Comments on: Mezza Crimbo http://www.chriswooding.com/mezza-crimbo/ The official internet resource on the British SF/Fantasy/YA author Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:03:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Kath http://www.chriswooding.com/mezza-crimbo/comment-page-1/#comment-206 Kath Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:11:39 +0000 http://www.chriswooding.com/?p=297#comment-206 Heh, Lovecraft... saw that huge book around bookstores several times but they were always pretty much in tatters already. Why-ever that was... :( Reminds me of a train-trip home one winter. The compartment I sat in was empty and I was just reading At the Mountain of Madness when a family with two kids came in and the kids started throwing around their plush polar bears. It was a bit bizarre. And sadly the wrong pole. Also: Happy new Year! :D Heh, Lovecraft… saw that huge book around bookstores several times but they were always pretty much in tatters already. Why-ever that was… :(

Reminds me of a train-trip home one winter. The compartment I sat in was empty and I was just reading At the Mountain of Madness when a family with two kids came in and the kids started throwing around their plush polar bears.
It was a bit bizarre.
And sadly the wrong pole.

Also: Happy new Year! :D

]]> By: Chris Wooding http://www.chriswooding.com/mezza-crimbo/comment-page-1/#comment-202 Chris Wooding Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:09:41 +0000 http://www.chriswooding.com/?p=297#comment-202 @ Raihor - Yeah, I think the story will spoiler the game to some extent. Better leave off till you've got into the game a bit. It's true, though, you can't read Lovecraft when your head's tired... @ Tara - yeah, I noticed that too. It's not necessarily the editor, though; it's possibly the work of the typesetters who print the pages. It's one of the eternal mysteries of publishing that you can have a perfectly clean, spellchecked and edited Word file and when it comes back from the typesetters there have been spelling mistakes magically inserted, words substituted for other words, and in the best cases, whole pages printed out of order. I just don't know why it happens, and nobody else (with the exception of the typesetters, I presume) seems to know why it happens either :( @ David - haven't got to The Hound yet, and it doesn't ring a bell, so I probably haven't caught it in any of the previous anthologies. Looking forward to it now... @ Raihor – Yeah, I think the story will spoiler the game to some extent. Better leave off till you’ve got into the game a bit. It’s true, though, you can’t read Lovecraft when your head’s tired…

@ Tara – yeah, I noticed that too. It’s not necessarily the editor, though; it’s possibly the work of the typesetters who print the pages. It’s one of the eternal mysteries of publishing that you can have a perfectly clean, spellchecked and edited Word file and when it comes back from the typesetters there have been spelling mistakes magically inserted, words substituted for other words, and in the best cases, whole pages printed out of order. I just don’t know why it happens, and nobody else (with the exception of the typesetters, I presume) seems to know why it happens either :(

@ David – haven’t got to The Hound yet, and it doesn’t ring a bell, so I probably haven’t caught it in any of the previous anthologies. Looking forward to it now…

]]> By: David Scott http://www.chriswooding.com/mezza-crimbo/comment-page-1/#comment-200 David Scott Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:38:46 +0000 http://www.chriswooding.com/?p=297#comment-200 My lady, brilliant as she is, got me the Necronomicon for my birthday, after I freaked out after spotting it in a Waterstones. I was very happy to see The Hound in there. It was the first piece of Lovecraft I ever read, and always holds a special, terrible place in my heart. My lady, brilliant as she is, got me the Necronomicon for my birthday, after I freaked out after spotting it in a Waterstones. I was very happy to see The Hound in there. It was the first piece of Lovecraft I ever read, and always holds a special, terrible place in my heart.

]]> By: Tara http://www.chriswooding.com/mezza-crimbo/comment-page-1/#comment-196 Tara Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:51:31 +0000 http://www.chriswooding.com/?p=297#comment-196 Ah, the Necronomicon. Got that for xmas myself. I love the stories, but I did have some trouble with the spell-checking... they do need a better editor. At one point they spell Necronomicon wrong! (I am a grammar fiend, shoot me). English slang is proper mint, eh? Ah, the Necronomicon. Got that for xmas myself. I love the stories, but I did have some trouble with the spell-checking… they do need a better editor. At one point they spell Necronomicon wrong! (I am a grammar fiend, shoot me).

English slang is proper mint, eh?

]]> By: Raihor http://www.chriswooding.com/mezza-crimbo/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Raihor Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:50:43 +0000 http://www.chriswooding.com/?p=297#comment-195 Necronomicon!! I have that, and I, uh, am still not very far through... See I can only read it when my brain isn't tired. My god do I love it though. Lovecraft's writing is simply undescribably good! I recently purchased a game called Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. It's based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and so I figure I'll read that story after I've played the game to avoid any potential spoils. It is a good game, a very good one. Lovecraft ftw Necronomicon!! I have that, and I, uh, am still not very far through… See I can only read it when my brain isn’t tired. My god do I love it though. Lovecraft’s writing is simply undescribably good! I recently purchased a game called Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. It’s based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and so I figure I’ll read that story after I’ve played the game to avoid any potential spoils. It is a good game, a very good one. Lovecraft ftw

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