Обсуждение:Говард Ф. Лавкрафт/Библиография
«The Noble Eavesdropper»
«The Noble Eavesdropper»: from his letter to F. Lee Baldwin of 13 Feb., 1934: «I first tried writing at 6, & the earliest story I can remember was written at 7 -- something about a cave of robbers called The Noble Eavesdropper» (SLIV.380).
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- Спасибо за уточнение информации Songbird (обс.) 10:25, 21 июля 2022 (MSK)
- Эммм… про уточнения… the earliest story … about a cave of robbers я бы перевёл так: «Впервые я попробовал себя на ниве писательства, когда мне было шесть, и самое раннее произведение, какое мне удаётся припомнить, это история под названием „Знатный Соглядатай“ про что-то, связанное с пещерой грабителей». Если добавить, что ГФЛ обожал сказки 1001 ночи (Али-Баба и 40 разб.), а также мог быть знаком с британскими романами про контрабандистов, воров, грабителей (например, «Гай Мэннеринг или астролог», роман В. Скотта, где есть пещера контрабандистов, или ещё произведение, название которого вылетело из головы, в котором шайка использовала подземный ход, ведущий из прибрежной пещеры прямо в дом помещика), то можно предположить, что Соглядатай — это джентльмен, вроде сыщика-любителя, который обнаруживает тайное убежище или логово грабителей. Т. е. это название не самой пещеры, КМК. -- User176 (обс.) 10:52, 21 июля 2022 (MSK)
Ми-го?
http://wikitropes.ru/wiki/Они_же_пришельцы! -- User176 (обс.) 21:49, 26 августа 2022 (MSK)
- Ладно, вы меня заинтриговали. Что Ми-Го? Songbird (обс.) 21:54, 26 августа 2022 (MSK)
« | It was of no use to demonstrate to such opponents that the Vermont myths differed but little in essence from those universal legends of natural personification which filled the ancient world with fauns and dryads and satyrs, suggested the kallikanzari of modern Greece, and gave to wild Wales and Ireland their dark hints of strange, small, and terrible hidden races of troglodytes and burrowers. No use, either, to point out the even more startlingly similar belief of the Nepalese hill tribes in the dreaded Mi-Go or “Abominable Snow-Men” who lurk hideously amidst the ice and rock pinnacles of the Himalayan summits. When I brought up this evidence, my opponents turned it against me by claiming that it must imply some actual historicity for the ancient tales; that it must argue the real existence of some queer elder earth-race, driven to hiding after the advent and dominance of mankind, which might very conceivably have survived in reduced numbers to relatively recent times—or even to the present. … |
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The Haunter of the Dark
« | Bill Kerwin (Oct 04, 2017)
“The Haunter of the Dark,” the last original story written by H.P. Lovecraft, has an interesting history. Robert Bloch (author of Psycho) had published a story called “The Shambler from the Stars” (Weird Tales (September 1935) in which he killed off a character obvious based on Lovecraft. When a Weird Tales fan wrote a letter suggesting H.P. should return the favor, Lovecraft obliged, writing a tale in which a certain writer named “Robert Blake” dies of fright during an encounter with “The Haunter of the Dark.” This is not only Lovecraft’s last story, it is also one of his best, most characteristic, and most personal. The view from the window of Robert Blake’s Providence apartment—a sinister old church located atop Federal Hill—is precisely the view which could be seen from Lovecraft’s own study. And the walks Blake takes through Federal Hill’s Italian district are walks Lovecraft took himself. The sinister old church is based on a real church, now torn down: St. John’s, a Catholic church on Atwell’s Avenue. It’s belfry was demolished by a lightning strike five months before Lovecraft wrote this story, an event which no doubt inspired the fictional electric storm which precipitates the conclusion of both “The Haunter of the Dark” and the unfortunate Robert Blake’s brief life. This is one of my favorite Lovecraft stories. It features economical, atmospheric description, a subtle balance between humor and terror, and it ends with a memorable and chilling four word phrase. All in all, a fitting conclusion to Lovecraft’s career. |
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— https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10190871-the-haunter-of-the-dark# |
https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/The_Haunter_of_the_Dark: «The Shadow from the Steeple» Yet, Robert Bloch's sequel, The Shadow from the Steeple, proved that Nyarlathotep had cheated Dexter, forcing him to peer into the stone and actually throw the stone into the bay, where the eternal darkness of the depths gave the Haunter the power to remain perpetually free; it used this power to merge with Dr. Dexter and make him one of the world's leading nuclear scientists in charge of atomic investigation for warfare.