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Aug. 22nd, 2013 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynDear Project Gutenberg:
Thank you so very, very much for producing free e-books of William Hope Hodgson's work. Quite aside from how much I enjoy The House On the Borderlands and Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, the fact that Mr. Hodgson tended to write Scots and Irish characters' dialog in heavy eye dialect/pronunciation spelling with all kinds of H's sticking out of places that H's don't actually belong makes me rather more at ease with just dropping the G's and some of the internal vowels when some of my RP characters speak. Because damn that rendition of a Scotsman's speech was terrifying to read.
And not in the 'we have a potentially cosmic horror in the house, Mr. Carnacki, please do be careful about setting up the Electric Pentacle' kind of terrifying way.
Thank you so very, very much for producing free e-books of William Hope Hodgson's work. Quite aside from how much I enjoy The House On the Borderlands and Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, the fact that Mr. Hodgson tended to write Scots and Irish characters' dialog in heavy eye dialect/pronunciation spelling with all kinds of H's sticking out of places that H's don't actually belong makes me rather more at ease with just dropping the G's and some of the internal vowels when some of my RP characters speak. Because damn that rendition of a Scotsman's speech was terrifying to read.
And not in the 'we have a potentially cosmic horror in the house, Mr. Carnacki, please do be careful about setting up the Electric Pentacle' kind of terrifying way.
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Date: 2013-08-22 03:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-22 07:19 pm (UTC)One of the things I love about the Carnacki stories is that he has roughly the same chance of the cases he investigates being simple Scooby-Doo class frauds, or of being unspeakable horrors from beyond the rim of reality. Generally stories about supernatural investigators (or ab-natural, as Hodgson puts it) have them inevitably wind up dealing with one or the other.
ETA: "I tell ye, sorr, 'tis no use at all, thryin' ter reclaim ther castle. 'Tis curst with innocent blood, an ye'll be betther pullin' it down, an' buildin' a fine new wan. But if ye be intendin' to shtay this night, kape the big dhoor open whide, an' watch for the bhlood-dhrip. If so much as a single dhrip falls, don't shtay though all the gold in the worrld was offered ye."
Where is he getting the H's from. WHERE.