"BLUE" JIMMY: LOVECRAFT CRITIC
BLIND DOG OZZY: NEUROTIC CHIHUAHUA
BD OZZY: WOOOOOOO!!! I like how at Halloween time, people like to read scary stories.
"BLUE" JIMMY Then you pee yourself and go hide under the bed.
BD OZZY: Wha..?
"BLUE" JIMMY: And I have to leave the light on for you.
BD OZZY: Not true!
"BLUE" JIMMY: I remember as a kid I was always disappointed by the "... in the old house a mysterious woman in white was seen floating up the stairway ..." type of silly Victorian ghost stories.
BD OZZY: You'd read through a phone book thick, old, dusty novel just to find out at the end that a dead woman came back from beyond to visit her heartbroken lover -- sucks!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Then in high school, I discovered books by H.P. Lovecraft and no, they didn't change my life. I couldn't understand a goddamned thing he was writing about. My literary knowledge extended only to about Mad Magazine level and my knowledge of The World and The Occult was in its infancy. But the thing is, I knew that he knew something and that was enough to keep me fascinated. It wasn't until after college that I realized what an incredible mind Lovecraft possessed -- or maybe it was the other way 'round -- perhaps his mind possessed him. From the biographies that I've read, Lovecraft was not a particularly religious or spiritual or mystical man. He didn't belong to any cult or brotherhood or secret society. Yet his bizarre stories which were mostly published in pulp horror magazines such as Weird Tales display a view of the world and the universe far removed from the people of his time. The idea that there lie on this planet, undiscovered ancient civilizations far older than anything recorded by written history, the idea that humans have had contact with alien beings from other planets, the idea that there are other dimensions unseen by the denizens of our own, the idea that the earth was ruled by other things other than humans and the idea that humans are small and insignificant beings in a cruel and evil universe are concepts that must've thoroughly f***ed with the minds of gentle readers of his time.
BD OZZY: Some writers on esoteric subjects have alleged that Lovecraft had access to forbidden documents or secret libraries and others have said that he was using his subconscious mind to tap into other realms to bring back these hellish visions which he would then write about -- damn!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Whatever the case may be, it's safe to say that he was in a "different" state of mind when he wrote stories like "The Call of Cthulhu" and "At The Mountains of Madness" as well as other twisted tales that reveal the influence of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen and Lord Dunsany but were taken to nightmarish new heights. His poem "Night Gaunts" was said to have been influenced by night terrors he suffered as a child: "...With obscene clutch that titillates and stings, Snatching me off on monstrous voyagings To grey worlds hidden deep in nightmare's well..." Nightmare's well indeed!
BD OZZY: HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Sake's Alive!
BD OZZY Wow! Wow!
BD OZZY: Some writers on esoteric subjects have alleged that Lovecraft had access to forbidden documents or secret libraries and others have said that he was using his subconscious mind to tap into other realms to bring back these hellish visions which he would then write about -- damn!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Whatever the case may be, it's safe to say that he was in a "different" state of mind when he wrote stories like "The Call of Cthulhu" and "At The Mountains of Madness" as well as other twisted tales that reveal the influence of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen and Lord Dunsany but were taken to nightmarish new heights. His poem "Night Gaunts" was said to have been influenced by night terrors he suffered as a child: "...With obscene clutch that titillates and stings, Snatching me off on monstrous voyagings To grey worlds hidden deep in nightmare's well..." Nightmare's well indeed!
BD OZZY: HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
BD OZZY Wow! Wow!
