Lovecraft Tales

[richard romeo]

thanks much--will read with pleasure. Colour is also Lovecraft's
favorite, too I believe.
for me, it'll always be At the Mountains of Madness

rich


On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:49:52 -0500, snappydresser
<snappydresser at rogers.com> wrote:
> The Colour Out of Space is STILL the straight-up creepiest science fiction
> story ever written.
> 
> Anyone on the P-List ever read Michel Houellebecq's "H.P. Lovecraft: Against
> the World, Against Life"?
> 
> "Life is disappointing and full of sorrow. It would be pointless, then, to
> write more realist novels. In general, we know already what reality has in
> store for us; and we have not the slightest desire to know more."
> 
> That's the first line. It only gets better from there.
> 
> There's a free, downloadable PDF version available here, translated from the
> French:
> 
> http://blog.urbanomic.com/dread/archives/2005/01/lovecraft.html
> 
> YOPJ
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "richard romeo" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> To: "pynchon-l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>; <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 11:19 AM
> Subject: Lovecraft Tales
> 
> > Howdy--
> >
> > Highly recommend the new Library of America edition of Lovecraft
> > Tales--think the only thing of the longer pieces not included that I
> > wish was is The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (which I'm reading now
> > again)--hard to believe Lovecraft never did opium after reading this
> > wild ride of a novel.
> >
> > blessings in black
> >
> > rich
> 
>