Author: seanhanna

HP Lovecraft had the degenerate and inbred back country of Dunwich and Innsmouth but we Slaughterees had our own “end of the road” mutant puppy mill country as our home for nine years:  The Klickitat valley and the Wahkiacus Heights, places that look OK at first glance but also have that wrong turn, “what the heck are these people doing out here”, feel to them.  This is a pastiche of the opening of HPL’s “The Dunwich Horror” originally posted in a CS email thread back in the day:  Lest we forget as we move onto fancier digs.

When a traveler in Northern Oregon takes the wrong fork at the junction of Hood River passing over the Columbia River, and turns North at the lonely hamlet of Lyle,  he comes upon a lonely and curious country.  (more…)