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On the Trail of Grotesque Gods from Space

It's another installment of Entropist, a scifi culture column by futurist design maven Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDG BLOG. In his 1936 short story "The Shadow Out of Time," classic weird fiction author H.P. Lovecraft describes a man who takes "long visits to remote and desolate places." These places include the "vast limestone cavern systems of western Virginia - black labyrinths so complex that no retracing of my steps could even be considered," and the "unknown deserts of Arabia," wherever those may be. But he visits them looking for evidence of a long-lost religious cult - a cult which, like "the horror" it once worshiped, had something to do with grotesque gods from "out of time," ancient germ lines that preceded the origins of human biology, astrophysical space, and the subterranean Earth. And, should all of that raise your eyebrows, let me add that it's actually a good story. More »

9:00 AM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By Geoff Manaugh
3,272 views, 21 comments

Latest by n/a: Good article. Altered States of conciousness is the stuff of many stories. Jesus took 40 days in the desert, Moses walked the hard mountains of Sinai. Native Americans have their Visions Quests. I think if you're attracted to the dark more »