{"id":669,"date":"2010-08-07T02:34:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T23:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2010-08-07T02:34:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T23:34:51","slug":"vacation-necronomicon-school-final-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/07\/vacation-necronomicon-school-final-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Necronomicon School \u2013 final\u00a0assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vacation Necronomicon School<\/a>, summer 2010 assignment for 7th August 2010: “Final Creative Task”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Your long-term assignment — the end to our expedition — is to create your own Lovecraftian composition. It can be a short story, a poem, or some other creative work that expresses your personal interpretation of the genre.”<\/p>\n

TASK TWELVE<\/strong>: 7th August 2010.<\/p>\n

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THE MONOLITHS UNDER THE SEA.<\/strong>

\nBeing a new Lovecraftian tale and a prequel to H.P. Lovecraft’s story “The Call of Cthulhu”.<\/em><\/p>\n

\nDownload the printable PDF file + 35-minute audio-book reading<\/a> (33Mb, .zip file).<\/p>\n

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My new short story has been crafted for the Vacation Necronomicon School. It is constructed around a scaffolding made of appropriated public-domain materials. These date from between 1859 and 1893 — one unpublished letter, a magazine article, and two hardly-known short stories by very obscure authors (full details at the end of the story). I have blended these sources together, generally rewritten sections, tinkered, cut ruthlessly, rearranged, and have added my own words to fill any resulting gaps. In this experiment I take my cue from Lovecraft himself, who once wrote in a letter of March 1933…<\/p>\n

“Someone ought to go over the cheap magazines and pick out story-germs which have been ruined by popular treatment; then getting the authors’ permission and actually writing the stories.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I hope the story also expresses the discoveries I’ve made on this summer school, about just how much Lovecraft was an expert collage-ist of his many diverse borrowings and inspirations.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vacation Necronomicon School, summer 2010 assignment for 7th August 2010: “Final Creative Task”. “Your long-term assignment — the end to …<\/p>\n

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