Lovecraft Countryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Lovecraft + country. Coined by Keith Herber, later used and popularized by the RPG publisher Chaosium.^[1]

固有名詞

Lovecraft Country

1. (horror fiction) The fictionalized universe populated by the supernatural beings of H.P. Lovecraft's horror fiction and that of other authors inspired by Lovecraft's works, especially the fictionalized version of New England.^[2]
   • 2009, Keith Herber, Miskatonic River Press, "New Tales of the Miskatonic Valley", →ISBN

     An anthology of six scenarios designed for use with the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. Set in Lovecraft Country, a fictional area of New England created by horror author H.P. Lovecraft.

   • 2013, Charles L. Crow, John Wiley & Sons, "A Companion to American Gothic", →ISBN

     Ramsay Campbell, who created a version of Lovecraft country in and around Liverpool, and Southern Gothic writer Fred Chappell.

   • 2014, Paul Roland, Plexus Publishing, "The Curious Case of H.P. Lovecraft", →ISBN

     It also established Miskatonic University and Arkham as key locations in Lovecraft Country

   • 2016, W. Scott Poole, In the Mountains of Madness:

     Very early, he started to create Lovecraft country; a geography of terror that came to include “witch-haunted Arkham” and “shadowed Innsmouth," places he describes in such minute detail that ingénues in Lovecraft lore, for almost a century now, have often assumed these places could be located on maps of Massachuesetts and set out in search of them.

   • 2018, H.P. Lovecraft, ‎Leverett Butts, H.P. Lovecraft, page 1:

     Lovecraft's writing has inspired games as well: a popular role-playing game, The Call of Cthulhu, is set within Lovecraft country, the blend of fictional and real locales, mostly in New England, in which he set his tales.

   • 2019, Graham Plowman, "Horror in Lovecraft Country", ASIN B07X5VPYC6

     Horror in Lovecraft Country: 2 Hours of Music for Lovecraftian Gaming

   • 2020, Golden Goblin Press, "Children of Lovecraft Country", →ISBN

     Children of Lovecraft Country: Six Stories of Growing Up in Arkham, Kingsport, Dunwich, and Innsmouth.

参考

名詞

Lovecraft Country (uncountable)

1. (informal) Eerie small town and countryside settings resembling the locales found in H.P. Lovecraft's fictional universe.
   • 1975 Autumn, Frederick Busi, “Alain Resnais' Stavisky: The Beginning of the End”, in The Massachusetts Review, volume 16, number 4:

     When Resnais was on a lecture tour of America in 1972, he was enchanted to find himself deep in Lovecraft country, in gloomy Massachusetts.

   • 1998, Scott Aniolowski (ed.), "Return to Lovecraft Country", →ISBN

     And especially my wife Patricia, who spent weeks tramping with me through Lovecraft country

   • 2018, A Mahnke, The World of Lore, Volume 3: Dreadful Places:

     Mahnke lives with his family in the historic North Shore area of Boston, the very heart of Lovecraft Country and the epicenter of the Salem witch trials.

等位語

(eerie locales):

• Oz
• wonderland

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