#trashfiction

[ringojonesproductions]

Current read. Apparently a #trashfiction classic #amreading #books #bookstagram #70s #fawcettgoldmedal https://www.instagram.com/p/Clr4zATspRg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ringojonesproductions]

This sounds promising. #mongo #amreading #schlock #trashfiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CYP-I5rgcqp/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ringojonesproductions]

Maybe the most messed up series ever written. Filled with bizarre death traps, torture, sex, etc It’s super obscure and I’ve got 6 of 7 released. Still looking for book 4! #books #bookstagram #mensadventurebooks #tnt #trashfiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CG1BEwpA-Jv/?igshid=4dt0ax7pib2e

[ringojonesproductions]

Another used book sale, another stack added to my to-read pile. Except for the ninja turtles book, that’s for the kids... #amreading #usedbooks #schlock #trashfiction https://www.instagram.com/p/BpLLJXGAl-f/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1735994f4tygo

[rustbeltjessie]

Listen/purchase: Ghost in You by Feral Trash

Thanks to afueras for the recommendation.

[wolfwizardradio]

NEW MUSIC: Feral Trash - "Obey"

Born in Moncton is Feral Trash, the melonic punk group made up of husband and wife Eric and Ilisha, and their pal Jesse. It's been just over a year since the release of their last full length Hysterese but now they have a date for the next collection of songs. The latest track "Obey" is a fast paced, guitar driven rager that is set to appear on the upcoming Trashfiction and can be heard now before the official release date on October 26th via Dirt Cult Records/Mammoth Cave Recording Co. 

Listen to the track above and expect to see Feral Trash on the road in the near future, even though no dates have been released yet.

[punlich]

Say that I claim Lovecraft never used the unknowable is a gross misrepresentation of my question. What I said was that Lovecraft regularly provides a framework for his unknowable horrors. At The Mountains of Madness has information from the Necronomicon and the hieroglyphics as a guide to the mythos. The Shadow over Innsmouth has Zadok to provide the narrator with information on Obed Marsh and the town. Contrast this to sonarchick's vague connection between an underwater city and eyes.

Well I must have very severely misunderstood your question. Considering how poorly it was initially phrased, you’re going to have to be patient with me on that.

Providing information on the Marsh and the town isn’t really the sort of deep mythos explanation that you seem to be asking me for. That’s more comparable to providing information on the The Eye Of The Storm, their aims, the mission of The Screaming Kettle, Avery’s research, the owner of the Eye, etc. Surrounding elements that give you some small framework but not enough to truly know what’s up.

Things known about the underwater city, the odd architecture, the strangeness of it having sunk, the Eye’s crew having taken something from it, there being a door in the Eye with a symbol with a stylized eye with roots coming out of the bottom of it. The name of the ship itself. These are elements I also added to provide framework for you to follow for the unknowable the characters are dealing with.

So I’d hardly call that a vague connection between eyes and an underwater city. I’d also hardly claim I provided you with no framework. Or am I misunderstanding you again? Are you saying I've provided no framework or that my framework needs boosting? Clarify?

[punlich]

(cont'd.) You clearly have a passion for this, but in the future I would advise you to seek out inspiration beyond the "creepypasta" style of horror. Look at the works of Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, even Stephen King, and analyze how they balance inexplicable terrors with enough information that at least the audience can speculate as to what is going on. Even Lovecraft's most cosmic stories at least provided a mythology for the narrators to relate to us to explain what was happening.

That's the thing though, Lovecraft (who btw is a raging racist douchefuck for anyone who didn't know) didn't provide a mythos in all of his stories. Many of his stories left you with a strong sense that something unknowable happened, something beyond you.

Some of his stories had mythos in them for us to grasp to and apply to other stories but he absolutely had multiple (and successful I might add) horror stories that didn't delve into the whys and instead dealt with the human condition of those confronted with extraordinary events bigger than them. You have to remember too, Lovecraft didn't build the mythos of the Chuthulian Cosmic Horror on his own. Many authors, some his contemporaries (and just as fucking racist) and later authors expanding on his works actually were the ones who fleshed out much of the mythos that we comprehend now as Lovecraftian.

And honestly, we should be moving away from that since much of the world him and his contemporaries created was vile and white supremacist. Cosmic horror as a genre can evolve away from that.

I can't speak to Matheson but Stephen King is also not always forthcoming with information in a single story. I've seen King, especially in the Dark Tower series withholded information until the end. The Mist held a lot of information back as well. You got snippets about the experiment and things from another world, but that level of information is on the same level as Undersea ruins, something contained there, oops we let it out, it's associated with this symbol.

If you really wanted me to emulate Stephen King (one I'd need a lot more fucked up sexual elements, lol) you should ask me to turn this blog into a series and reveal more with the next installment. Which isn't a bad idea.

But claiming that Lovecraft didn't use the unknowable as a major theme in his stories is just... I really don't think you know what you're talking about. Lovecraft regularly gave way less information than I even approached giving. He regularly gave less info than Slenderman creepypasta and related projects does.