From time to time I can't resist posting an old ephemera of the importance of seafood in Lovecraft's Providence. He hated it. He hated its smell as if it were noxious gas. "The smell of the sea took on ominous implications ... the fishy-smelling sea ... smell of fish almost insufferable" - The Shadow Over Innsmouth,
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Friday, May 08, 2009
Lovecraft Loathed Seafood
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