02-08-2024, 05:21 PM
The Battle that Ended the Century by: H.P. Lovecraft
https://youtu.be/y2oKaDxZTmU?si=7d4NarJFsX7n5pBL
"Originally privately circulated amongst the Lovecraft Circle, this comedy short story is a plethora of in-jokes and references to the members of the circle under their nicknames, alter egos or other humorous names. H. P. Lovecraft wrote most of it, with additions and a Glossary of Names at the end of the short work provided by R. H. Barlow."
"On the eve of the year 2001 a vast crowd of interested spectators were present amidst the romantic ruins of Cohen’s Garage, on the former site of New York, to witness a fistic encounter between two renowned champions of the strange-story firmament—Two-Gun Bob, the Terror of the Plains, and Knockout Bernie, the Wild Wolf of West Shokan. [The Wolf was fresh from his correspondence course in physical training, sold to him by Mr. Arthur Leeds.] Before the battle the auguries were determined by the venerated Thibetan Lama Bill Lum Li, who evoked the primal serpent-god of Valusia and found unmistakable signs of victory for both sides. Cream-puffs were inattentively vended by Wladislaw Brenryk—the partakers being treated by the official surgeons, Drs. D. H. Killer and M. Gin Brewery."
https://youtu.be/y2oKaDxZTmU?si=7d4NarJFsX7n5pBL
"Originally privately circulated amongst the Lovecraft Circle, this comedy short story is a plethora of in-jokes and references to the members of the circle under their nicknames, alter egos or other humorous names. H. P. Lovecraft wrote most of it, with additions and a Glossary of Names at the end of the short work provided by R. H. Barlow."
"On the eve of the year 2001 a vast crowd of interested spectators were present amidst the romantic ruins of Cohen’s Garage, on the former site of New York, to witness a fistic encounter between two renowned champions of the strange-story firmament—Two-Gun Bob, the Terror of the Plains, and Knockout Bernie, the Wild Wolf of West Shokan. [The Wolf was fresh from his correspondence course in physical training, sold to him by Mr. Arthur Leeds.] Before the battle the auguries were determined by the venerated Thibetan Lama Bill Lum Li, who evoked the primal serpent-god of Valusia and found unmistakable signs of victory for both sides. Cream-puffs were inattentively vended by Wladislaw Brenryk—the partakers being treated by the official surgeons, Drs. D. H. Killer and M. Gin Brewery."