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Book of Vile Darkness: What do you want in it?
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<blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 5455059" data-attributes="member: 3820"><p>I'm a fan of subtle fantasy horror. One of the reasons that I think Tharizdun sticks neatly in our collective imaginations is that he's so damn weird, at least in his original incarnations: four bizarre sort-of-kind-of-class incarnations, unusual symbols, black fruit, things like that. I like mystical evil that's strange and unsettling in its implication. The King In Yellow and stories of lost Carcosa. I like evil that manifests in forms we don't automatically expect: Clark Ashton Smith's "The Dark Eidolon" uses horses very effectively, for instance, instead of just keeping with snakes and scorpions and spiders and the like. I like decadence and decay and a sense of wrongness.</p><p></p><p>I realize that for a book of darkness that is depicted as vile, lurid is somewhat to be expected, but I just really like the peculiarly "off" stuff so much more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Barastrondo, post: 5455059, member: 3820"] I'm a fan of subtle fantasy horror. One of the reasons that I think Tharizdun sticks neatly in our collective imaginations is that he's so damn weird, at least in his original incarnations: four bizarre sort-of-kind-of-class incarnations, unusual symbols, black fruit, things like that. I like mystical evil that's strange and unsettling in its implication. The King In Yellow and stories of lost Carcosa. I like evil that manifests in forms we don't automatically expect: Clark Ashton Smith's "The Dark Eidolon" uses horses very effectively, for instance, instead of just keeping with snakes and scorpions and spiders and the like. I like decadence and decay and a sense of wrongness. I realize that for a book of darkness that is depicted as vile, lurid is somewhat to be expected, but I just really like the peculiarly "off" stuff so much more. [/QUOTE]
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