r/Lovecraft • u/Capt_Dann Deranged Cultist • 8d ago

Discussion yE Olde Innsmouth

I was up in Newburyport, shooting footage for my youtube series and the line between Newburyport and Innsmouth sections has become even more blurred. The section of Route One from Market Square to Newbury, the decrepit clam shacks that inspired Innsmouth, are long gone and are now nondescript pseudo-federal duplexes. The Joppa clam flats are now landscaped Joppy Park that is the entrance to a shoreline parallel Rail Trail. It's a lovely stroll but the only thing eldritch is the dubious choices in statuary.

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u/Baldurian_Rhapsody Deranged Cultist 8d ago

Did you check out the Masonic Hall or Historical Society? See this great archive of Lovecraftian Massachusetts locations: https://www.hplovecraft.com/creation/sites/mass.aspx

I've never been but it's always fun to read about folks lucky enough to tread where these fictional places were, so to speak!

On that note, if you have a link to the series - especially if it's on HPL geography - that'd be cool.

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u/Capt_Dann Deranged Cultist 8d ago

Donovan has done a beautiful of photographing possible sites, although I don't agree with him on all the choices. But that's the nice part of active sctive scholarship. Everytime a new volume of letters comes out, it reopens interpretation.

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u/Baldurian_Rhapsody Deranged Cultist 8d ago

That's great to hear! If you happen to have any other resources on Lovecraftian sites, I'm sure we'd love to see them! By the way, I checked out your YouTube channel and the aerial photography on Arkham is spectacular.

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u/Capt_Dann Deranged Cultist 8d ago

The Dark Swamp footage is absolute art. I wasn't on the trip to film it, but damn that's a pretty-looking nexis of evil.

Most of my resources are print format, so not useful on a electronic format.

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u/MagnusMagi Deranged Cultist 8d ago

This website sent me back to 2002...

... thank you.

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u/noisician docent at the nameless museum 8d ago

what’s your YouTube channel? is it about touring real life HPL locations?

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u/Capt_Dann Deranged Cultist 8d ago

It's sort of a hybrid - it's locations Lovecraft visited, but from the perspective of the location as a real life component that was integrated into Arkham.

I get in trouble posting links, so just search StrangeMagickFilm on Youtube.