THE DEEP ONES: "The Other Gods" by H. P. Lovecraft
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"The Other Gods" by H.P. Lovecraft
Discussion begins February 8, 2023.
First published the November 1933 issue of The Fantasy Fan
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?41882
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories
H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction: Complete and Unabridged
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
ONLINE VERSIONS
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Other_Gods
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8smICpbKQrI
MISCELLANY
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:425257/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Fan
https://www.hplhs.org/index.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Cycle
https://tinyurl.com/4zvfkjkn
Discussion begins February 8, 2023.
First published the November 1933 issue of The Fantasy Fan
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?41882
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories
H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction: Complete and Unabridged
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
ONLINE VERSIONS
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Other_Gods
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8smICpbKQrI
MISCELLANY
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:425257/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Fan
https://www.hplhs.org/index.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Cycle
https://tinyurl.com/4zvfkjkn
2AndreasJ
It's worth noting that this one was written in summer 1921, then languishing unpublished for over twelve years.
3papijoe
Knowing how it ends, I had to believe it was tongue in cheek irony to name his protagonist “Barzai the Wise” In Kadath there are old wise men and bold wise men but none that are both.
The Miscellany link about Fantasy Fan was a cool bit of pulp lore.
The Miscellany link about Fantasy Fan was a cool bit of pulp lore.
4AndreasJ
Seen one way, this is a conventional enough tale of hubris. Was there any precedent, though, when HPL wrote, for higher-order gods protecting the weak gods of Earth?
5papijoe
>4 AndreasJ: I seem to remember the theme was repeated in DQoUK
6AndreasJ
>5 papijoe:
Not merely the theme - we get to meet Atal again, and Barzai is mentioned, and Mt Ngranek plays a bigger role there.
Eru Ilúvatar’s intervention against the Númenóreans in The Silmarillion is similar, though his existence is not a surprise, and I’m fairly sure I’ve seen similar scenario’s in later literature. But I can’t seem to think of any earlier ones that might have inspired Lovecraft.
Not merely the theme - we get to meet Atal again, and Barzai is mentioned, and Mt Ngranek plays a bigger role there.
Eru Ilúvatar’s intervention against the Númenóreans in The Silmarillion is similar, though his existence is not a surprise, and I’m fairly sure I’ve seen similar scenario’s in later literature. But I can’t seem to think of any earlier ones that might have inspired Lovecraft.
7housefulofpaper
This is a story where you can really feel HPL's Cosmic pessimism impinging on and changing the tone of his Lord Dunsany pastiches.
Barzai''s final cry"Merciful gods of earth, I am falling into the sky!" has great pulp energy (and irony, calling on the gods he's only just been jeering at).
Barzai''s final cry"Merciful gods of earth, I am falling into the sky!" has great pulp energy (and irony, calling on the gods he's only just been jeering at).