http://mokeyhokey.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] mokeyhokey.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] cleolinda 2005-10-26 04:48 am (UTC)

I LOVED the Dionaea House thing, but House of Leaves made me want to throw things. I actually just dropped my paperback copy of HoL off in the "whatever" pile at the library because it annoyed me so much. I think for me, the concept behind the two works better online in "real time" than in print because there's a sense of reality involved on the internet that adds to the horror. You just can't get that in a book unless you seriously suspend disbelief. Of course, there's always a bit of suspension involved in fiction, especially horror, but HoL was just too overblown to keep me from going, "this is bullshit" 100 pages in. I guess I like my horror to get right to it and not dawdle.

What I was originally planning to comment about (heh): Do you happen to know the title of the Lovecraft wax museum story? I have a ~2GB e-book archive with a ton of Lovecraft and I can check to see if it's in there.

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