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werdnak84 t1_ixxok26 wrote

Reply to comment by SocialistMoms in Netflix’s Wednesday set in Vermont? by SocialistMoms

Yep! With how fixated he is on grimdark themes, it's natural he'd be fixated on a lot of New England or Northeastern locations as well since those have a wealth of popular supernatural and paranormal stories in their histories like Sleepy Hollow (Tarrytown, New York), Cthuhlu (Rhode Island), and the Salem, Massachusetts witch trials. Most Halloween landscapes in corporate retail items are modeled after New England. I am all for this, as Hollywood otherwise never includes the Northeast in their films in favor of what they're already familiar with like California, and other places in the tropical zones.

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pyl_time t1_ixyqktv wrote

> Cthuhlu (Rhode Island)

One minor correction, while Lovecraft himself was from Rhode Island most of his works are set around Massachusetts (although "The Whisperer in Darkness" actually takes place outside Townshend, Vermont!).

edit to add: Relevant quote on the topic though from Lovecraft himself:
> the true epicure of the terrible, to whom a new thrill of unutterable ghastliness is the chief end and justification of existence, esteem most of all the ancient, lonely farmhouses of backwoods New England; for there the dark elements of strength, solitude, grotesqueness, and ignorance combine to form the perfection of the hideous.

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Intelligent-Hunt7557 t1_iy0ul07 wrote

Also quite a breadth of VT mention in “The Whisperer”:

“The tales thus brought to my notice came mostly through newspaper cuttings; though one yarn had an oral source and was repeated to a friend of mine in a letter from his mother in Hardwick, Vermont. The type of thing described was essentially the same in all cases, though there seemed to be three separate instances involved - one connected with the Winooski River near Montpelier, another attached to the West River in Windham County beyond Newfane, and a third centering in the Passumpsic in Caledonia County above Lyndonville”

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