{"id":51948,"date":"2022-01-12T03:42:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T03:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=51948"},"modified":"2022-01-12T03:42:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T03:42:17","slug":"100-miles-from-my-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/01\/12\/100-miles-from-my-home\/","title":{"rendered":"“100 miles from my home”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a 1934 letter to Rimel, Lovecraft remarks… “I didn’t get more than 100 miles from my home until I was 31 years old” (i.e. circa 1922), which provides a useful limit of what he might or might not have seen as a boy, if only from a passing train. No glimpse of the sinister and misty Catskills (“Lurking Fear”) from a Hudson Valley train, then, on a trip with his grandfather. <\/p>\n

Drawing a 100 mile circle from his home does however suggest possible youthful visits to… <\/p>\n

* the vicinity of Portsmouth and Rochester in the north, via Boston.<\/p>\n

* north-west as far as the Berkshire Hills and the river-towns that lie to the east of them.<\/p>\n

* south-west along the coast to New Haven.<\/p>\n

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In a 1934 letter to Rimel, Lovecraft remarks… “I didn’t get more than 100 miles from my home until I …<\/p>\n

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