Previously, on the Eldritch Dark...
treycelement wrote:
> Miguel de Moorcock ... Britain's
> Greatest Living Author of Fantastic Fiction ...
Bollix! Moorcock's not as crap as Terry Pratchett or that other one, the rats-and-killer-slugs one
> Ramsey Campbell?
Yes. Moorcock's not as crap as Terry Pratchett or Ramsey Campbell, but he's still bloody crap.
> I can't agree. And even if I could, I'd still suggest Elric of Melniboné
> is a good parallel for Absquatch.
What, you mean one could see Absquatch as a sickly, sorcerously sustained albino?
> Yes.
Wielding the infinitely more powerful and interesting Nietzsche as a kind of runesword?
> Yes.
With CAS as his armor and Julien Gracq as, I don't know, a dagger?
> Yes. Gracq is much more than a dagger, of course, but I suppose that's
> appropriate, given his obscurity in Anglophonia.
We're agreed then. Albsquatch it is.
N.B. No elder statesmen of British horror were harmed during composition of this post. I.e., though M. Moorcock definitely IS crap, R. Campbell definitely is NOT.
“The true independent is he who dwells detached and remote from the little herds as well as from the big herd. Affiliating with no group or cabal of mice or monkeys, he is of course universally suspect.†—
The Black Book of Gore Vidal.