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«Ο Μέγας Τσόγκναρ είναι ένας τρομερός θεός, χωρίς το παραμικρό ανθρωπομορφικό χαρακτηριστικό, μια καθαρή κοσμική δύναμη. Συγγενεύει με τα πύρινα νεφελώματα και την αρχέγονη λάσπη, και πριν ενσαρκωθεί μέσα στο Χρόνο, περιέκλειε μέσα του το παρελθόν, το παρόν και το μέλλον. Τίποτα δεν υπήρξε ποτέ και τίποτα δε θα υπάρξει, όμως όλα τα πράγματα υπάρχουν. Και ο Τσόγκναρ Φογκν ήταν κάποτε το σύνολο των υπαρχόντων πραγμάτων»
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Ο Φρανκ Μπέλκναπ Λονγκ υπήρξε ένας από τους πατέρες του λογοτεχνικού ιδιώματος που αποκαλούμε Κοσμικό Τρόμο. Στενός φίλος του Χάουαρντ Φίλιπς Λάβκραφτ, υπηρέτησε σε όλη του τη ζωή τη λογοτεχνία του φανταστικού, αφήνοντας πίσω του ένα πλούσιο και πολύμορφο συγγραφικό έργο. Στην παρούσα συλλογή, περιλαμβάνονται τα σπουδαιότερα διηγήματά του με αναφορές στη Μυθολογία Κθούλου.
Περιέχονται:
- Τα λαγωνικά του Τίνταλος
- Οι αδηφάγοι του διαστήματος
- Η πύλη προς την αιωνιότητα
- Η φρίκη στους λόφους
Η φρίκη στους λόφους
Ο Φρανκ Μπέλκναπ Λονγκ υπήρξε ένας από τους πατέρες του λογοτεχνικού ιδιώματος που αποκαλούμε Κοσμικό Τρόμο. Στενός φίλος του Χάουαρντ Φίλιπς Λάβκραφτ, υπηρέτησε σε όλη του τη ζωή τη λογοτεχνία του φανταστικού, αφήνοντας πίσω του ένα πλούσιο και πολύμορφο συγγραφικό έργο. Στην παρούσα συλλογή, περιλαμβάνονται τα σπουδαιότερα διηγήματά του με αναφορές στη Μυθολογία Κθούλου.
Περιέχονται:
- Τα λαγωνικά του Τίνταλος
- Οι αδηφάγοι του διαστήματος
- Η πύλη προς την αιωνιότητα
- Η φρίκη στους λόφους
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First published January 1, 1975
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Frank Belknap Long
428 books100 followersAka Lyda Belknap Long.
Frank Belknap Long was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos. During his life, Long received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (at the 1978 World Fantasy Convention), the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (in 1987, from the Horror Writers Association), and the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award (1977).
Frank Belknap Long was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos. During his life, Long received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (at the 1978 World Fantasy Convention), the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (in 1987, from the Horror Writers Association), and the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award (1977).
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January 29, 2021
Los Perros de Tindalos o los Sabuesos de Tindalos.
pubicado orginalmente en Weird Tales en 1929 .
"Todo el mal en el universo se concentró en sus magros, hambrientos cuerpos. ¿O había cuerpos? Los vi sólo por un momento, no puedo estar seguro."
"El tiempo no es más que nuestra percepción imperfecta de una nueva dimensión espacial. El tiempo y el movimiento son otras tantas ilusiones. Todo lo que ha existido desde el origen del universo existe ahora también. Lo que sucedió hace milenios sigue sucediendo en otra dimensión del espacio. Lo que sucederá dentro de milenios sucede ya. Si no lo podemos percibir es porque tampoco podemos penetrar en la dimensión espacial donde sucede. Los seres humanos, tal como los conocemos, no son sino partes infinitesimales de un todo inmenso. Cada uno de nosotros está unido a toda la vida que le ha precedido en nuestro planeta. Todos nuestros antepasados forman parte de nosotros. De ellos sólo nos separa el tiempo, y el tiempo es una ilusión"
Halpin Chalmers, escritor, periodista y aficionado del ocultismo
tiene un viaje mental y espiritual a través del tiempo y del espacio. Con la ayuda de una nueva droga de origen oriental y la asistencia de su amigo Frank. Retrocederá por el pasado hasta tiempos inmemoriales y "el acto" que lo inicio todo. Pero no solamente el podrá desplazarse a través del tiempo. Existen unas criaturas extradimensionales que podrían sentir la presencia de alguien, olfatearlo y seguirlo a través del espacio/tiempo.
Un relato hipnótico y perturbador. probablemente de los mejores dentro de los mitos
pubicado orginalmente en Weird Tales en 1929 .
"Todo el mal en el universo se concentró en sus magros, hambrientos cuerpos. ¿O había cuerpos? Los vi sólo por un momento, no puedo estar seguro."
"El tiempo no es más que nuestra percepción imperfecta de una nueva dimensión espacial. El tiempo y el movimiento son otras tantas ilusiones. Todo lo que ha existido desde el origen del universo existe ahora también. Lo que sucedió hace milenios sigue sucediendo en otra dimensión del espacio. Lo que sucederá dentro de milenios sucede ya. Si no lo podemos percibir es porque tampoco podemos penetrar en la dimensión espacial donde sucede. Los seres humanos, tal como los conocemos, no son sino partes infinitesimales de un todo inmenso. Cada uno de nosotros está unido a toda la vida que le ha precedido en nuestro planeta. Todos nuestros antepasados forman parte de nosotros. De ellos sólo nos separa el tiempo, y el tiempo es una ilusión"
Halpin Chalmers, escritor, periodista y aficionado del ocultismo
tiene un viaje mental y espiritual a través del tiempo y del espacio. Con la ayuda de una nueva droga de origen oriental y la asistencia de su amigo Frank. Retrocederá por el pasado hasta tiempos inmemoriales y "el acto" que lo inicio todo. Pero no solamente el podrá desplazarse a través del tiempo. Existen unas criaturas extradimensionales que podrían sentir la presencia de alguien, olfatearlo y seguirlo a través del espacio/tiempo.
Un relato hipnótico y perturbador. probablemente de los mejores dentro de los mitos
October 11, 2016
One of Lovecraft's "inner-circle" who helped him create the mythos (Included in this circle:several books by Clark Ashton Smith, and two by Robert E. Howard, collected together in The Black Stone, And The Thing On The Roof). Parts of this Long story were used later by Lovecraft in The Whisperer in Darkness. I find Long more fun to read, though. There are all sorts of elements of the mythos in this one (The Hounds was also heavily used in Let the Old Dreams Die. Angles where evil creeps in, chewing in walls, plasma being...... well....I'll stop for now....let you find out on your own :)
This is public domain, and can be found easily for free....the title story is quite short. I recommend this for anyone interested in mythos, or for those wanting to read Let the Old Dreams Die....the title story is a must (one of the stories in that book is named after it)--or many elements may just go right over your head.
****After writing this review I noticed that the synopsis has Long's mythos books in it.... Probably all public domain, I would assume. I will read more and check back in!
Free and fun! Hope you take the chance to find this one and enjoy it!
This is public domain, and can be found easily for free....the title story is quite short. I recommend this for anyone interested in mythos, or for those wanting to read Let the Old Dreams Die....the title story is a must (one of the stories in that book is named after it)--or many elements may just go right over your head.
****After writing this review I noticed that the synopsis has Long's mythos books in it.... Probably all public domain, I would assume. I will read more and check back in!
Free and fun! Hope you take the chance to find this one and enjoy it!
February 5, 2024
There have been several different collections of Long's early short fiction to appear with this title with somewhat different contents; I have the 1946 Arkham House hardback. The earliest story appeared in a 1924 issue of Weird Tales, and (with only a couple of exceptions) the rest either appeared there or in John W. Campbell's Unknown magazine over the following two decades. The stories include those that are part of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos cycle, as Long was famously a member of his circle. Long's stories are much more accessible (I didn't have to refer to a dictionary to read them!), with no taints of racism or sexism like you stumble over in HPL's work. His plotting is well-paced and entertaining, and his characters pretty well developed for their time. It's a great early collection of genre dark fantasy; the best early works of one of the genre's founding fathers.
February 12, 2024
We follow the experiments of a journalist named Halpin Chalmers, who uses a combination of Einstein-related knowledge and a mysterious Chinese narcotic called Liao, letting him expand his consciousness back in time to see the past.
Chalmers gets more and more high, drifting farther back through history on a mystic vision that reads like an epic movie montage, further and further back, until he goes back to a forbidden period before time itself. Here his presence is detected.
It turns out he's not alone in his vision quest. And whatever it is, it hunts him through the ages, back to the 20th century. Hateful beings who move through angles and not curves, whose ancient hunger is told in parable in myths and legends.
(This is just the right amount of disturbing, evil forces using right angles and not curves like the delusions of schizophrenics. Which I find absolutely charming)
Ultimately, this may be the only one two horror stories that have legitimately unsettled me, monster wise. Written in 1929 short horror tale by Frank Belknap Long, it has some serious writing weaknesses.
(Example: a guy is being eaten alive by an otherworldly horror and actually writes out his screams long-hand like something out of Monty Python and the Holy Grail"Their tongues! Aaaaaah!" ... or whatever it was.) But despite this, the story still somehow it haunted me.
It's much more effective than it should be; maybe the very concept itself making you doubt your sanity, I can visualize the title critters and their approach all too vividly. It's worth a read in a campy fun old school horror sense.
Chalmers gets more and more high, drifting farther back through history on a mystic vision that reads like an epic movie montage, further and further back, until he goes back to a forbidden period before time itself. Here his presence is detected.
It turns out he's not alone in his vision quest. And whatever it is, it hunts him through the ages, back to the 20th century. Hateful beings who move through angles and not curves, whose ancient hunger is told in parable in myths and legends.
(This is just the right amount of disturbing, evil forces using right angles and not curves like the delusions of schizophrenics. Which I find absolutely charming)
Ultimately, this may be the only one two horror stories that have legitimately unsettled me, monster wise. Written in 1929 short horror tale by Frank Belknap Long, it has some serious writing weaknesses.
(Example: a guy is being eaten alive by an otherworldly horror and actually writes out his screams long-hand like something out of Monty Python and the Holy Grail"Their tongues! Aaaaaah!" ... or whatever it was.) But despite this, the story still somehow it haunted me.
It's much more effective than it should be; maybe the very concept itself making you doubt your sanity, I can visualize the title critters and their approach all too vividly. It's worth a read in a campy fun old school horror sense.
September 3, 2021
Introducción, a cargo del propio autor, que ni he leído, francamente. Me ha bastado con las introducciones a cada relato que ya hay en el libro. De un tiempo a esta parte, suelo dejarme los prólogos, introducciones y prefacios para el final de la lectura, no por los destripes, que me dan igual, sino porque muchas veces me han quitado las ganas de seguir leyendo la novela; me hastían. Por eso ahora voy directamente al grano, que no está la cosa para perder el tiempo. Y sí, ya sé que los hay maravillosos, a la altura de la misma obra. Pero bueno, es mi opinión.
En cuanto a los relatos contenidos en la antología, el que busque cuento lovecraftiano a saco, este no es su libro. Son más fantásticos, sobrenaturales y de ciencia ficción que otra cosa. En cuanto a mi análisis de cada cuento, voy a ser muy escueto.
Aguas muertas. Serpientes en un río de Honduras. (**)
La sanguijuela oceánica. Cosa con tentáculos que ataca a un barco en plena noche. (***)
Los devoradores del espacio. Monstruos interdimensionales devoradores de cerebros. (*****)
Los sabuesos de Tíndalos. Pues eso, perros del espacio no euclidiano capaces de llegar a nuestro mundo por las esquinas. (*****)
Un visitante de Egipto. Un caballero, experto egiptólogo, visita un Museo de Nueva Inglaterra, y charla con el conservador del mismo. (**)
La segunda noche mar afuera. El narrador viaja en barco por el Caribe, cuando siente un olor nauseabundo y perturbador al sentarse en una silla. (***)
Las bestias sombrías. Un chico descubre ranas estranguladas con alambre, acto realizado por su padrastro. Por la madre del chico, averiguaremos que esto traerá consecuencias con ciertas criaturas del bosque. (***)
El liliputiense flamígero. Relato de ciencia ficción, donde un eminente científico llama a un amigo y colega para mostrarle un pequeñísimo ser humanoide bajo su microscopio. Resulta ser un emisario que ha venido a la Tierra, a modo de avanzadilla, para estudiar la manera de conquistarla. (***)
Visión oscura. Un periodista sufre un accidente en una torre eléctrica tras el que adquiere poderes telepáticos. (**)
El elemental. El protagonista está poseído por un elemental que le dota de poderes. (**)
Suerte de pescador. Un hombre pesca la cabeza de un chino en una zona del río con mala fama. Infumable. Empiezan los relatos malos para la revista Unknown Worlds, que son muy flojos. (*)
Los refugiados. Kelly pide ayuda a Harragan por asuntos con la “gente pequeña”. (*)
El empadronador. Otro de Unknown que no me apetece ni leer.
Las bolsas de sorpresas son peligrosas. Ídem.
Entra en mi jardín. Ídem.
Eso acudirá a ti. Ídem.
El fisgón. Flojo. (**)
En resumen, libro mediocre y traducción mejorable.
En cuanto a los relatos contenidos en la antología, el que busque cuento lovecraftiano a saco, este no es su libro. Son más fantásticos, sobrenaturales y de ciencia ficción que otra cosa. En cuanto a mi análisis de cada cuento, voy a ser muy escueto.
Aguas muertas. Serpientes en un río de Honduras. (**)
La sanguijuela oceánica. Cosa con tentáculos que ataca a un barco en plena noche. (***)
Los devoradores del espacio. Monstruos interdimensionales devoradores de cerebros. (*****)
Los sabuesos de Tíndalos. Pues eso, perros del espacio no euclidiano capaces de llegar a nuestro mundo por las esquinas. (*****)
Un visitante de Egipto. Un caballero, experto egiptólogo, visita un Museo de Nueva Inglaterra, y charla con el conservador del mismo. (**)
La segunda noche mar afuera. El narrador viaja en barco por el Caribe, cuando siente un olor nauseabundo y perturbador al sentarse en una silla. (***)
Las bestias sombrías. Un chico descubre ranas estranguladas con alambre, acto realizado por su padrastro. Por la madre del chico, averiguaremos que esto traerá consecuencias con ciertas criaturas del bosque. (***)
El liliputiense flamígero. Relato de ciencia ficción, donde un eminente científico llama a un amigo y colega para mostrarle un pequeñísimo ser humanoide bajo su microscopio. Resulta ser un emisario que ha venido a la Tierra, a modo de avanzadilla, para estudiar la manera de conquistarla. (***)
Visión oscura. Un periodista sufre un accidente en una torre eléctrica tras el que adquiere poderes telepáticos. (**)
El elemental. El protagonista está poseído por un elemental que le dota de poderes. (**)
Suerte de pescador. Un hombre pesca la cabeza de un chino en una zona del río con mala fama. Infumable. Empiezan los relatos malos para la revista Unknown Worlds, que son muy flojos. (*)
Los refugiados. Kelly pide ayuda a Harragan por asuntos con la “gente pequeña”. (*)
El empadronador. Otro de Unknown que no me apetece ni leer.
Las bolsas de sorpresas son peligrosas. Ídem.
Entra en mi jardín. Ídem.
Eso acudirá a ti. Ídem.
El fisgón. Flojo. (**)
En resumen, libro mediocre y traducción mejorable.
August 9, 2014
I have a number of mythos books in my collection and add to them periodically as i feel like it - both from Lovecraft and other authors, Frank Belknap Long being one of them (although I wish i had his other volumes as well, though the project to collect his works has never really taken off it certainly has as many twists as one of his stories).
This book really to me is a pivot point in the mythos fiction in that it showed me that others could hand the mythos, its mysteries, its horrors and its weirdness just as well if not better. To me The Hounds of Tindalos is quintessential mythos - and I have no idea why but I think the house are a fascinating monster. Ironically I have artwork but Tim White who depicts a modern day hound perfectly and I think I saw it before I read the story which truly brought it to life.
There are of course other stories in the book which highlight the skill of his writing a true shame considering outside the story what else is so well known about him. Ironically the Hound of Tindalos was the first non-Lovecraft mythos piece to written, it cleared the way for the works of Lovecraft to life on and evolve and not just persist as examples of a now passed author.
This book really to me is a pivot point in the mythos fiction in that it showed me that others could hand the mythos, its mysteries, its horrors and its weirdness just as well if not better. To me The Hounds of Tindalos is quintessential mythos - and I have no idea why but I think the house are a fascinating monster. Ironically I have artwork but Tim White who depicts a modern day hound perfectly and I think I saw it before I read the story which truly brought it to life.
There are of course other stories in the book which highlight the skill of his writing a true shame considering outside the story what else is so well known about him. Ironically the Hound of Tindalos was the first non-Lovecraft mythos piece to written, it cleared the way for the works of Lovecraft to life on and evolve and not just persist as examples of a now passed author.
March 22, 2025
Υπέροχα και τα 4 διηγήματα, αλλά σε κάποια σημεία (ειδικά στο ομώνυμο) η ονειρική διήγηση με πετούσε αρκετά. Και πάλι, όμως, αν εξαιρέσουμε τον H.P. Lovecraft και τον Robert Howard, εδώ έχουμε τον αμέσως καλύτερο συγγραφέα της Kthulhu mythos. Μη το χάσετε.
June 12, 2021
Βιβλιοέναυσμα #43: Η Φρίκη στους Λόφους
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Κυκλοφορεί στα ελληνικά συλλογή λαβραφτικών διηγημάτων, τιτλοφορούμενη μάλιστα Φρίκη στους Λόφους; Σε χρόνο ντε τε, ως γνήσιος φίλος τού λαβκραφτικού τρόμου, την χτύπησα και την διάβασα. Πάμε.
Εν αρχή ην ο συγγραφεύς. Και το όνομα αυτού: Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994). Φίλος τού Λάβκραφτ, έγραψε σε πλειάδα λογοτεχνικών ειδών, κυρίως στον τρόμο και στην επιστημονική φαντασία. Έβαλε την σφραγίδα του στην μυθολογία Κθούλου με τα φρικιαστικά πλάσματα γνωστά ως Λαγωνικά τού Τίνταλος. Η ομώνυμη ιστορία του είναι μάλιστα η πρώτη από τρίτο συγγραφέα στην εν λόγω μυθολογία.
Η συλλογή διηγημάτων Η Φρίκη στους Λόφους (Άγνωστη Καντάθ, 2021, 234 σελ.) ξεκινάει με τα Λαγωνικά τού Τίνταλος και συνεχίζει με τρεις ακόμα λαβκραφτικές ιστορίες: Οι Αδηφάγοι του Διαστήματος, Η Πύλη προς την Αιωνιότητα, και Η Φρίκη στους Λόφους. Οι πρώτες τρεις είναι σε μέγεθος διηγήματος, ενώ η τέταρτη νουβέλας. Η συλλογή χαρακτηρίζεται από συνοχή, καθώς όλες οι ιστορίες εντάσσο��ται στην ίδια θεματική, δίνει όμως και μια ποικιλία με το αστυνομικό στοιχείο τής νουβέλας Η Φρίκη στους Λόφους.
Τώρα, Τα Λαγωνικά τού Τίνταλος και Η Πύλη προς την Αιωνιότητα μού θύμισαν αρκετά το Το Πλάσμα που ψιθύριζε στο Σκοτάδι τού Lovecraft, ενώ Οι Αδηφάγοι του Διαστήματος είχαν άρωμα από το διήγημα – επίσης τού Lovecraft – Το Χρώμα από το Διάστημα. Αυτά τα τρία διηγήματα χαρακτηρίζονται από μη ευκλείδιες γεωμετρίες, απόκοσμα πολυδιάστα εξωγήινα πλάσματα, και την αίσθηση ανήμπορου τού ανθρωπίνου γένους. Μου άρεσαν πολύ οι αναφορές σε βιβλία και σε ιστορικές και επιστημονικές προσωπικότητες (π.χ. Πλωτίνος, Εμμανουήλ Μοσχόπουλος, John William Dunne, κ.α.), ενώ το όνειρο στην ρωμαϊκή Ισπανία που περιγράφεται στην Φρίκη στους Λόφους ήταν όλα τα λεφτά, ειδικά αν είσαι φιλίστωρ. Από τα πιο δυνατά σημεία τού βιβλίου ήταν η εισαγωγή τής ελαφαντοειδούς, βαμπιρικής θεότητας Τσόγκναρ Φογκν, επίσης στην Φρίκη στους Λόφους. Ένα αρνητικό στοιχείο που εντόπισα αφορά τον τρόπο αντιμετώπισης τού Τσόγκναρ, αλλά κάπως έπρεπε να σωθεί ο κόσμος. Τέλος, έχοντας δει αρκετά… τέρατα σε ελληνικές μεταφράσεις λαβκραφτικών ιστοριών, με χαρά διαπίστωσα πως η μετάφραση αυτή της συλλογής ήταν αρτιότατη.
Ελπίζω να απολαύσετε και εσείς την Φρίκη στους Λόφους! Για περισσότερες τέτοιες ιστορίες, εννοείται διαβάστε τα άπαντα τού Lovecraft, καθώς και τις ιστορίες λαβκραφτικού τρόμου τού Robert Albert Bloch (Ο Φύλακας της Πύλης και Η Σκιά στο Κωδωνοστάσι), και τού Robert E. Howard (Οι Θεοί της Μπαλ Σαγκόθ, Τόμος 1 και 2)! Αν είστε τολμηροί, δείτε και τις του Ώγκουστ Ντέρλεθ (Η Μάσκα του Κθούλου και Το Μονοπάτι του Κθούλου). Επίσης, κυκλοφορούν στα αγγλικά πλειάδα ανθολογιών και συλλογών λαβκραφτικών διηγημάτων. Δείτε αυτές που έχει επιμεληθεί ο S. T. Joshi (επτά ανθολογίες Black Wings of Cthulhu, A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, δύο ανθολογίες The Madness of Cthulhu), ανθολογίες όπως οι Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, The Children of Cthulhu, καθώς και ανθολογίες σχετικές με τον Βασιλιά με τα Κίτρινα (The Hastur Cycle, In the Court of the Yellow King, και A Season in Carcossa), ο οποίος αν θυμάμαι καλά κάπως πρέπει να σχετίζεται με τα Λαγωνικά τού Τίνταλος…
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Κυκλοφορεί στα ελληνικά συλλογή λαβραφτικών διηγημάτων, τιτλοφορούμενη μάλιστα Φρίκη στους Λόφους; Σε χρόνο ντε τε, ως γνήσιος φίλος τού λαβκραφτικού τρόμου, την χτύπησα και την διάβασα. Πάμε.
Εν αρχή ην ο συγγραφεύς. Και το όνομα αυτού: Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994). Φίλος τού Λάβκραφτ, έγραψε σε πλειάδα λογοτεχνικών ειδών, κυρίως στον τρόμο και στην επιστημονική φαντασία. Έβαλε την σφραγίδα του στην μυθολογία Κθούλου με τα φρικιαστικά πλάσματα γνωστά ως Λαγωνικά τού Τίνταλος. Η ομώνυμη ιστορία του είναι μάλιστα η πρώτη από τρίτο συγγραφέα στην εν λόγω μυθολογία.
Η συλλογή διηγημάτων Η Φρίκη στους Λόφους (Άγνωστη Καντάθ, 2021, 234 σελ.) ξεκινάει με τα Λαγωνικά τού Τίνταλος και συνεχίζει με τρεις ακόμα λαβκραφτικές ιστορίες: Οι Αδηφάγοι του Διαστήματος, Η Πύλη προς την Αιωνιότητα, και Η Φρίκη στους Λόφους. Οι πρώτες τρεις είναι σε μέγεθος διηγήματος, ενώ η τέταρτη νουβέλας. Η συλλογή χαρακτηρίζεται από συνοχή, καθώς όλες οι ιστορίες εντάσσο��ται στην ίδια θεματική, δίνει όμως και μια ποικιλία με το αστυνομικό στοιχείο τής νουβέλας Η Φρίκη στους Λόφους.
Τώρα, Τα Λαγωνικά τού Τίνταλος και Η Πύλη προς την Αιωνιότητα μού θύμισαν αρκετά το Το Πλάσμα που ψιθύριζε στο Σκοτάδι τού Lovecraft, ενώ Οι Αδηφάγοι του Διαστήματος είχαν άρωμα από το διήγημα – επίσης τού Lovecraft – Το Χρώμα από το Διάστημα. Αυτά τα τρία διηγήματα χαρακτηρίζονται από μη ευκλείδιες γεωμετρίες, απόκοσμα πολυδιάστα εξωγήινα πλάσματα, και την αίσθηση ανήμπορου τού ανθρωπίνου γένους. Μου άρεσαν πολύ οι αναφορές σε βιβλία και σε ιστορικές και επιστημονικές προσωπικότητες (π.χ. Πλωτίνος, Εμμανουήλ Μοσχόπουλος, John William Dunne, κ.α.), ενώ το όνειρο στην ρωμαϊκή Ισπανία που περιγράφεται στην Φρίκη στους Λόφους ήταν όλα τα λεφτά, ειδικά αν είσαι φιλίστωρ. Από τα πιο δυνατά σημεία τού βιβλίου ήταν η εισαγωγή τής ελαφαντοειδούς, βαμπιρικής θεότητας Τσόγκναρ Φογκν, επίσης στην Φρίκη στους Λόφους. Ένα αρνητικό στοιχείο που εντόπισα αφορά τον τρόπο αντιμετώπισης τού Τσόγκναρ, αλλά κάπως έπρεπε να σωθεί ο κόσμος. Τέλος, έχοντας δει αρκετά… τέρατα σε ελληνικές μεταφράσεις λαβκραφτικών ιστοριών, με χαρά διαπίστωσα πως η μετάφραση αυτή της συλλογής ήταν αρτιότατη.
Ελπίζω να απολαύσετε και εσείς την Φρίκη στους Λόφους! Για περισσότερες τέτοιες ιστορίες, εννοείται διαβάστε τα άπαντα τού Lovecraft, καθώς και τις ιστορίες λαβκραφτικού τρόμου τού Robert Albert Bloch (Ο Φύλακας της Πύλης και Η Σκιά στο Κωδωνοστάσι), και τού Robert E. Howard (Οι Θεοί της Μπαλ Σαγκόθ, Τόμος 1 και 2)! Αν είστε τολμηροί, δείτε και τις του Ώγκουστ Ντέρλεθ (Η Μάσκα του Κθούλου και Το Μονοπάτι του Κθούλου). Επίσης, κυκλοφορούν στα αγγλικά πλειάδα ανθολογιών και συλλογών λαβκραφτικών διηγημάτων. Δείτε αυτές που έχει επιμεληθεί ο S. T. Joshi (επτά ανθολογίες Black Wings of Cthulhu, A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, δύο ανθολογίες The Madness of Cthulhu), ανθολογίες όπως οι Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, The Children of Cthulhu, καθώς και ανθολογίες σχετικές με τον Βασιλιά με τα Κίτρινα (The Hastur Cycle, In the Court of the Yellow King, και A Season in Carcossa), ο οποίος αν θυμάμαι καλά κάπως πρέπει να σχετίζεται με τα Λαγωνικά τού Τίνταλος…
July 7, 2023
yes! this is what the fuck I am talking about! Lovecraft better than Lovecraft, reclaim cosmic horror!
September 1, 2021
Otra selección de 17 relatos de uno de los miembros del llamado Círculo de Lovecraft, en esta oportunidad Frank Belnap Long, que incluye uno de sus relatos más antologados y que le da título al libro, así como también otros cuentos de ciencia ficción y terror. Si bien hay algunos relatos muy interesantes (Los Refugiados, que desarrolla una idea muy bonita sobre los duendes o El empadronador, relato de terror puro), lo mejor una vez más, es la pequeña información que entrega el autor de cada uno de ellos, cómo los escribió y luego cómo los vendió, además de su amistad con los otros integrantes de Círculo como Robert Bloch.
February 9, 2014
Los Perros de Tíndalos, es el nombre que reciben esos seres que habitaron la tierra incluso antes de cuando los únicos seres vivos eran los reptiles acuáticos, y que son capaces de romper la barrera de espacio/tiempo, es por esto que estos indescriptibles y aterradores entes siempre han existido, existen y seguirán existiendo.
Un buen relato corto. Ese tal Chalmers me hizo recordar a lo chiflado que era el doctor de las películas Regreso al Futuro.
Un buen relato corto. Ese tal Chalmers me hizo recordar a lo chiflado que era el doctor de las películas Regreso al Futuro.
January 30, 2024
3.4 ☆
May 9, 2018
Entre mis cuentos favoritos de misterio y terror.
Excelente obra. La narrativa es muy entretenida, fluida y atrapante. La epistemología de cada uno de las cuestiones filosóficas de los personajes es muy llamativa y reflexiva. El misterio de la conversación entre Chalmers y Frank genera al lector un gran suspenso del entorno supradimensional que describe el protagonista en su viaje temporal-espacial.
Leí la obra con un audiolibro en Youtube, fue una experiencia gratificante por un periodo de 40 minutos. Se los recomiendo mucho amigos.
Añadido a favoritos.
Excelente obra. La narrativa es muy entretenida, fluida y atrapante. La epistemología de cada uno de las cuestiones filosóficas de los personajes es muy llamativa y reflexiva. El misterio de la conversación entre Chalmers y Frank genera al lector un gran suspenso del entorno supradimensional que describe el protagonista en su viaje temporal-espacial.
Leí la obra con un audiolibro en Youtube, fue una experiencia gratificante por un periodo de 40 minutos. Se los recomiendo mucho amigos.
Añadido a favoritos.
November 14, 2025
Antes de leer a Lovecraft en la adolescencia, en séptimo grado de la escuela primaria, la profesora de lengua nos leyó una adaptación del cuento principal y quedé fascinado. Tanto que años más tarde me acordé de este título y lo busqué por todas las librerías de avenida corrientes hasta que lo encontré en un local de libros usados. En esa época leía bastante cuentos de fantasía y terror. Y no sé por qué, cada tanto me acuerdo de este autor y este libro.
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July 8, 2025The theme of each story is the horror of the inscrutable, of that which transcends human understanding. The stories themselves are amusing. One would think nothing can elude human knowledge without assuming a malevolent cast.
March 23, 2014
Being paid by the word, some pulp writers become overly descriptive, or write in convoluted prose, both of which can damage an extremely good plot. Fortunately Frank Belknap Long (at least for this collection of stories) doesn’t fall into either category. These would be the best of his previous published work in magazines like Weird Tales, Marvel Tales and Unknown Worlds The tale from which this book gets its name and ‘The Space Eaters’ were the primary reason that I purchased the book for, but the remainder are not only good, but in some cases better. Additionally, Long gives insight to the stories origin, the publishing world at this time, and many of the people involved in that medium at that time. Overall a well-balanced book over all, from the selection of stories, to the authors insights.
November 24, 2020
Frank Belknap Long's contributions to the "Cthulhu Mythos Cycle" were few but they made a lasting impact can be seen (and felt) in this collection of short stories. Of them, the titular "Hounds of Tindalos" tells the tale of a man persued by otherworldly creatures whos only purpose is to punish those who interrupt the flow of time. The other tales such as "the red fetish" and the "were-snake" all have smaller ties to the mythos, but are filled with cruel, crawling things and loathsome gods, predators from deep inside the mind of man and from far outside angled space.
If you like your Lovcraftian stories without racism and prejudices (aside from the names of some of the indigenous peoples of the times such as Eskimo and Inuit) you may find this to be more of your speed (or Clark Ashton Smith)
If you like your Lovcraftian stories without racism and prejudices (aside from the names of some of the indigenous peoples of the times such as Eskimo and Inuit) you may find this to be more of your speed (or Clark Ashton Smith)
June 4, 2017
Frank Belknap Long comes under frequent criticism for being a bad writer. There is certainly something bizarre about his prose style and dialogue, but I think it actually adds a cumulatively disquieting and weird atmosphere to this book. There is something genuinely unsettling, even horrific, about these stories and Long's disjointed writing style brings a nightmarish quality to the best tales here, including 'The Dark Beasts', 'The Space Eaters', 'Second Night Out', 'The Peeper' and the title story. Hannes Bok's illustration for the cover is perfect, and despite ( possibly even because of) Long's strange style, I would not hesitate to recommend this book to fans of weird fiction.
March 17, 2025
Hounds of Tindalos is a short story collection of weird fiction by the author Frank Belknap Long, often overshadowed by his more well known peers HP Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith. I had not even heard of this author until recently. It's a shame because this collection contains perfectly serviceable weird fiction, even if it may be beholden to the inherently hokey nature of this pulp fiction-genre.
The titular story is a good example of both the strengths and the problems with this type of fiction. It introduces a simple feat of imagination that has since gone on to inspire many: the notion of angled time. After all, if there is linear, curved and circular time, why not angular? It is inspiring to consider that science fiction books may be amass with such simple conceptual seeds. The negative side is that the presentation is so matter-of-fact: a weird thing happened and that's that. The stories in isolation do not have that much depth.
It is, however, helpful to trace some themes across the texts and see what comes up. Turns out Long incorporates Cthulhu mythos in his stories at times, suggesting a line of interpretation that places all the stories in the framework of this mythology, to which they at any rate bear a strong similarity. He also includes HP Lovecraft as a character in one of the stories! There is, then, a strongly intertextual aspect to Long's stories, which makes sense also in light of the fact that there are recurrent locales and events across the stories, suggesting that the worlds of the stories are to be considered unified in terms of more than mere thematics.
These stories are also unified by certain recurrent obsessions and neuroses that define their horror element. Firstly, Long utilizes the then in-vogue idea of a spatial fourth dimension as a more explicit feature of the texts than does Lovecraft, to the point of didacticism. There is a sort of overbearingly clear insistence on the meaning behind the work of Lovecraft that sometimes comes across as stilted. At any rate, this idea ties into the more general fear about the malleability of objects. Through this analogy, figures of oozing fatty soft slime are connected with inter-dimensional incomprehension. Often it starts with some solid artifact that ends up taking these monstrous proportion, most conspicuously in the case of the primitive fetish object-turned-amorphous blob of horror in the longest story in the collection, Horror from the Hills.
Considering that it was precisely anthropology that consciously adopted the anti-humanist objectivist stance to its discoveries due to its proximity to traditional humanities, the juxtaposition mentioned above appears particularly juicy. The way the characters talk about their exhibition of fetish objects even parallels pretty closely the attitude described in Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany: an anxiety about the silly public misinterpreting the objects with superstitions. The carefully sculpted statue ends up as an amorphously looming large figure upon increasing in size, finally reversing to a kind of cosmic primal slime. Not only does it lack clear physical stability but it also turns out to have psychic properties due to its hyper-dimensional nature. There seems to be an anxiety or fascination about the limits of objectivity against the background of its venerated status as a carrier of meaning: the very form of the idol seems to be enough to tell everything needed about the people.
It's highly odd to consider that the battle-lines of scientific objectivity and the early rumblings of the increasing split between humanism and "hard science"(something that does not exist in French elite schools) were drawn precisely with catalogues of idols and skulls opposing textual, teleological knowledge. It is almost too perfect. By eschewing narrative and focusing on a field of isolated objects, it is possible that these objects became even more of idols than they were before in their places of origin, as parts of their life. There's a wide variety of attitudes, a wide range of seriousness one could take in relation to an idol, or a meme, but when it's catalogued as an idol it really becomes an example of this category and adds a new element to itself through this. Magically, what could happen is: category of object worship--> acquisition of objects relating to it --> contemplating the object --> ACTIVATION of the category of object worship.
If you posit the quality first then the object is actually what appears as the slime-matter that must somehow engulf the quality inside it, much like hapless experimenters here get swallowed up by cosmic goos. You could also approach it from the perspective of the unwieldy mass of objects that objective anthropology necessitates, presented as they are in museum-like spaces to be taken in at once by a professional gaze. The anxiety of the professional gaze is apparent in the horror of the unexplainable: what if the gaze meets with some kind of mass it cannot conveniently isolate into objects? The imagery of tentacles and amorphous masses relates to the unwieldy masses of idols and fetish objects in that together, all correlated together, they present a kind of monstrosity-like picture of human behaviour.
Some of the neuroses here seem fussy and comical but despite the hokey nature of it all, this stuff hits the odd note of poignancy that keeps one reading. What I most appreciated was the analogy between evil trees and the goo-hand villain in the second story (though I guess it turned out to be a foot. Oh, well).
The titular story is a good example of both the strengths and the problems with this type of fiction. It introduces a simple feat of imagination that has since gone on to inspire many: the notion of angled time. After all, if there is linear, curved and circular time, why not angular? It is inspiring to consider that science fiction books may be amass with such simple conceptual seeds. The negative side is that the presentation is so matter-of-fact: a weird thing happened and that's that. The stories in isolation do not have that much depth.
It is, however, helpful to trace some themes across the texts and see what comes up. Turns out Long incorporates Cthulhu mythos in his stories at times, suggesting a line of interpretation that places all the stories in the framework of this mythology, to which they at any rate bear a strong similarity. He also includes HP Lovecraft as a character in one of the stories! There is, then, a strongly intertextual aspect to Long's stories, which makes sense also in light of the fact that there are recurrent locales and events across the stories, suggesting that the worlds of the stories are to be considered unified in terms of more than mere thematics.
These stories are also unified by certain recurrent obsessions and neuroses that define their horror element. Firstly, Long utilizes the then in-vogue idea of a spatial fourth dimension as a more explicit feature of the texts than does Lovecraft, to the point of didacticism. There is a sort of overbearingly clear insistence on the meaning behind the work of Lovecraft that sometimes comes across as stilted. At any rate, this idea ties into the more general fear about the malleability of objects. Through this analogy, figures of oozing fatty soft slime are connected with inter-dimensional incomprehension. Often it starts with some solid artifact that ends up taking these monstrous proportion, most conspicuously in the case of the primitive fetish object-turned-amorphous blob of horror in the longest story in the collection, Horror from the Hills.
Considering that it was precisely anthropology that consciously adopted the anti-humanist objectivist stance to its discoveries due to its proximity to traditional humanities, the juxtaposition mentioned above appears particularly juicy. The way the characters talk about their exhibition of fetish objects even parallels pretty closely the attitude described in Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany: an anxiety about the silly public misinterpreting the objects with superstitions. The carefully sculpted statue ends up as an amorphously looming large figure upon increasing in size, finally reversing to a kind of cosmic primal slime. Not only does it lack clear physical stability but it also turns out to have psychic properties due to its hyper-dimensional nature. There seems to be an anxiety or fascination about the limits of objectivity against the background of its venerated status as a carrier of meaning: the very form of the idol seems to be enough to tell everything needed about the people.
It's highly odd to consider that the battle-lines of scientific objectivity and the early rumblings of the increasing split between humanism and "hard science"(something that does not exist in French elite schools) were drawn precisely with catalogues of idols and skulls opposing textual, teleological knowledge. It is almost too perfect. By eschewing narrative and focusing on a field of isolated objects, it is possible that these objects became even more of idols than they were before in their places of origin, as parts of their life. There's a wide variety of attitudes, a wide range of seriousness one could take in relation to an idol, or a meme, but when it's catalogued as an idol it really becomes an example of this category and adds a new element to itself through this. Magically, what could happen is: category of object worship--> acquisition of objects relating to it --> contemplating the object --> ACTIVATION of the category of object worship.
If you posit the quality first then the object is actually what appears as the slime-matter that must somehow engulf the quality inside it, much like hapless experimenters here get swallowed up by cosmic goos. You could also approach it from the perspective of the unwieldy mass of objects that objective anthropology necessitates, presented as they are in museum-like spaces to be taken in at once by a professional gaze. The anxiety of the professional gaze is apparent in the horror of the unexplainable: what if the gaze meets with some kind of mass it cannot conveniently isolate into objects? The imagery of tentacles and amorphous masses relates to the unwieldy masses of idols and fetish objects in that together, all correlated together, they present a kind of monstrosity-like picture of human behaviour.
Some of the neuroses here seem fussy and comical but despite the hokey nature of it all, this stuff hits the odd note of poignancy that keeps one reading. What I most appreciated was the analogy between evil trees and the goo-hand villain in the second story (though I guess it turned out to be a foot. Oh, well).
June 21, 2018
The author himself presents “The Early Long” and the not so-early Long.
In fact, this book covers Long's first 20 years as a writer, and there's some brilliant stuff in there, as well as some other stuff. Each story is introduced at length by the author and there's also a 27 page introduction by him. Some of that's interesting, but damn does it take up a lot of room!
The title story and “The Space Eaters” are both great stuff inspired by good old Lovecraft (“The Space Eaters” has Lovecraft and Long as characters) and I read them both previously in the DelRey collection “Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos”. The two stories are some of the best examples of vivid tales of people dealing with a reality invaded by malignant fantasy. “The Space Eaters” even includes the line “You shouldn't project yourself into your stories that way.”
Some of the later ones, especially from the 40s, tend to feel a tad more like a Twilight Zone episode, a little too cut and dry. Over the course of the stories you get a sense for Long's structure, and they roll out very much the same, often relying heavily on dialogue.
“Dark Vision” was a good one about a man who can hear people's subconscious thoughts after being electrocuted, “Seconds Night Out” has a passenger realizing he's on a haunted cruise ship, “The Census Taker” has a couple attacked by possibly insane people who mean to arrest them for not being polygamists. “The Dark Beasts” has a secluded farm and a family with a secret... involving some dark beasts.
Some stories involve “little fey folk”, some involve plain old Satan, one has a sea-monster, one has a haunted bag, one has a spirit that possesses a guy and gives him the ability to fly.
While the collection is good overall, there's a few that almost make it but seem to run out of time, like “The Flame Midget”, which involves a microscopic horror from a very dense planet. “The Refugees” pretty much has the same issue.
Overall, Long is worth discovering. He's not quite equal to Lovecraft or Howard or Smith, but he's got something in it shows in “The Hounds of Tindalos” and “The Space Eaters”. It's just a pity he went so modern with the dialogue in the later ones, sometimes it's like one of the fast-talking 40s comedies.
In fact, this book covers Long's first 20 years as a writer, and there's some brilliant stuff in there, as well as some other stuff. Each story is introduced at length by the author and there's also a 27 page introduction by him. Some of that's interesting, but damn does it take up a lot of room!
The title story and “The Space Eaters” are both great stuff inspired by good old Lovecraft (“The Space Eaters” has Lovecraft and Long as characters) and I read them both previously in the DelRey collection “Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos”. The two stories are some of the best examples of vivid tales of people dealing with a reality invaded by malignant fantasy. “The Space Eaters” even includes the line “You shouldn't project yourself into your stories that way.”
Some of the later ones, especially from the 40s, tend to feel a tad more like a Twilight Zone episode, a little too cut and dry. Over the course of the stories you get a sense for Long's structure, and they roll out very much the same, often relying heavily on dialogue.
“Dark Vision” was a good one about a man who can hear people's subconscious thoughts after being electrocuted, “Seconds Night Out” has a passenger realizing he's on a haunted cruise ship, “The Census Taker” has a couple attacked by possibly insane people who mean to arrest them for not being polygamists. “The Dark Beasts” has a secluded farm and a family with a secret... involving some dark beasts.
Some stories involve “little fey folk”, some involve plain old Satan, one has a sea-monster, one has a haunted bag, one has a spirit that possesses a guy and gives him the ability to fly.
While the collection is good overall, there's a few that almost make it but seem to run out of time, like “The Flame Midget”, which involves a microscopic horror from a very dense planet. “The Refugees” pretty much has the same issue.
Overall, Long is worth discovering. He's not quite equal to Lovecraft or Howard or Smith, but he's got something in it shows in “The Hounds of Tindalos” and “The Space Eaters”. It's just a pity he went so modern with the dialogue in the later ones, sometimes it's like one of the fast-talking 40s comedies.
May 22, 2022
Frank Belkanap Long es un cuentista, a secas. En este cuentario nos da muestra de su capacidad para narrar una historia dinámica, extraña y con muchos elementos del pulp clásico norteamericano. Está cargado de violencia y terror primigenio, muy al estilo de lo que manejaba el círculo de Lovecraft. Si bien ya entrados en aguas puede ya adivinarse cuáles serán los mecanismos de sus cuentos, sus resoluciones y sus mañas, no deja de ser entretenido en la mayoría de los casos; también hay un cuidado en la estética y en el lenguaje que no debe ser pasado por alto, y que habla de una persona que se ha dedicado a sacarle punta a sus historias, que ha leído y que entiende que el oficio de narrar no es solo poner palabra tras palabra.
Como en toda antología, hay relatos que saltan a la vista y otros que podrían ser descartados con facilidad. En este caso, la mayoría son buenos, destacando aquel que le da el nombre al libro y "Los devoradores del espacio", una oda a su amigo Lovecraft, y el que a mi parecer está más trabajado.
Como en toda antología, hay relatos que saltan a la vista y otros que podrían ser descartados con facilidad. En este caso, la mayoría son buenos, destacando aquel que le da el nombre al libro y "Los devoradores del espacio", una oda a su amigo Lovecraft, y el que a mi parecer está más trabajado.
May 27, 2022
Solo los cuentos, «Los perros de tíndalos» y «Los devoradores de espacio» son cuentos Lovecraftianos y se merecen calificación de 5 estrellas, los cuales son extremadamente recomendables si te gusta el Horror cósmico. los demás cuentos no son del todo malos.
De los demás cuentos puedo destacar:
«Eso acudirá a tí≥ el cual me recordó un poco a "El Extraño" de Lovecraft.
«La sanguijuela oceánica» dónde cada noche una embarcación es atacada por un ser que se lleva a un tripulante.
«La suerte del pescador»
Una trágica historia de amor, con la aparición de un dios mitológico y una especie de viaje en el tiempo.
«El liliputiense flamígero»
Una historia de ciencia ficción, con un pequeño visitante del espacio exterior.
Ya muy aparte algo que no tiene que ver con los cuentos sino con el libro en sí, es que la traducción no es muy buena que digamos. Aunque solo en ciertos puntos muy específicos, aún así el libro puede leerse muy bien.
De los demás cuentos puedo destacar:
«Eso acudirá a tí≥ el cual me recordó un poco a "El Extraño" de Lovecraft.
«La sanguijuela oceánica» dónde cada noche una embarcación es atacada por un ser que se lleva a un tripulante.
«La suerte del pescador»
Una trágica historia de amor, con la aparición de un dios mitológico y una especie de viaje en el tiempo.
«El liliputiense flamígero»
Una historia de ciencia ficción, con un pequeño visitante del espacio exterior.
Ya muy aparte algo que no tiene que ver con los cuentos sino con el libro en sí, es que la traducción no es muy buena que digamos. Aunque solo en ciertos puntos muy específicos, aún así el libro puede leerse muy bien.
August 15, 2018
Una de las mejores recopilación de cuentos bastantes macabros y espeluznantes. Con una prosa única, el autor te introduce en mundos extraños y llenos de oscuridad. Cuando se trata de recopilaciones es difícil asignarle una clasificación que englobe al conjunto de cuentos de forma objetiva, pero siento que todos los cuentos (juntos) están a la altura de un 5 de 5.
Un aplauso para los señores y señoras del género que regalan este tipo de obras maestras al mundo.
Nunca había escuchado de Frank B. Long, pero después de esta recopilación, estoy seguro que sus obras se repartirán en mis estanterías.
Si quieres leer sobre criaturas extrañas que no dudarían ningún segundo en hacerte tu cena, este es tu libro. Si quieres sumergirte en mundos macabros que la lógica sencillamente no puede explicar, adelante y disfrute.
Un aplauso para los señores y señoras del género que regalan este tipo de obras maestras al mundo.
Nunca había escuchado de Frank B. Long, pero después de esta recopilación, estoy seguro que sus obras se repartirán en mis estanterías.
Si quieres leer sobre criaturas extrañas que no dudarían ningún segundo en hacerte tu cena, este es tu libro. Si quieres sumergirte en mundos macabros que la lógica sencillamente no puede explicar, adelante y disfrute.
August 28, 2023
Gang, this is why we microdose before taking enough drugs to cross the spacetime continuum.
A fun little romp of a man who manages to get so high that he's able to travel back to the space before spaces and the time before time and in the process catches the ire of a group of extremely alien pursuers.
The eponymous hounds are anything but doglike. They're never fully described but are referred to with angular and sharp language. Appropriately, they can only travel through angles and are befuddled by smooth curves.
Cue our protagonist plastering up all the corners in his wall in a futile attempt to stave off the beasts(?)
I like this one for just how alien the antagonists are. It's also really not clear WHY they're so gung ho about killing the protagonist. Their reasons are entirely alien, through and through.
A fun little romp of a man who manages to get so high that he's able to travel back to the space before spaces and the time before time and in the process catches the ire of a group of extremely alien pursuers.
The eponymous hounds are anything but doglike. They're never fully described but are referred to with angular and sharp language. Appropriately, they can only travel through angles and are befuddled by smooth curves.
Cue our protagonist plastering up all the corners in his wall in a futile attempt to stave off the beasts(?)
I like this one for just how alien the antagonists are. It's also really not clear WHY they're so gung ho about killing the protagonist. Their reasons are entirely alien, through and through.
August 30, 2020
Ahhh beautiful cosmic horror, beautiful, beautiful cosmic horror!
With the time travelling, science that makes no sense (seriously what is it with cosmic horror and angles??), horribles monsters that are going to kill you in a way that no one wants, and screaming madness, this story is ticking every cosmic horror box in the most perfect of ways.
From the pantheon of HPL’s besties, Mr Long adds colour and vibrancy to the early Mythos with this perfect little tale and I particularly enjoyed the excerpts from newspapers as an ending, grounded it in the ‘real world’ nicely.
Bravo and huzzah!!!!
With the time travelling, science that makes no sense (seriously what is it with cosmic horror and angles??), horribles monsters that are going to kill you in a way that no one wants, and screaming madness, this story is ticking every cosmic horror box in the most perfect of ways.
From the pantheon of HPL’s besties, Mr Long adds colour and vibrancy to the early Mythos with this perfect little tale and I particularly enjoyed the excerpts from newspapers as an ending, grounded it in the ‘real world’ nicely.
Bravo and huzzah!!!!
April 15, 2023
О том, что писец может придти из-за угла. В прямом смысле. Если не по языку, то по смыслу очень по-лавкравтовски написано. Сама идея, что в "потустороннем мире" нет добра или зла, но есть то, что движется по углам или то, что движется по кривой - это очень интересная идея. Про странную протоплазму без "энзимов", которую нашли на теле тоже интересно, стык оккультного и естественно-научного.
Сама идея близка народному сознанию- это видоизмененный рассказ о "адских гончих", частый мотив в английском и оттуда американском фольклоре.
Кстати, Фрэнк на фотографии в старости стал выглядеть как реальный лавкрафтовский персонаж.
Сама идея близка народному сознанию- это видоизмененный рассказ о "адских гончих", частый мотив в английском и оттуда американском фольклоре.
Кстати, Фрэнк на фотографии в старости стал выглядеть как реальный лавкрафтовский персонаж.
November 5, 2025
En principio no soy fanático de leer un libro lleno de relatos, prefiero una historia única que muchas historias recopiladas. Decidí leer este libro por el relato de los sabuesos de tíndalos y nada más.
Si bien no diré que todas las historias son malas (sin contar la de los sabuesos, que me pareció bastante interesante), muchas no me llegaron a gustar, siendo muy poco oscuras o con finales bastante aburridos, sin embargo, hay varias que están bastante bien.
Si bien no diré que todas las historias son malas (sin contar la de los sabuesos, que me pareció bastante interesante), muchas no me llegaron a gustar, siendo muy poco oscuras o con finales bastante aburridos, sin embargo, hay varias que están bastante bien.
June 7, 2017
Frank Belknap Long comes under frequent criticism for being a bad writer. There is certainly something bizarre about his prose style and dialogue, but I think it actually adds a cumulatively disquieting and weird atmosphere to this book. Like most Arkham collections, the best tales here are culled from 'Weird Tales' magazine, and the weakest are the science fiction stories. There is something genuinely unsettling, even horrific, about these stories and Long's disjointed writing style brings a nightmarish quality to the best tales here, including 'The Dark Beasts', 'The Space Eaters', 'Second Night Out', 'The Peeper' and the title story. Hannes Bok's illustration for the cover is perfect, and despite ( possibly even because of) Long's strange style, I would not hesitate to recommend this book to fans of weird fiction.
October 23, 2018
Entertaining, but a bit silly and predictable. I still find the Lovecraftian habit of telling events from the perspective of an outsider a bit annoying, particularly when the plot requires that the one experiencing the events to randomly scribble on paper while waiting for or fighting inevitable doom. Sure, there are hideous angles assaulting me, but I'm going to keep writing things down, dammit!
Recommended for a bit of light entertainment, and for a very odd synthesis of eastern mysticism with Lovecraftian elder things, nonetheless.
Recommended for a bit of light entertainment, and for a very odd synthesis of eastern mysticism with Lovecraftian elder things, nonetheless.
October 6, 2023
Досить типова тема пражиття та вічних стрьомних істот, що в моторошній тиші наглядають за нами; а також молодиків (здебільшого, вчених), що граються з психоторпами.
Дещо передбачуваний перебіг подій (для людей, які знайомі зі структурою), та й воно не дивно, адже автор був близькм другом Лавкрафта.
Та однак естетика все одно викликає теплі почуття.
Тим паче, диктор аудіоверсії зазначив, що гончаки стали важливим елементом бестіарію лавкрафтіанського світу, тож пошановувачі навіть можуть їх зустріти у комп'ютерних та настільних іграх за цим всесвітом.
Дещо передбачуваний перебіг подій (для людей, які знайомі зі структурою), та й воно не дивно, адже автор був близькм другом Лавкрафта.
Та однак естетика все одно викликає теплі почуття.
Тим паче, диктор аудіоверсії зазначив, що гончаки стали важливим елементом бестіарію лавкрафтіанського світу, тож пошановувачі навіть можуть їх зустріти у комп'ютерних та настільних іграх за цим всесвітом.
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