The Calm in House of Long Shadows January 11

James Dorr’s “The Calm” first appeared in the anthology NEW MYTHOS LEGENDS. Set during the French and Indian War, it vividly evokes a raw country in which, blind to human conflict, true alienness lurks in the water and the air.

Thus the header appearing with the tale, originally offered in 1999 by Marietta Publishing and noted at the time as in a relatively rare historical period for a Lovecraftian story, and now due for a new airing Saturday, i.e. tomorrow, on the 11th in HOUSE OF LONG SHADOWS (cf. November 14, et al.). And in a possibly also rare setting, “upstate” New York on the mysterious — well, under the circumstances, maybe — slopes of the Taconic Mountains. And not to mention, with an evocative illustration.

Or, to quote from what had been the HOUSE OF LONG SHADOWS CALL: Trad Gothic. You know it when you see it. . . . Horror is the most famously Gothic genre — and our number one aesthetic touchstone is horror cinema in the Corman-Hammer vein — but we’re also open to family dramas, murder mysteries, and moody romance. . . Or maybe old customs that would have better been left unquestioned?

One can find out tomorrow.