) as he is mainly referred to in the story diverges quite a bit from most of the movie adaptations. The Phantom from the book would be solid fodder for the big bad in an RPG.
I’m waiting for the second one to pick them up as a set.
I was reading some site the other day that has a timeline that shows Carnacki exists in the same world that becomes The Night Land. Looked interesting. I've held off reading Hodgson before because I've heard others state he's sometimes hard to get into.
I've been listening to the original Carnacki books on YouTube. They're pretty awesome. It's kind of like Supernatural but written 100 years before the show.I finished Thurvok's first tale, but I'm not going to read the rest of them. Like the 3rd Kurval story, it felt incomplete (like it was part of a longer story). The author also pads each one with a long list of all their other works (and descriptions of the rest of the series), so if the book says 40 pages, maybe half is the actual story.
I'm now diving into Carnacki: Heaven & Hell, the first of 4 Carnacki story compilations by William Meikle. I had read one of his Carnacki stories in one of his chapbooks, where Carnacki encountered something out of the Cthulhu Mythos. I've not read the original stories by Hodgson yet, so this is my first exposure to the character. I'll get the originals eventually, but I'm a fan of Meikle, so I'm happy to read his version of the character.
Yeah I can see that. The Elric Saga is certainly not for everyone. I personally am enjoying them a lot, but I feel like for most of my peers Elric would come across as an overpowered Gary Stu Edgelord. Partially because he is, but also because of how much Moorcock's work has been imitated in Tabletop Games, Video Games and Comics.
I've not read "The Forever War" in decades. I recall really liking it, think the first time I read it was around 1980. Then again about ten years later.
No argument that Moorcock is his own worst enemy. Fans of Moorcock will vociferously dismiss any and all works of fantasy fiction. They will talk at length about the various reasons we haven't and most likely won't ever get a big budget Elric adaption: "it's because Andzrej Sapkowski stole his characters" "It's because GRR Martin stole his worldbuilding" "It's because Games Workshop stole his cosmology." Nah, the reason we're never getting a bug budget Elric streaming show is because Moorcock is such an asshole that nobody can work with him. Just ask Grant Morrison and Mark Millar.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I've never been able to read it, for odd personal reasons. I knew (vaguely) somebody who taught at the same school as the author, whose real last-name was Trogden IIRC. Said person saw his pen-name as a somewhat cynical bid to cash in on a connection with Native Americans. There was probably some jealousy involved, too, as Trogden/Least Heat Moon went on to make a lot of money while my acquaintance led a life of genteel poverty.
