Clark Ashton Smith - The Empire of the Necromancers

 1932

Readin - Clark A. Smith’s double Shadow

 1933ish

This part reminds me Sleestak - 

letters on the tablet were those of a language of the serpent-men, whose primordial continent had sunk aeons before the lifting of Hyperborea from the ooze.

Is this th origin of “lich” - 

 “For,” said Avyctes, “I have called up, in all the years of my sorcery, no god or devil, no demon or lich or shadow, which I could not control and dismiss at will. And I am loath to believe that any power or spirit beyond the subversion of my spells could have been summoned by a race of serpents, whatever their skill in demonism and necromancy.”

Ok, there were snake people from long ago, very advanced.  They left this metal tablet w a spell on it.  That summoned a horrible shadow.  

Origins/ fixes - module Castle Amber

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJPcnwMQkwQ&t=302s

By Lichhouse. Around time 8:00, Moldvay does literary references from-

Fall house usher - Poe

The great book of amber byvroger zelaz..

Clark ashton smith’s THE AVEROIGNE CHRONICLES 

Art. Lizardman

 https://m.youtube.com/shorts/0dyM-kk4fSI

Does he have the clearest ok the original dnd one tsr

Rare modules- The Haunted Tower

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UwSSq3fDydI&t=924s

BECMI

LEV 3-5

Reading - The Dark Eidolon by Clark Ashton Smith

Pretty good. Feels a little like Lovecraft (I think I’ve read all the major Lovecraft stuff), in that it isn’t light reading. Dense would you call it, like dense in description maybe. 1935 in Weird Tales volume 25. 

Info

Thasaidon is the archdevil.

Namirrha (Narthos) is the once orphaned beggar-boy Narthos turned ultra magic user. Turned evil from hate of mistreatment. 

Some cool stuff listed- 

• Dying earth situation (before Jack Vance, but so far is less talked about by characters)
• A skeleton, taller than any man, walked forth. I think embers for eyes, hateful. A long black tongue, it spoke intelligently. 
• Demons under the control of an ultra powerful sorcerer.  
• Sorcerer summoned/moved in one night a city with towers like white fungus. They say the demons helped him by order.
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Necromandus - portrait

 It is almost perfect… except for the nexk frills. I guess that is the necromancer, Necromandus  

Time7:00 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YqlWTxwtlEM

Or

https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?a=77811

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Horse (band) the savrdice has cool weird art https://www.discogs.com/release/9313326-Horse-For-Twisted-Minds-Only

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Stark Nade’s All them Witches album cover 10:22

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YqlWTxwtlEM

Pet Semetary movie 1989

 Starts off tragic. Ends in a bonkers gorefest craziness. Definitely missed the gore when Insaw it on TV as a youngster. 

Old Jud, the Munster actor, was really good. Tasha Yar actress did great. Doc the dad was solid. 

But yeah, what a nutty final act/ last third of the movie. Was the dad semi-possessed by the evil spirits or what?

Grimtooth’s Traps

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aH2dTpwH8l8&t=246s&pp=2AH2AZACAdIHCQlyAqO1ajebQw%3D%3D&ra=m

Damage

Directional/transportation

Death trap

Obstacle 

Puzzle 

Modification/ill effects 

Comedy

The Blob (1988)

 Watching it. Expecting some cheesiness, but also some gross out scares. Wow, the hospital scenes are crazy! The half body. The large envelope into dissolving. Heavy! I'm not so much a fan of gross, but this movie has a good balance I think of gross to actually scary. 

Holy crap the sheriff is the dude from Walking Dead. 

What’s her name the main chick was in what… Heathers I think. All the teens are fairly unlikable, it makes them dying more fun I guess (the movies aren’t real effect). 

I;m here for more freak outs though. Great start. 

Update - the adults are all unlikable too. Hrmmm. Was this the recipe for scary movies back then or even now? 

Trivia - ahh, I love that they actually use “shit” instead of f@*k  a 100 times when they need to cuss  It is very much a lost art since probably the year 2000. 

D&D ideas - yeah, if you want to know how scary Black Puddings and Green Slime can be, watch this movie. OMG. 

Dying Earth - cool stuff, tv shows

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HPw7-0t8fs

Time 2:40 and 2:50 has cool portraits for magic users, 

Commenter says related tv

• Thundarr (yep)
• Now and then, Here and there
• Korgoth of Barbaria

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X6: Quagmire! A rare module, and Lizardmen art

 Time 6:53 has cool color lizardmen paintings: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKWa0leL1Hg

Review by The Lost Adventurer. He does BECMI modules and other rare ones.  

Quagmire is the name, yeah like the Giggity dude on Family Guy. 

Descent Movie Opinion

Scary movie season.  

Rewatching it, meh. The technicalities are killing me.