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I'm delighted to announce that Founders House is now accepting advance orders for The Nyogtha Variations, the sequel to The Shoggoth Concerto. Here's the back cover blurb: *************
A Whisper from Carcosa...
Five years have passed since Brecken Kendall met the shoggoth she nicknamed Sho and began to discover the unnerving realities hidden behind the stories of iconic weird-fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft. Now Brecken and Sho live in Arkham, Massachusetts, where Brecken juggles the demands of her day job with the early stages of her career as a Baroque composer and musician, and helps Sho stay hidden from the human world and raise six unruly shoggoth broodlings. The mysterious powers and uncanny beings she encountered five years back have faded into the background of her life—and so has the Radiance, the powerful and secret organization that seeks to exterminate shoggoths and all other eldritch beings in its quest for human supremacy over the entire cosmos.
But strange forces are moving through the narrow streets of witch-haunted Arkham as Brecken is drawn into a tangled web of plot and counterplot in which the stakes are hidden and friend is indistinguishable from foe. At the heart of the conflict is her latest musical project, a Baroque chamber opera based on the brilliant and haunting play The King in Yellow. As the opera moves toward its first performance in Arkham, the Radiance is in motion; so are its enemies, the secretive warriors who serve the Yellow Sign; so is the living darkness the old books call Nyogtha, The Thing That Should Not Be—and so is the Great Old One Hastur, the King in Yellow himself...
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Interested? Copies of the print edition can be preordered here -- the e-book edition will be up for preorder at the same website within a few days.
In other news of interest to weird tales fans, the Design Mechanism -- the roleplaying games company that devised Mythras, the rule system at the heart of my forthcoming RPG Weird of Hali -- is about to launch a kickstarter for a new game titled Casting the Runes: Occult Investigation in the World of M.R. James. It's based on the GUMSHOE rule system, a quick lively RPG system designed for games of investigation, and the preview version (which you can get here -- it's the one on the far left) looks really promising. Interested? The Kickstarter page is here, and will be live tomorrow; check it out.
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Interested? Copies of the print edition can be preordered here -- the e-book edition will be up for preorder at the same website within a few days.
In other news of interest to weird tales fans, the Design Mechanism -- the roleplaying games company that devised Mythras, the rule system at the heart of my forthcoming RPG Weird of Hali -- is about to launch a kickstarter for a new game titled Casting the Runes: Occult Investigation in the World of M.R. James. It's based on the GUMSHOE rule system, a quick lively RPG system designed for games of investigation, and the preview version (which you can get here -- it's the one on the far left) looks really promising. Interested? The Kickstarter page is here, and will be live tomorrow; check it out.
Soggoths Rejoice
Date: 2020-01-04 03:40 am (UTC)Re: Soggoths Rejoice
Date: 2020-01-05 03:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-01-04 10:06 pm (UTC)Though I have not (yet) seen the Yellow Sign.
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Date: 2020-01-05 07:59 pm (UTC)Nyogtha or Nygotha?
Date: 2020-01-05 02:40 pm (UTC)Re: Nyogtha or Nygotha?
Date: 2020-01-05 08:03 pm (UTC)(I almost wrote "I'll send him an email..." and then realized that would sound like I was planning on emailing Nyogtha. I don't think The Thing That Should Not Be is online... )
Re: Nyogtha or Nygotha?
Date: 2020-01-05 10:09 pm (UTC)Re: Nyogtha or Nygotha?
Date: 2020-01-06 04:13 am (UTC)Re: Nyogtha or Nygotha?
Date: 2020-01-06 01:09 am (UTC)Re: Nyogtha or Nygotha?
Date: 2020-01-06 04:14 am (UTC)The real difficulty with the email address, though, is that it's really hard to get an Aklo keyboard...
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Date: 2020-01-06 06:10 am (UTC)Re: Nyogtha or Nygotha?
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Date: 2020-01-06 09:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-01-05 03:31 pm (UTC)I own all of your Lovecraftian works. I just wish all of your books would have a hardback option. And yes, I have e-mailed Miskatonic. Well, who knows, maybe one day.
AV
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Date: 2020-01-06 04:15 am (UTC)Can I off post to this thread?
Date: 2020-01-06 05:29 am (UTC)Re: Can I off post to this thread?
Date: 2020-01-06 06:08 am (UTC)Off subject - More porn articles
Date: 2020-01-07 03:04 am (UTC)Sorry for this being off subject, as I don't know how to message you otherwise, but I wanted to point out another anti porn article, this time on Unz Review, which is apparently becoming a top webzine. The comments are most enlightening as usual.
Have a good break! A.
https://www.unz.com/ejones/pornography-and-political-control-the-hexenhammer-debate/
Hip, hip, huzzah!
Date: 2020-01-09 02:33 am (UTC)Re: Hip, hip, huzzah!
Date: 2020-01-09 05:16 am (UTC)Shoggoths consider cheese grits just as delectable as cheese polenta -- I think it's the combination of the flavors (and nutrients) of cheese and corn. The thing to remember, though, is that to a shoggoth, anything organic counts as food. Brown coal is the dietary staple in many underground colonies. As for cornbread and collard greens, Brecken served those to Sho as part of the New Years Day good luck foods during that first holiday break, so I suspect Sho would get all sentimental and the shoggoth equivalent of teary-eyed over Trey's dinner. It's just plain good eating, too.
Hmm. "Ask any shoggoth you happen to see..."
On the topic of the aesthetics of modern classical music...
Date: 2020-01-14 11:22 pm (UTC)I know you don't usually do video, but here's a recent piece, the "Siren Sounds Waltz" "Instead of making ugly music to reflect the ugliness of the modern world, I wanted to take some ugly sounds from the modern world and make something beautiful out of them."
Re: On the topic of the aesthetics of modern classical music...
Date: 2020-01-14 11:25 pm (UTC)Re: On the topic of the aesthetics of modern classical music...
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