Lonesome Dove > All of Lovecraft

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:15 pm

Rodr-Evil wrote:lol a western novel? are you kidding?

welcome to enkil's thread

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:34 pm

Westerns pffft, What a stupid concept

Enkil · Post by **Enkil** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:47 am

Yea you think that until you read Lonesome Dove, and the next think you know you're watching some poor kid get bit by 8 Water Moccisons (snakes of JP, who lives in a country where they don't have any) and the Mexicans stealing some horses and cattle. And. You. Never. Want. To. Leave.

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:30 am

Pick up a collection of Lois L'Amour short stories.

odin2 · Post by **odin2** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:20 am

Jesus Prime wrote:
odin2 wrote:
Jesus Prime wrote: One or two...
So he did 'Revenge of the Creature' and 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'....
I could be in more, and better movies then him!!
Watch "Magnum Force". Watch it. Right now. Or I'll ban you.

Im going to my local video store now....
It must be nice to have that kind of power.

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:29 pm

odin2 wrote:
Jesus Prime wrote:
odin2 wrote:

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Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:38 pm

I Like it

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:36 pm

Ligotti is HPL's sucessor.
King can also sling a tentacle with the best-yes, he's popular, he's also great.
HPL was a pioneer, he opened a whole new field of horror fiction, and others have come to settle there.
The Mythos is becoming overdone, and frankly, it needs to be freshened up, unless it's doomed to sink into parody and foolishness.

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:46 pm

Western novels were once a very prolific form in the USA, some are still written, and many of them are good.
Robert E. Howard wrote western stories for the pulps.
Are there no gaucho tales in Chile?
Hopalong Cassidy will haunt your dreams!

odin2 · Post by **odin2** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:35 pm

I might not like westerns but, King's 'Dark Tower' series is kind of western'ish. And it kicks ass!

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:44 pm

King told the people on his message board that the Dark Tower was his take on "La Morte d'Arthur" considered as a sphaghetti western.
Inspired, simply inspired!
People are hard on King, because he sells a lot of books, but dammit, the man has moments of sheer genius.
And "It" is worthy of Lovecraft himself.
Straub and Ligotti are moving us into new lands, as is Poppy Z. Brite-her "Are you Loathesome Tonight" is as subtle and effective a bit of biz as ever was done.
Imagine a Straub /Ligotti collaboration?

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:50 pm

krakenten wrote:The Mythos is becoming overdone, and frankly, it needs to be freshened up, unless it's doomed to sink into parody and foolishness.

The Mythos made that descent a long time ago.

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:58 pm

Oh, ye of little faith!

Enkil · Post by **Enkil** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:07 am

This Logitti guy sounds interesting, so I orded a book.

I've read a few of Louis L'Amor's stories, or listened to them on tape at least. "Case Closed No Prisoners" is my favorite.

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:38 am

Check out Allen Eckert's The Frontiersmen and That Dark and Bloody River for a slight change in the western genre. Both books novelize actual events in the late-18th through early-19th century Ohio River Valley. It's amazing what those people experienced as the whites encroached on Indian territory. The real thing makes The Last of the Mohicans look tame.