(`. The Haunter of the Dark.`)
To clarify, my regular two nom de plumes, The Haunter of the Dark and Nyarlathotep are actually one-and-the-same, being aliases of a fictional creation by the horror writer HP Lovecraft (1890 1937). Nyarlathotep (pronounced either ni-ar-lat-ho-tep or nyar-lat-ho-tep), the messenger and indeed very-soul of Lovecrafts omnipotent-yet-idiotic Gods is a character that has fascinated me since my youth as perhaps a pure-manifestation of the absurdity of (human) existence should.
Lovecraft himself described him as a kind of itinerant showman or lecturer who held forth in publick [sic] halls and aroused widespread fear and discussion with his exhibitions and stated that Nyarlathotep is a nightmare--an actual phantasm of my own, with the first paragraph written before I fully awakened. I had been feeling execrably of late--whole weeks have passed without relief from head-ache... (from Lovecraft by Lin Carter, 1972)
So there you have it. One thing that always pisses laymen off about Lovecrafts Cthulhu-Mythos is the unpronounceable names. Well, may Yog-Sothoth bite their hides!
I'm steeping out to see Alien Vs. Predator
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To clarify, my regular two nom de plumes, The Haunter of the Dark and Nyarlathotep are actually one-and-the-same, being aliases of a fictional creation by the horror writer HP Lovecraft (1890 1937). Nyarlathotep (pronounced either ni-ar-lat-ho-tep or nyar-lat-ho-tep), the messenger and indeed very-soul of Lovecrafts omnipotent-yet-idiotic Gods is a character that has fascinated me since my youth as perhaps a pure-manifestation of the absurdity of (human) existence should.
Lovecraft himself described him as a kind of itinerant showman or lecturer who held forth in publick [sic] halls and aroused widespread fear and discussion with his exhibitions and stated that Nyarlathotep is a nightmare--an actual phantasm of my own, with the first paragraph written before I fully awakened. I had been feeling execrably of late--whole weeks have passed without relief from head-ache... (from Lovecraft by Lin Carter, 1972)
So there you have it. One thing that always pisses laymen off about Lovecrafts Cthulhu-Mythos is the unpronounceable names. Well, may Yog-Sothoth bite their hides!
I'm steeping out to see Alien Vs. Predator
~~~~ How to Navigate My Journal ~~~~