Sunday, 19 July 2020

HP Lovecraft never visited Saltcoats

An exciting new discovery by History graduates that haven't ended up working in a call centre or entering the teaching profession has revealed that American-born reclusive horror fiction writer H.P Lovecraft has never visited the town of Saltcoats on the West Coast of Scotland.

                                                                     West of Scotland


Lovecraft is famous for his many stories of horrors from beyond time and space warping the fabric of  Euclidean geometry, pushing human sanity beyond its furthest breaking points and for being a big, huge racist. 

                                                                     Big, Huge Racist


One of his most famous stories, the Shadow over Innsmouth features one man's horrifying ordeal in the aforementioned town which is populated by sullen, isolationist, inbred mutants suspected of having copulated with an undersea race of fish-people known as 'The Deep Ones'. The story has sparked many comparisons to the seaside town which was once a popular holiday destination for tens of people.

                                                                        Amusements


"It's patent nonsense! Said Bob Fishman, MSP for Saltcoats and the surrounding towns of Ardrossan and Stevenson. "Innsmouth is a forlorn waterside hovel; riddled with unemployment, drug abuse, alcoholism, incest and a record-breaking level of teenage pregnancies. Saltcoats, by contrast is situated on the West Coast of Scotland."

Innsmouth, yesterday

Saltcoats

Contrary to popular belief, the reclusive Lovecraft who is officially recorded as never having left the Unites States of America over the course of his life is now suspected to have never played Street Fighter II Turbo at the Windmill amusements on Saltcoats' main thoroughfare.


Lovecraft was unavailable for comment as he is dead.

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