Coincidence!

So I started watching True Detective and it's pretty awesome.....

Then last night I was reading H.P. Lovecraft's "Supernatural Horror in Literature" and came to the part where he's talking about the author Robert W. Chambers and suddenly there's this stuff about "The King in Yellow" and Carcosa and holyshitthat'sstufffromtheshow!!!  

It seems that he had borrowed the idea of Carcosa from Ambrose Bierce.

So weird when these things come together.


-ooooh!  I was going to try to find a copy but it seems to be public domain so:  The King in Yellow

Coincidence

I had recently written here about the movie Strait Jacket and I have also been reading a compendium of H.P. Lovecraft stories for a while now, in fact I'm nearly done.  The last one is dedicated to Robert Bloch who wrote Strait Jacket (as well as Psycho, among others).

It seems Robert started his career writing in the fantastic fiction realm and was a big fan of Lovecraft, becoming one of the handful of writers to set their own tales within the mythic realm that H.P. had created and corresponding with his hero about their craft.  The story that I am currently reading is actually a sequel by Lovecraft to one written by Bloch, who then wrote another sequel to follow it.

When I first saw the dedication I had a hard time believing that this could be the same person seeing as how his later work was so much more "real crime" than the more fantastic, but there you go.

Digging for this info I find that he wrote The Deadly Bees which is a movie that MST3K tackled hilariously and he apparently also wrote a sequel to Psycho that had nothing to do with the subsequent movies that were made.  I'll have to try to track that one down......