Talk:The Haunter of the Dark

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I probably shouldn't write this here, but my copy of The Haunter of the Dark starts with a poem by "Nemesis", "I have seen the Dark Universe young, where planets roll without aim, where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or lustre or name" Can anyone shed some light on what this is?

I think it's supposed to be a passage from one of those weird old books, like the Necronomicon or something. Basically, Lovecraft liked using such things to set the mood. -Zero.exe

[edit] Merged Shining Trapezohedron

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[edit] Merge with Robert Harrison Blake

Blake deserves his own article as there is much more to do with the character than just "The Haunter of the Dark"

I'm thinking that the Blake stuff should be included here because the fairly complex situation--involving a series of stories written by two separate authors, and characters that are based on both authors plus a third--ought to be in one place, and the best known element of the sequence is "The Haunter of the Dark". It's hard to tell the story in pieces. Nareek 12:13, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. The whole Blake thing seems entirely separate. Maybe put in a sidebar in the Haunter of the Dark that redirects to the main Blake page, mentioning the back-and-forth "manhandling" (as Lovecraft put it), but certainly not just lump the two together. Kind of like how we have it in the trivia section right now (except I just added in the link to R.H.B.'s page.) :) -Zero.exe

It's not really a question of whether Blake "deserves" an article--it's a question of how to organize the information in a way that makes sense for the reader. The subject is a trilogy of stories that as far as I know has no accepted name. There's a character who is unnamed in the first story, is called Robert Blake in the second, and is dead at the start of the third, which to me makes telling the story of the trilogy under the title "Robert Harrison Blake" problematic. Nareek 19:34, 8 August 2006 (UTC)