The Statement of Randolph Carter

Wingate Peaslee · Post by **Wingate Peaslee** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:55 am

Adrian wrote:No way, Warren himself said that. Atleats I've always thought that. Like he went mad. He was somehow connected to the beasts down there and then he became one of them, just like the guy in "Shadows over Innsmouth" or smt.

thats exactly what i believe

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:20 pm

I guess that's possible, but is there anything that supports that in the text?

tsathoggua · Post by **tsathoggua** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:36 pm

idk research required i guess but i'm not doing it

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:17 am

slacker

Wingate Peaslee · Post by **Wingate Peaslee** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:37 am

there is a vague suggestion of it by carter in his pleas to the authorities. i cant remember the exact wording and would rather not paraphrase

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:08 pm

Why not just put the actual quotation?

odin2 · Post by **odin2** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:16 pm

Just read the story through, three times....

While nothing says that it was not Warren speaking at the end, nothing makes reference to it being him either.

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Sat May 02, 2009 8:40 pm

I'm picturing some corpse that has remained "fat and firm" in its tomb, the subject of Warren's theory the night before he went into the sepulcher, sending the legion of "hellish things" to destroy the unfortunate investigator.

Could still be Warren on the radio, though. Perhaps the hellish things were just ladybugs.

duckyboy1975 · Post by **duckyboy1975** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:39 pm

starrysothoth wrote:Agreed. Neil Gaiman also echoed this sentiment in the Eldritch Influence documentary about Lovecraft from a couple years ago. He said something akin to seeing a drawing of a Shoggoth and being disappointed, since the mind will almost always conjure up a weirder, scarier version.

I don't know, I've seen some pretty good, weird pictures of shoggoths...

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:08 am

let's have a new thread for shoggoth pictures. i've seen a few decent ones, though it'll take some surfing to find them again...