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    Quote Originally Posted by trollied View Post
    Which of his books do I need to read to get a feel for these old Gods?
    The Old Gods aren't straight expys of the Great Old Ones, but they're definitely inspired by Lovecraft's Mythos, within which Shub-Niggurath, Nyarlathotep, and Yog-Sothoth are technically Outer Gods rather than Great Old Ones like Cthulthu. Most of Lovecraft's work was done in the short story form. Probably the two best collections are Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft and Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre. For short stories I'd recommend starting with At the Mountains of Madness, A Shadow Out of Time, and The Dunwich Horror.
    "In today’s America, conservatives who actually want to conserve are as rare as liberals who actually want to liberate. The once-significant language of an earlier era has had the meaning sucked right out of it, the better to serve as camouflage for a kleptocratic feeding frenzy in which both establishment parties participate with equal abandon" (Taking a break from the criminal, incompetent liars at the NSA, to bring you the above political observation, from The Archdruid Report.)

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