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|  | "The Lure of the Kraken" by Stefano Magliocco
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Hello, and welcome to the public discussion forum of Fantastic Horror. The topic of this thread is "The Lure of the Kraken" by Stefano Magliocco, featured in Issue #0.
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If you haven't read the story yet, STOP RIGHT HERE and go read it!! This discussion may contain spoilers. At the end of the story, you'll find a link back to this thread.
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| | Re: "The Lure of the Kraken" by Stefano Magliocco
« Reply #1 on Apr 4, 2007, 6:13pm » | |
it has been said that this story is based on 'the call of cthulhu' by h.p. lovecraft. having read both stories, i see the parallels, but i think this one has enough of its own material to qualify as more than mere imitation.
i wonder what the author himself might say about this story, if there were some fantastic new way to communicate directly with the audience... would there be anything to say? or does the work speak for itself, with a big fat period?
we may never know.......... ... . . . . . . ... .. . .. . . . . . . . .... ...
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| | Re: "The Lure of the Kraken" by Stefano Magliocco
« Reply #2 on Apr 5, 2007, 5:15am » | |
I like it. Of all my work it's one of the ones I'm most proud of, but I still think it's a dirty big rip-off of "The Call of Cthulhu" - even down to the name. 
I've been told it reads very much like Blackwood, but I wrote it before I'd even read any of Blackwood's work.
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| | Re: "The Lure of the Kraken" by Stefano Magliocco
« Reply #3 on Aug 30, 2008, 4:56am » | |
i enjoyed reading this for the same reason I love reading Lovecraft. It's fun reading stuff like this. Well done!
GC
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| | Re: "The Lure of the Kraken" by Stefano Magliocco
« Reply #4 on Aug 30, 2008, 12:58pm » | |
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Hey GC.
This has nothing to do with this thread at all but I believe that it is "Captain Chaos" and "General Disarray"
Yeah, I know,
Welcome to FH.
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| | Re: "The Lure of the Kraken" by Stefano Magliocco
« Reply #5 on Aug 30, 2008, 5:31pm » | |
We Krakens can be very alluring!
When we rise from the depths to play our massed accordion rendition of "Lady of Spain", you will tremble!
Yes, tremble! And hurl! And explosively soil your linen!
Then, then, we will POLKA!
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| | Re: "The Lure of the Kraken" by Stefano Magliocco
« Reply #6 on Oct 10, 2009, 2:18pm » | |
I just finished reading this along with some other one's in the anthology and I realized that while I have read many of the stories in the forum that I haven't taken the time to read many of them once they have been completed. This was one that I haven't read before and enjoyed it quite a bit. It was very subtle yet disturbing just the same and since I am not a Lovecraft buff like many of our contributors I find no need to compare to anything else.
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