tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post8925438937555333890..comments2024-03-27T10:53:14.239-04:00Comments on Wormwoodiana: “Classic Fantasists on Film”: William Hope HodgsonDouglas A. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-23721575592783687922020-02-22T19:17:30.476-05:002020-02-22T19:17:30.476-05:00Years ago I saw a full-length movie that seemed pr...Years ago I saw a full-length movie that seemed pretty clearly based on The Boats of the Glen Carrig. It was a rather cheesy B film that came off as having been made for TV. I wouldn't watch it again. I don't recall the name, but it was somewhere in the late- 60s to mid-70s department. I do clearly remember one scene: A ship trapped amidst kelp, with the open mouth and horrendous Arkangelrockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04573069309712886235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-61894360747855665332012-08-28T21:26:55.988-04:002012-08-28T21:26:55.988-04:00I've now seen the 1954 Pepsi-Cola Playhouse ad...I've now seen the 1954 Pepsi-Cola Playhouse adaptation of "The Whistling Room". It's more silly than creepy: a real disappointment. Alan Napier plays "Dr." Carnacki as a befuddled bumbler, and Howard J. Green, who adapted the Hodgson story into the teleplay, deserves several demerit points and a hard smack across the knuckles with a ruler. Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-75039465792502062572012-08-21T10:14:22.463-04:002012-08-21T10:14:22.463-04:00I should have phrased that a bit differently. I di...I should have phrased that a bit differently. I didn't mean that there are precedents in the stories for the balloons and shoe-pads, just that the derived technology and their eeriness are a Hodgsonian touch. Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-29006816841817948572012-08-21T03:58:44.765-04:002012-08-21T03:58:44.765-04:00A agree that the individual scenes, stuck in the s...A agree that the individual scenes, stuck in the sea-weed, were really good and Hodgsonian. <br /><br /><br /><br />"The balloons and shoe-pads were a Hodgsonian touch,..."<br /><br />I may have missed that in his stories. Although, the range of inventiveness in The Night Land is remarkable.<br /><br />Yes, the eerieness when they first were observed, felt very alien and weird. For Knygathinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368207286922295729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-32236598334211051772012-08-16T21:16:52.307-04:002012-08-16T21:16:52.307-04:00I've just watched THE LOST CONTINENT for the f...I've just watched THE LOST CONTINENT for the first time. The whole ship-caught-in-the-weeds part is right out of Hodgson---while this element gets its biggest role in his novel THE BOATS OF THE 'GLEN CARRIG', there are a handful of other Sargasso Sea stories by Hodgson, including "From the Tideless Sea" (plus a direct sequel), "The Mystery of the Derelict", and &Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-44199489897907311852012-08-13T20:09:06.720-04:002012-08-13T20:09:06.720-04:00That was a crazy film. No one seeing all this coul...That was a crazy film. No one seeing all this could possibly connect it to "Glen Carrig". But on it's own terms, still worthwhile - nice scenery, and good actors (the engine chief looks like L. P. Hartley!), lovely ladies. The Spanish conquestador stuff was a bit much, completely out of tune. The balloons and shoe-pads, amusing though.<br /><br />My dreamlike memory was much more Knygathinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368207286922295729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-14726253301503302842012-08-10T19:17:14.977-04:002012-08-10T19:17:14.977-04:00It makes sense that THE LOST CONTINENT is likely t...It makes sense that THE LOST CONTINENT is likely to be the film you remember. Wheatley was a big fan of Hodgson in the 1930s, and included three stories by Hodgson in his anthology _A Century of Horror_ (1935), and wrote in the Introduction: "Of William Hope Hodgson's right to appear in such as volume as this I have no doubt at all. He was a master both of horror stories and tales of Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-24023482442362333942012-08-10T18:09:58.263-04:002012-08-10T18:09:58.263-04:00I did some research, and I think it may have been ...I did some research, and I think it may have been THE LOST CONTINENT (1968). I seem to remember those images. But it is not officially based on Hodgson, but on a Dennis Wheatley novel. <br /><br />I think I must have formed my own connection to Glen Carrig, based on the fact that they get stuck in the Sargasso Sea, and sea-monsters come up onto the boats. <br /><br />I have never read Dennis Knygathinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368207286922295729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-82964150055966490132012-08-09T17:22:58.069-04:002012-08-09T17:22:58.069-04:00I can't help you here. I have learned of one o...I can't help you here. I have learned of one other Hodgson adaptation since I wrote the above post: another Carnacki story, "The Whistling Room", was as 30 minute episode of The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse, broadcast on 18 July 1954. I've not seen it so can't comment further. If you dig-up anything more about the Glen Carrig film, please let us know.Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-79377369792401644712012-08-09T16:45:22.308-04:002012-08-09T16:45:22.308-04:00Long ago I saw a clip, or stills, from a British f...Long ago I saw a clip, or stills, from a British film, said to be based on The Boats of the "Glen Carrig". Seamen were struggling with a motley crowd of sea-monsters. <br /><br />Unfortunately I can't remember when and where I saw this.Knygathinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368207286922295729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-56703151840444178522009-08-14T15:22:15.813-04:002009-08-14T15:22:15.813-04:00Yes, he certainly was. Several books about the Ord...Yes, he certainly was. Several books about the Order provide the evidence, and in any case he refers to it (lightly disguised as the Order of the Twilight Star) in his memoir Things Near and Far.<br /><br />Mark VMark Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02806452973664951726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-9457030290548243172009-08-14T11:21:20.423-04:002009-08-14T11:21:20.423-04:00Was Arthur Machen ever a member of the magical ord...Was Arthur Machen ever a member of the magical order of the Golden Dawn? I've read conflicting accounts as to whether he was or not. I know Algernon Blackwood was, with William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley.liedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12222112390043037193noreply@blogger.com