Best Little Witch-House in Arkham
Can you please recommend anything else? But we also love and take inspiration from the sheer atmosphere which can be found in English horror films of the 60s and 70s and especially anything put out by Hammer. I have recently watched this documentary on British black metal: The interviewed musicians tell us how inspirational your small and old towns are, as well as the British history.
Every town has its history and heritage and its myths and legends and is an omphalos at the centre of the universe waiting to be tapped into. This stuff had happened in our town or area granted, we took great artistic licence with some of it , but we had a strong connection to something unique through our experiences and through the landscape of our moors, our mills and our council estates. History and fiction comes alive in a different way when you yourself are part of that place and are one day going to be a part of its history and its story.
As you already said, you guys live in Keighley, West Yorkshire.
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A decent place, apparently. Any metalheads over there, eh? We also have steam trains and real ale and curry, nice countryside, desolately beautiful moorland, and stan pies. I do like your independence and consistency as a band. Be a "big" band? We just do what we want — the goal of this band is just to make itself sufficient — record, sell recordings — make enough money to make new recordings and to play some great gigs with great people and bands along the way.
How much of your lives do you sacrifice for the band? You all guys claim to have full time jobs and play on the weekends. How do your families react to your expensive hobby? At the moment we are sacrificing about three hours a week in rehearsal but I think it is at home where all the time goes — learning songs, working out solos etc. Also, when we are recording that can be very time consuming and me, I tend to record a lot of demos at home so I can be sat in a room for hours on end. I know John H. It is hard fitting in the band around family and work and we have all had to make sacrifices, but it is worth it in the end even if just one person tells you they like your music, and at the moment people seem to like us, so we will keep on doing it!
You surely can see a lot of different countries. As noticed you have already played in many exotic places like Dubai for instance. How was the reaction to your music over there? The people and the fans were great — the organisers, Sammy, Lena, Fahd and Laham did a great job putting on the event and treated all the bands like royalty — we met some amazing people and bands and the fans had traveled from all over to come to the gig, and of course it was a pleasure to be there also with Pagan Altar and the late great Terry Jones.
But having said that — the underground heavy metal community the world over or at least the bits we have been to are the same at heart despite little cultural differences.
Overall, there is a real sense of community — a sense of pride in the music and in the tradition of the music. A reverence and respect for the older bands in the scene and an acceptance and welcoming to younger bands, and I hope that never changes.
I think a lot of people in the scene, especially in the organising of the smaller gigs and festivals, do it for the love and not the money and should be supported. That goes too to all the fanzines, websites and magazines that support the scene! How about the second band of yours: You released one album, a piece of great music it is. But it was such a long time ago, indeed! The best all-in-one guide is by Daniel Harms. I have a sadly somewhat rare 2nd edition but I believe he finally just launched a 3rd edition.
There is a lovely mythos timeline in there. You can also pick my brain.
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Or I could arrange a visit from a migo with a certain cyclinder I can't help you with hunting down specific quotes - as has been said they might not even all exist - but as for reading Lovecraft, I recommend these two books:. For what it's worth, I reckon that even that much detail is too much. In many stories, that sort of specific terminology for what something is would have dispelled the atmosphere of unknowable horror. The example which particularly annoys me is Hastur. It wasn't until Derleth got his grubby mitts on the Mythos that Hastur was defined as being a sort of cosmic god at all.
When Chaosium were forced to decide what Hastur itself looked like, they seem to have gone for the obvious fall-back position that it's a big tentacled monster - which is the version that FFG inherited for AH,. So the original nebulous ghostly non-entities from Chambers have been explained as being parts of a giant purple space squid, which the Mythos already had more than enough of already. There's really no way to satisfactorily explain what all the Ancient Ones are. When my friend asks "What IS Tsathoggua? Really you're not meant to know what the AOs actually are, exactly; the best way of preserving their character and atmosphere might be to read the originating Mythos stories, but stay away from any later material which is too explanatory like Derleth's letters, and any Call of Cthulhu sourcebooks.
Professor Armitage may not be a particularly well-developed character either in The Dunwich Horror or in the board game but there are a few people in AH who are certainly not just bits of cardboard: Tthat's exactly the sort of thing that I do enjoy! A big part of the fun of the Mythos for me, anyway is cross-referencing the little details, picking up on references and allusions in the works of different authors, and tracking down other stories which expand on minute details in what I've already read.
The more obscure, the better! I don't see why the board game can't be part of that. And for the record, easy-to-defeat monsters are mechanically useful, but they're zombies because of Herbert West. Everything in this game is an allusion of some kind, including almost all the actual events in encounters. When Chaosium came along they made huge changes to a mythos that was prior to them only a very loose collection of tales strung together by certain names.
Before that, Derleth was the driving force behind organising the pieces into a whole. Both attempts were failures in the sense that they undermined the unknowable nature of the mythos. But to be fair Derleths motivation in bringing order to chaos is philisophical and stylistic, chaosiums is practical, since they had to systemise it for a game.
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This has had an enormous impact on shaping the mythos, arguably more than Derleth had And yes their take on Hastur is unimaginative. Delta Green, however, showed how it should be done. It seems that chaosium have a lot to answer for, in the end That may be the price of wider popularity. It isnt complete, though. It could not really remain so and expand indefinately. People have a natural inborn curiousity to know the unknown, Lovecraft himself recognises this and adds "but in the infinite gulfs, there are things unknowable".
People love to puzzle out the mythos. It doesnt mean that they will, or that anyone will produce a definitive pattern for it. The mythos will mutate out of control again. It will concrete to a new degree as well. Most likely, the next step will be when someone makes a colour, modern film that shows Cthulhu in all his glory - forever fixing him in peoples imaginations in a way the page, even a chaosium page with stats on, could not - Cthulhu bound by celluloid.
It is somewhat inevitable in a sickening and compelling way at the same time. But, in the end, our tiny minds will break at the strain of trying to contain and codify something that has no meaning we can perceive, because there is none. They are the best we can do, given the fragments Lovecraft provided.
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Sign up for a new account in our community. Already have an account? Posted October 12, Hello, I'm looking for a little guidance on what publications to read in relation to Arkham Horror. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites. Posted October 13, Zombies, arguably, are created by Herbert West, Reanimator.
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Where do you find THAT information? I can't help you with hunting down specific quotes - as has been said they might not even all exist - but as for reading Lovecraft, I recommend these two books: I don't think such searching for minute references that might be in the original stories is really a good use of your time, nor will it improve your enjoyment of the game. Posted October 14, There's really no way to satisfactorily explain what all the Ancient Ones are Create an account or sign in to comment You need to be a member in order to leave a comment Create an account Sign up for a new account in our community.