Produktbeschreibung
Tales of the Spheres Beyond Sound
"We didn't really know who he was or what he was, but he told us he came from the Land of Pyramids a long time ago, and sometimes when we walked through the streets of Little Five Points . . . towel-heads and Rastafarians would drop to their knees before him and call out in strange languages, as if praying before a deity of unparalleled power. Even the hardcore punkers - with their freakish mohawks, their tattoos and piercings, with their army boots and their Charles Manson T-shirts - even they would pause from their demands for spare change and cigarettes, watching with a curious sort of respect whenever Nyarlathotep walked by."
- Gregory Nicoll "How Nyarlathotep Rocked Our World"
Lovecraft's most famous portraitist was Richard Upton Pickman, whose ironic canvases of ghouls and humanity's relation to ghouls have become famous, even thought they existed only in Lovecraft's keen imagination. Among HPL's writers, Randolph Carter and the tragically destined Edward Pickman Derby stand out. And of course there is Erich Zann, the inhumanly-great violist, whose powers are detailed in "The Music of Erich Zann", included in this volume.
In HPL, the artist is the detached observer of society, a cultural reporter of the sort whose function has since become familiar. But Lovecraft also saw a deeper role, one such as played by Henry Wilcox the sculptor in " The Call of Cthulhu": "Wilcox's imagination had been keenly affected (He had) an unprecedented dream of great cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror . . . (and) a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters, Cthulhu fhtagn."
Contents
* The Music of Erich Zann - H. P. Lovecraft
* The Dark Beauty of Unheard Horrors - Thomas Ligotti
* In the rue d'Auseil - Fred Chappell
* The Plain of Sound - J. Ramsey Campbell
* The Last Show at Verdi's Supper Club - Stephen Mark Rainey
* Water Music for the Tillers of Soild - Tom Piccirilli
* Shallow Fathoms - M. Christian
* How Nyarlathotep Rocked Our World - Greg Nicoll
* Listen - James Robert Smith
* Mud - Brian McNaughton
* Paedomorphosis - Caitlin R. Kiernan
* Intruders - Hugh B. Cave
* Chant - Robert Weinberg
* Ghoul's Tale - Robert M. Price
* The Next Big Thing - Rob Suggs
* The Flautists - Edward P. Berglund
* Fall From Grace - D. F. Lewis
* Drums - William R. Trotter
* The Enchanting of Lila Woods - E. A. Luystig
* Yog-Sothoth, Superstar - Thomas F. Monteleone |
