Truth is an unbearable thing. And its timing is bad.
Anne Carson and Euripides, Bakkhai [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
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To me the mythos is stagnant, boring, and festering. Hardly any new ideas are brought in because too many people are trying to write like Lovecraft or perpetuate the same conventions, but they’re doing it by maintaining the status quo and not offering anything new. And quite frankly, I for one am sick of the same-old, same-old. The same product in a new package doesn’t fly anymore with me, and just the sheer commercialism of the franchise on whole has soured me to it. Not that commercialism is bad, but some of the conventions lumped under it using the mythos are.
Comment by Werecat on Who Cares About the Cthulhu Mythos? in the Key 23 archive.
“Oh, my,” she said, her heart racing. “You are a bad little kitty.”
Robert Kroese, The Yanthus Prime Job: A Pepper Melange Novella
Shut up! How can you be so bad at secret societies? You’re in two of them!
Rachel Langer, The Order s01e08
There is a ghost of a moral in the story of a sensual Caliph going to the bad, as represented by his final introduction to the Halls of Eblis.
William Beckford, Vathek
Rebel Angels
Rebel Angels by James Turner is a new series published through SLG Publishing. You can pick up the first issue as a freebie in PDF, and check out an interview with James Turner about the series.
“Rebel Angels is a digital-first comic book series about a revolution in Hell ten thousand years after Eve bit into that juicy apple and Satan took on The Big Guy. The demon masses are wising up and asking themselves “What the hell were we thinking?” Join fallen angel Balthazar on his quest for meaning and redemption in a mad, morally inverted world where the bad rule the good and hope is a sin.” [via]
