No ‘Picture Postals’ this week, but an anonymous contributor kindly sends the Web link Welcome to Arkham — the (HO) Model City. This is a website giving a grand tour of a HO scale-model railway enthusiast’s marvellous re-creation of vintage Arkham. An amazing piece of work, that also has a “night mode” with lighting.

Such a pity that Providence never had the courage for a vast Lovecraft Museum, which might today have a spare wing to house this in for public viewing. But there are ample views on the lovingly crafted website.

“Arkham records my impressions of an old, grimy eastern Massachusetts city. Everything’s dirty with coal smoke and weathered by harsh winters. There are plenty of pinnacles, spires, finials, towers, and steeples … I tried to not let more than one or two buildings go by without at least some reference to the Lovecraft canon — or, if not Lovecraft, the classic fantasy and horror fiction from his era.”

There are also interiors, and amusing incidents of street drama.

Part of the deeply researched Miskatonic Railroad project, which reveals a circular track that also takes in Dunwich.

This is so faithful and research-filled that I’m also tagging it as a ‘scholarly work’.