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From: gilly!dave@quack.UB.com (Dave Fischer)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Where's Arkham?
Date: 26 Jan 1993 02:19:41 -0600
Organization: Spiders From Mars net
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

ashton@netcom.com (ashton) writes:

>Two stories come to mind as having been set in Providence, RI,
>The Shunned House
>The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

From Beyond
	(Benevolent St. is mentioned, but I don't think you can pin down
	a specific house or address.)
Haunter of the Dark
	(St. John's Church, renamed for the story.)
The Call of Cthulhu
	(The building he jumps out of in the end is on Thomas St.)



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From: wolf@cheshire.oxy.edu (Clinton Richard Wolf)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Help me name my cat
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:39:11 GMT
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.

In article <C1HvBA.9yF@DMI.USherb.CA> bourp00@DMI.USherb.CA (PIERRE BOURBONNAIS) writes:
>>sloth@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Bulhak) writes:
>>
>>>How about giving it a Cthulhu Mythos name. You can call it Yog-Sothoth,
>>>which means that when you go outside to call it, you can excuse yourself
>>>with, "Excuse me, I have to go and invoke Yog-Sothoth." If you train it
>>>to respond to "Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin" you'll raise some eyebrows.
>>
>Well, if I had a cat, I would surely name him IRANON, from LOVECRAFT best
>story: THE QUEST OF IRANON.
>

 No, no. Call him Ulthar. Especially if he yowls a lot.
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
From: sloth@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Bulhak)
Subject: Stuffed toy Cthulhus-P
Keywords: fhtagn,i"a,r'lyeh,cthulhu
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:40:40 GMT

Where can I find these stuffed toys? How much do they cost? Whom do I
contact?


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|  sloth@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au	|     Julius Caesar's death."               |
|  Monash Uni, Clayton,         |              - de Selby, Golden Hours     |
|  Victoria, Australia          |                                           |
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From: melchar@shakala.com (Barbara Haddad)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Help me name my cat
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:11:05 GMT
Organization: Shakala BBS (ClanZen Radio Network) Sunnyvale, CA 408-734-2289

> >How about giving it a Cthulhu Mythos name. You can call it Yog-Sothoth,
> >which means that when you go outside to call it, you can excuse yourself
> >with, "Excuse me, I have to go and invoke Yog-Sothoth." If you train it
> >to respond to "Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin" you'll raise some eyebrows.
> 
> A friend of mine has a son named "Bevin John Nyarlathotep Dunlevy".
> 
> (I don't like using strange names personally. My cat is named "0x1B".
> Nice, standard, ASCII name.)
> 

        How about 'Snyarlathotep'?

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Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
From: jgoodric@dante.nmsu.edu (GOODRICH)
Subject: BTW...
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:28:17 GMT


	Is Esacpe from Innsmouth out yet?  I've heard that it
might be, but then, I live in Las Cruces (Tattoween on Earth(tm),
and it doesn't appesar to have gotten here yet, on the other hand, 
you cen never tell when a Chaosium supplement is out...

	The Laughing Priest!   {Jgoodric@nmsu.edu}

"Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy!"  -Lord John Whorfin
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu,alt.discordia,alt.religion.kibology
From: an2192@anon.penet.fi (Lee Harvey Oswald Smith)
Subject: What the world needs
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: alt.horror.cthulhu,alt.discordia,alt.religion.kibology
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:47:24 GMT

I have been thinking, and have come up with the answer to the question of
what the world needs.

It's  (wait for it.....)


			STUFFED SHOGGOTHS !!!!!

That's right, soft toy _things_. Hideous, loathsome elder abominations that
you can hug when you go to bed. (The deluxe models can go "Tekeli-Li" when
you squeeze them)

Now, at last, one would be able to honestly answer the question, "Have you
hugged your shoggoth today" in the affirmative.

LHO"No toy rabbits"S



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From: bcannard@hppcb36.mentorg.com (The Human Mi-Go)
Subject: Re: BTW...
Originator: bcannard@hppcb36
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 04:33:03 GMT
Reply-To: bob_cannard@mentorg.com
Organization: Yuggoth Interstellar Travel Inc.
Keywords: 
Followup-To: 


In article <1993Jan26.162817.2568@nmsu.edu>, jgoodric@dante.nmsu.edu (GOODRICH) writes:
|> 	Is Esacpe from Innsmouth out yet?

No, the esacpe was eaten by a living wall of frogs as it slithered along the
disused railway line. Escape from Innsmouth, on the other hand, came out late
last year. Either that or there's a disguised baby shoggoth in my library.
-- 
bob_cannard@mentorg.com			"More dynamite!" - Theron Marks
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
From: mlabossi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael C LaBossiere)
Subject: Stuffed Cthulhu/Escape from Innsmouth
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:55:27 GMT


Hello,
   The plush and adorable (as described in the ad) Cthulhu dolls can be ordered
from Pagan Publishing. Their adress is 403A N. 8th St.; Columbua, MO 65201. The
ad I saw had them at $20 (a bargain price for a Great Old One). The dolls are 
IBM and Mac compatible, but should not be inserted into floppy drives of any 
size.
    Escape From Inssmouth was released a few months ago. BTW, Chaosium has been
hit by the recession (perahps the Clinton miracle hasn't reached CA yet) and 
has suspended its project production until the market improves. In fact, it 
seems most gaming companies are bad off (although in some cases this has ben 
the result of bad decisions).
     Oddly enough, the small companies, such as Sagelore( PO Box 14616 
Portland, OR 97214-they produce the Scroll), Vortext (5506 Beaudry St. #C
Emeryville, CA 94608) and Pagan Publishing (of TUO fame) are still doing 
wellenough to actually pay their freelance writers and get their products out. 
I encourage everyone to support these small organizations, since the big guys 
may go the way of the dinosaur. Of course, Chaosium should eb supported too. 
They are actually a small group and are very good to tehir free-lance writers.
Michael LaBossiere
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
From: staats@athena.mit.edu ()
Subject: Am I the only one noticing this?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:53:59 GMT

Why are there so many Anonymous postings lately?

Every net I look at, I see more and more Anon postings.

Congratulations to the software designer, but I thought the

article about the stuffed shuggoth was "cute".  I don't

think the author would have gotten any hate mail over 

that one.  Besides, wouldn't you still get flamed through

the Anon mail server?

I'm just finding this all kind of confusing, that's all.

Alas, I guess I'll just go back and drool in the corner

for awhile, things haven't been the same since I saw that . . .

In service,

Rich
From: cje@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Cthulhu's Jersey Epopt)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Where's Arkham?
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:13:44 GMT
Organization: Miskatonic U. Computer Operations & User Services

mgrossman@hamp.hampshire.edu writes:

>	I think that the general consensus was that Arkham represented the 
>town of Salem, although I really don't know much about Massachussets geography
>(even though I go to college here)  I also remember reading that Arkham moved,
>when the original "location" ended up at the bottom of a resevoir.  (I think
>it was the resevoir mentioned in "the Colour out of Space", does anyone know
>which resevoir this is?)

You're thinking of Will Murray's investigations into the real-life inspirations
for Arkham, Innsmouth, etc.  His thesis is that HPL originally set Arkham
deeper into Massachusetts.  (For example, it's near Bolton in "Herbert West".)
However, when the Quabbin Reservoir was created, HPL's imagined site for Arkham
was flooded out, so he started describing Arkham as being nearer the coast.

Physical location aside, it's pretty well established that Arkham is a fusion
of Salem, MA, and Providence, RI.  Miskatonic U. resembles Brown a lot more
than it does Harvard or anything closer to Salem.

Murray also suggests that Innsmouth had another inspiration aside from the
usually declared Newburyport.  He suggests Gloucester, MA.  I've been to
Gloucester, following up his suggestions, and I have to admit the fit, after
all these years, is a lot better than is Newburyport.  I wrote a little
travelogue about my researches; I'll dig it out and post it.

To answer the unasked (unaussprechlichen?) questions, Kingport is based on
Marblehead, MA, and Dunwich is in the area around Springfield and Wilbraham.

-- 
Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,

Chris Jarocha-Ernst			Rutgers University Computing Services
Internet: cje@gandalf.rutgers.edu       BITnet: JAROCHAERNST@ZODIAC
From: jiost@icarus.lis.pitt.edu (Joellynn Ohashi)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: re:horror music
Date: 23 Jan 93 16:36:15 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Sincerely,

Dr. Chad St. Wexlear
:wq
:wq
From: tore.skogseth@avh.unit.no (Tore Skogseth)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: The Golden Bough
Date: 27 Jan 93 09:20:55 GMT
Organization: University of Trondheim, Norway
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.11b

Hello!

For all CoC-players: If you need inspiration to write a scenario, you should
read The Golden Bough by James George Frazer. It describes magic rituals and
beliefs in cultures all over the world. If you need rituals, they are sometimes
tthoroughly describe, and there is a register with references to all sorts of
rituals in the back of the book... Human sacrifice? You got it!

Tore
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
From: cwynne@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Colin J. Wynne)
Subject: Re: ess-tset
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:18:32 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Washington & Lee University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Camille le Monies de Sagazan (lemonies@laas.fr) wrote:

>    >	Well, there's this funny thing called an 'ess-tset' in German
>    >	that looks like a cursive capital 'B' and indicates the presence
>    >	of a doubled 's' and THAT is almost certainly what should be there.

> Totally wrong. The ess-tset must only be put when the preceding vowel
> is long, like in 'die straBe' (the street) but not in 'ich habe
> vergessen' (I have forgotten). Besides this 'unaussprechlich' is a
> composite word 'un-aus-sprechlich', and as the two s stand in
> different part, they should in no way be linked.

Well, the correction isn't exactly right, either.  In fact, the ess-tset
is used always, except when the double s is both preceded and followed by
a short vowel (as in your 'vergessen' example).

Thus, unauBrechliche is perfectly acceptable.  As for the meaning of the
word, lautsprechen is more closely translated as 'to pronounce'.  Now, I
saw the name 'Unaussprechliche Kulten' before I read their translation of
it, and I had taken it to mean something closer to "unmentionable cults"
than eithe unnamable or unpronouncable or anything else.

CJW

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
  =====  Colin J. Wynne                     Washington & Lee University  =====
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Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Having my chance (and eating it too!)
From: graber@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:27:13 -0600
Organization: Mankato State University

In article <93026.003554DCC117@psuvm.psu.edu>, <DCC117@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>  OKAY THEN, it was a pathetic joke.
> 
>  you had your chance!

Sorry, I'm not a regular net reader.

Although hinting at knowledge of evil books of occult lore is one of the most
popular pastime of Lovecraft afficinados, I have always refrained from doing
so.  I maintain that most of the books mentioned by Lovecraft (and *all* the
books that people are most anxious to lay their hands on) are completely
fictious.  Made-up.  Have no basis in reality whatsoever.  

The few books I've seen purporting to be the genuine article always turn out to
be merely lame attempts to get at your wallet.

The few books that I've come across that weren't lame or boring, disgusted and
frightened me.  They were not cool, they were not adaptable to role playing,
and I will not give out the titles or any hints to their contents.  Pleading
and taunts will avail you nought.

However, to postpone any outcry I offer the title of a book that is weird in
an intresting sort of way.

TITLE: The Book of Poisons.  Translated from the German by Michael Bullock
AUTHOR: Gustav Schenk, 1905-
PUBLISHER: New York, Rinehart [1955]

The reference I have doesn't give a death date, but from the authors practice
of self-administrating near leathal doses of a wide varity of poisons in order
to write about how it *feels*, I can't belive he'd still be around.  The book
includes a quirky, metaphysical therory on how toxins work.  The writing
style shows that the author has swallowed several dozen things too many that 
he probably shouldn't have.  

The book may be useful to CoC gamemasters who would like to quote things writen
by a man "whoe has eaten of a certaine alkoloid herbe".


Gunthar

Disclaimer:This is a friends account, so mind your manners if you email.
From: bjbisset@eos.ncsu.edu (BILLY JOE BISSETTE)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Am I the only one noticing this?
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:50:01 GMT
Reply-To: bjbisset@eos.ncsu.edu (BILLY JOE BISSETTE)
Organization: Raise A Great Old One Foundation
Originator: bjbisset@c00013-118dan.eos.ncsu.edu


In article <1993Jan25.145359.19122@athena.mit.edu>, staats@athena.mit.edu () writes:
>Why are there so many Anonymous postings lately?
>Every net I look at, I see more and more Anon postings.
>Congratulations to the software designer, but I thought the
>article about the stuffed shuggoth was "cute".  I don't
>think the author would have gotten any hate mail over 
>that one.  Besides, wouldn't you still get flamed through
>the Anon mail server?
>I'm just finding this all kind of confusing, that's all.
>Alas, I guess I'll just go back and drool in the corner
>for awhile, things haven't been the same since I saw that . . .

  By golly gosh, you're right!  I hadn't noticed that, of course when you
deal with the Mythos, you learn not to notice some stuff...  So anon dudes/
dudettes, whats the reason for the anonymousness?  Afraid of flamage? Been
posting a lot of articles in the alt.sex branch lately?  Did you tell your
friends you didn't like/believe in this stuff?  Or are you afraid that
something else might come after after you...

>In service,
>Rich

  In the service?  Have you made your donation to the "Raise a Great Old One
Foundation" lately?  We are getting close to the great arising, all I need
is about $20 bucks + P&H and I can guarantee that Cthulhu(albiet a plush
and adorable one) will arise and visit the loyal followers('course he goes
home with me 8) )...

Keep the faith...
From: gilly!dave@quack.UB.com (Dave Fischer)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: What the world needs
Date: 26 Jan 1993 02:19:42 -0600
Organization: Spiders From Mars net
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

C521832@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu writes:

>Hmm, that's not a bad idea. Oddly enough, it almost exists. You can order
>stuffed toy Cthulhu dolls from The Unspeakable Oath. Sort of like Cabbage
>Patch Cthulhus. You can stick your finger in their mouth and they'll
>dangle there.
> 
>Rev

Where, where? Where's this "Unspeakable Oath"? Or does it
have an address that MUST NOT BE POSTED!?!?

(Ahem.)


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Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
From: Seth.Morris@launchpad.unc.edu (Seth Morris)
Subject: Where is CofC Mailing List?
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:12:24 GMT

 Can someone tell me wher to write to subscribe to the CofC mailing list?
 The lists in news.lists says cthulhu-request@cs.qmw.ac.uk, but that bounces
from dcs.qmw.ac.uk . Is that the site I should write? Does the list still
exist, or is it just a gateway fro this newsgroup?

 Oh well.

 Seth.Morris@laUNChpad.unc.edu

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From: bart@muppet.bt.co.uk (Tim)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Help me name my cat
Date: 27 Jan 93 08:54:22 GMT
Reply-To: bart@muppet.bt.co.uk
Organization: British Telecom
NNTP-Posting-Host: dibble.muppet.bt.co.uk

In article C521832@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu, C521832@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu () writes:

>I think HPL had a cat named Bubastis, though. (WATCHMEN, anyone?)
				^^
		And I thought Alan Moore just made it up.
		Should have known better :-)


Tim
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The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.
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Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
From: ashton@netcom.com (ashton)
Subject: Re: Where's Arkham?
Reply-To: ashton@netcom.com
Organization: Dept of Medieval Metaphysics, Miskatonic U, Arkham, Mass
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:00:47 GMT

>>In article <1993Jan18.145249.24589@athena.mit.edu> centry@athena.mit.edu (Jae H Nam) writes:
>>I heard that Arkham was based on Salem and Innsmouth was Marblehead.
>>
For What Its Worth, CoC does show Arkham as Salem, but uses Essex for
Innsmouth...
Two stories come to mind as having been set in Providence, RI,
The Shunned House
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

(sorry no church street, maybe I'll dig out one of my ugly tourist maps
of Salem)
Stuck in the Stacks ... AShTON
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
From: tnielson@kirk (THORIN NIELSON)
Subject: HP Lovecraft - Band of the 60's
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:37:55 GMT



My Dad - What a psycho, used to be in to all this shit, Lovecraft etc. And  
now I, imprisoned by my Father's gentic imprint, am also  
interested...alas.

But one interesting thing my Dad owns is two LPs by a band called

HP LOVECRAFT!!!

Some of it is rather cool, some of it is rather stupid, but it is all  
probaly rather rare because I never see any other releases of their  
albums.

Right off hand I recall two songs, and am BTW humming them in my skull:
	At the Mountains of Madness
	The Keeper of All the Keys

I think, for a (ahem) modest fee...some Cthulhu addict out there would be  
interested. Maybe?

If not, what the hell. Reply directly or post something.

Thorin Nielson -
One of Theron Marks' bestest friends.
From: garcia@husc10.harvard.edu (Javier Garcia-Torres)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Do you believe... (Was Re: Where's Arkham?)
Date: 27 Jan 93 01:35:13 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <1jsr0jINN2oo@lynx.unm.edu> chumbach@carina.unm.edu (Charles S. Humbach) writes:
>In article <1993Jan20.173348.5447@athena.mit.edu> centry@athena.mit.edu (Jae H Nam) writes:
>>So much for my dumb theory. :) Thanks for all of the replies.
>>It seems the general consensus is that Arkham is Salem.
>>
>    How could Arkham, a river city be Salem, a port city. Besides
>H.P. mentions Salem in his stories.

	This is true.  Many of HPL's characters had ancestors who had to
leave Salem rather in a hurry in the late 1600's.  Always wondered why :-)
I believe Charles Dexter Ward's ancestor was a member of the Salem
pack(sometimes my puns are so bad that I wish I could take a good look at
Y'golonac(sp?)).
From: gilly!dave@quack.UB.com (Dave Fischer)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Having my chance (and eating it too!)
Date: 28 Jan 1993 05:24:58 -0600
Organization: Flat Earth Liberation Front Against TV
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

graber@vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:

>TITLE: The Book of Poisons.  Translated from the German by Michael Bullock
>AUTHOR: Gustav Schenk, 1905-
>PUBLISHER: New York, Rinehart [1955]
>
>The reference I have doesn't give a death date, but from the authors practice
>of self-administrating near leathal doses of a wide varity of poisons in order
>to write about how it *feels*, I can't belive he'd still be around.  The book
>includes a quirky, metaphysical therory on how toxins work.  The writing
>style shows that the author has swallowed several dozen things too many that 
>he probably shouldn't have.  

Not *that*'s a cool hobbey! Of course, many people flirt with the old
"Near-lethal dosage" line with recreational drugs, but that's not nearly
so amusing.

At Hampshire, they used to (still do, anyone here know?) teach a course on
poisons every year. I always found it extremely amusing that the writeup
in the course catalog always said "There will be no lab requirements."
(or something like that). Heh heh heh heh.


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From: uphrrmk@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu,alt.discordia,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: What the world needs
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:51:45 GMT
Reply-To: uphrrmk@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University

In article <1993Jan25.021718.24697@fuug.fi>, an2192@anon.penet.fi (Lee Harvey Oswald Smith) writes:
>I have been thinking, and have come up with the answer to the question of
>what the world needs.
>
>It's  (wait for it.....)
>
>
>			STUFFED SHOGGOTHS !!!!!
>
>That's right, soft toy _things_. Hideous, loathsome elder abominations that
>you can hug when you go to bed. (The deluxe models can go "Tekeli-Li" when
>you squeeze them)
>
>Now, at last, one would be able to honestly answer the question, "Have you
>hugged your shoggoth today" in the affirmative.
>

...Actually, I have a friend back home in Minneapolis who MAKES STUFFY
CTHULHUS!!!!!!! YES, now YOU, TOO can squeeze these lovable leviathans from the
depths of Time and Space!!!  They were purple and blue and green, and just
perfect representations of our favorite demon and Presidential candidate!

                                    Hey, Kids! It's time to jump up and down
                                    like complete Maniacs until your Mom buys 
                                    one!!!

                                    La Mort.
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