Fghtan on DeviantArthttps://www.deviantart.com/fghtan/art/Arkham-County-late-1920-s-Road-Atlas-399560715Fghtan

Deviation Actions

Fghtan's avatar

Arkham County late 1920's Road Atlas

By
Published:
9.6K Views

Description

2013
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop
---
I always found that one of the major ways that Lovecraft has wrapped its leathery tentacles around popular culture was through a deluge of faux memorobelia: Arkham newspapers, Miskatonic diplomas and the like. This is my humble contribution, a 20's to 30's era fold-out road atlas of Lovecraft County based on old gas-station sponsored map sets. I added a bit of requisite humor by giving the gas station company name a play on Shoggoth. I did as best I could researching old New England road atlases, eliminated post 1930's highways and towns, and shuffled in some real but antiquated place names and sites, some of which have been demolished (many of the lighthouses for example), as well as any Lovecraft locations I could get away with showing on what is ostensibly a commercial road map (No Blasted Heath, why in gods name would a gas station suggest you go there? But the Old Growth forest it is a part of and the disused through-road from the Colour Out of Space dutifully are depicted, for example. The reservoir hasn't flooded the area yet in this particular map.) I'll probably be making adjustments and updates as I do some more research, but for now I'm liking how it turned out.
Image size
9318x14400px 42.82 MB
© 2013 - 2024 Fghtan
Comments14
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In

Hi, is there a way to get the full res picture? I'd like to use it for a Cthulhu pen & paper campaign. :)