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Forum: Other Authors 11-04-2013
Replies: 117
Views: 69,664
Posted By Joel
Re: Joel Lane

Thanks, people. I must fly – a family emergency kept me from the awards ceremony and is still commanding my time, but getting the news of the award late last night was a great morale-booster.
Forum: General Discussion 10-26-2013
Replies: 75
Views: 58,167
Posted By Joel
Re: Clark Ashton Smith

Couple of further points – when looking at Eliot, people rather fixate on 'The Waste Land' as defining modernism, which it may have done for many readers but it's quite atypical of Eliot – 'Four...
Forum: General Discussion 10-26-2013
Replies: 75
Views: 58,167
Posted By Joel
Re: Clark Ashton Smith

Thanks for the contents list and for these observations, Masonwire and Draugen. There's some wonderful stuff in the line-up but also a few stories I'm less sure about – 'The Seven Geases' and...
Forum: Ligotti News 10-25-2013
Replies: 28
Views: 15,258
Posted By Joel
Re: Nominating T.L. for Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award

Hope you're keeping well, Nicole, and I applaud your initiative here. While Ligotti's body of work within the weird fiction genre is not huge it's bigger than that of, for example, M.R. James or...
Forum: General Discussion 10-25-2013
Replies: 75
Views: 58,167
Posted By Joel
Re: Clark Ashton Smith

The Penguin Modern Classics volume is great news. No doubt argument over what has and hasn't been included will rage across taverns and forums on more planets than this one. A few stories I'm hoping...
Forum: Other News 10-21-2013
Replies: 52
Views: 32,349
Posted By Joel
Re: Sorcery and Sanctity: A Homage to Arthur Machen

I haven't got the time or energy for this nonsense – but for the record, I did not take any part in, let alone orchestrate, any smear campaign against the Machen anthology or any other book that Mark...
Forum: Other News 10-20-2013
Replies: 52
Views: 32,349
Posted By Joel
Re: Sorcery and Sanctity: A Homage to Arthur Machen

I've been reading through this thread in growing confusion, trying to work out what the f*** this has to do with me. My agenda regarding this book was to buy it when it was published, and I was...
Forum: Items Wanted 09-24-2013
Replies: 1
Views: 3,833
Posted By Joel
Re: Ghouls In My Grave

They are, or you are?
Forum: General Discussion 09-15-2013
Replies: 10
Views: 9,593
Posted By Joel
Re: Ambrose Bierce's weird fiction

i concur with the recommendations of both the Tartarus and the Dover volumes – the latter was my introduction to Bierce, back in the 1970s and courtesy of my local library. His major original...
Forum: General Discussion 08-22-2013
Replies: 11
Views: 8,022
Posted By Joel
Re: What's Ligotti's prose style like?

In haste – this site features some chunky Ligotti quotes that are replaced every few hours, so recurrent visits will give you snapshots of his work. Ligotti's prose style has always been 'Gothic' and...
Forum: General Discussion 07-21-2013
Replies: 22
Views: 11,844
Posted By Joel
Re: Ligotti Interview Question

Er, I don't think it's fair to ask personal questions in an interview of this kind. But I'd love to ask a question such as: There are very few valid consensual sexual relationships in your stories,...
Forum: Ligotti News 07-10-2013
Replies: 89
Views: 43,709
Posted By Joel
Re: Happy Birthday, Thomas Ligotti

Happy birthday to the uncle of existential dread! All best wishes for future contentment and creativity!
Forum: Happy Birthday 07-09-2013
Replies: 11
Views: 4,895
Posted By Joel
Re: Happy Birthday Sand

Happy birthday, Mr Sand!
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 06-18-2013
Replies: 295
Views: 137,184
Posted By Joel
Re: More on Lovecraft

Druidic, I had a similar thought to you about the ending of 'The Call of Cthulhu' but then realised the suggestiveness of 'executors' had misled me – it suggests 'executioners' but doesn't, of...
Forum: Quentin S. Crisp 06-14-2013
Replies: 126
Views: 78,985
Posted By Joel
Re: Quentin S. Crisp

At least one can be confident that the hair in question comes from nowhere more intimate than the esteemed author's scalp, and not even too close to there, Mr Crisp being blessed with a full head of...
Forum: Personal 06-08-2013
Replies: 56
Views: 34,305
Posted By Joel
Re: The Agony Column

Very sorry to hear that, GSS and Justin. These are ugly times for employees, with the threat of joblessness used to bully and coerce those still on the payroll. Best of luck as regards finding...
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 06-04-2013
Replies: 295
Views: 137,184
Posted By Joel
Re: More on Lovecraft

P.S. To be fair, Lovecraft's early writing style works well enough in the more dreamlike stories such as 'The Music of Erich Zann'. But it couldn't support more complex and structured narratives.
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 06-04-2013
Replies: 295
Views: 137,184
Posted By Joel
Re: More on Lovecraft

Interesting stuff. I agree that the restored texts are essential – indeed, they have significantly enhanced my opinion of three major Lovecraft stories.

With regard to Lovecraft's racism, it's...
Forum: Quentin S. Crisp 05-24-2013
Replies: 126
Views: 78,985
Posted By Joel
Re: Quentin S. Crisp

Des, I doubt whether even QSC has a hairy shed.
Forum: Prose 05-06-2013
Replies: 13
Views: 9,937
Posted By Joel
Re: The Story I Always Wanted Ramsey Campbell to Write

Gveranon, I have similar problems – my doctor says it's just stress and having too many things to remember. I think it's having too many things to forget, but let's not go there. Anyway don't worry...
Forum: Prose 05-06-2013
Replies: 13
Views: 9,937
Posted By Joel
Re: The Story I Always Wanted Ramsey Campbell to Write

Dylan was annoyed by 'Norwegian Wood' because, according to him, Lennon wrote it after he had played the Beatles the unrecorded '4th Time Around' and it was a straightforward steal of the tune. It's...
Forum: Prose 05-05-2013
Replies: 13
Views: 9,937
Posted By Joel
Re: The Story I Always Wanted Ramsey Campbell to Write

Glad this discussion is continuing amicably.

I only referred to my own bad reaction to mockery of my voice to illustrate the general point that parody can be more hurtful than the writer realises...
Forum: Prose 05-05-2013
Replies: 13
Views: 9,937
Posted By Joel
Re: The Story I Always Wanted Ramsey Campbell to Write

Montag, I've only read a few of the condensed parodies Ligotti wrote a while back (recently republished but beyond my purse), but I think he left living writers alone. This exchange reflects the...
Forum: General Discussion 05-02-2013
Replies: 22
Views: 14,171
Posted By Joel
Re: Methods of Antinatalism

Lenny Bruce used to talk about the man who'd been shipwrecked on an island and later rescued, who confessed he'd been so lonely he'd screwed the muddy ground. Bruce imagined the man's wife taking...
Forum: General Discussion 05-02-2013
Replies: 22
Views: 14,171
Posted By Joel
Re: Methods of Antinatalism

Well, the story does have a certain crossover appeal.

I've written two stories about people getting excited (in different ways) by being under a bridge when a train goes over it. But it's not the...
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