A friend of mine and I were having a discussion about HP Lovecraft stories and she asked why the Mythos demon-god-things are all hideously ugly. I suggested it may be because to look at them means that one goes mad. She said that the same can be accomplished by unbelievable beauty. Well, so, I wrote this little blurb thing.
To see only her, to hear only her. The Midnight Lady, forever trapped in beneath the waves, to hear her voice and see her face... No! A fate I dare not even speak of. For such a life would be more full of horrid wonder than any could imagine. I dare not wish it, I dare not, and yet it is so. For so must be the fate of all who know her as we do. She consumes all with her very presence. Eyes and ears are fooled, perhaps by fear, perhaps by love, to recognize naught but her beauty. It must be so. It shall.
I shall dream of her again tonight, and see what the morn brings.
-The diary of Jean Carrell 9/4/21
We're thinking of, like, turning it into a full-fledged story. What do you guys think?
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Horrortastic The most Cthulherific thing I wrote. EVER!
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Posted 24 August 2007 - 05:55 PM
The idea of a straight guy finding himself obsessed by a really beautiful woman, so that he thinks only of her and goes mad, is, on its own, kinda done. Unless your character is actually a woman (the name is ambiguous), I think you'll want to do something different with it.
"I had a lot of different ideas. At one point, Luke, Leia and Ben were all going to be little people, and we did screen tests to see if we could do that." -George Lucas, in STAR WARS: the Annotated Screenplays (p197).
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