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This post is a supplement to "what thou seest"; it is a brief list of resources I consulted or books I enjoyed while writing that story. I've sorted these into four loose categories. Many of these materials are freely available online.

 


 

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I kept telling myself to wait before I posted this, but my nitpicking was beginning to reach critical levels, so without further preamble, here it is, the first half of the Journey's End fic I've been mentioning.
title: what thou seest

fandom: Journey's End + H. P. Lovecraft (Randolph Carter stories)

wordcount: 8.9k

rating: T

summary: Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter. Dennis Stanhope survives the war, quits drinking, and makes some new friends - with a few detours along the way.

excerpt: At some point he falls asleep. There are no dreams that he can remember, but he wakes up – sometime in the early evening, judging from the quality of the light – with his heart pounding. His thoughts are in disorder.

I’ve been here before, he thinks. I’ve been here before.
Many thanks are due to [personal profile] missanthropicprinciple for chatting with me about this play/movie.

The second half is still in progress. Once it's done I'm going to put together a post with some recommended further reading, because I've gone through an alarming amount of material while writing this.

In non-fic news: transcribing an excerpt from R. C. Sherriff's autobiography No Leading Lady about the process of writing Journey's End. It's a lengthy excerpt to retype, but my scans of the relevant pages didn't turn out very well, and I think his description of the writing process is worth discussing.
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I'm not sure the exact source of this, but I ran across it the other day and thought it might be of interest.  It seems to cover approximately 1918 - 1935, and is essentially a list of brief story ideas or concepts that Lovecraft wrote down. 

H. P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book - Bruce Sterling
Excerpt:

159 Certain kind of deep-toned stately music of the style of the 1870’s or 1880’s recalls certain visions of that period—gas-litten parlours of the dead, moonlight on old floors, decaying business streets with gas lamps, etc.—under terrible circumstances.


[I am still busy with finals, by the way, but figured I'd drop by for five minutes to post some content.]
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This article is a little old, but I think it's a unique take on the continued appeal of Lovecraft. 

H. P. Lovecraft, Master of Environmental Horror - Robert Rath 

Excerpt: 
...not all Lovecraft stories are getting less frightening. While one Lovecraftian theme loses its edge, another—the tainted landscape—is more relevant than ever. Because here’s what our society is scared of: being poisoned.

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