I just watched The Call of Cthulhu last night. Very good flick, especially considering the limitations of the budget – it actually helped when the effects weren’t good, because it made it look more “period”.
Good to know this! I hastur go out and celebrate! 
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…and the Library of America saw fit to preserve your words.
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curvilinear hieroglyphs, greenish soapstones, tarry stickiness, twilight abysses, nameless scent, spiky image, shunned house, twilit grotto, elder things, membraneous wings, attic laboratory, hill noises, fishy odour, domed hills, buzzing voice, scientific zeal, frantic note, lurking fear, blasted heath, captive mind, slanting wall, frantic letter, grocery boy
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And that was just in the first paragraph!
[QUOTE= Amazon’s Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs)]
curvilinear hieroglyphs, greenish soapstones, tarry stickiness, twilight abysses, nameless scent, spiky image, shunned house, twilit grotto, elder things, membraneous wings, attic laboratory, hill noises, fishy odour, domed hills, buzzing voice, scientific zeal, frantic note, lurking fear, blasted heath, captive mind, slanting wall, frantic letter, grocery boy]
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“Grocery boy”?
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor]
“Grocery boy”?
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You’ve never seen one shambling, like at the end of its break?
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
Not exactly. Only two really good ones. The others were unspeakable eldritch necrophagous blasphemous abominations from the deepest tenebrous crevices of elder night, and not in a good way, either!
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But were they nacreous, fungous, and/or flabby?
I want to say I love you all, this is making me laugh like a lunatic - especially the dreaded Cruller Out of Space.
I was going to post to this thread, but then I was driven mad simply by looking at the OP…
Shame on you! For that, go reread “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” and underline all the scenes in which the grocery boy appears.
Nobody recalls the work of Lovecraft’s cousin, H.P. Thirtyfivecraft, and his near-miss horror stories:
**The Colorado Space
The Stumbler in Darkness
Pac Man’s Model
The Doom that Came from Sarnoff
The Strange Case of C.K. Dexter Haven
The Mall of Cthulhu
Insulation in the Walls
The Dunwitch Humor
**
What is it about HPL threads that produces the funniest writing on the SDMB? I should set up an alert, so that I get an email notifying me whenever a post includes the words “eldritch” or “fhtagn”.
Adam West – Career Re-Animator
At the Mountains of Mudness
When one of my students speaks of Lovecraft, I know the kid’s reading level just jumped to “11th grade.”
And I teach in a middle school.
[QUOTE=Master Wang-Ka]
When one of my students speaks of Lovecraft, I know the kid’s reading level just jumped to “11th grade.”
And I teach in a middle school.
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So, speaking figuratively, one could say they’ve learned to walk when they ought to crawl?
If “The Mall of Cthluhu” doesn’t inspire someone to write it, I’ll have to do it myself.
Let’s see, where did I put that Incantation of Horrifying, Mind-Numbing Peril?
[QUOTE=Ghanima]
So, speaking figuratively, one could say they’ve learned to walk when they ought to crawl?
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If it’s Lovecraft they’ve been reading, the correct word could be “slithering”. but perhaps I digress.
[QUOTE=brianjedi]
Am I the only one who thought this would be about the Metallica classic “The Thing That Should Not Be”?
(Yes, I know the song’s based on Lovecraft.)
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I thought of that right after thinking of the cover of Iron Maiden’s Live After Death.
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