On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Ranma Al'Thor wrote:

On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, David H. Siegel wrote:

of HP himself, but it comes out almost muddled. A possible solution
would be to alter your words to be more Lovecraftian (Cyclopean,

I admire HP's writing style but I think using his verbal style would
make the story's prose a bit too dense. I like that the story keeps a
fairly quick, action pacing. (And HP did have stories more like that
too; I'm thinking of the Dreamlands tales here).

But the Dreamlands tales aren't what you're referencing here, are they?
They were less dense because they were MEANT to be. The standard New
England Horror group were dense for a REASON.

This series is intended to be a descent into horror.  We don't want to
start in all out deep nasty mode because we won't be able to make things
worse.  Some of it also comes from the fact that HP never wrote any
stories about Giant Robots :)

And some of it comes from my own style.  I don't want to mimic Lovecraft
too much; it isn't natural to me.  I want to evoke his work, but I know
that I can't totally follow it, and given this is both horror AND an
action story in which the heroes will be much better equipped, although
just as doomed, than the typical Lovecraft protagonist.

Alright then. Good luck. I don't envy you, its going to be hard work, I'm
sure. But the two of you are certainly the writers for the job...
One thing though. What happened to that fragmentary Ranma/SM/Cthulhu bit
from a few years ago? That had POTENTIAL!


David Siegel
dhs28@columbia.edu
Dada is not dead.
This too, is dada.