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Forum: Other Authors 02-26-2018
Replies: 9
Views: 6,090
Posted By Ruina
Re: What are your feelings about the current wave of Counter-James fiction?

This actually would be more fitting than using the same approach on certain other authors. There is a cosy feel in James fiction that would go well with cute fluffy otherworldly horrors, and of...
Forum: General Discussion 02-14-2018
Replies: 8
Views: 5,727
Posted By Ruina
Re: Soviet Weird?

James, oh, you reminded me where one can find really a lot of horror material made in the socialist countries - cartoons! There was a lot of bleak, bizarre or surreal cartoons made in the Soviet...
Forum: General Discussion 02-12-2018
Replies: 8
Views: 5,727
Posted By Ruina
Re: Soviet Weird?

Unlike Science Fiction, fantasy genre was discouraged in the Soviet Union so there isn't really much horror written there and the closest thing would be "accidental slips", that is, works in other...
Forum: Mark Samuels 07-12-2017
Replies: 31
Views: 21,729
Posted By Ruina
Re: Leonid Andreyev: A Tribute Anthology

I wouldn't call the modern Russian weird fiction very developed (which is strange since they have so much more potential for it than for more traditional horror) but maybe some writers would be...
Forum: Mark Samuels 07-10-2017
Replies: 31
Views: 21,729
Posted By Ruina
Re: Leonid Andreyev: A Tribute Anthology

I tried. It was engaging at the beginning, but then the story sort of weakened and I didn't make it to the end. Still, this author may be of a great interest for weird fiction fans. I remember being...
Forum: Off Topic 05-09-2017
Replies: 36
Views: 18,701
Posted By Ruina
Re: Erotic Literature

I like Masoch's Venus in Furs quite a bit, but more for its ridiculous XIX century melodramaticism than for any erotic qualities.
Forum: Off Topic 05-02-2017
Replies: 7
Views: 8,060
Posted By Ruina
Re: Feminist Literature/Authors

Can Brite be considered a feminist writer? All his books I read seemed almost misogynistic.
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 04-28-2017
Replies: 554
Views: 171,073
Posted By Ruina
Re: Octavia E. Butler against Lovecraft (World Fantasy Award).

It's pretty easy to imagine a horror writer using metaphors of real-life problems that bother them in their fiction instead of writing about them directly because they find it more...
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 04-28-2017
Replies: 554
Views: 171,073
Posted By Ruina
Re: Octavia E. Butler against Lovecraft (World Fantasy Award).

Well, this is indeed a common feature of the Lovecraft fandom. In comparison to, for example, Ligotti or Tolkien fans, there is a lot more focus on the character of Lovecraft himself, and many are...
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 04-28-2017
Replies: 554
Views: 171,073
Posted By Ruina
Re: Octavia E. Butler against Lovecraft (World Fantasy Award).

By consensus I meant mainstream, most commonly held opinions, obviously not everyone thinks alike. Like "if a book or movie about the revolution is made, what kind of representation is most likely be...
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 04-28-2017
Replies: 554
Views: 171,073
Posted By Ruina
Re: Octavia E. Butler against Lovecraft (World Fantasy Award).

I'd say that painting Lovecraft as an always decent person with despicable political views would be simplification. He was a good friend but I'm really not a fan of his treatment of his wife, it...
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 04-26-2017
Replies: 554
Views: 171,073
Posted By Ruina
Re: Octavia E. Butler against Lovecraft (World Fantasy Award).

That's not impossible but his current overall popularity is too huge for that to happen.
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 04-25-2017
Replies: 554
Views: 171,073
Posted By Ruina
Re: Octavia E. Butler against Lovecraft (World Fantasy Award).

Is there a trope for a fanatically dedicated writer or journalist (similar to the mad scientist one)? Because he certainly looks like one.

Hm, were hardcover books more common in the past?
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 04-22-2017
Replies: 554
Views: 171,073
Posted By Ruina
Re: Octavia E. Butler against Lovecraft (World Fantasy Award).

Hm. What alternative solution would you prefer? I mean, the old award doesn't seem that fitting to me even without the racism issue.
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 04-19-2017
Replies: 554
Views: 171,073
Posted By Ruina
Re: Octavia E. Butler against Lovecraft (World Fantasy Award).

Heh, I would love to live in a town that awards this for good citizenship... or, rather, to read about it, because living there could surely have unpredictable consequences.
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 04-19-2017
Replies: 554
Views: 171,073
Posted By Ruina
Re: Octavia E. Butler against Lovecraft (World Fantasy Award).

So, here is the new statuette: Locus Online News New World Fantasy Awards Trophy (http://www.locusmag.com/News/2017/04/new-world-fantasy-awards-trophy/)

It looks much better than the old one to...
Forum: Art 04-14-2017
Replies: 1
Views: 2,850
Posted By Ruina
Re: Illustrations of Lorca, Poe and Durrenmatt

Beautiful. Quite fitting for Lorca, though not exactly for his Gypsy Ballads poems - more for later, less traditional works.
Forum: Film 04-10-2017
Replies: 1,077
Views: 580,560
Posted By Ruina
Re: Movie Recommendations

Such a pretty movie. Though I never understood why is this movie so popular in Norway of all places.
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 04-10-2017
Replies: 35
Views: 22,107
Posted By Ruina
Re: Lovecraft and Barlow

What I like the most about his philosophy is the notion about necessity of pleasure in the human life which he bases on that very "cosmic horror" outlook that is usually associated with him. That's...
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 04-09-2017
Replies: 35
Views: 22,107
Posted By Ruina
Re: Lovecraft and Barlow

Very uncharacteristic optimism.
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 04-06-2017
Replies: 35
Views: 22,107
Posted By Ruina
Re: Lovecraft and Barlow

Got it. Playing Devil's advocate, though, one can argue that he didn't mention HPL because he didn't want getting his name into scandal, which would unavoidably happen even if it was just one-sided...
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 04-03-2017
Replies: 35
Views: 22,107
Posted By Ruina
Re: Lovecraft and Barlow

All homosexuality-related complains about this book I've seen so far were related not with the homosexuality itself but the huge age difference. Maybe if the author chose someone other for...
Forum: Other News 03-24-2017
Replies: 39
Views: 22,799
Posted By Ruina
Re: H.P. Lovecraft and the Alt.Right

Really? I've never seen this.

Any love right wingers show for Lovecraft makes me terribly sad, but at least it makes some sense, especially in the light of his earlier views (he was a monarchist...
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 03-24-2017
Replies: 35
Views: 22,107
Posted By Ruina
Re: Lovecraft and Barlow

Well, you're not really famous until they write slash about you. It just proves HPL is a real superstar now. :D And considering the specifics of Lovecraft fandom, of course it's gonna be a published...
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 03-22-2017
Replies: 35
Views: 22,107
Posted By Ruina
Re: Lovecraft and Barlow

Well, the premise of this new book looks a bit unusual, but certainly less so than Edward Lee's Lovecraftian books. :rolleyes: From the articles I've read it seems the author likes Barlow a lot - it...
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