#The Mound

[scotianostra]

Very spring-like day in Edinburgh.🌞

[pershing100]

Museum on the Mound, Edinburgh

[hplovecraftmuseum]

Below is a poster on display at SPENCERS GIFT, AKA SPENCER LLC. Unfortunately I could not find the artist's name on the poster, but it is a product of the company, TRENDS INTERNATIONAL. I shall certainly give any individual artist credit when I can. Anyway, some thoughts about Lovecraft's own version of Cthulhu might be worth considering: It is generally accepted that human beings are of absolutely zero importance to the cosmic entities known as The Old Ones. Yet, if we read Lovecraft's own tales in which Cthulhu's history figures prominently that assumption brings up problems. In The Call of Cthulhu, the 'squid/ dragon' is actually reliant on human members of his secret cult to revive him and open the doorway to his tomb city. In the 'Call' a ship carrying such degenerate servants sails to release Cthulhu. Unfortunately for them they meet a stalwart group of sailors who just happen to show up in the same area of the Pacific. The two groups do battle and the Cthulhu cultists are killed. By pure accident the 'goodly' sailors land on Cthulhu's slime coated fortress- city and accidentally open the gigantic doorway through which Cthulhu squeezes into the light for the first time after untold eons. Fortunately perhaps for all humanity a storm gathers and somehow Cthulhu and his whole slime coated city sinks to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean once again. The excuse some have cited for this is that 'The Stars weren't right!' Well, members of the Squid/dragon's cult here on earth must have believed the time was right? Cthulhu himself must have thought the time was right too as he was sending out telepathic messages to sensitive humans all over the world. Anyway, if we consider information included in THE MOUND - ghost written by Lovecraft - we are treated to the idea that Cthulhu brought a race of super-humans to earth with him. These humanoids had once co-existed and even interbred with native humans here on earth but are least a million years ahead of us in evolution otherwise. The old ones may consider most human beings as pretty lowly on the cosmic scale of evolution, but there are some exceptions. (Exhibit 453)

[bookmaven]

THE HORROR IN THE MUSEUM AND OTHER REVISIONS by H.P. Lovecraft. (Sauk City: Arkham House, 1989). Introduction by August Derleth, text edits by S.T. Joshi. Cover illustration by Raymond Bayless.

From the dustwrapper:

FOLLOWING S.T. Joshi’s acclaimed three-volume critical edition of the Lovecraft fiction, this final supplementary collection includes all known revisions and collaborations undertaken by Lovecraft on behalf of his friends and clients. As with previous volumes in this series, the texts preserved herein scrupulously follow archival manuscripts, typescripts, or original publications, and constitute the definitive edition of these stories.

Since Lovecraft’s customary procedure as a revisionist was to discard his client’s draft and entirely rewrite the story in his own words, much of the fiction in this collection represents original work by Lovecraft, including such notable contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos as “The Electric Executioner,” “Out of the Aeons,” and “The Diary of Alonzo Typer.” Supreme among the revisions in this volume is the brilliant nouvelle “The Mound,” which embodies Lovecraft’s satirical commentary on the Machine Age “decadence” of his era and which receives its first unabridged publication in the present edition.’

A Note on the Texts, by S.T. Joshi

Lovecraft’s “Revisions,” by August Derleth

The Green Meadow

The Crawling Chaos

The Last Test

The Electric Executioner

The Curse of Yig

The Mound

Medusa’s Coil

The Man of Stone

The Horror in the Museum

Winged Death

Out of the Aeons

The Horror in the Burying-Ground

The Diary of Alonzo Typer

The Horror at Martin’s Beach

Ashes

The Ghost-Eater

The Loved Dead

Deaf, Dumb, and Blind

Two Black Bottles

The Trap

The Tree on the Hill

The Disinterment

‘Till A’ the Seas’

The Night Ocean

[saelrum]

Wait... That's not how the plot goes--

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So I have a piece of decor in my fairly new 20 gallon that's just a piece of driftwood with some watercress attached that grows up & out of the water--the perfect place for little crustaceans and snails to congregate--and I. put off cleaning my new 20 gallon for like a week half so I didn't notice it earlier . and um.

There is . A Big Fucking Mound under it now. I DIDNT DO THAT IT WAS FLAT AND COVERED IN SAND BEFORE. THERES A MOUND OF MULM DIRT AND LEAF LITTER AND ITS LIKE TWO INCHES TALL HELLO?????????? HUH?????????

[virtual-paint]

Local man copies neighbor to disastrous effect

[beartitled]

STP voices x princesses

Because I wanted a reason to draw them all >:D

Also lil bonus ✨

[flowerbloom-arts]

That one ending where the Stranger was your first Princess.

[cookiealchemieart]

Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

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Title: The mound (1940)

Author: H.P.Lovecraft

Vote: 8/10

It is one of Lovecraft's best tales and delves, so to speak, into the horror of forgotten civilizations that have been lost in orgies, esoteric sciences and torture beyond imagination. All of this is told to us through readings of old reports with an old strategist widely used by the author I just wonder how believable it is that someone victim of such tragic events would have the calmness to set about writing miles-long reports of papyrus. Example of Lovecraft's boundless and perverse imagination that manages to create credible and coherent worlds in their absurdity.

[scotianostra]

New College, Edinburgh.

Another from last night, The New College, is perched above the Mound in Edinburgh and houses the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Edinburgh.

Originally the Free Church College, established following the Disruption in the Church of Scotland (1843), the building was designed by Playfair and completed in 1850 at the cost of £30,000. Following the reuniting of the United Free Church with the Church of Scotland , the University's Faculty of Divinity, which had continued to supply ministers for the pre-eminent Church, was able to embrace the College and the Faculty re-located to the College building in 1935.

Today, the Faculty of Divinity at Edinburgh is an international renown centre of religious teaching and research.

The Assembly Hall (by the architect David Bryce, 1859), which came to the Church of Scotland with the College, is used for the Church's annual General Assembly, but provided a temporary home for the new Scottish Parliament between its inception in 1999 and 2004. The Library was built as the Free High Church in 1849, for that part of the congregation of St. Giles which left at the Disruption, and continued in use as a church until 1934. It is now one of the leading theological libraries in Britain, with around 235,000 books. The Rainy Hall, reminiscent of the dining hall at an Oxbridge college. was built in 1900 and named in honour of Robert Rainy (1826 - 1906), a former Principal of the College. The Martin Hall, named after another former Principal Alexander Martin, was where the Union between the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church was signed in 1929.

I've been inside the building a few times, the last time was in 2014 for a memorial to the late politician Margo MacDonald/

[circusmantis]

More princesses!

[hplovecraftmuseum]

Lovecraft very often improvised on traditional supernatural fables and occult lore in his fictional themes. At left below is a unicorn adorning a famous medieval tapestry. The piece is on display at the Cloisters Museum and Gardens, New York. In his story THE MOUND, origionally ghost written for Zealia Bishop, Lovecraft includes some grotesque single horned creatures that are used for food and transportation by the degenerate race of proto-humans of the tale. This highly advanced race has been living beneath the surface for perhaps a million years before 'normal' humans evolved. This 'other'species of humanity was brought to earth by Cthulhu somehow and has developed communication by telepathy. (At one point they also interbred with earth-born humans) These 'super- Indians' are also skilled at disintegrating themselves and teleportation at least for short distances. They are then able to reintigrate their bodies through mind control alone! Some Lovecraft scholars in the past have suggested that the whole plot of THE MOUND was Lovecraft's way of commenting on the decadence and technology of Movie Culture. Pictured to the right below in a rendering of a rider on one of the 'unicorn beasts' of THE MOUND. To the further right of the illustration is one of the animated human corpses also featured in the tale. THE MOUND was the longest of all Lovecraft's "revisions". In many ways it was an extremely unsatisfying departure for those critics who might have wished he had stuck to the style and structure of THE CALL OF CTHULHU. Reading THE MOUND takes a whole lot of "suspension of disbelief", yet it is a remarkable bit of imaginative storytelling mixed with a wild bit of subtle social commentary. 'Ghosts', Zombies', 'Unicorns' and legendary occult powers, are all given a sort of warped 'racial memories' treatment in this single story. The illustration was The work of Mark King. It appeared with an article by S. T. Joshi entitled WHO WROTE "THE MOUND"? From NYCTALOPS 14, March. 1978 (Exhibit 384)

[multongsisig]

She asks that I tell you to remember her. You won't.

[saelrum]

Ok I REALLY wanted to draw and post this cause I love the game