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|  | "The Mansion by the Sea" by Jack Faber
« Thread Started on Dec 9, 2008, 7:44am » | ![[Quote]](http://s2.images.proboards.com/buttons/quote.gif "[Quote]") |
Hello, and welcome to the public discussion forum of Fantastic Horror. The topic of this thread is "The Mansion by the Sea" by Jack Faber, featured in Issue #9.
Writers and artists love to get feedback, especially when it's thoughtful and constructive. Please take a moment to share your thoughts, and help keep the Fantastic Horror community alive!
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: "The Mansion by the Sea" by Jack Faber
« Reply #1 on Dec 10, 2008, 3:20pm » | |
i think of 'the mansion by the sea' as allegorical for the FH experience. certainly not that fantastic horror is a megalithic landmark in any sense, but the theme of being driven on a lonely mission away from what is familiar and into timeless, elaborate, impossible environments—it's not unlike the experience of a creative artist who goes off the beaten path, off the mainstream market radar, to seek a more thoroughly personal comprehension of things.
yeah it's kooky, but it's what i think. read the story and tell me i'm wrong. i double frog dare you
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| | Re: "The Mansion by the Sea" by Jack Faber
« Reply #2 on Dec 11, 2008, 12:56pm » | |
...once again I'm blessed to read this wonderful story. Hats off for a tale well-told. Ther are times that it reminds me of the dream-like quality of Lovecraft's "Dunsanian phase", so well was it penned.
Yes, Fantastic Horror isn't Weird Tales, Cemetary Dance, or any of the other so-called "bigs." But with stories like this filling F.H.'s pages, we can be thankful, indeed.
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