Lovecraft Country Socks
Description: "Herbert West needed fresh bodies because his life-work was the reanimation of the dead. This work was not known to the fashionable clientele who had so swiftly built up his fame after his arrival in Boston; but was only too well known to me, who had been his closest friend and sole assistant since the old days in Miskatonic University Medical School at Arkham." H.P. Lovecraft, "Herbert West—Reanimator"
Description: "Herbert West needed fresh bodies because his life-work was the reanimation of the dead. This work was not known to the fashionable clientele who had so swiftly built up his fame after his arrival in Boston; but was only too well known to me, who had been his closest friend and sole assistant since the old days in Miskatonic University Medical School at Arkham." H.P. Lovecraft, "Herbert West—Reanimator"
Description: Hastur, also known as the Yellow King, is a fictional cosmic entity that first appeared in Ambrose Bierce's short story Haïta the Shepherd (1893) and was later expanded on by Robert W. Chambers, H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth. He could be considered as the unseen antagonist of Season 1.
Description: Arkham is the home of Miskatonic University, which features prominently in many of Lovecraft's works. The institution finances the expeditions in the novellas, At the Mountains of Madness (1936) and The Shadow Out of Time (1936). Walter Gilman, of "The Dreams in the Witch House" (1933), attends classes at the university. Other notable institutions in Arkham are the Arkham Historical Society and the Arkham Sanitarium. It is said in "Herbert West—Reanimator" that the town was devastated by a typhoid outbreak in 1905.
Description: Arkham is the home of Miskatonic University, which features prominently in many of Lovecraft's works. The institution finances the expeditions in the novellas, At the Mountains of Madness (1936) and The Shadow Out of Time (1936). Walter Gilman, of "The Dreams in the Witch House" (1933), attends classes at the university. Other notable institutions in Arkham are the Arkham Historical Society and the Arkham Sanitarium. It is said in "Herbert West—Reanimator" that the town was devastated by a typhoid outbreak in 1905.
Description: In the town of Ennis, Alaska, the eight men working at the Tsalal Research Station all disappear, with only a woman's severed tongue left behind at the scene. Chief Liz Danvers deduces that the tongue belonged to an Indigenous woman. Trooper Evangeline Navarro believes the victim to be Anne Kowtok, an Iñupiat woman who was stabbed to death with her tongue cut out after protesting the construction of a local mine; the case remains unsolved after six years, which Navarro blames on Danvers. Danvers soon uncovers a possible connection between Anne and a parka worn by one of the researchers in a photograph, and returns to Tsalal, where she finds Navarro also inspecting the facility.
Description: Season 4 of True Detective is set in the town of Ennis, Alaska, located 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle, as a banner of text makes clear early on in the Jan. 12 premiere. With Jodie Foster as the lead, and Issa López as the new writer and director, the fourth season follows the disappearance of eight men from a research station and how it might be linked to the unsolved murder of an indigenous woman. There's also a ghost named Travis. Ennis isn't a real town, but the show was based on a real area in the northernmost state: North Slope Borough, Alaska.
Description: A detailed black and white illustration depicts a skull-faced Cthulhu with tentacles in place of its mouth. The skull is rendered in a realistic style, with intricate details of bone structure and texture. The tentacles are numerous and sinuous, creating a sense of unease and dread. The image is framed by a circular border with the inscription "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."
