The incipient “H.P. Lovecraft was Here! Come unto us, ye tourist hordes!” trend gathers a little more pace, as Marblehead gets in on the action with a forthcoming public lecture…
The lecture will take up Lovecraft’s obsession with Marblehead and St. Michael’s, their importance to his macabre and influential writings, and controversies about fact and fantasy in Lovecraft’s literary landscapes.
I now imagine a dark-suited tour guide leading a gaggle of bored tourists, holding his tour baton aloft, the tour baton that bears the stern face of H.P.L.