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The House On The Borderland by William Hope HodgsonRelated content
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I can't help but wonder if this pig villains.wikia.com/wiki/Dancin⦠is actually a partially civilized Swine-Thing.
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yet another horror story I'm not familiar with, but thanks for turning it onto me 
And thanks for depicting bacon that eats you
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Oh its a fantastic story, gets really crazy at the end
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That is very true, while it is enjoyable things got quite trippy with the time travel.
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Before the "found footage" movie, there was the "found manuscript" story. Good job on illustrating one of the disgusting antagonists of the story.Β
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Hodgson seemed to have a thing for pigs, huh?
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My friend shares your literary tastes...
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I read that book. The framing device is two tourists happening upon the caved-in ruin of the house and finding, in the crumble, a damaged book. The middle pages are ruined beyond recall, but the rest is a narrative of horror and wildness. Attacks by malific swine-things, a trip into the far distant future, the deaths of two dogs, and then ....
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The "found artifact" of horror is a big trope. For me it started with the letters in Frankenstien and then Poe and Lovecraft kept it up. Even Clark Ashton Smith used it. It has come into the modern with the found footage films. If someone wanted to modernize House on the Borderland it would probably be Irish college students getting high and figuring out how to watch some old VHS tapes in a backwards country village.
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I forgot about this story! At first glance I thought this fellow was the Hyena-Swine from The Island of Dr. Moreau!! Silly me.
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Ah, actually I just read Island of Dr. M, I wanted to do a horror from there but nothing struck me, I mean maybe Moreau could be the horror cause of his experiments, or one of the beasts, but I also thought of the swine-thing and just gave up.
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Go with Dr. Moreau, definitely! He's the source of the horror, as you said! It's like the old Hammer Frankenstein movies; the Baron's attitude and the lengths he went to were far scarier than his creatures. Do Moreau with a bit of Charles Laughton, as a homage to Island of Lost Souls!
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One reviewer said something odd, about one scene with Dr.Moreau -he said his lips were as red as rat-nostrils. Since the film was in B & W ....
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As I recall, that's how the author describes Moreau in the novel...black and white films, especially films like Island of Lost Souls, exert a great deal of power over the viewers' imaginations!
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yeah and maybe I'll have him holding animal parts like hes mid-surgery... Who knows! I still have 15 left to do, Tomeran is one, then Cthulhu, Phantom of the opera, possibly lady Macbeth... Ahh so many options
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Don't forget Vulturio Craftevol, Pontifex of Cthulhu Temple!
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Well, Vulturio is the main antagonist in the book I've written: The Bride of Chaos! The link is in my Deviant ID spot...but the most visually horrific character in the book is the abominable Lokius Nefandous, heh-heh...
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Yeah--I think you'd like it, since we both read a lot of the same stories; what one reads becomes fuel for the imagination, after all! Thanks again for helping me with my avatar!
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definately! I'll check it out as soon as I can.
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