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Just in time for spooky reading season!🍂
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"The art is to kill your soul."
It's hard to put it more succinctly than that.
youtu.be/Kcu8qhbmhqs?si=v7uS…
"…the best hammer of the iconoclast will not serve withal to carve the celestial form of the Real…"
— There and Back, George MacDonald (1891)
I thought the Chosen had ended with season 5. I enjoyed season 1 — especially the episodes with Nicodemus and the one with the kids. The rest… not as much.
"She stared into the milky, star-sapphire-like blue, as if, out of the sweetly veiled terror-gulf, she would, by very gazing, draw the living face of God."
— There and Back, George MacDonald
Ladybird Horror Classics "The Mummy" — actually an adaptation of ACD's Lot No. 249 (perhaps *the* mummy story).
youtu.be/sHssqIQ_3VM?si=0RB4…
I'm watching Graveyard Shift (1990, directed by Ralph S. Singleton). Not a great movie, and there's a constant question mark hovering over my head wrt character motivation, but a fun Halloween-time watch. 🎃
ALT Show's ovah!
"In that shrieking the inmost soul of human fear and agony clawed hopelessly and insanely at the ebony gates of oblivion."
A favorite from HPL. Of course that's from "The Shadow on the Chimney" — chapter 1 of The Lurking Fear.
ALT Oh hai! Art by Michael Whelan.
So haunted it's forced to turn ghosts away. 👻
VAMPIRE GRAVES
Graves that indicate disturbance could suggest that a #VAMPIRE is lying within according to folklore. Vampire hunters must look for deep holes, sunken graves, crooked crosses or tombstones and the presence of an eerie bluish light at night #31DaysofHalloween
Orcs — Tolkien's orcs anyway (and goblins, trolls, and other servants of the enemy) — don't have free will. They're slaves. That's how I've always understood it.
So, an Orc will free will? No, not while Sauron was still around.
I'm reading a prose poem —
written by an American writer,
about an abbey in England,
listening to a symphony by a French composer*,
and drinking an Irish whiskey**.
There's something about this Western culture.
* Bizet — Symphonie Fantastique
** Tullamore Dew
"On one of those sober and rather melancholy days in the latter part of autumn when the shadows of morning and evening almost mingle together, and throw a gloom over the decline of the year, I passed several hours in rambling about Westminster Abbey."
— Westminster Abbey, Irving
I just read M. R. James The Mezzotint. One of my favorites. I like this reproduction of the titular work — alas, I've no idea who made it.
Of course, *this* version doesn't change. So, don't bother to watch it. 💀
Monday book mail — today it's Manly Wade Wellman's The School of Darkness (1985). The second of two John Thunstone novels.
I enjoyed John Carpenter's Cathedral. The story itself is relatively simple, reminding me of Prince of Darkness and The Thing at times. The art and the book's production value really make it though.
And it is fun to listen to the soundtrack as you read.
Oddly, not an uncommon position, but one with which I strongly disagree. teapaw.org/RelatablewABS/status/2…
Listening to John Carpenter's Cathedral. I see that the comic book (graphic novel?) gets mixed reviews. However the music is quite good. Very John Carpenter, but with more guitars.
Rat Portage — mentioned in Algernon Blackwood's The Wendigo — is a real place. It's called Kenora now and is southwest Ontario.
