Hmm, all right then. I'm delighted by the Gable film, as I am by the rest of the evidence. This is the kind of metafiction I can happily pore over for hours or days. It also provides a broader palette for storytelling than that which is contained within the covers, and it's a much more convincing fictive dream than the kind that comes when you've read the book and now can! also! play! the! video! game! (Which is not to say I wouldn't enjoy a console game partially set in/under the Yellow House.)
I've always liked illustrated books, especially those where the illustrations become an integral part of the book. In this case the illustrations are housed elsewhere, but that works perfectly for something that purports to tell a documentary-like story (if that's the right adjective). Evidence does not arrange itself neatly.
Plate VI I loved for its implication of the ruin that went before. Was it merely a storm? The fungi from Yuggoth? Who knows. Plate VIII was nice for its,er, "Kiernian signature," but I especially liked the identity of the paleontologist in question! I enjoy that kind of allusiveness at least as much as I do the more ham-handed kind that shows up when an author is visibly straining to tie stories or worlds together.
Question: do you mind if people link directly to images of the evidence in blog posts, etc.? I don't know what the status of the images & text is vis-a-vis copyright or other rights.
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I've always liked illustrated books, especially those where the illustrations become an integral part of the book. In this case the illustrations are housed elsewhere, but that works perfectly for something that purports to tell a documentary-like story (if that's the right adjective). Evidence does not arrange itself neatly.
Plate VI I loved for its implication of the ruin that went before. Was it merely a storm? The fungi from Yuggoth? Who knows. Plate VIII was nice for its,er, "Kiernian signature," but I especially liked the identity of the paleontologist in question! I enjoy that kind of allusiveness at least as much as I do the more ham-handed kind that shows up when an author is visibly straining to tie stories or worlds together.
Question: do you mind if people link directly to images of the evidence in blog posts, etc.? I don't know what the status of the images & text is vis-a-vis copyright or other rights.