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Post by [AurN]Zenotaph on Mar 2, 2017 18:28:11 GMT -5
I admit it: I am a bookworm. Give me a myth, give me a TV show, I take the myth.
I read very much. Greek mythology, followed by the romans. After that roman katholik,
followed by the jewish. Egypt? Sumerian? Babylonian? I take, what I can.
Norse mythology? Welsh, Irish? Gimme!!!
That is, of course, shown in my interests. Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Urban fantasy...
I do not always read. I like horror movies, too. Wes Craven is the king of horror!
I just thought, how about asking the guys about their favorite myth.
Might be a bit difficult for americans, but we all have roots.
We all have myths, or just fairy tales. Maybe a good horror story.
Here is my favorite: We have a woman, cloaked in white. She distracts all people, driving by, so they all had accidents.
And they are many. The accidents. I never saw her for real, but well, almost...
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Post by gr3ygh05t on Mar 2, 2017 18:34:49 GMT -5
Wes Craven is not the king of horror. If I had to pick I would pick either Clive Barker or H.P. Lovecraft. Books are scarier than movies. The movies donot do the books justice.
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Post by [AurN]Zenotaph on Mar 2, 2017 18:44:01 GMT -5
You really read H.P. Lovecraft? Which one?
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Post by [AurN]Zenotaph on Mar 2, 2017 18:45:07 GMT -5
Cthulu? Maybe?
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Post by gr3ygh05t on Mar 2, 2017 19:46:02 GMT -5
Lovecraft never wrote any books. He wrote short stories. I have two books that are collections of his most famous ones. Call of Cthulhu, Dunwich horror and At the mountains of Madness are off the top of my head. Clive Barker has some neat ones too like the great and secret show, books of blood and Imajica. If you have kids I recommend Thief of Always (The plot is so eerily similar to Coraline).
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Post by WE034 on Mar 2, 2017 20:27:08 GMT -5
I think at the mountains of madness is probably one of the scariest stories I've ever read. That includes reading 50 shades of gray...
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Post by [AurN]Zenotaph on Mar 3, 2017 5:27:12 GMT -5
Lovecraft never wrote any books. He wrote short stories. I have two books that are collections of his most famous ones. Call of Cthulhu, Dunwich horror and At the mountains of Madness are off the top of my head. Clive Barker has some neat ones too like the great and secret show, books of blood and Imajica. If you have kids I recommend Thief of Always (The plot is so eerily similar to Coraline). I know. I referred to those collections as books, since it is easier. Coudn't know, you were that picky. It has been quite a while, since I read them, though. About 20 years, or so. We have an author in germany, writing horror stories, based on the Cthulu myth, Lovecraft created. Clive Barker? The same one, who wrote Imagica? |
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Post by gr3ygh05t on Mar 3, 2017 9:32:24 GMT -5
Yup. I love his writing all because it is very unusual. Or at least to me it is I might just not be familiar with his sources
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 15:18:51 GMT -5
I will give you not so much a horror tale, but something that happened when I was very young. My great Granny had passed way. She through her age had become hunchbacked. When they tried to get her to lay flat in her casket, they had to use ropes to secure her. Back in those days, the funeral was held in the house of the deceased. Remember hills of Kentucky. When we all went over there it was getting dark and a storm was brewing. Her home didn't have electricity, so candles were everywhere and for me a erie glow was all around her. The storm moved through the area rather quickly, lightning and thunder, hard rain, some high winds. During one lightning bolt and almost instantaneous thunder, the rope holding her down snapped and Granny sat up in her casket.
You can guess the rest.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 16:25:20 GMT -5
Might be a bit difficult for americans, but we all have roots. Before I respond, are you American? |
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Post by [AurN]Zenotaph on Mar 3, 2017 21:02:26 GMT -5
Might be a bit difficult for americans, but we all have roots. Before I respond, are you American? Nope. Bavarian. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 22:05:34 GMT -5
Before I respond, are you American? Nope. Bavarian. I'm just a bit curious as to why you seem to think that it might be hard for Americans to discuss myths? |
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Post by gr3ygh05t on Mar 3, 2017 22:21:50 GMT -5
I think at the mountains of madness is probably one of the scariest stories I've ever read. That includes reading 50 shades of gray... The scariest story I ever read would have to be broke back mountain |
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Post by [AurN]Zenotaph on Mar 3, 2017 22:26:08 GMT -5
I'm just a bit curious as to why you seem to think that it might be hard for Americans to discuss myths? Not to discuss. To have their own. America exists how long? 250 years? No offence meant here, but that is not very long, I think. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 22:32:50 GMT -5
We have plenty. Age and myths and legends have no correlation. There's what we brought with us, and then how expanding across North America added to that. Plus how exploring and settling of a frontier resulted in the formation of all new ones.
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Post by WE034 on Mar 3, 2017 22:39:21 GMT -5
I'm just a bit curious as to why you seem to think that it might be hard for Americans to discuss myths? Not to discuss. To have their own. America exists how long? 250 years? No offence meant here, but that is not very long, I think. Some of our peoples have been in the Americas for thousands of years, there were and are Native Americans who do have their own my mythologies. My great grand mother's favorite myth was of our creator, Kokumthena. Kokumthena Took the form of a small elder lady who formed the first people's and taught the art and culture. There are a several others she used to tell me, of how the first peoples lived on an island on the back of a huge turtle, and one about the trickster, many stories. But in a way you are right. There aren't many American Natives left and even fewer that speak and know the myths. Edit: I found a link to an article about her: www.native-languages.org/kokumthena.htm |
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