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I just began to read it a few minutes ago. What do you think of it? Do you also get the strange feeling of needing to read more of it along with reading the ancient words outloud, along with drawing the runic symbols everywhere, along with attempting to perform the rituals described in it?

:(

I've become a Cthulhu cultist, I think.

I don't know what you're reading, but Lovecraft never wrote it.

Hehe... I read that book ten years ago, when I was 14... It's a fun read, but don't take it too seriously, you won't get the better off it :) Like any cultist texts, the words spoken only hold power over the ones who belive in them, and since I don't, it didn't affect me. For some other good fiction I can recommend Tad Williams Otherland Trilogy, enjoy.

I don't know what you're reading, but Lovecraft never wrote it.

Yeah, but people have compiled things from his works and the works of other Cthulhu Mythos writers and have actually made a Cthulhu and other Cthulhu/Old Ones related cult Bible essentially. I feel very evil for just reading it...

Yeah, but people have compiled things from his works and the works of other Cthulhu Mythos writers and have actually made a Cthulhu and other Cthulhu/Old Ones related cult Bible essentially. I feel very evil for just reading it...

That's silly. :p Do you read Steven King novels and think you can harness telekinesis too? Or walk on the water after reading the Bible? Maybe even force-choke someone after watching Star Wars?

I mean, Lovecraft is one of my favourite authors, but this is a bit silly. Good on you for having an imagination, though, I guess. ;)

That's silly. :p Do you read Steven King novels and think you can harness telekinesis too? Or walk on the water after reading the Bible? Maybe even force-choke someone after watching Star Wars?

I mean, Lovecraft is one of my favourite authors, but this is a bit silly. Good on you for having an imagination, though, I guess. ;)

Yeah, but comparing this crap to Stephen King, Jesus, or Luke Skywalker, this shit seems all the more real because it's always told from a first-person-perspective.

Remember, the only thing you can do is to be eaten first!

Yeah, but comparing this crap to Stephen King, Jesus, or Luke Skywalker, this shit seems all the more real because it's always told from a first-person-perspective.

Remember, the only thing you can do is to be eaten first!

Mody-Dick is written first person (mostly...it is Moby-Dick though...:( ) and I still feel no urge to go after a giant phallic symbol

But I also tend to not trust first person narrators.

*shrug*

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
*is eaten by Cthulhu*
*first*

now did you get the words correct before you took the book

Does Cthulu eat everything, or just humans?

Does Cthulu eat everything, or just humans?

Ask him before he eats you.

Does Cthulu eat everything, or just humans?

Not orangutans, anyway.

Not orangutans, anyway.

They're too hairy. Cthulu finds hair hard to digest.

This thread reminds me of an incident that happened to me some years back:

Me: "Mom! Have you seen a book laying about? The title on the front reads Necronomicon?"
Mom: "No, I don't think so... What kind of book is that?"
Me: "Hehe... It's a book of evil, on the dark arts of Magik and unspeakable horrors." ;)
Mom: "Oh right. It's lying on the table in the livingroom."

:eek:


Scared me senseless :D

This thread reminds me of an incident that happened to me some years back:

Me: "Mom! Have you seen a book laying about? The title on the front reads Necronomicon?"
Mom: "No, I don't think so... What kind of book is that?"
Me: "Hehe... It's a book of evil, on the dark arts of Magik and unspeakable horrors." ;)
Mom: "Oh right. It's lying on the table in the livingroom."

:eek:


Scared me senseless :D

So much for being a rebel eh?

Yeah, I've got a paperback copy of that fake necronomicon too. Bought it as a creepy halloween prop, but paperback books lack something in the creepy department. Maybe I should make a book jacket for it from human skin or something. Now where can I get a nice sheet of human skin?

Klaatu barada N... Necktie... Nickel... It's an "N" word, it's definitely an "N" word!

Klaatu barada N... Necktie... Nickel... It's an "N" word, it's definitely an "N" word!

LMAO

totally watching that movie tomorrow......it's Thanksgiving tradition around here.

LMAO

totally watching that movie tomorrow......it's Thanksgiving tradition around here.
I wish I could join you. ;)

LMAO

totally watching that movie tomorrow......it's Thanksgiving tradition around here.

It's the best Christmas movie EVER around my place ;)

It's the best Christmas movie EVER around my place ;)

I consider Better Off Dead to be the best Christmas movie. Funny as hell.

Yeah, but people have compiled things from his works and the works of other Cthulhu Mythos writers and have actually made a Cthulhu and other Cthulhu/Old Ones related cult Bible essentially. I feel very evil for just reading it...

You're taking yourself too seriously. You're not evil for reading a bit of fiction.

http://people.emich.edu/twiggin/cthulhutract4vt.gif

I consider Better Off Dead to be the best Christmas movie. Funny as hell.

the women have a John Cusack marathon on Black Friday while we wrap presents, Better Off Dead is one of the only movies that I like of all of them.

I just realized a lot of our traditions are movie oriented......that's kinda messed up isn't it?

the women have a John Cusack marathon on Black Friday while we wrap presents, Better Off Dead is one of the only movies that I like of all of them.

I just realized a lot of our traditions are movie oriented......that's kinda messed up isn't it?

Meh, old cultures sat around the fire telling stories and watching the flickering flames. We sit around the TV watching flickering images of a movie. Not so messed up if you look at it that way.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/chtulu.gif (http://www.macguff.fr/goomi/unspeakable/vault00-cast.html) (webcomic goodness awaits the bold)

Not orangutans, anyway.

http://www.zooatlanta.org/images/animals/orangutans/allen.jpg

Wut'chu talkin bout foo?!

I just began to read it a few minutes ago. What do you think of it? Do you also get the strange feeling of needing to read more of it along with reading the ancient words outloud, along with drawing the runic symbols everywhere, along with attempting to perform the rituals described in it?

:(

I've become a Cthulhu cultist, I think.


Mwuhahhahhaha Heh I love this one and the way it gets people. In my youth I remember one of my more 'darker' mates raving on about how he had just got a copy, and did I know that there was only 1000 evey printed and on the insdie cover of his copy it told him that his copy was the 666 one. Wow man how dark, he thought. Hahah that is untill i showed him my copy that I'd had for about 3 years by this time and umm guess which number copy I had purchased? Yep that's right, number 666. Ohhh spooky! Muuuuwhahahahahah!

Shit and that was back in the 80's too.

Hmm... Isn't the point to be eaten last? It is if you're a true cultist!

Fnord
http://www.zooatlanta.org/images/animals/orangutans/allen.jpg

Wut'chu talkin bout foo?!

:D :fluffle:

Yeah, I've got a paperback copy of that fake necronomicon too. Bought it as a creepy halloween prop, but paperback books lack something in the creepy department. Maybe I should make a book jacket for it from human skin or something. Now where can I get a nice sheet of human skin?

Try pickled pork rinds.

http://www.thesneeze.com/art/rinds/puzzle.jpg

Wasn't there some guy online selling necronomicon laptop covers?
I want to get me one of those.

Ask him before he eats you.

But I'm a bird! That's why I asked.

*snip*

Poor Jack Chick....

I think very poorly of a secret evil text I can find in any used bookstore.

I just began to read it a few minutes ago. What do you think of it? Do you also get the strange feeling of needing to read more of it along with reading the ancient words outloud, along with drawing the runic symbols everywhere, along with attempting to perform the rituals described in it?

:(

I've become a Cthulhu cultist, I think.

Clato, Barata, Necktie?

I think very poorly of a secret evil text I can find in any used bookstore.

I don't know, I always figured secret evil texts were like that. After all, any truly evil text would try to infect as many minds as possible...

I don't know, I always figured secret evil texts were like that. After all, any truly evil text would try to infect as many minds as possible...

Hmm, possible, but since every copy mentioned by HP Lovecraft tended to be under lock and key, it makes it less demon scary and more quija board scary.

Hmm, possible, but since every copy mentioned by HP Lovecraft tended to be under lock and key, it makes it less demon scary and more quija board scary.

Yeah, but the ouija board scary also has the added dimension that you have no idea what you're really talking to; it could be mental suggestion, ghost, demon, or some inconceivable, eternal monstrosity from outside of existence itself.

At least demon scary tells you what you're getting.

I don't know, I always figured secret evil texts were like that. After all, any truly evil text would try to infect as many minds as possible...

Wouldn't a truly evil text seek to avoid contact with virtuous people, lest it be contaminated?

Wouldn't a truly evil text seek to avoid contact with virtuous people, lest it be contaminated?

I imagine something that objectifies evil would be so arrogant and prideful that it would assume it could simply overcome their virtue, and so would expose itself beyond what might be safest out of its own hubris and confidence in its powers.

I just began to read it a few minutes ago. What do you think of it? Do you also get the strange feeling of needing to read more of it along with reading the ancient words outloud, along with drawing the runic symbols everywhere, along with attempting to perform the rituals described in it?

:(

I've become a Cthulhu cultist, I think.

Oy vey. :p

Assuming you're being facetious, nice joke.

Assuming you're being serious, Necronomicon is not a more real or more functional occultism book than any of the ones Harry Potter reads at school. :p

Jack Chick must be rolling in his grave after that remark you made though. :p

I just began to read it a few minutes ago. What do you think of it? Do you also get the strange feeling of needing to read more of it along with reading the ancient words outloud, along with drawing the runic symbols everywhere, along with attempting to perform the rituals described in it?

:(

I've become a Cthulhu cultist, I think.

Spoilers: the Necronomicon was a plot device invented by Lovecraft. The people that put out the "Simon" edition did so to cash in on a resurgence of intrest in the works of Lovecraft. And besides, did you really think that a book of unspeakble evil, something that could destroy humanity itself could be easily found in used bookstores across the country? ;)

There's only one Necronomicon worth bothering with, and it's by a man named Giger.

I don't know what you're reading, but Lovecraft never wrote it.

Well Gene Roddenberry never wrote any of the Star Trek Tech manuals, but that doesn't mean they don't work.

The fact that it's science fiction means that, but not the fact that Roddenberry wrote didn't write it.

Spoilers: the Necronomicon was a plot device invented by Lovecraft. The people that put out the "Simon" edition did so to cash in on a resurgence of intrest in the works of Lovecraft. And besides, did you really think that a book of unspeakble evil, something that could destroy humanity itself could be easily found in used bookstores across the country? ;)

Yes. Where it wouldn't be available is Barnes and Noble.

Necronomicon.
Something about dead peoples?

:eek:

Spoilers: the Necronomicon was a plot device invented by Lovecraft. The people that put out the "Simon" edition did so to cash in on a resurgence of intrest in the works of Lovecraft. And besides, did you really think that a book of unspeakble evil, something that could destroy humanity itself could be easily found in used bookstores across the country? ;)

You'd think an unspeakably evil text would be widely available so as to make destroying humanity all the easier.

There's only one Necronomicon worth bothering with, and it's by a man named Giger.
yeah there are a whole bunch of books purporting to be the necronomicon, though i don't think giger ever expected anyone would confuse his book with the "real" one referenced by lovecraft.

For some other good fiction I can recommend Tad Williams Otherland Trilogy, enjoy.
Indeed, it is good! I finished the entire trilogy in 4 weeks! ;>

And besides, did you really think that a book of unspeakble evil, something that could destroy humanity itself could be easily found in used bookstores across the country? ;)

Don't underestimate used book stores! Terry Pratchet said that a used book store was just a genteel black hole that learned to read.

If there was anything like this that was dangerous enough to destroy all of humanity in a particularly gruesome supernatural way, a used book store would probably be exactly where I'd expect it to start.

Always thought there was something sinister about those places - maybe that's why I love them so much. :-D

You'd think an unspeakably evil text would be widely available so as to make destroying humanity all the easier.

If I recall correctly it exhorts the reader to master the rituals within in order to protect humanity from otherworldly threats, not to invite those threats.

I think there was a bit about how you're probably going to be happy to only learn as far as step 3 which is easy and rewarding enough that the difficulty of progressing further isn't very tempting, but then you won't be strong enough to protect people.

Something like that.

Read it. Laughed at it. Laughed at the fools who spent good money on garbage. Realized I had spent good money on garbage. Felt like a fool for about ten seconds.

Yep, Its an Evil book.