Yikes!

[Zeb_Carter]

So, my newest story went up last night around midnight. It's now 8 am and these are the stats...

What the Hell! - Porn Star!
Husband finds a video of his wife on the Internet having sex.
today in Loving Wives Stories

17 7.4k 3.9 / 444 <---- this is what I don't believe

I suspect something a miss here. Opinions?

 

[JuanaSalsa]

Seems legit to me. You posted a short story in LW. My 750 word story in LW from a couple months ago has 588 votes, and I'd say about 80% of those were within the first few hours. Besides, look at the number of views. Mine has 11.5k views so the ratio of view to votes is similar. What's not to believe?

 

[BiscuitHammer]

I can't say I'm surprised that the views piled up quickly. If I was going to credit one category with having readers who sat up all night patiently hitting their page refresh button and having saliva glistening dripping from their fangs as they desperately waited for a story to excoriate with rage in their hearts, it'd be LW.

Not gonna lie, the authors who post in there are brave, brave souls.

No, I'm not saying that all LW readers are frothing, destroyed incels, but that category does seem to be where the Martense family members gather. I know some LW readers who are very nice people. They just seem to be a silent minority.

You specifically are a good writer, Zeb, so I'm not surprised that you're getting lots of views early. Good job.

 

[NightPorter]

You are a brave man for posting on loving wives. One of these days I'll get the courage to do it.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

You are a brave man for posting on loving wives. One of these days I'll get the courage to do it.

Better you than me. I'll compose a death haiku in your memory, good sir.

 

[TxRad]

Just think of all that anger as a way of keeping the basements warm so the idiot don't freeze.

The best way to score LW's is to mentally add a full point to the score.

Handicapping is a good thing.

Maybe someone should suggest that to Laurel.

 

[Lifestyle66]

The best way to score LW's is to mentally add a full point to the score.

Handicapping is a good thing.

It's reasonable to add 0.8 to 1.0 to your LW story score, because the top LW stories are that much lower than the Erotic Couplings and others, with the top 25 LW averaging just over 3.6.

 

[Handley_Page]

And it's a pretty good story, too

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And it's a pretty good story, too

Thank you sir.

I was just surprised by the number of votes vs the score.

It currently sits at... Views 23k Score 4.1/1.5k

 

[lovecraft68]

I can't say I'm surprised that the views piled up quickly. If I was going to credit one category with having readers who sat up all night patiently hitting their page refresh button and having saliva glistening dripping from their fangs as they desperately waited for a story to excoriate with rage in their hearts, it'd be LW.

Not gonna lie, the authors who post in there are brave, brave souls.

No, I'm not saying that all LW readers are frothing, destroyed incels, but that category does seem to be where the Martense family members gather. I know some LW readers who are very nice people. They just seem to be a silent minority.

You specifically are a good writer, Zeb, so I'm not surprised that you're getting lots of views early. Good job.

You just scored serious points with the mention of the Martense family. Well done.

 

[SimonDoom]

Your numbers are consistent with my own experience with Loving Wives stories.

I have an LW story in the 750 word event posted on February 16 that now has 23,600 views, 734 votes, and a score of 4.05. Your numbers don't look strange to me.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

You just scored serious points with the mention of the Martense family. Well done.

I'm a H.P. whore, what can I say? My fave stories are his longest and his shortest.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm a H.P. whore, what can I say? My fave stories are his longest and his shortest.

I think my name speaks for my feelings. All great stuff, but Rats in the Walls has to be my favorite because it gave me nightmares first time reading it way back in my early teens and I still find it the most disturbing of this stories even now. Its the visuals of what lie beneath at the end, and the shift from sane narrator to insane cannibal.

 

[SimonDoom]

I'm a H.P. whore, what can I say? My fave stories are his longest and his shortest.

I've actually never read anything by HP. Any suggestions about what story to start with? From the little I know about his work I'd probably enjoy his stories.

 

[SimonDoom]

The Color out of Space and The Dreams in the Witch House are the ones I usually recommend for an intro to Lovecraft.


Dagon is my favorite of the ones I've read. (I haven't read all of them yet, though I do have them, so grain of salt and all.)

Thanks for the suggestions. I ordered a collection of his stories. Should get it tomorrow and I look forward to reading them. I enjoy horror stories. Somehow I just never got around to reading him.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

I've actually never read anything by HP. Any suggestions about what story to start with? From the little I know about his work I'd probably enjoy his stories shortest work

I've actually never read anything by HP. Any suggestions about what story to start with? From the little I know about his work I'd probably enjoy his stories.

His shortest work is five pages long, and one of my two favourites, The Statement of Randolph Carter. Give it a shot. Distilled Lovecraft.

 

[SimonDoom]

His shortest work is five pages long, and one of my two favourites, The Statement of Randolph Carter. Give it a shot. Distilled Lovecraft.

I will! Thanks.

 

[lovecraft68]

Thanks for the suggestions. I ordered a collection of his stories. Should get it tomorrow and I look forward to reading them. I enjoy horror stories. Somehow I just never got around to reading him.

The Dunwich horror, is a good one, but of course his lasting claim to fame and start of his mythos is the Call of Cthulhu.
Two of his longer works-but still under 150 pages-are The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward and At the Mountains of Madness, both excellent even though MOM nothing ever really happens until the end, its just an amazing history of the old ones.

If you have a half hour to kill, this is a cool motion comic of Rats in the Wall.

 

[lovecraft68]

The Color out of Space and The Dreams in the Witch House are the ones I usually recommend for an intro to Lovecraft.


Dagon is my favorite of the ones I've read. (I haven't read all of them yet, though I do have them, so grain of salt and all.)

You ever see Stuart Gordon's adaptation of Dreams in the Witch House for the Masters of Horror series? Damn good. If you thought Brown Jenkin was creepy in the story. He also sexed it up a bit, which is always fun.

 

[lovecraft68]

For those who didn't see this when I posted this years ago....I'm a bit of a HPL fan.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

Since I work in TV and movies, I've always wanted to work on an HPL adaptation. Now that Del Toro has won his Oscar (and yes, I worked on Shape of Water, which he won for), he'll get to produce and direct whatever he wants. And I know he WANTS to do Mountains.

I don't care if I have to follow him to Antarctica, I'll happily go. Talk about a bucket list item. After that, Godzilla...

 

[lovecraft68]

Since I work in TV and movies, I've always wanted to work on an HPL adaptation. Now that Del Toro has won his Oscar (and yes, I worked on Shape of Water, which he won for), he'll get to produce and direct whatever he wants. And I know he WANTS to do Mountains.

I don't care if I have to follow him to Antarctica, I'll happily go. Talk about a bucket list item. After that, Godzilla...

There's been talk of that for some time, and I think if anyone can pull it off, its him. The issue is, there's not a lot that happens during the course of the book so he may have to find a way to add something to hold viewers interest. That's awesome you got to work with him.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

There's been talk of that for some time, and I think if anyone can pull it off, its him. The issue is, there's not a lot that happens during the course of the book so he may have to find a way to add something to hold viewers interest. That's awesome you got to work with him.

Done it a few times, actually. Shape of Water, The Strain, Pacific Rim... if a show or movie has been shot here in Toronto, chances are I've worked on it.

Pacific Rim was fun.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

And I think we totally derailed Zeb's post. Sorry, dude. My fault for mentioning the Martense family...

 

[lovecraft68]

Done it a few times, actually. Shape of Water, The Strain, Pacific Rim... if a show or movie has been shot here in Toronto, chances are I've worked on it.

Pacific Rim was fun.

Pan's Labyrinth is my favorite, beautifully done dark fairy tale.