Latest Lovecraft bit

[alexxkay]

So, I just read "The Whisperer in the Dark". At one point, the narrator takes a train trip from Arkham to Vermont. From the stops mentioned on the first leg of the trip, he's clearly taking what is now known as the Fitchburg Commuter Line -- the same train I sometimes take to visit cvirtue and family! Oooooh, spooky!

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[negothick.livejournal.com]

umm. . .The Whisperer in Darkness.
And of course it's the B&M Railroad (that's what it was known as when I was in college). And indeed, the stops are the same.
Talk to me sometime about the Lovecraft in Vermont event. . ., now legendary.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

I'll be sure to wear my tentacles.

[kestrell.livejournal.com]

Do you think if we had a Lovecraft party in October, people would come? We could have a reading or two, show the definitely B movie "The Dunwich Horror" (Dean Stockwell and Sandra Dee, enough said), and see if we could find tentacley foods (spaghetti in a pesto sauce?). And NEGothick could tell the epic tale of her adventures in Vermont.

[negothick.livejournal.com]

I would be there IF I haven't already booked and double-booked meself. At this point, I believe that Friday night 16 October or Sunday night 18 October might just be my only remaining free weekend evenings. Seriously.

[kestrell.livejournal.com]

Hm, why don't we plan for that Sunday afternoon, then? We can make it a Lovecraftian tea party and let everyone figure out what's appropriate for such an event.

[laurion]

Ah yes. Read the history of that line on Wikipedia, kind of interesting. Doesn't surprise me give that Cape Ann was the pseudo-location of Arkham.

[corwyn-ap.livejournal.com]

I once played in a game of Call of Cthulu held at a place in Maine which was claimed to be a location straight from one of Lovecraft's books (I forget which).

The scariest part was being 'attacked' by sheep in the dark on the way be to the car.