The Mound (Review)

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8 ай бұрын

The Mound is a horror/science fiction novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written by him as a ghostwriter from December 1929 to January 1930 after he was hired by Zealia Bishop to create a story about a Native American mound which is haunted by a headless ghost. Lovecraft expanded the story into a tale about a mound that conceals a gateway to a subterranean civilization, the realm of K'n-yan. The story was not published during Lovecraft's lifetime. A heavily abridged version was published in the November 1940 issue of Weird Tales, and the full text was finally published in 1989.
"Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England."
VOLUMES USED
- Medusa's Coil and Others
-The Crawling Chaos and Others
-The Ancient Track
-The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (Chartwell Books)
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@majorgrubert5887 5 күн бұрын

Hello! Get channel! I have a question… is there more info or lore about the civilization that resides in the , city/cities … under the mound? I really enjoyed this story and consider it well, my favorite !! I don’t recall the name of the of the “people” . It’s hard to spell 😂 I need more lore on themmmm!!!

@LETSTALKENTERTAINMENT 4 күн бұрын

Thanks! There is a Lovecraft wiki that likely has the info you are looking for.

@salemslotandmore8278 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the Video 😀

@LETSTALKENTERTAINMENT 8 ай бұрын

You're welcome, as always. Have you read 'The Mound?'

@salemslotandmore8278 8 ай бұрын

No. I haven't read any H.P. Lovecraft yet, but that will change. 😀@@LETSTALKENTERTAINMENT

@LETSTALKENTERTAINMENT 8 ай бұрын

👍

@KyleMaxwell 6 ай бұрын

I just finished a reread of the story and honestly it improved in my estimation on the second pass. The blatant xenophobia at the beginning was pretty ugly, but I think there is more than a little social satire in the latter half or so of the story.

@LETSTALKENTERTAINMENT 6 ай бұрын

In my college writing workshops, where each week we read our latest work out loud for the rest of the class, we quickly learned not to assume that what our classmates read was autobiographical. It doesn't matter that sometimes it actually was autobiographical. A lot gets made of Lovecraft's racism. But at this point in my life I choose to separate the man from the page. If I read racism, it's the narrator who who is racist, and my responsibility to understand how that fits into their world, which is not our own. The alternative is our current culture war madness where everything challenging must be expunged, but not necessarily actually learned from.