tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post8377630905734168141..comments2024-03-12T12:38:23.542-04:00Comments on The Kind of Face You Hate: The Kind of Face You SLASH!!: Day 7 - That Eldritch Momentbill r.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-41042798383273903702010-08-24T20:47:30.284-04:002010-08-24T20:47:30.284-04:00And the "Yuggogheny Mountains" in Chabon...<i>And the "Yuggogheny Mountains" in Chabon's story is a clear reference to "Yog-Sothoth", one of Lovecraft's "Old Ones."</i><br /><br />Chabon also uses "Yuggogheny" for a fictitious Pennsylvania county in his short story "The God of Dark Laughter". <br /><br />There's a Youghiogheny River in western Pennsylvania. I read "Yuggogheny" as a combination of the real river name with "Yuggoth", the dark planet at the edge of the solar system in Lovecraft's "The Whisperer in Darkness".<br /><br />"The God of Dark Laughter" also features a book written by Friedrich Von Junzt (author of "Die Unaussprechlichen Kulten" in several of Lovecraft's stories).Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04967128647983362358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-69561787735694766252008-10-09T11:30:00.000-04:002008-10-09T11:30:00.000-04:00Thanks for the tip ... I may look them up.Thanks for the tip ... I may look them up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-27649834369606426082008-10-09T10:54:00.000-04:002008-10-09T10:54:00.000-04:00This month, an anthology of horror stories edited ...This month, an anthology of horror stories edited by Peter Straub, called <I>Poe's Children</I>, is coming out, and it contains a <I>very</I> good meta horror story by Thomas Ligotti called "Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story". I'm guess the whole anthology is worth picking up, but if you like meta, and horror, you should look into it.bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-11490227363098600912008-10-09T10:13:00.000-04:002008-10-09T10:13:00.000-04:00I'm all about meta. When I get it, that is ...I'm all about meta. When I get it, that is ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-12359772126981393532008-10-09T09:25:00.000-04:002008-10-09T09:25:00.000-04:00I should have pointed out that this didn't really ...I should have pointed out that this didn't really bother me very much. And I'm okay with "meta" (sometimes) if that's what the story <I>is</I>, but if the story is overall supposed to be taken straight, then this little winks are distracting. I'm probably supposed to be patting myself on the back for getting the jokes, but damnit, I just can't bring myself to do it.<BR/><BR/>I think Chabon was writing for everybody, and the references were both to amuse himself and people like me. I'm probably just being ornery.bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-83784726283161076532008-10-09T08:57:00.000-04:002008-10-09T08:57:00.000-04:00Some horror fans may like to be explicitly reminde...<I>Some horror fans may like to be explicitly reminded of the genre they're reading via nudges by the author, but I don't.</I><BR/><BR/>Not very meta of you, is it? But was Chabon writing for horror fans or for generalists like me? But if he was, why the Lovecraft references? Self-amusement?<BR/><BR/>Ah, the mystery of it all ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com