Just getting ready to go see my dad at his nursing home and got a call to say he died at 12.25pm, about 15 minutes ago. He would have been 96 in September. I'll be going over with my mum and sister shortly.
👑I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men’s thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask. I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth—a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow.🎨"King in Yellow" by Ta Nemo AKA Nottsuo👑#RobertWChambers#TheKingInYellow#Lovecraftian#Hastur#AugustDerleth#Gothic#Monster#Mythos#HorrorArt#Horror
"Tis a gurly night, no a pinch o' light. An the win' blawing' like devils. The Power o' the air, he's oot wi' a rare, an the snow rins roon' upon sweevils."
- Castle Warlock, George MacDonald
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce were close friends off screen as well as on.
Rathbone referred to Bruce as the "quintessential Dr. Watson" and said (rightfully) that his Dr. Watson was one of the "screen's most lovable characters.”