| Author | Message | ||
     Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.232.11 |
I've never really delved into the (presumably) many horror-related newsgroups and don't know where to start. Which ones do you people recommend? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Shocklines (http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/) is interesting but the moderator has a tendency to delete whole threads if insults start flying. On the other hand, unmoderated groups attract trolls. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Yeah. I hate trolls. I see myself as more a humetroll. As Chetwynd-Hayes would see it. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Whoops! Posted before I meant to. There are these Yahoo groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/All_Hallows/?yguid=48757614 and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/horrabin_hall/?yguid=48757614 Both do their best to fend off trolls. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.62.5.130 |
I eat trolls for dinner. nam-nam. With lots of garlic. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Is this trollesque? http://surrealartforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=3571&highlight= Pointing out that a man's art is similar to the poster for MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
I wouldn't say that was trolling! I'd have had the same thought as you. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
He runs the forum though. Gulp. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
It's not a new artistic device, is it? Who was that painter who made faces out of vegetables? And I recall a cover of a Hitchcock antho whose cover bore Hitch's face rendered in people. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Arcimboldo is the vegetable chap: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/arcimboldo_giuseppe.html | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
"But by God, Eliot, they were paintings from life!" | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
This is a very friendly and most ingenious type of discussion forum, with social groups and sophisticated technical facilities: http://www.ligotti.net/ I've been very happy there since 2005 and it deals with all matters Horror (not only Ligotti). des | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
And Vault of Evil is also quite wonderful: http://vaultofevil.proboards75.com/ An unmatchable array of Small Press covers from pre-2000 here: http://vaultofevil.proboards75.com/index.cgi?board=indie&action=display&thread=6 72 | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.229.240 |
Thanks for the links, everyone! | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.78.35.170 |
Here's another one: the usenet group alt.horror.cthulhu which I sometimes check, even if I should have outgrown cthulhoid fiction by now! If you don't know what usenet is, don't worry, you can also access this group via groups.google.com | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.78.35.170 |
> On the other hand, unmoderated groups attract trolls. I recently read this so very true quote on dealing with trolls: "Never mud-wrestle with a pig: you get all dirty and the pig likes it." | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.156.43.97 |
"Never mud-wrestle with a pig: you get all dirty and the pig likes it." So true. gcw |