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Enkil wrote:I'm only gonna have about $700 left over once I repay my debts.
finally paying me back that money I loaned you in preschool?
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Sp00ky wrote:Sp00ky back from the frigid Canadian tundra.

Least you were only visiting, I live in the damn place!
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darrick wrote:
That does sound really fresh.
then slap me some skin, blood. where are you from... Good Times?!?


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I still have not received this book, when does it ship? I can't seem to find that info (granted I'm not looking very hard).
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I still have not received this book, when does it ship? I can't seem to find that info (granted I'm not looking very hard).
i think it was ready to ship a week and a half ago, so we'll probably start seeing our books next week. that's my guess... have not yet consulted the stars nor the voids between them.


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its all a scam! Damn you, yah clever bastard...
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NECRONOMICON: THE BEST WEIRD TALES OF HP LOVECRAFT, Gollancz, £20.

Obscure in his lifetime, and still a somewhat marginal figure today, HP Lovecraft’s influence is nonetheless massive. Most horror writers acknowledge a debt to Lovecraft, whose stories revolve around one hypothesis: what if we don’t matter? What if humanity is a mayfly race in a fathomless cosmos, populated by ancient entities the mere knowledge of which will shatter a man’s mind?

Lovecraft is most associated with lurking horrors in sleepy New England towns, but this collection also includes At The Mountains Of Madness, his novella of unspeakable discoveries in the Antarctic, and The Horror At Red Hook, where Brooklyn’s “cheapness and vulgarity” hide “a horror of houses and blocks and cities leprous and cancerous with evil dragged from elder worlds”.

Lovecraft’s style is not for everyone; what some find powerfully evocative, others consider hysterically overwritten.

An interested newcomer would probably be happy with one of the slimmer paperback anthologies, but Stephen Jones’s 50-page afterword does good service as a brief literary biography.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-ea ... -20779759/


Has anyone here gotten this book yet?
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I just cancelled my order of this book so I could have more money for MGS4. Go me.
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Very nice edition.
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