![]() ![]() Lovecraft wrote in his Commonplace Book, "is more horrible than death. "The Horror Theme After HPL" By William Scott Home At a top secret military lab, a group of brilliant young scientists have just unlocked the secret of invisibility and the teams arrogant leader, Sebastian Caine, ignores the risks and decides to test the dangerous procedure on himself-only to discover his fellow scientists are unable to reverse the effect. ![]() Here is the opening line and then an excerpt from the article: But fiction is a completely different thing, so we'll see. I read the article and I thought it was excellent. (It should be available at your library). Fortunately I have a copy of the HPL Tribute fanzine that has the WSH article that Ligotti included in his criticism of Lovecraft for Twentiteth-Century Literary Criticism. I did the same thing, even though I don't think TL's statment was an endorsement of Home's fiction. Furthermore, Home’s narratives are baffling and sometime barely comprehensible, somewhat in the manner of Robert. The prose is so complex and recondite that it’s all but unreadable, much like that of Clark Ashton Smith. I'm not sure that Ligotti's comments constitute a recommendation. The weirdest stories I’ve ever read composed the collection Hollow Faces, Merciless Moons (1977) by William Scott Home. I wonder if I'm a fool for having ordered, sight unseen, a copy of William Scott Home's Hollow Faces, Merciless Moons. ![]()
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