And they love ME

But I LOVE them

Also he is mentioned briefly in Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai as a potential candidate for Ludo’s dad so naturally I was curious.

I actually didn’t know much about him beyond getting a sense of him as some kind of explorer. But……….yeah. Kind of morbidly fascinated by pseudoarcheology and pseudohistory though.

Ah yes, the vibes-based approach to archeology.

From one pole to another in a flash:

God I’d love to go

He’s also got this really strange sense of what an “ancient landscape” is - always positioning New England as this otherwise unchanging, pristine place when the actual environmental history is much more complex. And the horrors are always conveniently from “outside.”

Lovecraft’s relationship to the environment is so fascinating! Looking forward to this.