{"id":59256,"date":"2023-04-14T02:15:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T02:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=59256"},"modified":"2023-04-14T23:17:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T23:17:39","slug":"the-requisite-impression-of-lurking-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/04\/14\/the-requisite-impression-of-lurking-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"“The requisite impression of lurking terror…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still not feeling 100%, what with a lurking and persistent cough. So this week’s ‘picture postals from Lovecraft’ is a quickie and actually a rubbing. A ‘brass rubbing’ as they’ve often known, or a ‘grave rubbing’ when done from stone. <\/p>\n

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Last I heard such things were frowned on by Lovecraft’s cemetery, even when using specialist soft-wax and paper materials that don’t damage or mark his plain grave-marker. But a while back such rubbings could be found listed on eBay. Above is a pleasing and clear one I snagged then, now able to be enlarged a bit by AI.<\/p>\n

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I’m uncertain if Lovecraft ever habitually ventured into Swan Point Cemetery for walks while alive, though he certainly anticipated the outcome of his…<\/p>\n

ancient plan of shuffling off to a Swan Point subterranean repose. […] among the sepulchres of Clark ancestors extending back to 1711. Green wooded slopes rise beside the mournful spot, and close by is a great hollow tree inhabited by a woodpecker<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I seem to recall he didn’t favour it as a destination for walks, other than that fateful walk on a “June day in 1917” which began his weird fiction writing career. But if he ever did explore properly then this spot then would have surely attracted his attention. The cemetery’s “rock garden” overlooking his beloved Seekonk…<\/p>\n

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I’m still not feeling 100%, what with a lurking and persistent cough. So this week’s ‘picture postals from Lovecraft’ is …<\/p>\n

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