One of the most interesting-sounding fantasy movies of 2012, Wes Anderson’s underage love whimsy Moonrise Kingdom, was partly filmed in Lovecraft’s beloved Lincoln Woods (Lincoln Woods State Park)…
“the Quinsnicket or Lincoln Woods region which I have haunted all my life.” — letter from Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, 1933.
The Cthulhu Prayer Society newsletter #13 (PDF link) has a good account of Lovecraft’s rambles in the Lincoln Woods, in preparation for their own ramble event.
Incidentally, I hadn’t realised that there are a lot of giant glacial boulders to be found in the Park (handy boulder map)…
Photo: Miles Crawford.
Although sadly some of the boulders appear to have been scrawled on with crude graffiti in modern times. The Park appears to have been started as a reserve in 1907, and a detailed history is the book Lincoln Park remembered: 1894-1987. I’m not sure if the Lovecraft letters appear in this book, or not.
Is there a 14th edition of the Cthulhu Prayer Society? There seems to be a Vol 2 Num 5 named cthulhu13 and a Vol 3 Num 1 named cthulhu15 but not one named cthulhu14 which would represent Vol 2 Num 6. Does it exist?
Not according to the issue listings page…
http://www.poetspress.org/hpl.htm