{"id":39700,"date":"2020-07-10T05:54:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T02:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=39700"},"modified":"2020-07-10T05:54:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T02:54:50","slug":"picture-postals-from-lovecraft-the-neck-and-marblehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/07\/10\/picture-postals-from-lovecraft-the-neck-and-marblehead\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Picture postals’ from Lovecraft: the Neck and Marblehead."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201c… took the ferry across to the Neck<\/a>, where Wandrei communed with his beloved and newly-discover\u2019d sea from the rugged cliffs.\u201d — July 1927 in a letter (letters to Moe p. 154).<\/p>\n

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In the Edwardian and 1920s periods. A boat of larger capacity and less sea-sickness inducing rocking was evidently needed by the 1920s.<\/em><\/p>\n

Once across and walking off the ferry, the maps and lanes suggests the natural option would be to make one’s way up to the lighthouse and sea-cliffs at the far end. As I’ve shown elsewhere there’s a fair likelihood that a young lad who lived facing the wide ocean at the far end inspired the writing of \u201cThe Strange High House in the Mist\u201d<\/a>, via his fan-letter to Weird Tales<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Also, somewhere in the deeps about here rolls Lovecraft’s Waterman pen. According to the Moe letters he lost it on the Neck in summer 1923…<\/p>\n

We crossed in the ferry to Marblead Neck, (where b.t.w I had lost my 1906 Waterman the Thursday before)” (letters to Moe, p. 116)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He later recalled<\/a> it was lost “amidst the sands”, so presumably he was on the small rocky beach at the far end of the Neck. On hearing of the loss, Moe sent him a fine “self-filling” Conklin pen.<\/p>\n

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‘The Churn’, Marblehead Neck.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201c… took the ferry across to the Neck, where Wandrei communed with his beloved and newly-discover\u2019d sea from the rugged …<\/p>\n

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