The Worst Mythos Story You Ever Read

sabersword · Post by **sabersword** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:29 pm

Ok, Ok. I am a sucker for anything with Lovecrafts name on it. I see the book run for the nearest register and run home.Dont even look at the contents.Worst ever;The Loved Dead. Keerist! The best of the bunch was R.H.Barlow the Night Ocean and that stunk! If you see this in the book stores, run, do not walk away.

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:24 pm

What's so bad about The Loved Dead (besides the title)?

sabersword · Post by **sabersword** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:53 pm

E.A, did you read this thing?Anything from Chaosium is much, much better.

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:05 am

Never read it. Just curious about why you think it sucks.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:12 pm

Because Kerry King had something to do with it somewhere, obviously.

Adrian · Post by **Adrian** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:41 am

I don't think EVERYTHING relates to KK.

Could you say HPL was the Kerry King of his own time? Releasing omnipotent and devastating thoughts and vibrations with his mighty axe (or pen, as they call it now) and living a life of sin and heavy whoring?

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:16 am

You could say that, but without the life of sin and heavy whoring. In some ways (e.g. frailty, small fan base, asexuality, etc.), HPL was also the Rusty Cooley of his time.

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:58 am

mmm, dead horse jerky

Adrian · Post by **Adrian** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:13 am

Who's Rusty Cooley?

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:10 pm

Adrian wrote:Who's Rusty Cooley?

Rusty Cooley is better than Kerry King. That's all you need to know.

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:58 pm

Who's Rusty Cooley?

That's what most people ask. JP has a crush on him.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:27 pm

...
He's so pretty.

Erich Zann · Post by **Erich Zann** » Thu May 18, 2006 8:04 am

That's what most people ask. JP has a crush on him.

E.A.L. That was some funny sh*t. And I must say early Slayer kills.

Also Lovecraft's revision of C.M Eddy Jr's, The Loved Dead is really not that bad of a story. In fact it's his best one ( well actually all his HPL collaborations are; The Ghost Eater, Deaf Dumb And Blind, Ashes, can ya guess why?). I think The Horror In The Museum revisions are great. There may be a few weak stories in the collection but The Loved Dead is'nt one of them IMO. It was a pretty shocking story for its day. Besides I'm not so sure there's any Mythos story out there that measures up to anything Lovecraft touched with his own pen revisions/secondary revisions and all.

PS Lovecraft loved his life of sin and heavy whoring just ask FBL.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Thu May 18, 2006 9:44 am

Bah, ever wonder why Sonia left him?

Eidolon · Post by **Eidolon** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:03 am

Picked up the whole Titus Crow series by Brian Lumley. ABSOLUTE BOLLOCKS.

Cthulhu 2000 has some god-awful pieces of garbage in it, not least among them 'His mouth will taste of wormwood' and 'Are you Loathesome tonight?'

That being said, I enjoyed quite a lot of the 'Children of Cthulhu' anthology, but my last two 'worst' stories come from there. "Meet me on the other side" was just boring, and another one "Visitation" is a poor, fanboy-esque rendition of a posthumous visit from Poe.

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