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- From: markg@engrg.uwo.ca (Mark Gagnon)
- Subject: Re: Dracula, Necroscope, movies.
- Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:00:29 GMT
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- Brian Lumley's NECROSCOPE series leans very heavily on its HPL
- connections: to whit, the Vampires or Whampyri are more like
- the shoggoth in their ability to shape-change and convert fleshy
- matter... If you've every read the Call of Cthulhu RPG supplement
- "The Asylum" there is a short adventure about a 'mad' doctor who
- discovers the process of generating shoggoth material. He also goes
- so far as to 'convert' himself into shoggoth material. That particular
- story-line reminded me very much of Lumley's vampires.
-
- Another point. Lumley's vampires have a connection with spore or fungus
- based life. The process of infection for Harry Keogh (Sorry for the spoiler,
- folks, it's unavoidable...) begins with his contact with spore material
- from bizarre mushrooms encircling him as he sleeps. Mushrooms and toadstools
- do not photosynthesize, and (correct me if I'm really far off base...) some
- do wither in sunlight.
-
- I find Lumley's work all very logically constructed.
-
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- Mark Gagnon (markg@prism.engrg.uwo.ca) University of Western Ontario
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