Well, i doubt animal/human sort of Hybrids would have such a horrific impact on someone who has a sort of a dragon as an alternate self ;)
Some bits of the phrasing can also be misleading, like the winged creatures that tickle ith their sharp tails. Tickling doesn't sound to bad, until you imagine what it must be like to be tickled with something razor sharp, having someone tickle me with razor blades would definatly be the sort of stuff I hope to never encounter in my nightmares. But that's kinda the thing, isn't it? It's written in a different age, and it describes dreams, which are strange things. Sometimes it can be hard to tell others how or why a nighmare was scary, an example I'm fond of is a nightmare of 'the feeling of terror of being at home but knowing everything is replaced with an exact duplicate'. I'd guess that trying to communicate dreams is pretty damn hard, and a bit of hit and miss, but it's cool he tries, and it's a damn lot better then horror stories relying on blood and gore to try and frighten their audience, no? (btw, 'Mock Man Press' published an excellent 5 issue comic adaption of Kadath)
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Date: 2004-05-24 12:35 pm (UTC)Some bits of the phrasing can also be misleading, like the winged creatures that tickle ith their sharp tails. Tickling doesn't sound to bad, until you imagine what it must be like to be tickled with something razor sharp, having someone tickle me with razor blades would definatly be the sort of stuff I hope to never encounter in my nightmares.
But that's kinda the thing, isn't it? It's written in a different age, and it describes dreams, which are strange things. Sometimes it can be hard to tell others how or why a nighmare was scary, an example I'm fond of is a nightmare of 'the feeling of terror of being at home but knowing everything is replaced with an exact duplicate'.
I'd guess that trying to communicate dreams is pretty damn hard, and a bit of hit and miss, but it's cool he tries, and it's a damn lot better then horror stories relying on blood and gore to try and frighten their audience, no?
(btw, 'Mock Man Press' published an excellent 5 issue comic adaption of Kadath)