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Mountain Rescue to profit from Horror
« on: 13:45:35, 02/01/13 »
[size=2.166em]Writers dump Lake District's bunnies and daffodils for monsters in the mist[size=1.333em]The fells are famous for idyllic views, soaring crags and Herdwick sheep. But Alan Cleaver reports on a group of writers unleashing demons and monsters on this peaceful landscape - with the help of the Civil Service


Here be monsters, maybe. Even Buttermere and Crummock Water can get spooky after dark. Photograph: Don McPhee for the Guardian
What sort of twisted person would take the beautiful landscape of theLake District and populate it with demons and monsters from the darkest corners of the human psyche? Well, the sort of person who writes for theCumbrian Cthulhu website. And these disciples of HP Lovecraft have now published a collection of their horror stories in Cumbrian CthulhuVolumes I and II. Perhaps their only saving grace is that profits go to theLake District Mountain Rescue Association.  

 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2013/jan/02/cumbria-horror-stories

 

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