hello Richard Gavin
 

Hello Richard:

I've written down the information for the Halifax library. I'll give it to them on Tuesday since Monday is a holiday here. The library can say no, but they certainly might say yes too. I just have to fill out a request form there.

And in any respect, I have a few other authors from here I'm interesting in requesting as well.

My best to you, Richard.

Barry Wood

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Hello everyone,
I'm Slawek Wielhorski and I'm from Poland which is quite an exceptional phenomenon for a Ligotti fan. Actually I've never met a Pole who would know any fiction by Ligotti. Up to now there is only one of his short stories which has been translated into my native language - "The Shadow, The Darkness". It's a shame because I think that his works would appeal to Polish readers.
Anyway, what can I say about myself? As you might have noticed I'm quite new here (it's my second day). I'm 20 and I live in the capital, Warsaw, which is a real heart of horror (full of IMMENSE concrete blocks, other communist buildings and unhappy people with expressionless manikin-like faces), but I still like it. I study international relations, and I have no idea what made me choose these studies. As soon as I finish i'm planning to go to a film school.
As to my hobbies, I used to collect horror fiction (books and movies), and not because I love this genre so much. I was looking for something utterly unsettling and akin to my perception of fear... something Ligotti would write.
I also write short stories, which from time to time appear on the internet. I'm still trying to get published in fantasy magazines. It is a great surprise for me to find out that there are so many writers on TLO. I'll try to read your works as soon as possible.

welcome, slawek!

Greetings, Slawek! It's great to welcome another member from a country that's not the US, Canada, or the UK ;) I'm Eddie M. Angerhuber, I'm from Germany. So we're almost neighbours!
Have you read Bruno Schulz's works? I'm not capable of reading Polish and know only the German translations of his stories. Great author, I love his work. If you love Ligotti, you should love Schulz ;) Have lots of fun here,

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Hi EddieMA!
Thanks for this warm reception. Good to know you, especially because we are in the same time zone. My problem is that when I wake up there is practically nobody online, the whole TLO is asleep. I hope that from time to time we will stumble across ourselves in the early mornings. Wir konnen Deutsch sprechen auch - but this maybe better privately :).
As to Bruno Schulz I just bought his whole body works and I'll be getting started with it in the near future.

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Hi Everyone,

I've finally gotten around to actually reading the posts in this website. You all seem like a great bunch of folks.

My name is Chris I'm 39, and I live in Chicago: no family, no shorties - the world is better off.

Unfortunately my job is too banal to merit comparison with MWINYD.

Besides TL, I love reading HPL, Karl Edward Wagner, Michael Shea and too many others. Among you young'uns, I really like Mark Samuels , Matt Cardin, and Michael Cisco. Forgove me for forgetting to mention whoever I've forgotten to mention. I also like reading Euro-lit by Nabokov, Schulz, Kis ... usw.

I don't create music, but I take guitar classes. I'm obsessed Delta and Piedmont blues. Skip James is the TL of the blues.

I'll shut up now.

Cheers!

welcome, Chris! Sounds like you'll definitely fit in (liking Michael Cisco is always a plus)

Welcome to TLO, Chris. I hope you've enjoyed browsing through the message boards. There are so many posts accumulated by now that I'm sure they must seem a formidable mountain for someone just starting to delve into them. Sometimes when I return after having been away for an hour or a day, and I see that three, five, nine, or sixteen new posts have been made during my absence, I despair of ever being able to catch back up.

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Hi chaps,
I've been hanging round this website for a while now, and felt it might be nice to say hello. I'm 26 and, for my sins, i'm in my last year of a philosophy degree in rural Wales. Upon graduating i'll then be training as a religious education skool-teacher (although, i'm actually an agnostic, cum atheist).
Growing up, I used to obsessively collect classic short horror fiction, using Lovecraft's 'Supernatural Horror in Literature' as a guide, and, at that tender age, my taste was forever tainted. I'm now beginning to revisit those classic authors- Algernon Blackwood, Poe, M.R. James, and seek out authors i hadn't previously been exposed to- Ligotti among them.
Other authors I greatly admire are Schopenhauer, Borges, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Mann and Dostoyevsky. All authors with their own unique pessimistic or nihilistic bent, which, although I try to help it, echo my own preoccupations.
It seems that, along with quite a few other people on this site, I like listening to industrial music and noise- Coil, TG, Skinny Puppy, Einsturzende Neubauten. Dirty Three, Bad Seeds and Suicide are other favorites.
Anyhow, it's great to have this opportunity to read the interesting posts (as well as raid the archive for excellent music and fiction) on this site about dark literature, art, music, philosophy which is so much greater than the pulp dross littering most bookshops. I look forward to chatting with you all. Cheers.

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Hello Chris and Sean.
Becoming a member of TLO was the right choice. I bet you'll have fun over here. TLO is a real "opulent palace of morbidity" as Quentin S. Chrisp put it. To tell the truth I am quite a new member myself...

and already a compulsive one!!!

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I've enjoyed reading everyone else's profiles, so I thought I'd weigh in with my own...

Currently residing in Seattle, soaking up lots of rain and coffee. Until recently, lived on the East Coast and worked in the commercial software industry. I was able to realize the error my ways, and decamped for the West Coast and the non-profit world. Smartest thing I ever did - working for a living is so unproductive.

On the musical front, my tastes seem a bit out of whack with everyone else here - I'm a dedicated jazz fan (Wayne Shorter, Woody Shaw, and Pat Martino are particular favorites). I delve into the electronica and goth worlds once in a while, with the odd heavy metal or punk show when I can get guest-listed. I'm also a fan of all sorts of graphic arts, and I'm curious if other folks here are admirers of Enki Bilal (Yugoslavian author of graphic novels)?

My favorite writers do seem like a match against the rest of the TLO community - it all started with Lovecraft, which led to Poe, Bierce, Clark Ashton Smith, and the rest. Eventually I arrived at Ligotti, Thomas Bernhard, Jorge Luis Borges, and Bruno Schulz. And I'm still avidly reading...

welcome, Sean and Dr Zirk (our list of doctors grows).

Coil (too bad Jhonn Balance died) rules and so does Pat Martino

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Thanks for your welcome s_wielh and unknown, and hello Dr. Zirk (with those recommendations i'll have to gem up on my jazz). And yes, it's a bloody shame about Jhonn Balance- so much potential fulfilled, but it would have been great to hear more from Coil, hei ho...

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Thanks to Sean and unknown for the welcomes. If anyone is curious about a possible connection between jazz and TL's writing, I can't resist a plug for Wayne Shorter's brilliant 2002 "Footprints Live!" album. It's highly technical instrumental jazz, but features the dark, moody themes that Shorter is famous for (his catalog of songs includes titles like "Dance Cadaverous" and "Face of the Deep").

If you have any taste for jazz at all, "Footprints Live!" is definitely something to check out - I'm listening to it on my iPod now, and it really plays to my ears like the soundtrack for a TL story.

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Thanks for the tip Dr. Zirk. I'll check it out. Speaking of Jazz, have you heard the album "Ghost Town" by Bill Frisell? (It has a very dark and dreamy feel to it) If so, is Wayne Shorter anything like that?

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I'm a big Bill Frisell fan (he's a local boy to those of us who live in Seattle), but "Ghost Town" I have not heard. I will definitely track it down - thanks to The New Nonsense for the recommend.

It wouldn't surprise me if "Ghost Town" has some sympathy with Wayne Shorter's work. Bill Frisell is very shy and self-effacing in person, but there's more than a touch of the trickster in his music and the look in his eye. His work with John Zorn and Naked City back in the 90's was something else again - practically a soundtrack for Azathoth's inbound flight to Earth (arriving soon).

Connections between music and literature fascinate me, so the ideas being traded on TLO are a goldmine....

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Hi, I'm Albie. I live in a mile high tower, built underground. The tip of which is level with what you would call 'the floor'.
I share my pentagonal abode with the ghost of a giant human hand, that flexes into a fist when he wants to be alone. I work in the snow mines, digging for snow, but most of my free time is spent in my VR machine, hanging out in a world that is formed from English sit coms from yesteryear. Fawlty Towers. Rising Damp. Terry And June. Nothing is too twee to escape my pictal depravity.

I also occasionally read Ligotti and Campbell, and anyone who might even be a tiny bit like them. Once a billion years I also write my own rip offs of my fave authors. One of which has recently seen publication in Bare Bone#7. The editor of which has expressed interest in two other of my short horror attempts.

A few years ago I realised that I owned the key to all reality, and it now sits upon my mantle, looking spooky.

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Well. I certainly won't be able to compete with that last one.

I'm Jeremey, 30something, living in a suburb of Atlanta, currently unemployed. I've never worked anywhere more glamorous than a pizza parlor, so I won't be dedicating any of this space to my vocational travails.

I suppose the theme of my life has been "disconcerted." I tend to begin things that I will not finish -- from the little things, like literature whether read or written, to the biggies, such as college and relationships. I also tend to frighten easily, like a fainting goat, so for the past few years I've sort of kept to myself. This goes back, most immediately, to my college days, during which I lived with three of my friends and imbibed enough booze and herbs to permanently frazzle whatever nerves had survived my already burgeoning anxiety disorder (which is alive and kicking these days, thank you -- I am sure many here can empathize). So I scrambled back to my parents' place, where I live presently (ack); I'm sort of at an existential precipice, hoping that one of these days a revelation of some kind will instruct me further. Alas...

What the hell am I talking about? Sorry, it's early in the morning and I've not slept. Talking to a silent computer screen does strange things to a mind.

So, weirdness. My first memory of life's creepy undertones involves a visit to a wax museum in Louisiana (I don't think it was Tussaud's, if that's even how it is spelled). I was maybe 6 or 7 and, led by my mother's hand, I wandered through dark corridors that periodically opened to reveal such tableaux as "The Wolf Man," "The Pit And The Pendulum," and "The Torture Chamber." According to my mother, in fact, I alternated between utter terror and fixed fascination. I spent many hours afterward gazing at a souvenir book of gallery photos -- and what I would give to have that book today. Really, my only clear memory is of a picture of a wax "man" being whipped by some mad wax dungeonmaster. What sticks with me is the pelt of matted red hair that the victim had across his body. I'm thinking that perhaps I mistook blood for hair, though. I actually recall other episodes in those early years in which I had a problem understanding exactly what blood was. (Strange sounding, but I imagine other children experience such phenomena; I remember when one of my first grade playmates got socked in the face by a schoolyard bully, I thought that his nose was "leaking meat," not blood. Don't ask me; I have no freaking idea.)

Where is this going? Forgive me for wandering.

I discovered Ligotti at a Tower Records store (back when their selection not only of literature, but of music, was outstanding). The book was Noctuary, and for reasons that I'll never know (but for which I'll always be grateful), I took it home with me that night. I remember reading "The Medusa" for the first time and feeling a kind of blend of confusion and ecstasy that probably won't ever be duplicated. It was, I guess, one of those "Eureka -- wait, what??" moments.

This has gotten way too long. I'll save the rest for my autobiography. :lol:

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Welcome, Jeremey Bartlett. This is a great place and I'm relatively new and still learning new stuff every day. Once again, welcome Jeremey Bartlett.

Barry

welcome Jeremey...interesting story indeed.

I must say, the Tower by me has an exceptional cd selection (as I am an underground metal elitist ass).

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Hi everyone,

I thought I'd revive this topic for my first post. I've been lurking on TLO quite regularly over the past couple months, but only decided to take the plunge and register now because, well, social anxiety extends into cyberspace sometimes, too. :wink:

Anyway, for the intro, my name is Dan, I'm 23 and from the suburban sprawl of New Jersey. I'm currently unemployed and living at home after graduating college with an essentially useless film studies degree last year, and then spending some time living and working in England. Hopefully I'll get out of NJ soon, though I'm in no hurry to go find a soul-sucking job in an unfamiliar place, either.

As for my history as a Ligotti fan, as with many of you it could be said to have started with reading HPL in my early teens. In high school, I read a handful of Ligotti stories when you could actually find some online (I think "Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech" was my first.) I also heard his collaborative works with C93. College came and my appetite for a lot of things left me, which meant that I hardly read or did anything productive at all, instead choosing to spend my time ingesting all manner of substances, as you do. I can't say that I regret this, because many of my current interests and ideas owe much to my experiences with altered states.

Being out of school, though, has forced me to find more tenable ways of occupying my time and providing pleasure. And so I'm reading actively and writing again for the first time in several years, when those are the things everyone's been telling me I should do all along (I can't say that I find writing "pleasurable," however, as I'm highly self-critical and sitting down to write is like pulling teeth with me.) Somewhere along the way, I finally bought a copy of "The Nightmare Factory," and the words were, to put it one way, "recognizable in some way as my own." And now I'm here.

I look forward to interacting with all of you, and maybe I'll be able to contribute an interesting tidbit here and there....

All the best,
Dan

Welcome to the party, Dan. Or nightmare, as the case may be. Best of luck with post-college life. In my own experience, the sociocultural system here in the West, or at least in America, or at least in Missouri -- or at least in my own idiosyncratic little life -- isn't all that helpful in fostering attitudes or providing opportunities or opening doors that make life for creative types very bearable after graduation. Fortunately, I see that you, however, are doing exactly what I should have done in the immediate aftermath of college: just hanging out and letting the dust settle for awhile. Good luck to you.

I notice that I never acknowledged the introductions posted to this thread some months ago by Chris, Sean, Dr. Zirk, Albie, and Jeremy. Sorry about that. Hello, gentlemen.

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Hi, my name is Phil. I'm an alcoholic. (Oops! Wrong group!)
Seriously...
I'm Phil. I reside in Fenton, Michigan. I'm 47. My avatar couldn't be more appropriate; I straddle the fine line between jokester and smart aleck. (Ah, the roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd.) The tarot's Fool would suit me as well. I was fortunate enough to grow up (sic) in a house that always had science fiction lying around. (Thanks, Dad.) You can guess what happened when I outgrew comics. I'm here, I imagine, because I share a common interest with you: the fiction of Thomas Ligotti. My first Ligotti was "The Last Feast of Harlequin" in its original magazine appearance. A fleeting brush. Just before I turned 40, I got interested in HPL, who I had avoided like the Plague (because "The Dunwich Horror" scared the piss out of me when I was 12 or 13). I was a fan of Henry Kuttner's fiction and bought a copy of Chaosium's The Book of Iod. I was unaware of Kuttner's Cthulhu Mythos work. Well, an avalanche occurred.... I bought all of Lovecraft's fiction, and read it obsessively in chronological order of publication. I discovered Edward P. Berglund's wonderful site The Reader's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos (found at: http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/contents.htm )
The snowball rolls faster & gets bigger!!! It's out of control: I make every effort to acquire every bona fide Mythos work (according to Berglund's Chronology) and read them in order! Foolhardy? Yes! Expensive? Yes! I was fine until I hit the 1950's and August Derleth (my wheels started to wobble). By the early 1970's, my wheels fell off. (Not your fault, Mr. Lumley, you just happened to be there....) Utter boredom at disappointing derivative mediocre fiction. One of the perks along the way, though, was the small press stuff, the kind of publications that TL seemed drawn to. (Yes, I cheated. I skipped ahead and read reviews in Crypt of Cthulhu, Midnight Shambler, Eldritch Tales, and many others.) The rest is history. Weirdly enough, though, I ended up in Mr. Berglund's Chronology of the Cthulhu Mythos on his RGttCM site. I'm the purple push pin. Really.

ADDENDUM (about a month later):
What I failed to express earlier is my enduring appreciaton of Cthulhu Mythos fiction. The real gems of this subgenre are staggering, to say the least. Lovecraft, Long, Smith, Howard, Kuttner, Bloch, etc., etc. My problem was burnout. I took in a steady diet of the stories for nearly two years, with no variety. Try eating the same thing every day. It gets old. I've learned to graze rather than gorge. Moo.
Phil

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My name is David. I'm 41 and live in Madison, Wisconsin. I stumbled upon SONGS OF A DEAD DREAMER in 1991 or 1992 and thought it the greatest collection of horror stories I'd ever read. In fact, I still consider them just that.

I'd discovered Lovecraft in high school about ten years earlier, so Ligotti quickly became a favorite. Other favorites were and still are Borges, Kafka, Philip K. Dick, Tolkien, Gore Vidal.

I have one question, though: Do any WOMEN read Ligotti?

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Just wanted to say hi to Alex and Phil, and a belated thanks to Matt for the welcome.

I once knew a gal who read Ligotti, but she was found dead on the street, having choked, apparently, on the small plastic arm of a toy doll....

It's tough to maintain a fanbase when your fiction has such effects.

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Greetings

I'm new here and I figured that this would be a good place to introduce myself.

I am 22 years old and currently working as a starving artist (the pay really sucks). Ideally, if/when I start making a bit of money with my work, I will be doing it by either writing, sculpting, drawing or working in/with film. Film is my primary love in life, particularly animation (which is what I went to school for), however, I am just as fond of live-action. A few of the films that I consider to by my long-standing favorites, and that have influenced me are Begotten, The Cabinet of Dr. Calligari, and Tuvalu (favorite directors are the Quay Brothers, Jan Svankmajer, David Lynch, ect)
Music-wise, I can enjoy most generas (except country rock :P), but I primarily listen to Punk, Post-Punk/Deathrock, Experimental, and early industrial.

Unfortunately, very few authors have made much of an impact on me. When I was 12-13 I first got into H.P. Lovecraft. He was the first author who I knew (I had read many books, but never enjoyed them to the point of wanting to actively seek out other books written by the same authors) and his writing made a very strong impression on me. Unfortunately, I enjoyed his books to the point where I hated about 99% of all other authors I read. So, as weird as it sounds, for about 5 years, the majority of the books I read where short story collections by Lovecraft (I did find other authors I loved in that time.. Poe, Shakespeare, Dante, and Nietzsche are the only that come to mind).
Salvation from such monotony came 5 years ago when I discovered Ligotti. :D

I cant remember very well, but I'm pretty certain I learned of him through Current 93's "I Have a Special Plan for this World", but it may have been elsewhere.

Anyway, this has already gotten a lot more longwinded than I planned (I was originally only going to write a quicky paragraph.. but it sorta grew :oops: )... so... yeah...
Hi!

P.S. heh.. I understand why this is, but its kinda ironic that the spellcheck considers Ligotti to be an incorrect spelling on a Ligotti forum. :P

*edit* Oh yes.. and I adore Charles Baudelaire

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Good! A help-group thread!

My name's Antonio, 23, crap architect and somewhat decent writer, professional fool, pessimist/nihilist and horny boyfriend; sex, horror and videogames are my drugs... I take descent photography, though (I might upload some of my stuff here)

I listen to dark ambient and industrial music, along with dark folk in the vein of Current 93, Death in June, etc. My favorite music acts are Lustmord, Sephirot, Raison D'être, Current 93, and a large etc.

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Good morning

I am Richard Molyneux, 34 years old and married. I was born in Liverpool and have been living in North London for the past 14 years. I work for a not for profit organisation running a publications department.

In 2 years I leave the dead shores of England for the rain of Vancouver (my dear wife is Canadian).

I first read Ligotti after a binge at the Fantasy Centre bookshop a couple of years ago. He effected me.

Music Wise: John Fahey, Shirley Collins and decaying Wax Cylinders. I can just about forgive Current 93 (Just).

Films: Dr Phibes, Night of the Hunter.

People: Tove Jansson, Florence Upton and Charles Waterton

Any advice on Vancouver would help!!!.

Thank you

Richard

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Hello everyone,
My name is Colleen. I am 29 and married with two children. One of each. My son is 5 and my daughter is 8. I live near Lansing, Michigan. I work with Phil. After listening to him talk about this great author for two year I finally decided to check Ligotti out. With two kids I don't have a lot of time to read but I have some how managed to read quite a few of Ligotti's works in the last few months. I have found once I start one of his stories I can't put it down till I am through. It is great to work with someone who also enjoys Ligotti you wouldn't believe some of the conversations we have. Thank you to all who have so warmly welcomed me aboard!

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Yes!

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Yes, Colleen, it is indeed rewarding to personally know someone who appreciates Thomas Ligotti's work. This extra dimension is indescribably, uh, indescribable in its richness and surprises. I still envy your first reading of Ligotti's stories... Your next recount of a read will no doubt include a "Colleen word." Three guesses on my part.

Part of the lunch conversation, 2/2/06: The meat nonsense of BEEF-PORK-GOAT from "The Clown Puppet." Colleen had pizza with sausage and pepperoni, while I had spaghetti with meatballs. Stomach-filling nonsense.

Welcome, Colleen.

I invoke the chant from "Freaks": "One of us, one of us, one of us...."

Phil

welcome, richard and colleen!

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Hello, Richard and Colleen! Welcome to TLO.

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I am Noel. I am "Swans-- ." Live in Washington, D.C., am 46 years old. I can't get enough of TL. There's just no getting around him -- even philosophically he's a force to be reckoned with. I do love it that I can post things here, esp. the poetic profusion leading to noetic confusion.

Had to get that one in...

Yes, I still like Osho. Most engaging intellect/personality I've ever encountered. Saw him in India 1987. But all's in flux right now, and I've been depressed for eight months. I plan to quit my job in about 7 months and then take a year of "retirement" because I do not feel cut out for the world of work. When the money runs out, so might I, into the freezing cold w/ a bottle of vodka. And my Bose.

Oh yeah, P.S. I am related to my Avatar. Boris Karloff, aka William Pratt.

How? Cool.

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It's either distant cousin or uncle, probably cousin. His name growing up in Merry Ole was "Billy Pratt," and that was my childhood nickname too. A kindly gentleman he was, I'm told...died in 1969.

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Very cool, Swans. I can't compare with that story, but my father shares a birthday with Wilbur Whateley.

That explains a lot about him, come ta think....

Welcome to all new members. Candy, nice to have you here, and any friend of Phil's, etc. He's quite the capitol fellow in my books.

Best to all,
Aether

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Greetings all TLO fellows,
First off again I want to salute TLO's creators, I can't say thanks enough.
Well, here's some bio on myself.
I'm 32 and float between South Carolina and Georgia, USA.
I'm a freelance digital media designer/ photographer and kitchen manager.
(I actually have a degree in Commercial Graphics, go figure right!)
In my off time I seek out new strange areas to shoot photos and handle equipment, sound, and effects/lighting for a synthpunk industrial band.
I listen to a wide array of music as far back as Screamin' Jay Hawkins to industrial, punk, rockabilly, and Lovecraft-inspired experimentals.
Noctuary was given to me by a friend who didn't know what to think of it five years ago. As a Lovecraft enthusiast, this was a natural fit.
I look forward to adding any knowledge or expertise here...
plus I've some nagging questions of my own someone may be able to help with.
Here's to it,
-Maskwith7eyes

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i'm not sure why i put off visiting the "who are you?" thread, but i'm glad that i'm here now...

i pretty sure that i'm 31 years old, honestly i could be wrong. the concrete facts escape me at the moment. i was born on 11/25/74, math is my least favorite subject followed closely by science.

since always, i've been into dark and weird stuff. (this feels like deja vu - maybe this is my second post here? i'm too lazy to go back and check though). as a child i loved roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons, monster coloring books, 80's metal, and video games to exploring Lovecraft's stories, Satanism, horror movies, and dark ambient music as an adult.

i write and paint for relaxation and because i have a constant need to "be productive" and to "become better". kinda like an unhealthy obsession. this required productivity and self improvement only concerns things that i enjoy - dark and weird things. i feel the need to create a black, transcendental universe that's a lot less crummy than the one society gives us.

i have an English degree and fell into the family real estate business soon after receiving my diploma. i've always hated school, which is why i never became a teacher or continued my education. now i own a third of the 12 story Aberdeen student apartment building in Madison, WI. i used to live at the Aberdeen as well as manage it, but now i live 6 blocks away in a nice, high ceiling condo. i still manage the building though.

hand in hand with my productive and improving obsession, frolics my desire to accomplish as much as i can before i die (upon which time i will conclude my metamorphosis into a slimy, tentacled, and fiendish monstrocity). these drives have forced me to organize a Cthulhu Mythos convention in Madison, WI (Cthulhu Two will be May Eve weekend 2007); start my own Lovecraftian and Satanic religion: the Cult of Cthulhu; create a website of the same name; persue an art career; self-publish a much maligned dark fantasy roleplaying game called Empire of Satanis; and self-publish a poetry/short prose book called Alien Demons, Swords and Magic.

Lovecraft and Ligotti are my two favorite authors. i watch more movies and TV than read. i have a girlfriend but have never married or had children. one day perhaps... i enjoy my freedom too much at the moment.

darrick AKA
Venger Satanis
Cult of Cthulhu High Priest