I gotta say, I love where this story is going. The Dreams in the Witch House was the first HPL-story I ever read, at the mature age of 10. I never looked at math quite the same way again.
Yeah! Cthulhu Mythos, Equation and Computing!
Are we making a step toward some history of the Black Chamber from The Laundry universe by Charles Stross?
GREAT SCOTT!! That’s just……I really wanna see where this is going. Also, I see Warren is familiar with the Amulet. That’s good, maybe He’ll expound on Pickman’s explanation of what it is.
OK, I can buy that Lovecraft’s stories are also equations. Certainly he was wonderfully systematic in how he built some of them, carefully distinguishing between how the events happened & how the narrator stumbled into them for instance.
There were indeed devices and books on that very subject, though aimed at a slightly older crowd than Scolastic’s site. From Wiki: “In an article originally published in 1935[1] and reprinted in 2002,[2] Robert J. Hogan described a book-based device called the Plot Genie which consisted of three lists of 180 items each: murder victims in the first list, crime locations in the second list, and important clues in the third list. The item to use from each list was chosen by spinning a dial with 180 numbers on it.”
Maybe HPL had one with Eldritch tomes, types of insanity, and Old Ones.
January 18th, 2013 at 1:33 am
Father Jackey is looking a little less wizened here.
January 18th, 2013 at 2:59 am
I gotta say, I love where this story is going. The Dreams in the Witch House was the first HPL-story I ever read, at the mature age of 10. I never looked at math quite the same way again.
January 18th, 2013 at 4:49 am
Yeah! Cthulhu Mythos, Equation and Computing!
Are we making a step toward some history of the Black Chamber from The Laundry universe by Charles Stross?
January 18th, 2013 at 6:14 am
GREAT SCOTT!! That’s just……I really wanna see where this is going. Also, I see Warren is familiar with the Amulet. That’s good, maybe He’ll expound on Pickman’s explanation of what it is.
January 18th, 2013 at 9:13 am
Kill it? Don’t show Harley the scar on Orwin’s back. Complex spacetime geometry; so practiced it on Howard?
January 18th, 2013 at 1:57 pm
*Rhythm
January 18th, 2013 at 2:10 pm
Suddenly, it all makes sense. I think I can guess how and why Lovecraft went missing and where he is now.
I eagerly await the next pages of unimaginable vistas of truth that will surely show the futility of my meagre attempts at comprehension.
January 18th, 2013 at 7:40 pm
Give us a hint willya! Just the salient points of the story?
January 19th, 2013 at 8:54 am
This is a really well-done page.
January 20th, 2013 at 7:44 am
Just a small spelling correction: It’s “rhythm”.
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:32 pm
OK, I can buy that Lovecraft’s stories are also equations. Certainly he was wonderfully systematic in how he built some of them, carefully distinguishing between how the events happened & how the narrator stumbled into them for instance.
Could he have then built them using a story machine? Input variables here, get plot & strange devices out there? Something like http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/fantasy-writing-prompts/?
January 22nd, 2013 at 8:55 pm
There were indeed devices and books on that very subject, though aimed at a slightly older crowd than Scolastic’s site. From Wiki: “In an article originally published in 1935[1] and reprinted in 2002,[2] Robert J. Hogan described a book-based device called the Plot Genie which consisted of three lists of 180 items each: murder victims in the first list, crime locations in the second list, and important clues in the third list. The item to use from each list was chosen by spinning a dial with 180 numbers on it.”
Maybe HPL had one with Eldritch tomes, types of insanity, and Old Ones.