen name for two real-life authors.

Apparently not.  All the information readily available on him indicates 
that he is indeed one person (e.g. an interview, with photograph, in 
FACES OF FEAR edited by Douglas Winter (1985).) He was the editor of the 
Twilight Zone Magazine in the early 80s; except for some novels and a few 
stories, he hasn't written all that much, but it's good.

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From: tjr0868@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Re: Bloodsucking Pharohs In Pittsburgh
Date: 16 Dec 92 01:14:25 GMT
Reply-To: tjr0868@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

There, I have to disagree.
I saw Frankenhooker, unrated, in the movies, at midnight, with a whole bunch
of bizarre people, in a bad section of town.  I LOVED it!
I guess you had to be there.
I still think it's classic when he gives the super crack to the gerbel.
The gerbel explodes.  "This is going to be messy."

                                             ->Later.....Spice
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From: tjr0868@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: alt.horror,alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Re: Horror & Rock N' Roll?
Date: 18 Dec 92 21:41:02 GMT
Reply-To: tjr0868@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

Exactly!  I was referring to death metal.  And if you think all those
bands can't play music, just listen to "Necrotism: Descanting the
Insalubrius" by Carcass.  Those guys are fantastic musicians.  I agree
that it is pretty mindless.  It's all shock value.  But then again, some
of my favorite movies are nothing but shock value.

                                                      ->Spice
Newsgroups: alt.horror,rec.arts.movies
From: moursand@lonestar.utsa.edu (Bowen M. Moursund)
Subject: Re: Jacobs Ladder
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:47:36 GMT

>Predictable?!  You must be the only person (at least, that I know)
>who thought this.  Most people needed to watch the movie about 5
>times before they had a gist of what was going on.

Ron - Since I haven't YET fiigered it out, could you explain it?<g>

- Bowen -

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From: ahankin1@cc.swarthmore.edu (A. Luke Hankins)
Subject: Re: The Culkinator! Was: Re: JACOBs LADDER
Organization: Swarthmore College
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:26:50 GMT

bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby) writes:

>What's with all the Macaulay Culkin bashing?  Sure, he's an annoying
>talentless little kid, but if you don't like him don't
>go to see his movies.  What's the big deal?  Why all the
>hostility?

because he's not just in his movies! sprite adds, cereal adds, late-night
talk shows, midday talk shows, other adds; it unbelieveable how much
influence this child has on our tv! not just this, i have a very good friend
whose little brother emulates his character! 
           IT'S NOT FUNNY!!!   HE'S NOT FUNNY!!!

>Sincerely curious about this.  

hope i've helped.

>-- 
>   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
>                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
>             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
>                              DoD # 0698
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______________________________________________________________________
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			|	tnx luke
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From: dianne@dianne.b24a.ingr.com (Dianne Ferrans)
Subject: Re: The Culkinator! Was: Re: JACOBs LADDER
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:56:22 GMT

In article <GYLVBQX4@cc.swarthmore.edu>, ahankin1@cc.swarthmore.edu (A. Luke Hankins) writes:
|> bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby) writes:
|> 
|> >What's with all the Macaulay Culkin bashing?  Sure, he's an annoying
|> >talentless little kid, but if you don't like him don't
|> >go to see his movies.  What's the big deal?  Why all the
|> >hostility?
|> 
|> because he's not just in his movies! sprite adds, cereal adds, late-night
|> talk shows, midday talk shows, other adds; it unbelieveable how much
|> influence this child has on our tv! not just this, i have a very good friend
|> whose little brother emulates his character! 
|>            IT'S NOT FUNNY!!!   HE'S NOT FUNNY!!!
|> 

What IS funny is the political comic in my newspaper (Huntsville Times)
the other day about Home Alone 2:

(Shows movie line with parents talking amidst a sea of bug-eyed kids)

Yeah, I'm takin my kid to se HA2 because it's funny...yeah when he
drops the anvil on the bad guys' head that's funny...and when he
burns that other guy's face, that's funny...hoo boy and what about
when he drops them out of a 3rd story window and they get hit by
that truck, and then burned by acid....yeah, that's funny, way
better than going to Aladdin.... My kids gotta see this movie....

Nuf' said
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From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
Newsgroups: alt.horror,rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Why do people hate Culkin?
Date: 18 Dec 92 22:43:40 GMT
Reply-To: jsp@pls.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA


I can't say that I hate the kid, but I don't like him as an actor because
he can't act his way out of a paper bag.  My jaw really hit the floor
when Siskel and Ebert were reviewing _Home Alone 2_ and Ebert said that
the kid was such a great actor.  Then to demonstrate that, they showed
the clip where he's sitting in the airport saying, "I'm in New York, and
my parents are in <wherever>" and repeats it realizing the import of it.
Jeez, to me that was the most uninspired, wooden, obviously trying really
hard to *act* piece of dialog delivery I've seen since "Hee Haw".

--James Preston
From: tsm@access.digex.com (The Secret Man)
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Re: T.E.D Klein
Date: 17 Dec 1992 05:05:06 GMT
Organization: The Quiet Room
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer) writes:
>     I've read _The_Ceremonies_, and I thought it sucked.  It looked
>like a couple ideas he had strung together and padded.  OTOH, there's
>Klein's story in Kirby Macauley's (sp?) _Dark_Forces_ anthology.  That
>was great Lovecraftian stuff.  Too bad I forgot the title, though.

"The Children of the Kingdom", a tremendously good (and, yes, Lovecraftian)
story.

>     Can anyone tell me what was good about _The_Ceremonies_?  Is it
>just a personal taste issue, or did I miss something?  Really.

There was good stuff in there;  some of the scenes with the insane old man
were quite good.  It was too long, though.

-- 
The Secret Man                                            tsm@access.digex.com
"Well, I've never been to Spain
  but I kind of like the music..."
Newsgroups: alt.horror
From: tnielson@kirk.NMSU.Edu (THORIN NIELSON)
Subject: Poppy Z. Brite
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:00:14 GMT


Someone, whose opinion I do not completely trust, recommended this persons book  
to me. I think the title is "Lost Souls" and I don't entirely know what it's  
about. I also believe it's relatively new.

Before I spend my money, has someone else out there read it? Heard about it?

What did you think?

Thorin Nielson --
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From: drwho@riemann.WPI.EDU (Eric Ant Von Laudermann)
Newsgroups: alt.horror,rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: The Culkinator! Was: Re: JACOBs LADDER
Date: 18 Dec 1992 17:00:40 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: riemann.wpi.edu

In article <1992Dec15.040923.14174@vlsi.polymtl.ca> d40937@aiken (Jean Yves Desbiens) writes:
>
>Can't be more right, wow is he a dud. Home alone I, god was it
>predictable, it was barely good enough to be mediocre; only the
>bandits made me stay till the end, I wanted them to kill the little
>bastard. 

Ok... the movie was predictable and mediocre, therefore kill the actor...
I still don't get it.

>Jean-Yves Desbiens                  | d40937@info.polymtl.ca
>Etudiant en genie informatique      | 
>Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Can | To indeed be a god ...,
>--------------------------------------------------------------------

--E.V.L. (drwho@wpi.wpi.edu)  # "And for the last time, I'm not Frankemstein,
a.k.a.:  The Eternal Newbie,  # I'm FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER!!!"
The Amazing Tubeman!,         # --Woody Allen's "Bride of Frankemstein",
Murphy's Law Incarnate        #                    THE BEN STILLER SHOW
Any similarities between what I say and what I mean are purely coincidental.
From: faulkner@acsu.buffalo.edu (Shane P Faulkner)
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Re: JACOB's LADDER
Date: 14 Dec 92 16:27:48 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <Bz94MG.E4I@newcastle.ac.uk> S.E.Rigden@newcastle.ac.uk (SER) writes:
>
> I don't know if this post belongs in alt.horror, but what I want to know is :
>
> Is that kid in Jacob's Ladder the same one who's in those pathetic Home Alone
>movies?
>
> Thanks
>
> - SER

Yes... it's Macauley Culkin.

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From: donnell@tuna.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan)
Subject: Re: Films....
Organization: none
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:15:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.044143.11905@news.mentorg.com> bob_cannard@mentorg.com writes:
>
>In article <1992Dec10.154751.20311@nmsu.edu>, jgoodric@dante.nmsu.edu (GOODRICH) writes:
>|> 
>|> 
>|> 	Y'know what really gets up my nose, these 
>|> idiot directors think that a short story translates
>|> well into a movie...
>
>... miscellaneous well-aimed ranting deleted ...
>
>|> Anything with the same name as a Edgar Allan Poe
>|> 	story.
>|> 
>|> 	D'you get my drift?
>
>Yes. And more...
>
>	Anything by Edgar Allan Poe that was written by H. P. Lovecraft.
>
>Dammit Jim, I can't remember the name of the film! The one I'm
>thinking of starred Vincent Price, and was pretty good in its way
>(i.e. Vincent Price's way, not H. P. Lovecraft's). Right now I can't
>remember a blasted thing about it other than it was a HPL story but
>the credits claimed it was by EAP. Anyone out there know what in R'lyeh
>I'm talking about? Please post or email details.
>
>	dSAN/dt << 0	(2nd Law of Cthulhudynamics)
>-- 
>bob_cannard@mentorg.com			"More dynamite!" - Theron Marks

That would be "The Haunted Palace", named after a short poem by Poe, 
but based on "The Case Of charles Dexter Ward" from Lovecraft.
One of the better adaptations, but the title is misguided.
Pax
					--Judex--
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Subject: Re: Seasonal story recommendation
From: wright@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Michael G. Wright)
Date: 12 Dec 92 03:17:31 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia

ehenness@willamette.edu (Ethan D. Hennessey) writes:

>In article <pfritsch.723850364@skid.ps.uci.edu> pfritsch@skid.ps.uci.edu (Paul Fritschle) writes:
>>For those who may not have read it before, now would be a good time to
>>read Lovecraft's only 'Christmas' tale--"The Festival". It describes a
>>good old fashion yule celebration in Kingsport, Mass. The story is a
>>bit harder to find than most Mythos tales--it doesn't appear in the
>>'Best of' collection put out by Del Ray, but instead can be found in
>>some of the mass market collections. Enjoy!
>>
This story is published in "Dagon and Other Macabre Tales" by HPL. It is the
third of Arkham house's Lovecraft compilations. Have fun.

-- 
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From: cwynne@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Colin J. Wynne)
Subject: Re: Films....
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:12:48 GMT
Organization: Washington & Lee University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

GOODRICH (jgoodric@dante.nmsu.edu) wrote:
: 
: 	Y'know what really gets up my nose, these 
:
: idiot directors think that a short story translates
: well into a movie.  Cllassic examples are;

Granted, a four-pager does not a cinematic experience make, but then
again, look at all the movies made from novels -- and think of how much
has to get cut out, how much certain parts of the plot get rushed, or
others ignored, etc.

Mountaind of Madness is a good suggestion, though, since it is in the
'unshort story' length.  Some of Poe's longer stories would work, too: 
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym would be such.

IMHO.

CJW

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
  =====  Colin J. Wynne                     Washington & Lee University  =====
  =====  cwynne@liberty.uc.wlu.edu              Lexington, Virginia      =====
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From: holt_c@cubldr.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Lovecraft .. films .. etc
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:23:14 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

In article <Bz2oHE.AIJ@willamette.edu>, ehenness@willamette.edu (Ethan D. Hennessey) writes:
> In article <1992Dec10.094540.29826@cheshire.oxy.edu> wolf@cheshire.oxy.edu (Clinton Richard Wolf) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec10.041407.20240@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> locklin@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Lupo the Butcher) writes:
>>>In article <1992Dec9.031934.2420@cheshire.oxy.edu> wolf@cheshire.oxy.edu (Clinton Richard Wolf) writes:
>>>>In article <1g3h0pINNc07@phakt.usc.edu> pechever@phakt.usc.edu (The Heckler) writes:
>>>>>In article <1992Dec8.204846.19489@cheshire.oxy.edu] wolf@cheshire.oxy.edu (Clinton Richard Wolf) writes:
>>>>>]In article <1992Dec8.042627.5451@sol.ctr.columbia.edu] locklin@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Lupo the Butcher) writes:
>>>>>]]In article <1g0o4pINN2cd@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu] bf795@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James Abendschan) writes:
>>>>>]]]
>>>>>]]
>>>>>]]-Lupo the Butcher
>>>>>]
>>>>>] Bah! Get a job, you steenkeeng bum! I KEEEEEL you!!!
>>>>>]
>>>>>That's 'Fukkin' I donno...' to you.
>>>>>*THUNK*
>>>>>AAAGGH!  Sanuva...MY ARM! AAAHH!  I KEEEL YOU!!!
>>>>>*Gryn*
>>>>>
>>-- Clint, who guesses we should probably take this somewhere else, and won-
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>          ders if alt.fan.fofa.sick.and.twisted exists somewhere :)

Actually, I could see Lupo in a Lovecraft type story.  "Stay away from dee
fukkin cave, those steenkeeng sunuvabeetches KEEEEL YOU!"  Anybody for having
Lupo opening up a shop in Arkham, Innsmouth, Kingsport or some other place.
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
From: locklin@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Lupo the Butcher)
Subject: Re: Real-life Dunwich Horror
Organization: Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 04:09:48 GMT
X-Posted-From: titan.ucc.umass.edu
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In article <BzFvr5.zr@umassd.edu> s13989bc@UMASSD.EDU writes:
>in <1992Dec17.053344.556@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> the new England
>Stonehenge is mentioned. Being a New Englander myself I would
>like to put my two cents in. The sight bein discussed has been turned
>into the most pathetically obvious tourist trap I've ever seen.
>The property owner wrote up his "informational" paphlets with o
>no help from any outside historians or anthroplologists. My

That was two property owners ago. The man in question was a wealthy recluse,
something of a nut. That guy was a contemporary of HPL.

Basically none of the pamphlets I perused were written by the current owners, 
or even the resident archaelogist. 

There are several archaeological teams investigating it, though, of course
the resident archaeologist does most of the work (he is not the owner BTW, it
is owned by a pagan group who hold very different views from he as to its 
origin)

I agree that it is quite the tourist trap, but it is rather interesting (even 
if it does have a more pedestrian explanation than some).

>information on how his leaflets came to be is gathered from
>my local newspaper _The Standard Times_ , which had some articles 
>on the location during the Halloween season. ( As we all know the
>Celtic Druids were nothing more than Satanists in disguise" said
>the gentleman, sarcasm dripping from his lips.)

Well, considering the last statement, you should have doubted the validity of
the other stuff.

> Just wanted to give some regional information on the topic.
>If my information or views do not concur with your own please feel free 
>e-mail me your comments so I can correct my information if I am
>wrong.

Done.

-Lupo
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
From: C521832@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
Subject: Re: : Films....
Organization: University of Missouri at Columbia, U.S.A.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:19:48 GMT
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Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" was movie-ized again in the last
few years by some of the folks responsible for "Re-Animator" and the
others. It starred Lance Henriksen ("Bishop" from _Aliens_) as
Torquemada; he was the only interesting person in it. The movie was
extremely cheesy and hokey; my favorite bit was the scene in the
infamous pendulum room, complete with Motley Crue-style airbrush
art on the walls...
 
The HPL-story-credited-to-Poe was a film called THE HAUNTED PALACE
I believe..haven't seen it, but I think it was a Charles Dexter Ward
knockoff credited to Poe because Poe sold better at the box office...
 
Rev
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From: bcannard@hppcb36.mentorg.com (The Human Mi-Go)
Subject: The other Innsmouths
Originator: bcannard@hppcb36
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:17:25 GMT
Reply-To: bob_cannard@mentorg.com
Organization: Yuggoth Mining Corporation
Keywords: 
Followup-To: 



Puzzle time!

That quaint little place Innsmouth, MA has been identified as Newburyport or
Gloucester, MA. But my researches indicate that there are at least 2 other
Innsmouths.

The first is a sleepy, half-deserted fishing village on the south coast of
Cornwall, England. King Kuranes of Dreamlands fame was born nearby. The second
is a copy constructed by Kuranes in the Dreamlands, near Celephais.

The evidence for this is Lovecraft's "Celephais", with a quick cross-
reference to Randolph Carter's visit to King Kuranes during the Dream-Quest.

The questions are (1) have I got this right, and (2) if so, does anyone
have any idea which real Cornish fishing village might have been the
prototype for this place?

Inquiring minds (the ones in the 2nd and 3rd cylinders from the left)
want to know.

Ia Shub-Niggurath,

	Bob - your friendly local Half-Fungus.

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