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"The Coyman Manuscript" pt. 2 by JJ Burke
« Thread Started on Jul 31, 2007, 4:49pm »

Hello, and welcome to the public discussion forum of Fantastic Horror. The topic of this thread is "The Coyman Manuscript" pt. 2 by JJ Burke, featured in Issue #2.

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Re: "The Coyman Manuscript" pt. 2 by JJ Burke
« Reply #1 on Aug 2, 2007, 2:14pm »

I've been following this story for a while now, reading and re-reading it at wide intervals since it first made its appearance over at The Temple of Dagon. It's evolved somewhat since then, but the core story and the main characteristics remain--a horror half-understood and communicated from a distance, further details gradually revealed by a solitary investigation and--the rest.

It's a kind of Lovecraftian story but with numerous departures in setting, characters and tone--all significant and to the good. I like the exactness of the descriptions--not long but attentive. And the story plays strongly from the widespread idea (not without merit) that in the rapidity and sometimes heedlessness of development there is something covered up or falsified, as well as the possibility of strange uncalculated or unintended consequences.

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Re: "The Coyman Manuscript" pt. 2 by JJ Burke
« Reply #2 on Aug 16, 2007, 10:18am »

an insightful response as usual! and since this is a lovecraftianesquish story, the land development is a metaphor for knowledge—the collective knowledge of humanity, or just one person. like the typical lovecraft protagonist, emiel walden is too inquisitive (and maybe just too smart) for his own good. a strong, healthy mind can seem like an invincible thing, but we know better: not all questions should be answered, and some should not even be asked.

in homage i have included references to 'the terror from the depths' by fritz leiber. the narrator of that story wrote the book of poetry found by emiel walden here in 'the coyman manuscript.' if anyone can recommend more leiber stories, i will gladly look them up. this is the only one of his i've read (i guess he wrote more fantasy & sci-fi type stuff). but he obviously got the point of lovecraft's mythos, and brought it out to the west coast.

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