{"id":8628,"date":"2013-08-09T15:53:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T12:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=8628"},"modified":"2013-08-09T15:53:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T12:53:23","slug":"it-came-from-the-backwoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/08\/09\/it-came-from-the-backwoods\/","title":{"rendered":"It came from the backwoods&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below is <em>The New York Tribune<\/em> article of April 1919, on the newly-established (formed 1917) rural police for New York State, which inspired Lovecraft to try The Catskills as a setting for horror stories.  I&#8217;ve highlighted and overlaid the next-page section of the article on Catskill Mountains degenerates (though strictly speaking they&#8217;re actually Schoarie Mountains degenerates, a little north of the main Catskill Mountains).  The first effect of this article on Lovecraft was to directly inspire his story &#8220;Beyond The Wall of Sleep&#8221; (written at some point between April-Sept 1919, published October) then &#8220;The Lurking Fear&#8221; (November 1922)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/lovecraft_inspiration_1919_catskills-nyt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/lovecraft_inspiration_1919_catskills-nyt.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"lovecraft_inspiration_1919_catskills-NYT\" width=\"529\" height=\"530\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8629\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Audio book readers may find it useful to know that the pronunciation of the Slater\/Slahter surname should rhyme it with &#8220;doubter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the following Google search modifiers will give you a speedy way of searching just <em>The New York Tribune<\/em> digital copies at the Library of Congress website&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code>site:http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030214\/ keyword or \"key phrase\"<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is The New York Tribune article of April 1919, on the newly-established (formed 1917) rural police for New York &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/08\/09\/it-came-from-the-backwoods\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}