tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post3314910095652622878..comments2024-03-07T12:48:21.070+00:00Comments on MAGONIA REVIEW: MONSTER MASHUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post-12538212654400464522019-10-12T11:35:14.349+01:002019-10-12T11:35:14.349+01:00You may well think that, I could not possibly comm...You may well think that, I could not possibly comment.Magoniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18201163989347743921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post-64334952397395821072019-10-05T02:36:45.862+01:002019-10-05T02:36:45.862+01:00You do know, don't you, that the "Vermont...You do know, don't you, that the "Vermont Awful" has a history dating all the way back to the dim and distant bygone era of 2006? That was when it was mentioned in a Vermont local newspaper called the County Courier by one H. P. Albarelli Jr., who recounted the full story in two articles he wrote for the paper, including the H. P. Lovecraft quote, which nobody has yet managed to find anywhere in the published writings of HPL, which also fail to make any mention of his 1925 trip to Vermont.<br /><br />This and other nagging discrepancies were going to be cleared up in a third article which mysteriously never appeared. Perhaps Mr. Abarelli was carried off by the Awful? If so, it also seems to have swiped the relevant letter from HPL's archives, along with every other record of its existence written by anyone prior to 2006 and not called H. P. Abarelli Jr., including all the sources Mr. Abarelli quotes in his articles, sadly without providing references.<br /><br />But of course you Magonians have some prior experience with unidentified flying cryptids whose elaborate backstory proves to be mysteriously untraceable. Remember the Brentford Griffin? Oddly enough, the Vermont Awful is explicitly described as resembling a griffin. Curiouser and curiouser...<br /><br />Now, a sceptic would conclude that Mr. Abarelli was following in the far-fetched footsteps of a certain Mr. Rankin, or in layman's terms, making it all up. But I'm sure you Magonians would prefer the equally logical and much more satisfying theory that the Brentford Griffin's failure to manifest itself in Brentford recently is clearly due to its having grown too large for the tiny islet of Brentford Ait on which it used to nest and returned to its native Vermont, where its parents or grandparents caused so much fuss and bother a century ago.<br /><br />If everyone chips in a few quid, perhaps we could crowdfund Andrew Collins to go to Vermont in search of material for "The Brentford Griffin Flaps Again"? Ever since the Black Alchemist died he hasn't had any remotely interesting monsters to pit his wits against , and these days he's running a bit short of countries where they'll still let him poke around real archaeological sites pretending to be a real archaeologist, so I'm sure he'd jump at the chance to revisit an old friend from those balmy days of yore when he was still blesssed with the wide-eyed enthusiasm of callow youth, and hair.Count Otto Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13915670684585417091noreply@blogger.com