'Sticks' is a short story by horror fiction writer Karl Edward Wagner, first published in the March 1974 issue of Whispers.[1] It has been reprinted in several anthologies, including the revised edition of Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, indicating that it is part of the Cthulhu Mythos genre.
'Sticks' is one of the finest pure Lovecraftian tales ever penned, & I was thrilled to see Jim Turner include it when he revised Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Karl was extremely supportive when I was a young beginning writer, and I loved him for his kindness and generosity as an editor. Miss him, so I do. Karl edward wagner, podcast, mp3, episode. Willow and Phil talk about 'Sticks' by Karl Edward Wagner Addeddate 2020-10-28 18:52:39 Identifier del-toro-sticks Scanner.
While on a fishing trip in the Adirondack Mountains, horror illustrator Colin Leverett encounters an old abandoned house surrounded by bizarre stick formations. Enthusiastically sketching the strange constructions, he enters the house and is attacked by a lich in the basement, from whom he narrowly escapes. Many years later, Leverett is contacted by a descendant of a famous horror author, H. Kenneth Allard (supposedly based on H.P. Lovecraft), who hires him to illustrate a volume of Allard's previously unpublished stories. When Leverett decides to base the illustrations on his old sketches of the stick lattices, he is unwittingly drawn into a supernatural conspiracy of potentially apocalyptic magnitude.
The mysterious lattices of twigs were inspired by the work of Weird Tales artist Lee Brown Coye, who illustrated two Carcosa Press volumes which Wagner edited: Manly Wade Wellman's Worse Things Waiting and Hugh B. Cave's Murgunstrumm and Others (the latter volume appeared some years after 'Sticks' was written).
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'Sticks' was also the inspiration for the lattice stick structures in the HBO show 'True Detective'.
Adaptations[edit]
In the mid-1980s, 'Sticks' was adapted for The Cabinet of Dr. Fritz, a 1984–85 binauralradio drama series produced by Thomas Lopez and the ZBS Foundation for NPR. Some characters from the short story are excised entirely, while a love interest for Leverett is introduced as a foil. Steven Keats provides the voice of Colin Leverett, while Laura Esterman and Bill Raymond perform as Carol and George/Althol respectively. The soundtrack is composed by Tim Clark.[2]
In June 2019, Britishsynthwave band Kish Kollektiv released an imaginary soundtrack concept album broadly inspired by 'Sticks', entitled 'Dwellers in the Earth'. [3][4]
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Autocad wood hatch patterns download. Critics have noted similarities between the plot of 'Sticks' and that of the film The Blair Witch Project (1999).[5][6][7]
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