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|  | "Green Hell" by Richard Eline
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Hello, and welcome to the public discussion forum of Fantastic Horror. The topic of this thread is "Green Hell" by Richard Eline, featured in Issue #8.
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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 text, you'll find a link back to this thread.
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| | Re: "Green Hell" by Richard Eline
« Reply #1 on Oct 7, 2008, 2:21pm » | |
this is only the latest episode in Fantastic Horror's first and longest-running (yet untitled) serial:
Song of Shub-Niggurath
The Prague Quarto
The Hawthorn Stake
The Discovery
The Return of Camazotz
The Green Room
The Lonely Grave
Green Hell
i guess it's been a while since i've sent much feedback your way, other than the results of my persnickety editing. we have a pretty groovy deal in the workshop where you simply trust me not to cramp your style at the last minute and things generally turn out crispy golden brown.
you've referred to this as a Mythos series, in reference to the 'cthulhu mythos' of hp lovecraft. certainly it does bear the marks of conceptual ancestry, not only in subject matter but right there in the dialogue sometimes—and i appreciate your handling of the mythos. you don't merely drop spooky names and staple tentacles to everything; you make a conscious effort to prop up the real structure of the mythos as it was first intended. i totally salute that. we are of like mind regarding derleth's impact, good and bad. he wrote some very readable stories but singlehandedly steered the lovecraft boat back to port and turned it into a museum of heavenly oddities instead of relating the true essence of hpl's stories, which is readily apparent to anyone sporting some degree of existential angst.
don't fail to read krak's essay "The Cosmic Horror Thing" in the SLM half of this issue, and his short story "The Ship" on our side, to see more through his window on modern horror's infinite playground.
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| | Re: "Green Hell" by Richard Eline
« Reply #2 on Oct 7, 2008, 4:18pm » | |
I strive for a certain degree of uncertainty in these stories!
What is this thing, why did it come here, what does it want?
An egg? An escape pod? An experiment gone wrong? A form of punishment for a transgressive creature?
We'll never know, any more than we'll know why the Green Room Complex exists. When science is sufficiently advanced, it becomes magic.
I've loved the Mythos for fifty years-and this is my way of honoring a literary convention as traditional as the sonnet or sestina.
The Good Ship Lovecraft is no longer a floating museum, moored at the dock and gathering weed. The lines have been cast off, the sails set, and a new generation of writers are sailing into those dark waters.
I have but followed their charts and compass headings.
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