True Detective plagiarized?

[Mark Thibodeau]

Amazing that, what with all the sniffing out of plagiarism in True
Detective - AND what with others having sniffed out the Moore line
from Top Ten - nobody (aside from myself, on the very obscure Rigorous
Intuition message board) has noticed the similarities between True
Detective and the (even more obscure) Alan Moore-penned,
Lovecraft-inspired black and white crime comic, The Courtyard.

Oh, actually, a few more people HAVE noticed...

http://comicsalliance.com/true-detective-comic-books-weird-fiction-secrets-influences-alan-moore-grant-morrison-invisibles-hbo/

J

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anybody here ever get into Ramsey Campbell's work? Some fantastic short stories.
>
> J
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> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:02 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ligotti's OK. Not sure I buy the modern heir to HPL line but he was readable
>> along withe the likes of TED Klein, Dennis Etchison, Charles L Grant, etc. I
>> loved these guys growing up though only Robert Aickman has stuck with me
>> through the years. A handful of stories but what great things they are. Very
>> British unlike the above dudes. And very un lovecraft-like. Very subtle
>> strange unease.
>>
>> I'm reading ST Joshi's mammoth Lovecraft bio. The life is intriguing me more
>> than the work
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, August 6, 2014, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://lovecraftzine.com/2014/08/04/did-the-writer-of-true-detective-plagiarize-thomas-ligotti-and-others/
>>>
>>> Anyone here read Ligotti? This is the first I've ever heard of him, so
>>> it's hard for me to judge how "Ligottian" True Detecive is. I find the
>>> charges very believable, given how none of Cohle's dark worldview, or even
>>> the many references to the Yellow King ultimately had a shred of relevance
>>> to the final episode.
>>>
>>> Laura
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