Scan The Man Of Stone Translated By H.P. Lovecraft Readable In Audio Books
can tell which parts are not Lovecraft because there is a female character who is not a mother, and she has feelings and they are actually significant to the plot.
I wonder if this petrifaction formula is related to the one in sitelinkThe King in Yellow If so, does that mean or does it work differently if you drink it instead of bathe in it Abusive relationship and a little bit of cosmic horror.
Working with Hazel really paid off in this one, Ive never seen such an appropriate woman character in Lovecrafts works as Rose, The most interesting thing about the book is that it lets you see the story from two different perspectives, First off I didn't read the Nook version listed, I got it free from the HPL website, Now
HPL's collaborations with Hazel Heald spark some disagreements as to exactly what if anything she contributed, Some say she supplied a rough plot and HPL ran with it, Others say she did the first draft and HPL rewrote it, THE MAN OF STONE provides an interesting source of speculation, For starters it is totally unlike HPL in that it doesn't contain of the tonguetwisting adjectives that make you rush for the dictionary that or simply throw up your hands and skip over them.
It is written in straight forward English with nothing to trip you up along the way, Also the first third contains more dialogue than one normally finds in his work, But after that we default to the tried and true cliche diary entry which places us squarely in HPL territory as the person slowly and at great length outlines EVERY detail of what transpired.
And he tosses in the usual R'Lyehian phrases altho this time not so many,
I actually enjoyed the first third better than the rest, Two guys explore a cave and find statues of a dog and a man only to learn they aren't statues after all but real creatures who have turned to stone.
How Was there some vapor in the cave that caused it It's an interesting premise that should have been put to better use, Instead we get the evil descendant of an evil ancestor who passed down an evil book of spells blah blah blah,
As many have said, secondrate HPL is better than firstrate fill in the blank, But perhaps because this was a collaboration, and there are those who say HPL didn't really like Hazel Heald and did it strictly for the money, it may be he only put in enough effort to make a passable story that would sell.
An okay effort, but certainly not a great one, But at the same time, better than anything another socalled King of the genre could come up with, A local bad man, literally named Mad Dan by neighbours discovers through books of black magic left by distant relatives how to turn living things into stone.
He uses this to wreak havoc on his lodger who is a sculptor, and his wife who has formed a strong attachment to the new occupant of the house.
Enjoyable and original horror, "Teníamos pocas dudas de que la cosa de piedra hubiera sido una vez un hombre, y algo en aquella idea nos puso nerviosos a ambos, "
En las cimas de una montaña encuentran dos esculturas de piedra, La primera es de un perro y la segunda es de un hombre, Ambas asombran por su impresionante realismo, En un inicio creen que son obras de un escultor que se había asentado en la región poco tiempo antes, pero pronto descubrirán que no son obra de el y su cisel.
Historia en colaboración entre la escritora Hazel Heald y Lovecraft, Habitualmente me suelen gustar mucho las historias menores de Lovecraft y las colaboraciones, En esta oportunidad mas aya del misterio inicial y un interesante desenlace, incluyendo ocultismo,venganza y mas venganza, Me parece una buena historia, pero no me termino de deslumbrar,
Tiene la particularidad de ser una colaboración con una mujer sabemos que Lovecraft y las mujeres no eran muy compatibles, Comenzando por su madre. Y también que un personaje femenino cumple un papel que no es muy habitual en sus historias con dos roles Petrified they lay, . . man and wife and behind this grim tragedy was the diary of the madman, . .
Minimally illustrated, Wordsworth Editions
London.
One of Lovecraft s western horror amalgams,
The language is powerful and vivid, It has high levels of vernacular in it, The vernacular in all Lovecraft s opus could be seen as an antimodernist part of the vibe, Why Because it is the vernacular of the countryside folk, mostly
white, and what do liberals and feminist hate more than the countryside folk, especially white folk.
The deluded transgender totalitarians hate all people from the hamlets and fields, because these people are the strongest force of normality and freedom, Leftists hate freedom, leftist want control and slavery, What is more free than a family with plenty toddlers and a strong father figure What is more normal than that
Feminism, like all totalitarian ideologies, hates family, because with strong families how can one become a pious social justice warrior How can one love the State, love Babylon if he loves most his family How can one question his gender if he was loved by his family
That is the main reason to destroy family, family is freedom, family is rebelliion in today s degenerate sustainable and feminist world.
But let me show you an example of a vernacular in this novella:
"Wheeler he had finally wheezed, Oh, yeh that feller as was all the time blastin rocks and cuttin em into statues, So yew knowed him, hey", "
Vernacular never has newspeak in it, not any gender neutral neologisms,
Lexically the world "feller" stands as a vernacular form of the standard "fellow", Morphologically we got her "blastin" and "cuttin" as an abstract vernacular phenomenon, The most outstanding morphological example is "yew" an adjectiveverb amalgam that I as a Croat never before encountered,
And the content
This novella depicts "devilish queer conditions up there", A remote area full of Indian legends and a modern sceptic protagonist who will realise how rationalism is naive,
It has a stronger psychologicalhorrorlike nature about it than you usually find in Lovercraft,
I recommend it!
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