A hybrid Bullmoose/B&N trip this time.
-Lovecraft Country (2016)
-The Destroyer of Worlds:
A Return to Lovecraft Country (2023)
Okay, I said last time I got Frederick Douglass as my racism antidote to the Lovecraft stuff.
Well, high-minded and erudite as that is, I would have preferred Lovecraft have something like "Pym" to go with it.
Turns out it does. These.
And the author of these even has a blurb on the back of the Cthulhu book.
(Peter Venkman in sing-song voice) "Call it faaate! Call it kaaarmaa!".
There's also a TV show of the first book, and I tried to get it, but Bullmoose and B&N both turned up empty. Actually, Bullmoose had it on DVD, but I want Blu-ray. Call me greedy.
So yes, this adds on to the the Machen/Lovecraft/King thing.
Oh! And Machen has his own "Pym" or "Lovecraft Country"!
2011's "Helen's Story". Helen Vaughan from "The Great God Pan" leaves a trail of destruction, and is talked about, but we never see her as a developed character.
So "Helen's Story" is like the "Maleficent" of "Pan".
Totally have to get it. Stay tuned for that.
Beetlejuice (1988)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
I can't believe in all these decades I never got around to getting the first one.
Whelp, part 2 forced the issue.
Got the duology now.
Krull (1983)
Original review here.
Like Beetlejuice 1, couldn't believe I didn't have it.
Remedied that.
And, that's those!
Still got some birthday dough left; stay tuned for part 5.
1 comment:
I'll just put my quickie reviews of Beetlejuice and Krull in here. Beetlejuice 1 still holds up. Loved Beetlejuice 2. It balances the nostalgia and the new stuff as well as "Ghostbusters Afterlife". And its got motherfucking MacArthur Park! Krull is even better than I remembered. I remembered the broad plot strokes, but a lot of odd little moments of adult humor flew over child-me's head.
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