THE HORROR AT SHOAL POINT

((this is James Bay Culture Blog #11))

Dear James Bay,

It's.... be-ginning to look A LOT
like... Fish Men...

These are lyrics.

The tune is a familiar Christmas carol perverted into a strange, slimy homage on the album "A Very Scary Solistice" by HPLHS. The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.

Lovecraft, of course, is the grand-father of the American horror story -- a nervously agitated pulp-fiction author who twisted the form of literature in order to project his personal vexations onto a cosmic stage. Imagine him as a neurotic Edgar Allen Poe trying to describe the plot of a David Lynch film. Or think of him as the Rod Serling of the 1930s -- the authoritative narrator who wants to take you on a short journey into a realm where sanity, reality and language can no longer be trusted. The original Twilight Zone.

But with more Fish Men.

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