The Temple of Dagon

ok, i just read this one because it was brought up in the chaparral heights thread.. first thing: the 2 stories bear no resemblance to each other, which jp would have known if he had bothered to read my first draft.

personal projects aside, i have to say that i wasn't really blown away by this story. i mean the concepts are pretty interesting, but i never really had a knee-slapping moment of 'never saw that coming.' the narration has a couple of moments of recapping clues from earlier, but i pretty much got the point of all those clues the first time around. so there wasn't a hell of a lot of mystery, as i saw it.

anyway, it's still a decent story, and i wouldn't tell anyone to avoid it.

also, i might get the hankering to draw brown jenkin. i found some pictures in a google image search, and none of them are really how he looks in my head. also, i just like the name 'brown jenkin.' it sounds like it could be a lot of things.. a little ratty sidekick; a type of hat; an inadvisable mixed drink; something the hooker charges extra for..... such a versatile name

JJ Burke wrote:ok, i just read this one because it was brought up in the chaparral heights thread.. first thing: the 2 stories bear no resemblance to each other, which jp would have known if he had bothered to read my first draft.

I explained my logic in your thread.


About the rest, I liked it from an isnpiration standpoint, but reading it for the sake of just reading it, not a good idea.

I thought it was a brilliant story. I mean, come on, bending dimensions through math and the occult? Can you ask for more? Nay! Espicially once you watch through this http://www.tenthdimension.com.nyud.net:8080/flash.php

Besides, Brown Jenkins is the only Lovecraft created 'thing' thats ever really scared me.

Am I the only one that found "The Colour Out Of Space" distubring?

i know some places that could use a good heath blasting

The Colour Out Of Space is one of my favourite stories, I always found it particularly disturbing because the colour has distinct parallels with nuclear fallout, which Lovecraft wouldn't have been aware of at the time.

Plus the crazy woman living in the attic. That was fucking creepy.

aie! i haven't read it all the through yet JP! You burn my eyes with your minor spoilers!

Bah, it's incredibly minor. How far through it are you? Has Cthulhu come down and had a naked mud-wrestling match with Shub-Niggurath yet?

That's the best bit, really lets HPL show his flair for the erotic.

Enkil wrote:http://www.tenthdimension.com.nyud.net:8080/flash.php

that's a nice presentation.. except the url didn't work for me. just go to tenthdimension.com

Pinonomicon wrote:The Colour Out Of Space is one of my favourite stories....

A fun take on this story is "A Little Color in Your Cheeks" by Mike Minnis. It appears in William Jones' Horrors Beyond.

~John

Pinonomicon wrote:That's the best bit, really lets HPL show his flair for the erotic.

Yep, that black goat really knows how to mud-wrassle.

And we all know what 'black goat' is a euphemism for...

"Purple head".