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From: ugabarra@mcl.ucsb.edu (Il Viaggiatore)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:56:24 GMT

In <1687E82D4.FHD@tamvm1.tamu.edu> FHD@tamvm1.tamu.edu (H. Alan Montgomery) writes:

>First off, how in Chthulu do you pronounce that word?
> 
>Second: On the road with Campus Crusade for Chthulu.
> 
>At Texas A&M was having a wargamer's convention. They were holding it  in
>one of the few eight story buildings on campus.  This gamer  got  on  the
>elevator in full camoflage. Then these guys got on in suits and ties. The
>doors close. The elevator starts up. One of the suits turns to the  gamer
>and says, "Have you been saved in Jesus?" The gamer says, "I'm  with  the
>Chthulu Fredom Fighters and Chthulu eats  BAAaabbies!"  Shocked  silence.
>The suit nearest the elevator panel  presses  the  button  for  the  next
>floor. The bell goes "Bing!", and they got off. I always wondered  if  it
>was their floor.

WAY TO GO!!!!!!!!!   I've always wondered if something like that would work,
but ever since I decided to try it, not a single JW has stopped at my door,
or stopped me in the road.  Coincedence?  Who knows?

cya l8r >8=;==;==---'

	Il Viaggiatore
	
What you call hell, he calls a children's story!!

	Cthulhu
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From: adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
Subject: Re: Anyone remember...
Organization: Milo's Meadow
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 22:28:51 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.195815.993@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tpordon@nyx.cs.du.edu (Tony Pordon) writes:
>>Does anyone remember H.P. Lovecraft's story about Houdini trapped in
>>a Pharoah's tomb?  I know it wasn't Nyarlathotep, but rather "Imprisoned"
>>or something like that.
>>Please post.
>>						-Tony

"Imprisoned With The Pharoahs", 1924, I think.

Adam
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From: diachun@fcs260c.ncifcrf.gov (Justin Diachun)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Recommendations...
Date: 14 Oct 92 13:12:01 GMT
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center

In article <1992Oct12.223359.25377@pellns.alleg.edu> twiddyd@carn15.alleg.edu (David Twiddy) writes:
>In article <1992Oct12.174018.821@colorado.edu>  
>bashamb@partial.cs.colorado.edu (BASHAM BRYAN DUANE) writes:
>> I'm new to Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.
>> Could someone recommend a good book of short
>> stories and what was the title of the book
>> that was specifically about Cthulhu?
>> 
>> -Bryan
>	It wasn't a book, it was a short story called "The Call of  
>Cthulhu."  I would personally recommend the..the.. damnit, I was just  
>looking at it today and now I can't remember the title.  It's the green  
>one with Cthulhu coming out from his tomb on the cover.  Help me out,  
>somebody.  The official pronunciation according to the CoC RPG is  
>ku-thool-lhu, but it was not meant to be pronounced by human vocal cords,  
>so don't sweat it.

I am sure somebody already beat me to this, but the book is _The
Dunwich Horror And Others_ published by Arhkam House.  I have never
seen this book in a bookstore, and I read it from a library.  VERY
highly recommended.  My favorite stories were "Rats in the Walls",
"Call of Cthulhu", "Shadow over Innsmouth", and "Whisper in Darkness".
I think the only way to get the book is to order it from the
publisher.  I mailed out a letter and got their catalog when someone
posted their address a while back.  If I remember, this book is
hardcover and sells for $17.95.  I will order the 3-book HPL series
including _At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels_ and _Dagon
and other Macabre Tales_ from Arkham House in the future--possibly as
a Christmas present for myself.

Arkham House Publishers, Inc.
P.O. Box 546
Sauk City, Wisconsin 53583

While I am at this, does anyone have a list of authors that write GOOD
horror in a somewhat Lovecraft style?  Or some of the later Cthulhu
mythos tales that don't resort to the "good guys vs. bad guys".

>	Finally, I am overjoyed to finally see alt.horror.cthulhu., in  
>time for All Hallows, no less.  Now if we could just get a CoC MUD-type  
>thing going...

Let me know if you discover one!

>--
>
>David "master of obscurity" Twiddy <twiddyd@alleg.edu>
>"Small wheel turn by the fire and rod
> Big wheel turn by the Grace of GOD"
> 			-Jerry Garcia


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From: jacob@plasma2.ssl.berkeley.edu (Jamey Jacob)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: FROM BEYOND
Date: 14 Oct 1992 20:36:05 GMT
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In article <=-2z-4q@rpi.edu>, battlec@cs.rpi.edu (Clark Battle) writes:
|> there is also a video adaption of "the unnamable".  It's pretty good.


I highly recommend a modern version of "The Case of Charles Dexter
Ward" called 'The Resurrected'.  I saw it about two months ago, just
after it was released.  Not to give away too many spoilers, but it
is in modern New England and our Mr. Ward is being investigated by
a PI hired by his wife.  (Don't worry, no gratuitous sex scenes thrown
in for money-sake.)  It follows CoCDW very closely and IMHO is the best
adaptation of HPL story so far.  No doubt it is hard to translate
wordy Howard to the screen, but I beleive they did a good job with
the little they apparently had.  There are some liberties taken,
but the scenes in Joseph Curwen's laboratory had me on the edge
of my seat!  Happy viewing....

Cthulhu Ad Memorium Glorium


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From: fts5792@rigel.tamu.edu (SRONCE, FRANK T)
Subject: MUD
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:20:00 GMT

Well, if you can reach WORF.TAMU.EDU 2000, which I believe is still the
address of Darker Realms, there is a Dreamlands based realm (mine).

Unfortunately, due to some hackers screwing up the system from off-campus, 
most of the incoming telnet stuff has been blocked. They are slowly reinstating
it, but I think Darker Realms is still kind of limited to on-campus only.

Kiz (at Texas A&M)
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Subject: Re: FROM BEYOND
From: f00022@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU (M. Shanmugasundaram (F00022@TIGGER.stcloud.msus.edu))
Date: 16 Oct 92 13:42:21 -0600
Reply-To: f00022@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU
Organization: St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN

In article <1992Oct16.171828.27585@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, 
ctoth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher M Toth) writes:>
>	As far as other Lovecraftian films go, I know that there is a film
>out there called The Dunwich Horror, obviously based on the Lovecraft
>novelette of the same name. I haven't been able to find it yet, but I am 
>still searching. Has anyone else seen/heard of this?
>
>-Chris
>

I saw this movie only once, and that was over 5 years ago. 

I recommend it highly. It left me with some lasting impressions and adheres to
the Lovecraftian style of storytelling remarkably well. Right down to the
indirect portrayal of horrors man was never meant to perceive. The monster was
depicted as a vague, sparkling black swirling cloud, if I remember correctly,
and not focused in on very clearly. 

Good Stuff. . . starred Ed Begley (senior?). 

Merwin %@

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From: pound@ruf.rice.edu (Christopher Brian Pound)
Subject: Re: Bibliography
Keywords: Lovecraft, Campe
Organization: Rice University
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 05:13:12 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.005240.15431@nevada.edu> bpencek@nevada.edu (BRUCE PENECK) writes:
>I have to be in Providence next month ... what sort of Lovecraftiana is
>still in town?

What you need is a copy of _Lovecraft's Providence and Adjacent Parts_ by
Henry L. P. Beckwith, Jr. (published in 1986 by Donald M. Grant of West
Kingston, RI; ISBN 0-937986-84-4 $15.00).  It's full of maps and descriptions
of walking tours you can still make, I assume.

-- 
Christopher Pound	+	I am human by my hands and my feet, my guts,
Anthro Grad Student	+	my meat heart, my stomach whose knots fasten
pound@ruf.rice.edu	+	me to the rot of life.	   -- Antonin Artaud
From: jgoodric@dante.nmsu.edu (GOODRICH)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Avon Necronomicon
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:21:29 GMT
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM


GLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

	
The Avon Necronomicon: just say NO!

	The Laughing Priest!

	"I an pilot error.
	I am fetal distress
	I am the Random Chromosome
	I am Complete and TOTAL MADNESS!"   - The Crow
From: ar2w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Adam K. Rixey)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Cthulhu mansion, etc etc
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:22:59 GMT
	<1992Oct16.024820.14292@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.alt.horror.cthulhu: 16-Oct-92 Re: Cthulhu mansion,
etc etc R.W. Mac kay@ultb.isc.ri (986)

> On a simular note, has anyone seen Evil Dead II?  It is a really weird
> movie with interesting camera angles, based around an story about the
> Necronomicon and an 'accidental reading'.  Though not purely based in
> the Cthulhu Mythos (hey, is that Shub-niggurath runnin through the
> woods?) with its various soul sucking screams, you can almost see a
> little sanity meter on the screen for the main character.  A must for
> CoC roleplayers as it depicts sanity loss and stupid player reaction
> (duh, what's that sound outside, let me go look) really well.


	Although it may not be released. . .Army of Darkness [Evil Dead III] is
based around the Necronomicon.  Ash needs a spell from it to return to
the present time. . .but being a bonehead, he kinda screws up the magic
words to make it safe to get the Necronomicon.  

	Needless to say, all Hell [R'lyeh?] breaks loose.

	- AkR
	- ar2w@andrew.cmu.edu
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From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Subject: Re: What's the deal?
Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 00:07:44 GMT


In article <1992Oct9.210952.15538@javelin.sim.es.com>,
KHATCH@130.187.170.178 (kh) writes:
|>
|>    What's the deal with these paperback novels that have Lovecraft's name on 
|>them but on closer inspection are written by August Derleth?
|>
When HPL died, he left behind some fragments of stories, oulines of stories,
and sketches of ideas for stories.  Derleth wrote pastiches using this
material and published them as "posthumous collaberations".  In general, I've
found them to be pretty good, but they don't quite capture the true ambiance
of HPL's fiction.  Fritz Lieber wrote a "Cthluhu Mythos" short story that IMO
captured the true spirit of Lovecraft far better than anything I've read of
Derleth's.

--PSW
From: adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Bibliography
Date: 13 Oct 92 08:17:32 GMT
Organization: Milo's Meadow

In article <7546@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> jtgst1+@pitt.edu (Judyth T Gibson) writes:
>Someone is trying to convince me that 'The King in Yelow' was never written;
>that it is just a book refered to in other Cthulhu-type tales.  book is 
>by Chambers.  Would be happy to learn that someone, besides myself, has
>read it.

Chambers, Robert W.  _The King In Yellow_.  Ayer Company, Publishers, Inc.:
Salem, New Hampshire, 1988.  316 pp., ISBN 0-8369-3000-2.

Cost me $40 for a nice hardback facsimile of the 1895 edition.  There was also
an Ace reprint in 1969 (at least, I think it was Ace).

>	Am currently trying to convince people that RA Wison never wrote
>the first book in the Schrodinger's cat series.  It's true!    
>

Uh, then who did?

Adam
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"Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the
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From: intruder@cats.ucsc.edu (Isaac Truder)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
Date: 15 Oct 1992 03:02:48 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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 > It's pronounced "Koo-TOO-loo".  There's a whole write-up about him
 > (it) in the beginning of the Avalon Books edition of the
 > NECRONOMICON.  It says that "Chthulu" (or Cthulu, or Kutulu, etc...)
 > is the ancient Babylonian equivalent of Christianity's "Satan."  He
 > is the "man from KUTU", or Hell (thus KUTULU). Kutulu was defeated
 > in a war of the Gods by the demigod hero MARDUK.  Since Kutulu could
 > not actually be "killed", he was banished to sleep for all eternity
 > in an underwater tomb somewhere -- until as such time as somebody

Interesting.  Of course your realize this is all bullshit, like the rest of
that Avon  Books NECRONOMICON.  There is no such character as Kutulu, Cthulhu,
whatever in Babylonian mythology.  There IS a character named Marduk, and
the supposed conflict was described in order to give credibility to the
books Cthulhu/Babylonian mishmash.  Go to the library and get a book on
Babylonian mythology.

What is more, how does your description of the "man from Kutu" mesh in any
way with the description of Christianity's Satan?
From: ar2w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Adam K. Rixey)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:54:52 GMT
Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.alt.horror.cthulhu: 14-Oct-92 Re: Campus Crusade
for Cthulhu by Bob Kelly@pioneer.unm.ed 
>         And the best I have seen:
>         A picture of Cthulhu rising over the Crucifixion (JC's eyes 
>         bugging out) scene, saying:
>                 "I just love hors d'euvres!"

  After seeing a shirt with the Crucifixion on it and the slogan "If I'm
Okay and You're Okay, Explain This", I've wanted to do one with the
exact same slogan but with Cthulhu rising out of the water. . .now if
only I could get a good original picture, I'd do it.
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
Subject: Re: Bibliography
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 00:21:12 GMT
Reply-To: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)

In article <7546@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> jtgst1+@pitt.edu (Judyth T Gibson) writes:
>Someone is trying to convince me that 'The King in Yelow' was never
>written; that it is just a book refered to in other Cthulhu-type
>tales.  book is by Chambers.  Would be happy to learn that someone,
>besides myself, has read it.

I suggest you be careful when you're near the market square. I
understand there are some invisible demons just waiting to devour
people like you.

Yes, I've read it. It's a collection of short stories, right? I should
rescue my copy - it's probably hard to find. I remember it as being
pleasant to read, but nothing astounding.

Anyone managed to finish L Sprague de Campe's biography of Lovecraft?
One of the most *boring* pieces of writing I've ever read. Then again,
Lovecraft was a rather boring guy..
                __
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From: lizi@ocf.berkeley.edu (Cosma R. Shalizi)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: At last! At last!
Date: 10 Oct 1992 01:37:55 GMT
Organization: Vampire Research Group at Berkeley :)
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    Finally! After so many strange & uncounted aeons, we've made it to
Usenet! Can the Great Day be far of? Are not the great wheels of the
universe turning the stars until they are right? Oh, fabjous day!
	Cosma "So happy I could eat a shoggoth" Shalizi
	In Real Life: lizi@ocf.berkeley.edu
	larval physicist
	VP, Campus Crusade for Cthulhu (Berkeley)
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From: jtgst1+@pitt.edu (Judyth T Gibson)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Bibliography
Date: 12 Oct 92 23:25:49 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Someone is trying to convince me that 'The King in Yelow' was never written;
that it is just a book refered to in other Cthulhu-type tales.  book is 
by Chambers.  Would be happy to learn that someone, besides myself, has
read it.
	Am currently trying to convince people that RA Wison never wrote
the first book in the Schrodinger's cat series.  It's true!    

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From: ctoth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher M Toth)
Subject: Re: FROM BEYOND
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:18:28 GMT


	As far as other Lovecraftian films go, I know that there is a film
out there called The Dunwich Horror, obviously based on the Lovecraft
novelette of the same name. I haven't been able to find it yet, but I am 
still searching. Has anyone else seen/heard of this?

-Chris

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From: DLODG00@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU (Corwin)
Subject: Re: What's the deal?
Organization: Rice University  
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 19:18:17 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.000744.29003@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
 
<Stuff deleted...>
>                   Fritz Lieber wrote a "Cthluhu Mythos" short story that IMO
>captured the true spirit of Lovecraft far better than anything I've read of
>Derleth's.
>
>--PSW
 
Does anyone have any further information about this story?  I would love
to read it at some point.
 
- Corwin
 
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From: cje@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Cthulhu's Jersey Epopt)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Brian Lumley's Titus Crow series
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:15:27 GMT
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michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown) writes:

>I am looking for info on Brian Lumley's Titus Crow series.  Will I have
>been a long-time Cthulhu fan, I have not heard much on this series.
>Can anyone tell me the books in this series and more importantly their order?
>If you have any info on who published them, I would appreciate it.

Lumley published his original Crow short stories in a number of places,
including his Arkham House collections THE CALLER OF THE BLACK and THE HORROR
AT OAKDEENE.  The stories are "Billy's Oak", "An Item of Supporting Evidence",
"DeMarigny's Clock", "The Mirror of Nitocris", "The Caller of the Black",
"Inception", "Lord of the Worms", "The Viking's Stone", "Name and Number", and
"The Black Recalled".  These have all been collected in THE COMPLEAT CROW from
J. Paul Ganley: Publisher.  Write to him at P. O. Box 149, Buffalo, NY,
14226-0149.  The stories are in chronological order in this book.  Only "The
Black Recalled" takes place at any time after the events in the novels.

Lumley next did the first Crow novel, THE BURROWERS BENEATH, which also
incorporates two non-Crow short stories, "Cement Surroundings" and "The Night
the Sea-Maid Went Down".  This was originally published by DAW and is long out
of print.  DAW also did the sequel, THE TRANSITION OF TITUS CROW.

HBJ did the next 3 "Crow" novels, even though Crow doesn't really appear in
some of them.  THE CLOCK OF DREAMS has Henri-Laurent deMarigny (Crow's
"Watson") rescuing Crow.  SPAWN OF THE WINDS doesn't mention Crow at all except
in passing, but its sequel, IN THE MOONS OF BOREA, has deMarigny playing a
major role.

Ganley is in the process of reprinting all 5 of these.  BURROWERS and
TRANSITION are out now, and the others are planned.

Ganley has also published ELYSIA: THE COMING OF CTHULHU, which involves Crow
and deMarigny, Hero and Eldin (the heroes of Lumley's 3 "DREAMS" novels: HERO
OF DREAMS, SHIP OF DREAMS, and MAD MOON OF DREAMS, all published by Ganley),
and the prehistoric continent of Theem'hdra (from Lumley's 1st Ganley book, THE
HOUSE OF CTHULHU AND OTHER TALES OF THE PRIMAL LAND, out of print).

Do you get the idea that Ganley likes Lumley's work?

-- 
Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,

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