"The Whisperer in Darkness" by H.P. Lovecraft

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R.F.D. = Rural Free Delivery. We take it for granted now, but in the early 20th century it was still controversial.

That reference to "standard time" in regards to the train schedule has a very fascinating story behind it. It is because of railroads that timezones became a thing, and prior to that, train schedules were an absolute nightmare, each station working off of their own locally observed noon time. It's an incredible story to spend a few hours on when you have the time to spare.

Tyro = n00b

You can find an example of the "sacred codfish" license plate here:
https://www.boston.com/cars/news-and-reviews/2015/06/16/heres-a-visual-history-of-massachusetts-license-plates/

The picture used for chapters 1-3 is by Khannea SunTzu, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en)

The picture used for chapters 4-6 is "Mi-Go, the fungi from Yuggoth" by CorvenIcenail used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/)

The picture used for chapters 7-8 is by Alexander Moore and is used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en)

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