![]() ![]() It is difficult to say what lasting impact Lovecraft had on Clarke certainly, he was a fan, but he never attempted to add to the Mythos as such, aside from noting that the Programming Manual for the HAL 9000 Computer: Revised Edition was published by Miskatonic University Press. Exeunt, pursued by eldritch horror requesting whether they mind condensed milk in their tea. The explorers, unfamiliar with these nuances, take it for an actual insidious plot and flee. No good for Unknown – try Gillings.įans of science fiction would recognize Unknown as one of the premier fantasy pulps of its day Walter Gillings was the editor of the British pulp Tales of Wonder. One of the key plot points revolves around how the Elder Things authored the stories about themselves in Weird Tales, which is why no one believes in them-and at the end the explorers find and misapprehend a note:ĭestroy human race by plague of flying jellyfish (?Sent through post in unsealed envelopes?). Like many later pasticheurs, it focuses on the most obvious aspects of Lovecraft’s writing and imagery to lampoon unlike many of them, it does so from a very British standpoint, with Clarke deliberately drawing inspiration from the humorist Stephen Leacock.Īs a spoof, the work is quite fannish. 4, March 1940), and is a very respectable early work. “Murkiness” was only Clarke’s fifth story to see print, published in the amateur sci-fi zine Satellite #16 (vol. Clarke, “At the Mountains of Murkiness” (1940)įour years after “At the Mountains of Madness” was published in the pages of Astounding, and three years after Lovecraft had died, his work was already being parodied (Clarke could not know that he was far from the first). Surely, I thought, the mad Arab, Abdul Hashish, must have had such a spot in mind when he wrote of the hellish valley of Oopadoop in that frightful book, the forbidden “Pentechnicon.” Lovecraft, “At the Mountains of Madness” (1936) Something about the scene reminded me of the strange and disturbing Asian paintings of Nicholas Roerich, and of the still stranger and more disturbing descriptions of the evilly fabled plateau of Leng which occur in the dreaded Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred. ![]()
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