Talk:The Haunter of the Dark

message: I probably shouldn't write this here, but my copy of The Haunter of the Dark starts with a poem by "Nemesis", "I have seen the Dark Universe young, where planets roll without aim, where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or lustre or name"
Can anyone shed some light on what this is?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.187.6.201 (talk) 10:53, February 24, 2006
:I think it's supposed to be a passage from one of those weird old books, like the Necronomicon or something. Basically, Lovecraft liked using such things to set the mood.
:-Zero.exe— Preceding unsigned comment added by Zero.exe (talk • contribs) 12:12, August 2, 2006 (UTC)
 
::It's actually derived from one of Lovecraft's own poems, Nemesis.--Auric talk 00:27, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
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message: The following is the original page history for the "Shining Trapezohedron":
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*  18:44, 12 November 2005 Coleopterous (minor wording) 
*  23:31, 4 November 2005 Marudubshinki m (Popups-assisted redirection bypass from Starry Wisdom Cult to Cthulhu mythos cults) 
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thread_title:  Merged [[Shining Trapezohedron]] 

message: Blake deserves his own article as there is much more to do with the character than just "The Haunter of the Dark"
I'm thinking that the Blake stuff should be included here because the fairly complex situation--involving a series of stories written by two separate authors, and characters that are based on both authors plus a third--ought to be in one place, and the best known element of the sequence is "The Haunter of the Dark".  It's hard to tell the story in pieces. Nareek 12:13, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not really a question of whether Blake "deserves" an article--it's a question of how to organize the information in a way that makes sense for the reader.  The subject is a trilogy of stories that as far as I know has no accepted name. There's a character who is unnamed in the first story, is called Robert Blake in the second, and is dead at the start of the third, which to me makes telling the story of the trilogy under the title "Robert Harrison Blake" problematic.  Nareek 19:34, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[Robert Harrison Blake]] 

message: The whole article IMO is overly centered on Robert Bloch and his two works which bracket "Haunter".  There is no reason why Bloch's works and concepts should not feature in WP, but preferably not so as to take over an article about a work by another author, especially one better-known than Bloch.  I've edited the plot summary (see above) but the rest needs attention too Chrismorey (talk) 02:14, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orientation to Bloch