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eldritchhobbitFirst, links to some fascinatingly atmospheric and evocative places:
Derelict London: Cemeteries and Graveyards
Kensal Green Cemetery, London
All Souls Kensal Green
Underground Paris: A Virtual Tour
WebMuseum, Paris: The Catacombs of Paris
The Catacombs of Paris (Wikipedia)
Second, a meme:
And now, here is an excerpt from the second scariest book of all time (according to the Edmonton Journal):
I only slept a few hours when I went to bed, and feeling that I could not sleep any more, got up. I had hung my shaving glass by the window, and was just beginning to shave. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder, and heard the Count's voice saying to me, "Good morning." I started, for it amazed me that I had not seen him, since the reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me. In starting I had cut myself slightly, but did not notice it at the moment. Having answered the Count's salutation, I turned to the glass again to see how I had been mistaken. This time there could be no error, for the man was close to me, and I could see him over my shoulder. But there was no reflection of him in the mirror! The whole room behind me was displayed, but there was no sign of a man in it, except myself.
This was startling, and coming on the top of so many strange things, was beginning to increase that vague feeling of uneasiness which I always have when the Count is near. But at the instant I saw the the cut had bled a little, and the blood was trickling over my chin. I laid down the razor, turning as I did so half round to look for some sticking plaster. When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew away and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him, for the fury passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there.
"Take care," he said, "take care how you cut yourself. It is more dangerous that you think in this country."
- from Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
Read the novel at Project Gutenberg.
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Derelict London: Cemeteries and Graveyards
Kensal Green Cemetery, London
All Souls Kensal Green
Underground Paris: A Virtual Tour
WebMuseum, Paris: The Catacombs of Paris
The Catacombs of Paris (Wikipedia)
Second, a meme:
And now, here is an excerpt from the second scariest book of all time (according to the Edmonton Journal):
I only slept a few hours when I went to bed, and feeling that I could not sleep any more, got up. I had hung my shaving glass by the window, and was just beginning to shave. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder, and heard the Count's voice saying to me, "Good morning." I started, for it amazed me that I had not seen him, since the reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me. In starting I had cut myself slightly, but did not notice it at the moment. Having answered the Count's salutation, I turned to the glass again to see how I had been mistaken. This time there could be no error, for the man was close to me, and I could see him over my shoulder. But there was no reflection of him in the mirror! The whole room behind me was displayed, but there was no sign of a man in it, except myself.
This was startling, and coming on the top of so many strange things, was beginning to increase that vague feeling of uneasiness which I always have when the Count is near. But at the instant I saw the the cut had bled a little, and the blood was trickling over my chin. I laid down the razor, turning as I did so half round to look for some sticking plaster. When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew away and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him, for the fury passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there.
"Take care," he said, "take care how you cut yourself. It is more dangerous that you think in this country."
- from Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
Read the novel at Project Gutenberg.
Read the novel at Ye Olde Library.
Read the novel at
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Date: 2006-10-05 04:50 pm (UTC)Example:
Servitor: "Capon for dinner, sir."
SF, playing the part of Jonathan Harker: "Capon? Yummy."
Servitor: "No, sir, the Count insists that all his guests wear a cape for dinner."
Servitor: "Macon, sir."
SF: "A mac on top of this cape? I'll suffocate."
Servitor: "No, sir, there is a fine bottle of Macon to drink."
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Date: 2006-10-06 03:07 pm (UTC)http://youtube.com/watch?v=SKdGwfMD8u8
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Date: 2006-10-04 11:36 pm (UTC)The catacombs were interesting, but the images at Derelict London were kinda sad, esp the headless angels. And the talk of moving bodies out of a cemetery to build flats reminds me of Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett. (If you haven't read Terry Pratchett you should, if for no other reason than his Disc World books tend to have a Lovecraftian flavour at times) What was creepy was the guy who moved into one of the flats and said his garden grew really well (yeah, I'll bet!) but he had an unaccountable gloom and depression, and then experienced poltergeist activity. Eek!
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Date: 2006-10-05 12:07 pm (UTC)What was creepy was the guy who moved into one of the flats and said his garden grew really well (yeah, I'll bet!) but he had an unaccountable gloom and depression, and then experienced poltergeist activity. Eek!
Eeek indeed! :-o
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Date: 2006-10-06 12:59 am (UTC)If you have read his Good Omens collaboration, you would probably like the Disc World series. Just start at the beginning and work your way through.
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Date: 2006-10-06 02:26 pm (UTC)The MidSouthCon page is here. I'm a bit worried about a potential schedule conflict this year, but I'm hoping to work that out. I've been a speaker there for the last three years, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a fabulous con!
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Date: 2006-10-04 11:45 pm (UTC)Got me into the halloween mood REAL quick. XD
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Date: 2006-10-05 06:52 pm (UTC)*TACKLECLINGHUGS* ^__^
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Date: 2006-10-06 07:18 pm (UTC)My fav!
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Date: 2006-10-05 12:09 pm (UTC)Thanks very much.........
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Date: 2006-10-06 04:52 pm (UTC)Very Bad Trip 2, vous en pensez quoi?
Date: 2011-07-13 12:33 am (UTC)J'ai trop kiffer, sinon je viens decouvrir un super site sur bangkok, enfin bali mais c'est pareil on s'amuse bien là bas...
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Et vous very bad trip 2 vous en avez pense quoi ???
tcho!