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Vengeance Lost (Other) by OneFingerAnswer
With a burning behind his eyes He walked under the red of September skies Holding back a stinging tear Lost and confused, but uncrippled by fear Battling against the future and fate Damn Heaven, Hell can wait Wife dead and children gone He hunted down the demon spawn All lost but his pride Moral victories can turn no tide A crazy chant started in his mind It's kill the source or go mad and blind Titus Crow had come and left again His stories left by Henri's pen These and the Mad Arab's text could guide And protection in a stone star on a string of hide Hunted by Minions of the Deep He stalked onward towards their keep Marching on to the temples’ pounding drone Lusting for blood, craving the taste of bone History chose the other side Moral victories can turn no tide In the dark and under the deep In their world they own your sleep When you wake they own you too Your mind is the cage to their zoo Chained by nothing but a chant Held in place by a unworldly rant Not meant to be heard, less understood Half-human tongue rattles under a hood Taken captive in their great hall He ensured a few would take their fall Of these fewer would ever be seen to rise Vapors, mists, and death fill their screeching sighs But with Death walking at your side There's no time left to bide Despite every deed done and every tactic tried Moral victories can turn no tide

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Arithmetic Mean: 4.5
Weighted score: 4.9403987
Overall Rank: 9053
Posted: June 5, 2003 11:05 PM PDT; Last modified: June 5, 2003 11:05 PM PDT
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[9] Jeremi B. Handrinos @ 24.126.113.154 | 6-Jun-03/12:50 AM | Reply
The mad arab ALHAZAR, this must mean the book of the dead. The ancient ones are about. flee, flee to the safety of a moist towellette.
[n/a] OneFingerAnswer @ 216.138.10.3 > Jeremi B. Handrinos | 6-Jun-03/12:55 AM | Reply
Congrats J.B. You're well read. Yes it's borrowed from H.P., Brian Lumley, the Necronomicon, and such.
Nobody who is well-read would put Brian Lumley in the same offhanded casualhampton as "H.P.".
Brian Lumley has only written two good short stories and one ok novel, and then spent his entire life writing terrible, endless spinoffs and sequels to that novel and spinoff sequels and spinoff-spinoffs and their sequels.
[n/a] OneFingerAnswer @ 216.138.10.3 > -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. | 6-Jun-03/12:04 PM | Reply
Titus Crow Vol I and II were both great (Each contains two stories). The Fruting Bodies collection of short stories is also very good. The House Of Doors and its sequal, The Maze Of Worlds were very enjoyable and the Hero Of Dreams series is fantastic. I would guess, however, that what you were refering to is the Necroscope series. I don't enjoy that series simply becuase of the subject matter. It was still well written as all his works are.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft is the better of the two writers but both are great.
[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. @ 131.111.212.215 > OneFingerAnswer | 6-Jun-03/12:38 PM | Reply
I think the opposite about the Necroscope series: It has a fairly good setting (psychic Russians vs. ancient evil), and a lot of bizarre and original things, but it is badly written and contains too much cliche. If I had anything by him with me right now I'd post some extracts to show what I mean, but I won't for a few weeks.

The Titus Crow series is especially odious, because, whether he is actually trying to emulate Lovecraft's style, it comes off as a crappy imitation and the result is painful and boring.
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