The Garden by Jasper MacDonald King

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Garden by Jasper MacDonald King

Comments

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Somebody's pretty exasperated today, I see.

You actually had me going the whole way because I don't always read the tags before following links. I was thinking "who commissioned this review?"

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I missed the "not actually a review" until after I posted that comment.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Parts of it happened! Toronto has a very interesting history and I would make more fun of them for it if at the same time Kitchener wasn't having stuff like Nazi rallies and military bulling of the local civilians.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

That's the essential piece of a good hoax, isn't it? A couple touches of honest remarkable truth imbue the whole thing with credibility.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

James' ironic tone aside, the description of the book was quite believable for quite a long time. Sort of Sax Rohmer-y.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Yes, if I had not just an hour before read about Lester W Sharp's woofen-poof hoax, I'd have been taken ... well, up to the mention of King's twelve murders. Twelve was a touch too far. But as it was I was ready and skeptical a paragraph or two sooner.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

I'd like to nominate Jasper King's image for the new World Fantasy Award.

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

I ate it hook line and sinker - went googling afterwards. :)

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Just finished googling myself.

[zhuhell.livejournal.com]

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[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

Lol!

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Now, now. I can grasp the analogy with HPL's habit of eating a roasted black baby every Sunday, but that was _quite_ unrelated to his work.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Well, except for that earlier draft _The Coloreds Out of Space_.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Heh. Now that would be an amusing game - "Lovecraft: the even more racist early drafts", such as the one in which Arthur Jermyn immolates himself because he finds out he's part Italian.